The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-07
on it's integrity as honest Christians.

on it's integrity as honest Christians.
Morality is High.
Relative to the high morality and
good citizenship engendered by my
self, characterized by Mr.. Honeywell
as a goddess hypocrite, | may add in
passing that the police blotter has few
if any names of st. Johns members
to show, and Judge Fox Of the circuit
court frequently has assured me that
he regards my members as some of the
best in the community. Is there bus
mess or professional man In Rich
mond who does not want the honest
trade of still more honest members Of
st. Johns church? Let business men
go on record.
"The Roman church minds its own
business" So do l. but l also reserve
the right to express in my own pulpit
to my own constituency what l believe
to be Christian truth, and my mem
bers encourage me in my stand and
back me in my opinions.
A personal letter of Father RoeIi Of
St. Andrews Catholic church to my
self, published at his gracious permits
sion, will amply inform Mr.. Honeywell
what the reverend father thinks Of me
and of the revival movement.
Both Are Poor.
Il am a poor man. says Mr..
HONEYWELL None of the local
banks have besieged me to place
a bank account with them. | have been
in the ministry thirty-three years. nine
teen in this city, but l have been una
Bile to get SO far as to have enough
money to make the first payment on
a piece of property so as to be able
to secure the advantage OF mortgage,
which Mr.. Honeywell says encumbers
his.
Relative to my personal benevOlen-
ces. I will not boast. 1t little becomes
a pastor of Christ to do so, but hun
dreds of St. Johns members, belittled
by the sarcastic fling of Mr.. Honey
well, honest shop men, excellent fath-
ers and good mothers, little blessed
with the goods of this world, but own
ers of humble homes, obtained by Ger
man thrift, will give Mr.. Honeywell all
information he wants on that point
Can he show a better string or
fish," asks the specialist. Can l? NOT
one of the seventeen preachers back
ing the Honeywell movement, down IN
their hearts. would not like to trade
that string of live fish which swims In
, to my church every Sunday to receive
nourish from that old food which
makes for sound, sane Christianity and
good citizenship.
And what about Mr.. HoneyWell g
string? Here's the reply-What So
called evangelists usually do is to
have others dig the bait cut the poles
! buy fish-lines and drive the fish into
the pond where the evangelist is to
fish. The. Ministerial Alliance did that
work here After the revivallst Is
gone, the same preliminary workers
have to clean the fish, heat the frying
| PAN fry the catch, pick the bones
! and discover that many of them are
are not fit to eat In the meantime, the
| so called evangelist has departed with
the fisherman's lunch basket.
! My fish record is reflected in the
! thousands of persons | have cOmforted
! in sickness and death at home and in
the hospital, etc, and the medical fra
/ ternity will bear out by statement.
/ 81 can show 5000 converts In
stead of 5000 converted persons, as
Mr.. Honeywell states, he has simply
from most Of them taken pledge at
the time of the revival, and does not
mean, if I understand correctly meth
| DDS of work employed in rev1vals, that
5000 persons have actually become
| fixed to the church so that they and
! their children stay year in and year
j out. as history shows they do at St
! Johns.