The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-15
REV. DIR. PECKARD PREACHING
AGAINST POPERY IN
SAVANNAH.

for one year. This makes nine subs.
/ have sent you since goth ultimo,
and expect to send you several others
in few days, just as soon as they
get over Xmas, as the general howl
now is, come back a little later, too
near after Xmas"
Pressure of work has prevented
my sending you copies of DR.. Pick
ards sermons; however, I will for
ward you tomorrow copy Of his
sermon delivered Sunday night, 21st
ultimO, on ~Papal Iufarlibility, the
Pope and Mary, or Christi" in which
he quoted one of your books as his
authority for part Of his sermon; also
copy Of his sermon delivered Sunday
night, 28th ultimo, on THE Pope,
Priests and Purgatory."
! will also send you in few days
a copy of his masterpiece delivered
last night on "The Tragedy of the
Confessionan," before an audience
that filled the church, both audito-
rum and gallery, people standing
around the walls down and upstairs,
chairs in the aisles, and hundreds
unable to set into the church At all
OF these services the audiences have
been record breaking ones, despite
the fact that our papers here have
nearly entirely ignored these series.
The only thing they have inserted
about them is the regular church no
tice, giving DR.. Pickards subject,
nothing more, though they have dur
ing this time commented and quoted
from the sermons of others. DR..
Pickard has received, SO he stated
last night from his pulpit, numerous
letters from people, saying they
were Roman Catholics, demanding
to know why he didn't publish his
sermons, etc, but none of the Ro-
man Catholics signed their name to
their letters, as is usually the case.
He announced again last night the
reason he did not publish them in
the papers here was because the pa
pers would not publish them unless
as paid ads, and he would not con-
sent to that, although hundreds of
men not members of the Baptist
church had urged him to permit
them to have them published and
pay for it, and that his own deacons
were willing that the First Baptist
church pay for it, but he was not
willing to be party to this, as it
looked unfair on the part of the pa
pers here. The Doctor also stated
that he had received several letters
from people throughout the State
who had noticed the brief announce
ment in the papers Of this city Civ
ing his subject, and all wanted to
know why the sermons were not pub
hshed, all of whom he informed
why" the sermons were not pub
lished. Nice state of affairs, isn't
it?
Now, Mr.. Watson, what I wish to
ask you is this; we don't want to
impose on your good nature by ask
ing you to publish all these sermons,
unless you have the space to do so,
either in your Weekly or the Maya
zine. However, if you decide to pub
lish them, am sure they Will be read
with pleasure and profit by thous-
ands. The Doctor has handled the
matter without gloves, and as stated
in my recent letter to YOU his SER
mons sound very much like MI. Wat
son writes.
Pardon me for writing you so long
a letter, but thought | would give
You the dope" and inform you that
you were entirely right when you
wrote me recently that | would see
that Or, Pickard's church took on
new life since he opened the battle,
and 1t certainly has. Fully 1900
people present last night
l hope TO be able to send you an