Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-12-27
THE AMPLIFIER
q. HENRY james,

we put our faults on the times.
Sometime immediate confession OF
a fault makes half amends for 1t.
Have you heard any more from
Mrs. Parham, the pastors wife No.
l, recently?"
BRO. SENTIMENT: "No, we have
not heard anything from Mrs. Par
ham, No. this week; but heard a
great deal concerning YOU and that
ARTICLE you wrote December 3,
1880. DR.. Parham, (the pastor),
paid his liberal respects to you, re-
garding that article you wrote on d.
vorce. The divine, in a most irritat-
ing, irreligious, molesting, sarcastic
and scandalous manner, fayed you
in his pulpit, Sunday morning, De-
cember 7, 1880. 1t is also reported
that many of the outstanding min
listers of Richmond got mighty sore
with you because of the way you
wrote of Rev. S. L. Parham and his
two living wives. Let me give you
little hint, these particular min
listers have some STINGING BEES
in their BONNETS FOR YOU Be-
ware! If we make no mistake, your
article was headed thus: PASTOR
OF MOSBY MEMORIAL CHURCH
ENTANGLED WITH TWO WIVES
Dr.. Parham and his wife No. 2, be-
came angry and flayed you greatly;
we mean urgently, ungratefully and
ungentlemanly. In your article,
YOU said much concerning men d.
vorcing their wives, and especially
ministers of the gospel. And pastor
Parham. thought very little of said
article:' and that he censured you
severely, so much so until we got
real sorry for you. Ample, you
know that the ministers of this city
are not going to accept the truth
when it is told to them-they Just
won't accept it. Of course, we like
the article very well; the only thing
about it that we dislike, is that you
diu not make the article quite
strong enough; next time please
make it hundred fold stronger. We
believe that God is satisfied with
your writing and only His pleasure
should be your DE-SID-ER-A-TUM.
We can not really understand the
ministers in Richmond. They will
try to dodge facts, we mean fact,
which are backed by the Scriptures.
they may as we'll come clean, be-
cause the public eyes are wide open,
looking at their low deeds and
wicked conduct"
AMPLIFIER: Gust a moment
Sentiment; you can not class all of
the pastors in the same class. we
have in the city of Richmond. some
pastors who know the truth, and ac-
cept 1t gladly. So don't class all of
our ministers as being low. Surely
we have some clear straightforward
pastors in Richmond"
BRO.SENTIMENT: "Well, mavbe
you are right. If they don't ACCEPT
blDllcal facts they are worst than
AMPLIFIER: 81 am told that DR.
Parham did not agree with me m
! those quotations / used the other
week, taken from the Bible. What do
you say about that"
BRO. SENTIMENT: eve don't
see why any one who means right
would tackle what you wrote concern
ing the affair. Every man and
woman who read your article is look
ing at marriage and divorce in
different light. You gave clear cut
facts, backekd by the Bible. and there
is no pastor on earth bigger than the
word OF God. Perhaps if Reverend
DR.. Parham would take his Bible and
turn to James 1:21, and read thus:
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness
and superfluity of naughtiness, and
receive with meekness the engrafted
word, which is able to save YOUR
souls. Then he will see your article
in a differene light and call you his
friend, instead of Judas"
AMPLIFIER. Sentiment, l have
found that people will get mad if
you tell them the truth. 1t seems to
me that they would rather you pat
them on the shoulder and tell them
everything is alright, when their
conscience is telling them they are
wrong. DR.. Parham, breaches to his
congregation constructively every
Sunday; regardless to whether they
like it or not; he breaches Gods word.
Nine times out of ten his sermons are
as bitter as; quinine, altho, hii hearers
sit before him meekly and absorb.
They do not fly off and rebuke him
because he gives them the medicine
just as it is prescribed by the great
Physician above. These hearers real
ize that they are sick with sin, there
fore, they gently take the medicine
DR.. Parham gives to them-which is
mighty bitter, and swallow it down
like sisters and brethren, knowing
that bitter medicine is real soul
cleansing"
BRO. SENTIMENT: "Talk on,
Amplifier, we hear YOU"
AMPLIFIER: $50, it comes the
time when the messenger, Rev. DR..
Parham becomes i'll with sin, or the
victim of circumstances, and is found
guilty to a certain extent; tell us is
it fair for him to dodge and try to
skim by the truth when it is told to
him? Will he continue to turn away
from the very same medicine that he
gives the people? / Ishall get in
touch with the Almighty Physician,
who sits in His Holy meteorological
Laboratory above, and tell Him that
His servant at Mosby Memorial Bap-
fist Church, corner Randolph and
lakewood Avenue, Richmond, Va,
got somewhat angry with me for
giving him the 'Scriptural Prescrip-
tion,' which He commanded me to
give him to help his soul. There is no
saad daar standard To attnent to