The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-04-17
A McDUFFIE FRIENDS APPRE-
CATION
CITATION.


know you are very busy man,
: but l must ask you to pardon my
imposition, if it be an imposition,
which it is | know upon your time.
But L would love just now, to &C
complish that which l realize to be
an impossibility, just to let you know
how much l love you, and how I ap-
preciate your efforts to life up the
honest, down trodden masses of hui
mainly. In the early nineties, when
you made the memorable (and almost
if not quite immortaD speech in the
town of Thomson, your own home
town, then and there unequivocally
and unreservedly took your stand
upon the Ocala platform, to live
by it, defend it, and forever to up
hold it, whatever the cost. 1t was
then and there, that you made an
everlasting impression on my heart.
Equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to none. Oh, how | loved, and
do love that phraseology, and since
that very day, when you took your
stand for justice and right, l have
watched your course, and marked
your acts as carefully as has been
my privilege to do. | watched you
through your political campaigns,
watched you through your exposition
of the rottenness of the Foreign
Missionary cause, and through your
exposition of the Roman Hierarchy,
and l must say, with all candor,
earnestness and sincerity, that you
have been honest, sincere and truth
full in all these various efforts, and
in the fear of Him whom l love,
reverence and obey, and to Him to
whom some day l must give account
for all l do in this life, yes, in the
name of the great God of heaven, 1
must say | don't believe any man,
except Him whom omnipotence would
Ordain and send forth could stand
to fight the battles as you have
stood; and when in the face of every
opposing element, you have stood
firm, just quietly exposing to all the
world the awful rot and shame that
is going on in the world. The good
Book of Books says, Marvel not if
the world hates you, it hated Me be-
fore you" So my dear brother, take
on fresh courage for God is always
with the right, and so long as our
trust is in Him, He will guide us
Alright. [ know that many of your
dearest friends are poor men and
women. But let me tell you of a
truth that while we are poor in this
worlds goods, some thank God, are
rich in faith, and since many of us
are convinced beyond doubt that you
are the Moses sent of God to lead
us from the bondage of modern
Egypt, of the most hellish Phara-
steal sent, and from the hand of all
who are clutching at the throats of
every order ordained for God; en-
deavoring in almost everything to
set God aside and have their own
way in everything. Even setting
men up as God in ROmanism, and
in Professionalism setting the Bible
aside and taking many ways in many
things, especially in that of Foreign
Missions and many other things of
which space fOrbids us now to write.
In conclusion let me say brother, be
true, the eyes of the world are upon
you, both for good and for bad The
good people are holding your case
before God, pleading with Him to
give you wisdom, strength and cour-
age, for indeed we are living in the
last days. Surely prophecy is full
filling, soon time will be ended The
faithful gone home to glory, while
those who hate God will be wailing
in eternal ruin and despair. You are
seldom off NV mind for lob on