The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-07-02
5 Is Where We Baptists Scrap About

"whar" he is right He thought I
had left Alabama for good, you see.
Many big CD dog will run at you,
and bark loud against the inside Of
the yard gate, but when you enter
will run under the house, and growl.
You could not get him out with sweet
cakes, custards, nor pies. See?
w. r. WHATLEY.
Salem, Ala, Feb. 9, 1912.
He made like cowardly effort to
counterfeit your influence in your ex-
posture of modern missionary propa-
ganda, by referring to you as "a
certain Magazine writer" instead of
calling your name out like a man.
/ thank God for a man like you who
can make the false and the untrue
take the bushes, and stay hid in
them.
4. 1t has come to a pretty pass
in Baptist affairs, when Baptist
can't express himself contrary to the
dictum of the Baptist bosses, but
that the big foot of some secretary
is put down on him to crush out his
religious life. Such is persecution
in principle, as completely as ever
emanated from Romanism, propOs-
ing to block and throttle free speech.
Persecution has always been the re-
suit of inability to meet the truth
That is why you are hated on every
side by SO many foes. Any cause of
any man, or men, that has to be
taken care of by being let alone is
of the devil pure and simple. If our
Boards make facts in their work
they propose protecting by having
them let alone, they thus acknowl-
edge they are doing the work Of the
devil, and not God. The man who
advocates true principles does not
object to having them attacked be-
cause he knows they cannot be hurt.
5. Our Board Baptist press is
strictly in the hands of the Board
Baptist bosses and destroyers of
free speech, in that they will not
permit a communication in their
columns if the least out of cline
with their policy, it makes no differ
ence how strong the argument for
truth to the reverse. In this there
is no difference between them and
the Catholics who are trying to
crush you. I say away with such
people as Baptists, for they are not.
They are like set of hungry
wolves for money, and Baptist prin-
ciples may go to the devil SO far as
they are concerned.
6. If a man is good money get
ter for the Board crowd, he is in
their estimation a grand character,
if not, it makes no difference what
his qualifications for right may be,
he amounts to nothing. The big
dogs among them gather in the con-
ventions, make laws for the prose-
cution of their nefarious practices,
then hand them down to the little
subordinates, who bo0t-lick for them
to be carried out Any man who
works under such a gang, is not fit
for the name of Baptist preacher,
nor can he preach the gospel.
7. Your paper is worth more to
our Alabama people than our Ala
bama Baptists, and I wish the last
one Of them would take it and learn
to the extent they do not know what
1t is to be free. The difference is,
you teach religious freedom first,
and money next. 1t teaches money
first, last, and always, and nothing
next. l have been thinking Of trying
to negotiate terms with you to travel
and sell your books and papers, be-
cause of my conscious need Of the
people for them. May God richly
bless you to the end of your days.
Very truly yours,