| Show E ai A THAT a ambitious m tit bit bious dime ilme timeserving time serving prelate who does the praying pray ing and preaching by contract for fer the U 8 cenate dr new a pretty sharp scoring in the baltimore episcopal methodist of the 2 uit jilt the reverend gentleman is washington correspondent for the new mew york methodist and there seems to be considerable dM difference arence of opinion suid and feeling politically between the baltimore ananew and new york organs of the methodist church one evidence of this being that while the latter by its publication li 11 of its reverend correspondents letters endorses his views the former talks to him in anything but a complimentary style for the avaricious truculent and time and self serving disposition which he manifests mr newman in a recent letter to the new york methodist says among other things that noone denies the existence of ku kloxin in the south whose sworn object is to overthrow the dominant party by the destruction of life and property perty and that the disorder and violence caused by them are sufficiently horrid to disgrace any civilized government on the earth commenting upon a portion of this letter the baltimore episcopal methodist says a good many efforts have been made of late to demonstrate that a man can serve two masters and they seem to have met with such success that it is inclined to believe the passage of scripture which says it cannot be done is is slightly incorrect instead of reading no man can serve two masters it and there leaving the matter it should have continued if he only receive pay from onea one for jor dr newman of washington has demonstrated that a man an can serve two if both will pay it tf bays says he serves the church he ar serves e grant and though perhaps not intentionally ally he serves somebody else the dris drs whole career and la ia borsand especially his washington let ter on the southern troubles are referred to in proof of this for our baltimore contemporary says that all the white men of the south douth and half the same class in the north including dr newman know that no such organization as the ku klux is in existence but as Es the propagation of such a story answers the ends of those who employ him he spends his time and employs his pen in helping to spread it it wonders what the founder of methodism john wesley who was ef ift irnest inest in calling upon men to renounce the world the flesh and the devil would siy bay say if he were alive and could set his apostolic eyes on such a disciple as newman if judas iscariot our contemporary adds could have been the right hand man of a reigning prince or have held the position of a high priest under a new dispensation it is doubtful whether he would have sold his hia master he might have been content to increase his fortune and procure his own advancement at the expense of the reputation of his fellows as other high priests are doing in these days the kingdon of jesus however was not of this world therefore continues the E episcopal p methodist such as judas in those days as well as in these have to leave it but in this country ambitious ecclesiastics are seeking power and possessions bess sess ions lons with shameless audacity and greediness and instead of emulating the humility and meekness of the early christians christiana and their indifference to pomp grandeur and power they whenever church property la Is concerned exchange the harmlessness of the dove for the beak and talons of the vulture and seek to advance themselves in imperial favor not by the bold independence with which apostles rebuked sin in high places but by slandering the innocent even at the peril of involving human lifland life and thus staining the priestly robes not only with false witness against their neighbor but with the responsibility of murder and massacre without either endorsing br denying our statement with regard garito to the existence or nonexistence non existence of the ku klux in the south we can not but admire his denunciation of the sordid power and place loving ece ecce e blasts bias eias tsin tain in christendom his strictures side are severe but bethink we think none too muel mue muc BO so for the class to which the gentleman gent leMaL lemau belongs who ao has hag called them forth such buch men are aro hie I 1 discredit priestly calling they asunte assume They dishonor the mas master masten for whom they ostensibly a y labbi 1 they drin brin gHis cause cau dau into disrepute their knavery shallow shallo 7 p pretensions reten aeten and pseudo ahn disgusting I 1 the honest and intelligent no wonder that infidelity spreads while such sach men are the champions of christianity he churches s q oa 05 the day are gre greatly aty nty in need 0 of f I 1 a pu purification t io n dr thy they a are arb re in a far wor worsens si nix fix th an t h ose mentioned in the new testament ant the ther latter iatter were threatened with the loss of their candlesticks but if present day churches ever had any anji they have lost them completely fort light has become gross darkness THE versailles ili iii ill gazette contains an account of a strange marriage marria marris Re and divorce case which recently took place there last fall a mrs jane bruner whose husband had left for the western gold fields was married to a mr jack rains an agreement being entered into between the parties that should bruner ever return their marriage should be dissolved the knot was tied and matters weft went along smoothly until two or three weeks since when the first husband returned his pockets well lined with the shining metal mr and mrs rains bains hospitably entertained him on the night of his arrival home and h in return related his adventures while absent the next day mrs bruner bains rains reminded mr rains bains of the stipulation they had entered into when mar Aar narried ried and gave him to toi understand she expected him to observe servert it the result was the two talked the matter over obtained legal advice an and dRains baans ultimately made application for 01 a divorce v at the circuit court alleging le gi n g d that hat h hib his is wife was living in open a adultery du ite ito y wit with h one george bruner at the same time notice was waived and an answer filed admitting the charges the judge thought the case was peculiar that the defendants answer if submitted to a grand jury might sub eject her to a criminal prosecution and he e would not dispose of the case until the next neit term of the court |
