Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-12-21
B. H. HILLA ARD
Defends Ills Pastor, I'm Jones

After reading carefully every
thing published concerning the
controversy of F. NJ. Jones and
X. K. Gentry, in regard to a
statement made. by Jones con.
Corning some phase of the Y.
NJ & A work, had thought to
keep silent. until Judge Williams
pops up and shows his ruff1ed
feathers. In his article, in which
he vehemently and slanderously
attacks Jones, l only discovered
one mistake, and that is that it is
false. bearing false impression
and constituting a mis.represen.
tation.
He has many things to say, but
in order to make a deadly fire
be will need a better vision. His
statement that he did not know
this ministerial agent no doubt,
accounts for, and unfolds the Sc
cret of his grossly erroneous as
sertionS. Had he known Bro.
Jones as l do and as long as l
have known him, he, no doubt,
would hold him in higher es-
TEEN. Knowing him as I do, l
am frank to say that Judge Will
ans nor any other American citl-
zen is a more loyal, patriotic,
Christian gentleman than this
man who is the victim of undue,
ungodly, unjust, unprincipled +,
He'll bred criticism and abuse
No man, I think, would shed his
blood quicker or freer for the
Stars and Stripes than he would,
and l think 1 am in a position to
know. He is standing on, and
by a principle that will exist
when the Y. NJ. c. A. and its ar.
dent advocates are forgotten. He
is standing for the things that
, will benefit the soldier boys when
their blood has been shed and
the fires Of life extinguished and
their souls gone into eternity
Bro. Jones has never condemned
any of the good things done by
the Y. Al. c. A, but stands on
against the wrong, whether it b.
in the Y M. c. A. or in the
Church, for which he deserves
credit and praise and for which
he will finally receive a reward
Its poor logic to conclude that
the good that an organization, OF
). even an individual, does, in any
sense. juStifies the wrong.
Bro. Jones is not alone, no,
by any means. hut such men as
! Dr.. H. B. Taylor, Moderator o.
the General Association of Ky.
Raptists, and Editor of the News
and Truths, takes the same posi-.
ton, and in an issue of Dec 5th
1917, says: "The Y. M. Z. A
. does thing that are good, b,
, the cards. cigaretts, movies, poo
rooms. and etc, etc, are inherent.
ly wicked and wicked and evil
r within themselves and should be
abolished. The Y. M. c. A. is
) making the same mistake that
Germany has made. Germany
put culture before religion, thai
j is what the Y. NJ. c. A. is do
ing" II any one doubts thai
, the Y. NJ c. A. does permit these
: things, mentioned by DR.. Taylor,
I will gladly produce abstracts
from the statements by their
leading advocates and secretaries
!, that confirms every word. Any
; man that has not the moral cour
age to stand out against and de
nounce such evils. which are
carried on in the name of Christ.
ianity, that tends, in it's every
form, to blight the minds, Cor
rupt the morals. and worst of all
destroy their souls. and, who
2 may soon go to the front, and
, chance. 10 meet an untlmely death,
is not worthy to be called a friend
to the boys in KHAKI, and in real
ity are not. tho they may, for a
season, hide their hypocrisy and
deception under the coat OF pat.