Arizona republican., 1911-01-30

ness preacher. came to Phoenix. Ari- zona. about the first of January. 1911, and began to preach and lecture at the Third Avenue theater. and. like most evangelists of the Holiness people. be gan to tell great deal of truth about the so-called churches of Christ
 Then follows a eulogy upon the character and purposes of Bro. King,
 whom he claims to have first heard of in St. Louis @fren "a police officer led mob of saloon thugs. pimps and black legs to go into the building and raise riot and murder the poor unarmed man" The attempt. it appears. was abortive. Hicks was Ion the door" This sanguinary design was formed in the interim between the appearance of King in St Louis and replies to certain letters which Hicks and others had written to various places for the pur- pose of securing Kings record with the view of publishing him as a fraud" {"
 But this design was also abortive. The replies were of a character quite different from what Investigator Hicks was expecting Here is the result of the investigation:
 We further found that he (l<ing) was a good man and had done a great deal of good. We offered these letters to the public but not a political paper
 in the city would publish them. We tried to buy space in the daily papers to publish these letters. but were un- able to do so. Yet these same papers attacked MT. King every day with the most bitter lies that | ever heard against any man up to that time. This caused our Baptist committee to go further into the investigations"
 Hicks found that church history sup ported King. Hicks continues. From Neander and Mosheim we found that the priests of the Catholic church de- nied that Martin Luther was ever or dained priest. They denied that John Calvin was ever Catholic CHURb dhe, capitals are mine to signify that I do not know what Hicks mcans). They even denied that Luther's wife was ever nun and declared her to be harlot of Heidleburg (the spelling is Hicks). Of course the Catholics dare not deny that Luther and Calvin and Melangthon CHicks' spelling agaim. and others were Catholics-time and history have vindicated these men"
 If the charges were actually as Hicks says. still | see nothing to vindi- cate. for it could not have been crime of these great reformers not tO have been Catholics. I have given more space to this matter than it deserves. merely to illustrate again that Hicks is fabricator of history as he was fabricator of the association the other day in the Gazette of the relations be- tween certain senators and representa- tives of the Standard oil company.
 The fact is. Hicks never read any thing in Neander and Mosheim regard ing a denial by the Catholic church of the Catholicism of the rcformers. He has made that out of whole cloth to meet a charge made now that King was never a Catholic priest, fact which he now admits.
 Hicks also digs up the alleged charge against Luther's wife to furnish a parallel to the refutation of an early claim by King that his own wife was a nun. That Katherina de Bora, the wife of Luther. was a lady of noble family is admitted by all writers of the reformation: that she had been q nun. but long years before her marriage. is also well known. Hicks is the only ecclesiastical writer that ever men,