The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-01-22
DR. MEEK WRITES AT LENGTH.

Our editorial which appeared in The Sentinel of January l., did
not satisfy DR.. r. A. Meek, who edits The Christian Advocate pub
iished at New Orleans. He uses almost a page of his paper of last.
week in again arraigping us. We reproduce below his last article
and beg pardon of our readers in advance for consuming 81 much of
our space with this matter. We want to be perfectly fair with DR..
Meek and were we not TO use his whole article W might appear as
not being so. His last statement reads as follows:
Brother Iawrences statement does not help his cause in the
least. On the contrary, it is made up of a tumble of contradictions.
We desire, in discussing ii. to call attention specifically to the fol-
-. He afirms that Bishop Warehouse has not been assaled'
or attacked and that no charge has been made against him. Yet
from what he had learned from several sources, the Bishop had at
times been almost coarse in his arrogance Then with the weak
proceeding affirmation, he proceeded to say, the distinguished d.
s s,ife ae Commence ,1 see n: and sh as a neI Tide p n,m, 20 gel If tis is no, a." "a
charge Of exhibting "a a wrong TTg spirit and Of improper behavior Ell then
District, who a man Of judicial temperament and who is given to
Sentinel of January /, emphatically CHARACTERIZED the aspersions
which Brother Lawrence caught up and published TO the world as
rh;o.h he AM o+ ~ rhaIle,ge Is This +, Ie.e.m,;este L., II he
made the most Of His response, when asked to make good his a-
cusations, has not at all measured up to his hamboyant manifesto.
persons in the background Who were responsible for this attack
We will state that we have never had any SUSPICIOUS that there
stated the truth that such was the case. Did he not declare that his
s sonS can tell o. or ~Gte Of the proceedings Of Annual Conferences @
And is no. the man who starts d defamatory statement responsible
1T? Our brother himself states that his editorial summarized what
ne e. nesTd l some o, n ngS re "a S w,le 80 80 t%e Eoia ae 70 sons ms " W aon u
er who, whether they intended to incite it or not, are primarily re-
wise. 1t is a queer kind Of performance that our brother is attempt
ing TO pubotf, in first trying to spread himself out and shelter these
men, whneat the same time endeavorlng to hide behind them as IA
means of protecting himself.
80 In our former discussion of this outrage we pointed the
We did not know who was responsible for this shameful misrepre-
sentation of a true and worthy minister, and we do not know now.
Far be it from us by any public utterance of ours, without definite
information, to make any man, preacher or layman, a suspect in a
transaction so unworthy and despicable as this. Brother Lawrence
does not help the case of these defamers by declaring that they did
no right to make hurful statements behind a brothers back that he
would not make in his presence, or to whisper defamations in priv.
ate conversation from which he must be sheltered f they happen to
become known, To see such a himsy defense set up for Christian
ministers is positively pUItul.
"a In the course of his statement, Brother Lawrence says
These brethren (his Sources of information) were mature men and
we believed that they felt what they expressed. We knew tina,
rect. we felt that something should be said, and, being : y " entire
ly without official connection with the Conference. we penned wha
we did as a matter OF duty to the great Church to which we have the
privilege and honor to belong, and because it always affords US ne
little degree of pleasure to puncture the epirdermis of those who
vaunt their superiority Except for on: thing this assumed knight
ly. chivalrc spirit of our brother might possibly win him some favor
and that is, he should first be certain that those whose cause HI
would espouse are CORRECT in their representations should veri
fly his facts beforehand, and not take the chance of defaming person
who may be innocent and wait until afterwards to see if his asper
sions are true. Brother Lawrence lives in a town IN which there re
sided last year three reputable Methodist ministers, men of goo,
judgement and high standing: before taking a fling at Bishop Water
house, why did he not first ak: them about his administrations AM
W e should like to ask our brother, ia a matter of fact, he did no
interrogate them, and if they did not commend the Bishop If SC
why did he prefer to publish an evil rather than a good report2 T
form his opinion from a promiscuous chance conversation rathe
than from the calm assurances OF his neighbors and friends?
there is any thing commendable in such a procedure we fail to Sc
it. On the contrary, it seems to us TO be wholly beyond the pale
excuse OF defense.
IS. Note the following sentence in Brother Lawrences ute