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/. Baptists are supposed to be
congregational in church govern
ment. I so learned when young
man, and | still have the books from
which I was taught It, published by
Baptists, written by Baptists, and
believed by some of them. Not
until I got behind the scenes" did
I know that Baptist mission boards
preached Congregationalism at
home, but practieed Episcopacy
abroad. And when I found it out
I thought it would be an easy mat
ter to get the truth to he people and
settle it. But | reckoned without
the cost, for every convention paper
practically refused to print the truth
about it. The same Index mean
the Christian Index, Of Georgia
refused to print the truth for adver-
Using rates, that truth being the
official correspondence between T. J.
League, then a missionary of the
Baptist Foreign Mission Board at
Richmond, and the same board. 1
was all right until found out how
the game was going, and as a Bap-
fist exposed and opposed it, and
then | was terrible sinner in their
eyes and have been since. No man
likes to pose as a martyr, but | tell
the simple truth when [ say that 1
have been numerically prosecuted
ever since 1896 because | refused to
bow to Board control and the sup
preston of the truth. / shall not
here go into any details, but will
simply state that I know that Bap-
fist Mission Boards are hOOdWink-
ing the masses of the denomination;
they do not want them to know the
truth about this mission business,
especially about their Episcopal sys-
TEN set up on mission fields, nor the
''Rice Christian business they carry
on. For a long time they bitterly
denied their Episcopacy, but when l
dug up the proof by the records and
finally produced and published
copies of letters written by Baptist
bishops, over pastors and churches,
they abused me some more and then
hushed.
Episcopacy in Baptist Church.
But they hold on to the Episcopacy
and then yell at Baptists to pay the
bills. And when we expose them
they initiate Rome, and for argu-
ment offer abuse, and some of them
will lie, both over and under state
ment, until it is simply shame.
They control the Baptist press
largely. There are a lot of Baptist
editors in the South who are as sub
servient to the mission boards as
the Jesuits to the Pope, and not
much difference in their methods.
I will tell you what | honestly be-
lieve, and | have had thirty-seven
years experience in the Baptist min
istry, and travelled and know the
conditions among them: My honest
conviction is that there is a crowd
of men posing as Baptist leaders,
who need conversion to the pTinci-
pies Of Christianity, so they will
love the Lord and their brethren,
tell the truth and be honest with
God and men. To me it is incon-
ceivabIe that men who have been
converted genuinely to the princi-
pies of Christianity can persistently
and continuously practice what |
know the managers of Baptist mis-
sion work have and do practice;
posing as champions of orthodoxy
and congregationalism in the home
land, then setting up an Episcopal
system on foreign fields, concealing
the truth from the people whom
they ask to support it, closing the