The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-17
JUDGE, NOT, LEST. We BE- JUDGED

( weidoi not Sue Why Come Of our -ex-
changes want to bring back into=the
| lime-light John N. Slaton, an ex gov.
ernor OF the state, whose name is for
ever connected in most disagree
able way with one OF the most nefari
uos criminals that was ever before
the courts of our state. No good can
come of 1.-THE Vidalia Advance
Christ's name was connected in "a
! The latter refused to trun Christ over
| to the mob, but finally decided to turn
him over to the court of the Sanhed-
rims which was legalized mob-and
! Christ was crucified on the cross be.
tween two thieves.
IL is strange to US that most of the
Intolerance regarding Mr.. Slaton
comes from would-be preachers, and
men who claim 10 follow the meekiy
Christ and preach His doctrine. Only
four discOrdant notes come from the
weekly press of Georgia $50 far as we
have n0ticed) twoIOf these are Bap-
fist preacher-editoTs, the third Meth
! Cdist Sunday school superintendent
editor and the fourth rabid Wat
sonite-lawyer-ed
To the man whose religion is main
; ly the precepts of THE Golden Rule"
such an attitude by men who pose as
| instructors in the teachings of Christ
{ is absolutely disgusting When the
| question is asked today "why don't
more men attend church," the ques-
tiCn is easily answered. The intoler-
ance displayed by some preachers in
| instances have kept millions of men
6Cm the church, and have made back
! sliders wear the seat of their trousers
OUT backsliding to the exit However.
along this line, we will say that a
| splendid minister of the gospel II
Georgia remarked to us so many
! Georgia editors take stand in
seeing that ex-governor slator's
name was vindicted--that he had
| been the most maligned man in the
! state-and the attacks on him was a
black spot in Georgia's history.
The bunch CT bowling ours that
! threatened Mr.. Slaton's home and him
self We're nothing more than bunch
of assassins and narrow minded big
OTIS who let somebody else do their
thinking
We will say to the editor of the
Vidalia paper that good can always
come from doing right-amending a
preaching loving kindness
juding not-and that is exactly what
those Georgia editors are endeavoring
to do in the case OF Hon John NJ. Sla-
ton
|, 1t might be said that the man who
was the cause of the bowling met
threatening the home and Mr.. Slaton
himself, has gone into exile, with the
money he was going to test the con-
script law with and is now probably
drinking Florida cocktails to the
health of his poor misguised follow
ers. AS Milton says in his Paradise
Lost: He left. murmuring and with
him went the shades of night.
Greensboro Herald Journal.
The above is so true that we repro.
duce it with pleasure We have noticed
that those who are still crucifying ex-
Governor Slaton with their tongues
and opinions are for the most part lip
pretenders to Christianity. They are
leaders in their churches, and all
those now under consideration are
tainted with the Watson virus. the
same Watson who is now in exile with
thousands of dollars taken from his
blind and perfervid followers for the
purpose Of testing the constitutional
IVY vi tiit SClCtllNb uIdlI law, TIE HlOSI
Just law ever written for the selection
of an army, and one only attacked by
pro-Germans. pacifists, |. w. VS. and
anarchists.
Editor Williams would tell the truth
II he were facing a firing squad for it.
and in so doing in this particular in
tstance, he has turned the light on a
,lot of blatant hypocrisy, bigotry and
intolerance Incorporating under the
cloak of Christianity Just such stuff,
as the Greensboro editor suggests, is
what keeps thousands away from
churches, and these thousands fire.
quently practice and follow the pre-
cepts of Christianity far more closely
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