The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-08-17
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Abbeylllc Association Adopts Reso.
lutiOns In Re The State
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Abbeylllc Association Adopts Reso
lutiOns In Re The State
and Featherstone.
The following is taken from the ed
itorial page of the Columbia State:
To the Editor of The State:
The enclosed circular explains it,
self. 1 am sending you this as in
structed by the Baptist Association OF
Abbeville county.
II. B. Cheatham,
Clerk
Donalds, S. c., Aug. IL, 1910.
Disapproves of the dnfair fight of the
Columbia State on c. G.. Feather
stone and it's advocacy of drinking
The following resolutions offered by
II. A. Graham were unanimously
adopted by the Abbeville Baptist as
sociation in It's session in the First
Baptist church Of Greenwood, on last
Wednesday, just after the report on
temperance had been adopted. This
body is composed of twenty-five
churches in Greenwood and Abbeville
counties.
Resolved L. That we as an asso-
citation put ourselves on record as dis
approving of the unfair and unjust
fight made on c. C. Featherstone, pro-
hibition candidate for governor, by the
Columbia State, and especially do we
condemn the editorials, in that news
paper, advocating the use Of intoxi-
cants, and pretending to prove, from
Gods word, that the Holy Bible ap-
proves Of drinking and that our Bless
ed Savior endorses it.
Resolved 2. That these resolutions
be sent to the following newspapers
by the clerk of the body, with the re-
quest that they publish them. The
Columbia State, the Charleston News
and Courier, the Baptist Courier, the
Columbia Evening Record, the Green
wood Journal, the Greenwood Index,
and that we quest all papers in the
state that stand for fairness, justice
and temperance to reproduce them.
The States Comment.
@h''Sh'p'o lttNc bttll Iluue upon Va
rious occasions to intimidate The
State-the earliest we recall was by
lynchers in mass meeting assembled;
the latest of consequence preceding
this year, by dispensary grafters.
we nave no objection to this de-
nunciation of The State being placed
in the homes of every Christian in
South Carolina if that which is de-
nounced goes along with it, The
State courts the light of truth.
This resolution assumes to defend
the Holy Bible and our Blessed Savior
yet breaks one OF the Ten Command
ments in the heading of the circular
The statement that The State appears
in advocacy of drinking" is false.
None of these men supporting this
resolution has pointed out wherein
The State is unjust to Featherstone
or ATTEMPTED to meet The State on
common ground.
None of them, assuming to stand
for fairness. Justice, temperance"
truth, and religion, has appealed 10
the Bible to disproVe The States quo
tations from the Bible.
They attempt not only to muzzle
the press. but to muzzle the Word of
God itself. They. decreeing the tenn
perate use of wine immoral would
plllory The State for supporting its
conviction to the contrary by quoting
Jesus,
The State WAS challenged to prove
by the Bible that the temperate use
of intoXicants was legitimate in the
history OF the Bible. There was moth
ing about approves" or endorse" as
those resolutions alleged, but the
proof OF legitimacy stands. 1t can
mot be met.
That which can not be answered,
they condemn 1t is an easy but cow
arGiy manner of Settling the ques-
tion.
: 1t will be a sad time for South Car
olina when honest men may not ex-
press their convictions and when the
press may not temperately criticise
candidate for public Office.
1t will be a sad day for South Caro-
lima when the appeal is not to argu-
ment and reason, but to the brute
force of the bludgeon-in whatever
form applied.
PAUSE IN COUNTY CAMPAIGN.