The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-12-31

- EQUITY, Aid, uldd0 Spe0Cu
on '"The Commission of
Christ" Brother H. T. Crumpton,
kinsman of DR.. w. B. Crumpton, and
pastor at Notasulga, Ala, rose to
''a point of order" The chair re-
quested the point. 1t was stated
that my speech tended, or would
tend to disintegration. The chair
declined to rule on it. I challenged
him before the audience. He de-
clined.
After the adjournment, Brother
Crumpton No. said: "You should
not inject such things into our
work" / inquired, what things. ="
He replied, 81 saw the way you were
going, and anticipated you" That
was a laundering proposition for an
Educated Baptist preacher Points
of order are raised, when the point
develops. He sold himself though,
by saying, ''you are with Watson, ~.
thus acknowledging that Watson is
in the air, in Alabama, and that the
breeze stiffens as the information he
proposes goes to our people.
That was the dagger of his obsti-
nate aversion to truth, proposing to
deaden me with the aspersions he,
Brother Crumpton No. /, and their
religious kinfolb heap on Watson,
with the antipathy they have for him
because they cannot answer him.
My God, what cowardly way to deal
with man "in the land of the free
and the brave
In the Nov. 9Th issue Of the JEFF
fersonian, Tom Watson was charita-
BILE enough to say ''the local preach
ers who beg for the money, are hon
est, but deluded." We all have our
definitions of honesty, for ourselves
and others. Mine, for myself is
when | am put on notice of a fact
leading to the truth of a thing,
pursue it till the truth is reached.
1t seems to me that would be good
honesty for all OF us Baptist preach
ers who have the least intimation
of the inefficiency Of our mission
methods, not only from Tom Watson,
but our own missionaries on the
foreign field, such as Brother T. f.
McCrea especially, who argues the
question with such pungent and in
cisive cogency that no honest"
preacher could persist in imposing
on our Baptist people with collec-
tions in the name of missions re-.
sulting in ga positive hindrance" to
the gospel of Christ, and "a positive
disgrace" to Christianity, after know
ing what he says.
The real truth is, I am sorry to
say, too many Of us preachers are
more afraid of "Our Boards" than
we are Of God, or of the devil, lest
they put us out of Job if we do
not obey their behest in money get
ting to be expended by them ac-
cording to their dictum, if our most
thoughtful, reputable, faithful, and
efficient missionaries do tell MS,
against their dogmatic protest, the
whole thing is q failure, considered
in the light properly due. When I
mentioned Brother McCrea's ."Open
Letter to Southern Baptist" to Broth
er Crumpton No. 2, he showed he
had contempt for it, knowing nor
caring anything for it, because
Brother Crumpton No. l, / presume,
had whispered in his ear that | WAS
with Watson"
"Our Boards in secret complcit
conjunction with our Baptist press,
tacitly, or otherwise understood, by
mutual consent, interviewed and CEN
sored it peremptorily from them, by
a dogmatic assumption charaCteris-
tic only of incredulous usurpers Of
the things belonging to the Kingd ON
of Christ, not for His glory but to
maintain methods Of mission work