French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-09
HENDERSON COUNTY MOTTO:
WE LIKE THOSE WHO LIKE US.
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Editor Hustler:
We are so constituted, as rational
beings, in u state of nature, that We
naturally like some things, which We
are brought up against, while we MOI
only dislike other things that meet us
on the journey,-we go so far as tc
declare we hate certain human accom-
plishments and regard same as even
sinful.
Perhaps every Henderson county
reader has become familiar with the
baseball preacher Billy Sunday.
Some critical fellow went recently to
Billy Sunday and said to him, Broth
err Sunday, l am not pleased with all
your preaching, and in fact | regard
much of it as being actual profanity.
if not blasphemous." We'll" said the
former baseball fan, explain your
sell, come to the point, turn on your
steam, get right down to business,
and let us know what troubles you in
my preaching"
"Your preaching lacks refinement"
said the critical man, you almost
swear in the pulpit, you say the devil
is a real person, you intimate ne has
got horns, hoofs and a TAIL that he APP
pears in a thousand different forms,
n day he looks like a demon, next
Gay he looks like an angel OF light,
and that he even goes about with a lot
of isms and scisms, fooling ever GER
tain preachers with his wiles."
Billy whirled round on his seat, an
easy chair and exclaimed, Nov friend
you are coming down to a base-hiu,
and I'll give you some plain old fash
toned gospel right now-I don't say
ali you clean-handed kid-gloved
preachers are thieves, neither are you
martyrs, but some of you are out OF
jail when you ought to be in, some Of
you instead OF driving the devil out Of
men. are carrying him within your
selves, a lot of you ought to be run
ming a hot tomato joint, instead of
preaching. Some of you are so per-
feet and refined you could correct the
mistakes of God Almighty himself
you believe there should be no bottom
rails in the fence, but that all rails
like yourselves should be on top-you
persuade yourselves there is NO real
personal devil, while all the time the
actual devil is seated right down in
your own hearts, laughing himself to
death, cheating you worse than he
yer cheated a negro out of his sup
per-
At this Billy wheeled himself back
again in his rocking chair and furth-
er delivered himself, friend / am not
swearing, but I'm preaching that there
IS a real old devil and that he is slick
and foxy, for my Bible says he is real,
and so long as the old book teaches
there is devil and hell, I am going to
preach it-yes l am going to teach
there Is a place of torment and a
mean old satan trying to get every
body to go there, Just as hard as I am
to get them to go to Heaven
Preacher, / am going ON to preach
there is an old Nick, with horns,
and if the Bible says there is q place
Of fire and birthstone them Billy Sun
day Is going to preach it"
Billy didn't like that preacher and
his preaching, because that preacher
didn't like Bill and his preaching.
we see the truth of OUT subject.
is applicable, to Henderson
and it's people
Some one has said that frailty is
human, but that it is an everlasting
fact, that every animal on the face OF
IL 61OOO COISAOCAS lI0OAL oo POAAONS'
The honey-making bee and the nest
building bird do not have to learn at
school or build after ssecond models
Yet neither the bees nor the birds are
perfection-they are simply not con-
scious of error-if they make a mis-
take, they cannot correct, and here is
the place where human conscience
comes in. We view and sympathize
with our brother fellow creatures-wa
like him and he likes us, and this is
the human. Our brother trespasses
against us and we forgive him, if he
VIII allow us,-to forgive is divine and
here is the separation between human
and animal. He who never forgiveS
is an animal, for animals kill with no
remorse of conscience.
We love those who love us-we can
not love war, because it is hateful, it
is inhuman, its purpose is to kill and
destroy, for which same reason we
sometimes, much as we disdain, must
go to war. Millions today are at war,
when same is not of their own choos-
ing. The rather let us Joy that we are
men of peace-Sons of the Prince of
Peace. More anon.