Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-08-02
MIR. C. D. Minis Replies to Ar
ticle by Rev. T. H. Garrett.

ticle by Rev. I. II. Garrett.
I returned home on Sunday, July
3oth, from a five days business tour.
And in less than ten minutes my
wife handed me your latest issue of
The Advertiser, directing my at
tention to an article from Rev. L.
H. Garrett, Parksville, S. Q. When
l read less than ten lines l plainly
saw the purpose of the author and
the more read the more l saw con-
frmaticn of my first thoughts.
Now, it so happened that l was
in Parksville few minutes on Sat-
urday evening the goth and came
face to face with this man L. II.
Garrett, who with somewhat
g 'monkeyish" smile extended his
hand for the time honored greeting,
which 1 cordially returned. Can you
imagine my surprise when 1 was
shown his article? which is nothing
more nor less than a malicious
thrust at me, in a whip-the-devil-
around-the-stump fashion. Nice
business for Reverend, Gent! is it
not? He cracks his whip at the
editor of tcertain newspaper and
magazine, published in another
state. To these differences I have
nothing to say, for the other fellow
is amply able to take care of his
own carcass. Ny friend DR.. Bell
and / had two little rounds and we
automatically refereed ourselves
down and out, and we parted where
we met. And now it comes to pass
that this Goliah, Brizzled and Siz-
zled, Frizzled and Broiled, Foamed
and Frothed from March the 29th
to July 26th (nearly four months)
in loading up for me. Can you fail
to see the fatal ingenuity by which
he (T. II. Garrett) undertook to
steer clear of dates and names? In
this one he betrays his moral weak
ness. When all of my friends who
have read my writings know full
well for whom he was directing his
unwarranted and ugly attack. Now,
let's see if he has quoted me cor
rectly? Beginning at the center of
seventh line from the top the writer
of these articles starts out by say
ing, that his widely misunderstood
and much abused friend is not OPP
posed to foreign missions, on the
contrary, is a strong believer in and
a staunch supporter in the cause.
Notice what 1 really did say: get
The Advertiser of March 29th be-
ginning in the center of the column,
line seventeen, you will find these
words, "On almost every page of
his writings on foreign missions, he
has clearly and distinctly stated,
that he is NOT opposed to foreign
missions but approved of the work
along sane and scriptural lines, in
accordance with the instructions of
Christ to Paul and Peter" Read
the two and you will see that / am
misouoted and in manner to mis-
lead the reader into the idea that |
have lied. Mind you now, he after
writing this met me and shook my
hand under the guise of a friend.
Gee! there must be dent in the
horn from the discord of the toot.
So we will 60 down this column
and to the next. We see nothing
very grave, just sort of spider-web
and the holes in it are almost all
there is in this frail structure. re-
gret to see the use and abuse of sa-
cred material. Stop at line thirty
seven second column. 1T is often
the case that great men especially
great scholars of spectacular walk
encyclopedias, moving picture type,
become free thinkers (infdels.)
Now, l take no stock in Payne,
Voltaire, Hume nor Ingersoll. But
let me say(?) that the man who
stands up before the American peo-
pie and in any wise advocates the
denial of free thought, free speech
and free press does it at the ex-
pense of having his very name hat
ed by the unborn generations of
this country.
Martin Luther, John Wesley,
John Bunyan were all free thinkers.
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