The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29
OBJECTS TO THE GEORGIAN AS
AMATEUR DETECTIVE.

source OF delight to see what eager
ness is displayed at the coming of
The Jeffs, especially SO since you
have been "dynamited" and suppos-
ed to have been blown to regions
"far away but, like the restless tide,
back you will come. Your friends
rejoiced at the way you demolished
that Judas" the so-called mighty
Frederick" If that old adage was fol-
lowed closer, "Fools rush in where
angels fear to tread" less sorrows
would have to be healed. If the
"Great Editor had not meddled
where he had no business he would
not have met his "Waterloo." The
Georgian has been coming to my
home since it first saw the light, un
til it went into the reflective bust
ness" From that good hour l cut
it out and many have said to me they
have done likewise. You have
friends in every nook and corner and
they embrace all classes; some bold,
some reserved, but all are of the
true blue stripe.
Sitting in hotel at Elberton was
a body of ministers, some Of them
D. DIS, in attendance on the Baptist
State Convention. Their cOnversa-
ton was not entirely taken up with
the best methods of winning souls"
or in plying the poor missionary in
his self-sacrificing zeal for the be-
nighted heather. Your name was
mentioned and you we're denounced
by some of them. Sitting in that
body was one minister, gentle and
quiet, but when he speaks he COM
mands attention. With other quail
ties he is a king in finance" also
the possessor of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. In a gentle, quiet
tone he said, 81 would not raise my
voice against Mr.. Watson, as you are
doing, for the world and that it
seemed to him God had endowed you
with gifts and called you to the
work you are doing; that the wealthy
and Intelligent class of people were
opposed to and are prosecuting you
just as they did over nineteen hun
dred years ago One whom they not
only prosecuted, but crucified." Said
he, Gentlemen, this man who you
are denouncing might be inspired,
for all you know. You fill city pull
pits and are not in sympathy with
Hill, UuC L KNOW lie 1OV0 anu esteem
which he holds in the hearts of the
country people," See now how the
leaven is at work. Recently I at
tended a fashionable church, which
boasts of having the best orchestra
in town. The preacher for that day
was an old man and giving the pure
Gospel from the "Old Book" In the
midst of his sermon a member of
that best orchestra, facing the con-
gregation, with pencil in hand, was
drawing a sketch of one of the choir,
which act caused much amusement
and diverted the minds of many from
the solemn warning of the minister.
No wonder that so-called "Sky-
Director" DR.. Len Broughton is
alarmed at the spiritual condition of
the people of Atlanta, when he said
they were going to the dogs and to
the Devil. DR.. G. G. Cary said, "The
West View Company were not will
ing to credit all the Methodist preach
ers in Atlanta for $40. My, what a
condition of affairs. The Holy Spirit
is being driven out of the churches
and out of the hearts of the people
and taking it's flight from the gentle
world and leaving it to it's doom. I
am not far from my three score and
ten years, but want to be in Thomson
on the goth. I want some stock in
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