Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-05-18
Obscene Texts Are in the Bible
they're Lawful

8blished the following;
4 Obscene Texts Are in the Bible
4 They're Lawful
AThere may be obscene passages IN
i Bible, but the public reading OF
! does not constitute a violation Oh
y law, Justice 7. Gray Haddon
Ned Yesterday in Police Court.
4 f+er Policeman G. ". Burruss
= Nod that he had arrested q. A.
mons. elderly Negro, for using
s. 4 language and, worse-trom the
ticer's standpoint-refusing to de-
= when ordered by Burruss to DO
! Simmons unfolded a Bible, placed
a ON the judges desk, and sala:
sYour Honor, | took my text from
22nd chapter of Revelations.
4 The iudge pondered over the good
~ read the verses in question:
kkd dismissed the case: :.
Xfs1f a man reads Bible ana IN
Hoancv is there, l can't do anything
ont itn the court stated, Inc
;of of police, who issued the per.
t. has discretion IN the ma''ei' OU'
hands are tied. Gov T,es-
I'he Police Court record ior Ge
IN, April 80, 1929, showed the i0'-
T!ng eht Simmons C. sc Preacher,
". Ind;es 1913 Turpin st. on
nront Did unlawfully be dlsor-
- in the public street. n.,or
T1y ~ w p burroughs, A. Broker
The following is an extract iron,
records of the Hastings court u
Is city:
Tho Grand jurors of the cG Gnr fSe
aitb of Virginia IN ana hGl dnIv
a.'n If the City of Richmond, e said
8oy % TO and now attending sat"
InmoneN +Seir oaths present, tn"'
urT on FER B. BURROUGHS tho
4 WAL L.d dav of August, IN tnS
ar one thousand nlne ssid City of
genty-eight, at the s"' and there
chmond. being then 0n "nN to-wit:
,ad with deadly we"p one James
n;stol, in and upon ; 1ne will
p,seO', 1niawfully, felonlOu ad;;fated-
Hly, ae NJ malice aforethonghr Lace ars
ana VI nonrder against the PEI" eS1tb
ana di@ritV Of the Common"e
Virginia. sworn and sent by o SGe
srrt to the Grand jury
Tpcv Freeman,
Ei;iah Henderson
Fleming James,
William Branch
\ DIR. E. T. HILL
4 W. A. Perkins
= Matte Gerrien'
.,.o, was set for October zo >
28, at Wn nj. first degree murder :, >
lifted ~l Dispatch r2 miaspe1s sar the
q . Ias ans name, At the ,h ne"r mas
"I Gem G. A. Simmons VINO N mn9
Rev, - ~ BROOK Avenue and Mon OF
rested strse a. in the Police Court Tsm trs
: PlOrea "' 80. Simmons with the an.
reared aoS satisfactory at result, WI sd nas
' ~Iie the late Rev. John Jasper , nt'e
Pid about Al "~ao cr'I and ability in preach
T. 1 3rom a' the Book Of Revelations 5o1d It
2 - IRON OH the he persons in the world, .a ~
j OF al 'Hv g that Burroughs was
3Ea,,s the last one to SPECIFY e;,,+, 3
&ae passage of the osl,p folks
{,o'',a be read to the eO!ore' l0'N'
fe this city. ,ri+bin his
!; o' ~, and he seems to have knT ,;fn
,.;yTts, We cannot for the NE
! r.. understand why Walter B, Bur,
IN view of his antipathy TO
800 folks. better known to MN
..ripeers,' should have been as
(a4 70 a colored neighborhooo'
80 no would come in direct con-
|ac. with this class of people, |.
Isv have been that ne could not
81 the prickings Of MS own con,
go Ee could have moved OH
I, the other place on his beat espe-
I;sl'v in view of the fact that' as
l,3ga gaddon says, the matter came
Eira9tlv under the supervision OF MS
-, snne,ior officer, Chief X. D.
We hope that it may be possible
l transfer Officer Burroughs to an
E,cInsive white neighborhood. But
khat about that 22ud chapter OF
revelations? 1t is one Of the most
|ublime parts of that Book Of Books
Here it is:
And he showed me pure river
4 water of life, clear as crystal, |
|roceeding out of the throne Oh uou
Ind of the Lamb. :.
3 In the midst of the street Oh II,
md on either side of the river was
hera tree of life, which pare
'Talvs manners of fruits, and yieio-
' y ber fruit every month: and the
tavas of the tree were for the heal
no. of the nations.
And there shall be no more
,,rse. but the throne OF Goa anu
9 tbe Lamb shall be in it; and MS
brvants shall serve him:
4 And they shall see mis- face; and
is name shall be in their foreheaGs.
And there shall be no nignt
,aro. and they need no candle, J
either light of the sun; for the Lord !
sod giveth them light: and they /.