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The [Newark Journal
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OSCAR F. CRAIG, Editor.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 190f>.
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President Roosevelt will la* in
augurated at Washington tomor
row. ____________
It, is easy enough to be cheerful
when things are coming right, but
the man who faces adversity with
■a smile is a hero.
(i round has been broken at
Jonesboro on the site of the new
Christian church building which
w ill be erected at a cost of st;,ooo.
'Flic White River railroad
bridge over George's (.’reek in
Marion county which was recently
completed, is the longest on the
entire line. It contains over a
million feet of lumber and is said
to have cost ()()<).
The farmers nearly all over the
i*outh have held meetings and re
solved to reduce the cotton acre
age 2d percent. Now, the ques
tion is will they carry out these
good resolutions, or will they fol
low the old habit at planting time
and plant all they can cultivatef
The legislature lias extended the
session lifty-six days. It costs the
state about £1,<!:>() a day for each
day the legislature is in session
This means about s;,»;,ooi) to say
nothing of the needless appropria
tions that may be made. Isn't tie*
state paying too much for its whis
tle?
KEY’. BROWN'S CRITICISM
OF THE JOURNAL.
"I only pity such a man,” says
the Kev. J. L. Brown in speaking
of the editor of The Journal in his
reply to our criticism of the “re
l ligious’' debate.
f Well, now, the gentleman is
very generous, but let’s see if he
is really in earnest about the mat
ter. We rather think he is try
ing to palm off a spurious brand
of pity on us. Old man Noah
Webster, who, by the way, is con
sidered pretty good authority on
the use of the English language,
has said in his unabridged diction
ary that pity is “To have sympa
thy for; to have tender feeling for
one.”
Mr. Webster has further said in
the same book above referred to,
and this definition would perhaps
be more appropriate in this in*
stance, that “Pity, in the Scrip
ture, usually includes compassion,
accompanied by some act of char
ity or benevolence, and not sim
ply a fellow-feeling of distress."
Is it this same pity the reverend
gentleman has for us that causes
him in his “reply” to insinuate in
his fifteenth verse that the editor
of this paper is bad, mean, immor
al and dishonest, and possessed of
a black and impure conscience
Was it this same “pity” that
caused the gentleman to refer to
us from the pulpit with a sneer as
“that little :2x+ editor,” and advise
the people to boycott The Journal
and thus crush us out of existence?
Of course it would be imposs
ible for a preacher of the gospel
a man clothed with divine author
ity to go out into the world and
tench righteousness—teach men
how to live a life of purity and
Godliness to teach and exempli
fy the Divine command to “love
thy neighbor as thyself,” and to
set an example of purity, honesty,
and truthfulness before the multi
tudes we say that it would, of
course, be impossible fora man of
this kind, such as Brother Brown
claims to l>e. to tell an untruth.
But since he has started in to “do
us up. ” we can't help but remark
that on the face of things it
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AND WE WOULD REMIND OUR FRIENDS THAT WE HAVE THE
BEST LINE OF FARHING IMPLEHENTS NOW ON THE MARKET.
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i rather looks like lie has given the
truth a mighty had jab in the face.
It’ Brother Brown really ami
! truly pities the editor of this pa
1 per, we sincerely hope that there
! is no one in this part of the coun
try that he dislikes, for if there is,
there will he a funeral, sure, if
Rev. Brown ever meets him.
But as to our morality, which
he insinuates is very bad, we will
Isay that The Journal will give to
any church or fraternal organiza*
I tion in Newark one hundred dol
lars in spot cash if Rev. Brown
will prove by any reputable citi
zens of the town that the editor of
The Journal has either been drunk,
played a game of cards, or gam
bled on anything whatsoever,
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Robbery
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“What is the charge against
he prisoner, offioerp'
‘‘Petty larceny, your honor.
Ie has been stealing the leather
rom under the tips of the shoes
ie sells."
“That is not petty larceny.
•barge of highway robbery against the prisoner and let him
jury. A man who would do that would steal sheep.1'
A QUESTION OF HONESTY
Too many business men consider anything honest in busi
ness which is not against the law, and will do a great many rep
rehensible things if they think they will not he found out. They
will make shoes and sell shoes in which every skimping trick has
been resorted to--they actually take the leather from under the
toe caps and put in a piece of rough canvas to keep you from dis
covering that the leather has been abstracted.
FULL VAMPS MEANS HONESTY IN SHOE MAKING.
Now. that you know the difference, are you still willing
to buy dishonest shoes?
cheated or defrauded anybody out
of anything, told a wilful or ma
licious lie, stolen anything, had a
tight with anybody, or sworn an
oath since we have been a citizen
of Newark. Now will the rever
end gentleman come on with the
proof that we are a profligate and
immoral creature, or will he
crawfish *.
We have examined carefully
the parts of Scripture he refers to.
but fail to tind anything in any of
them that could be construed to
mean that two men clothed with
Divine authority to teach the (ios
pel should go out and light each
other and each try to prove that
the other is wrong and is leading
the people astray. If Christ in
tended for the Apostles to teach
the multitudes in this manner why
did He not give them instructions
to go out ami challenge each other,
instead of instructing them to go
ami teach the gospel to all nations'
vfne of llev. Brown's strongest
citations is the following from
Acts 17:17: “Therefore disputed
he (Paul) in the synagogue with
the dews and with the devout per
sons, and in the market daily with
them that he met.
But why did Paul thus dispute'
The answer is simple, and may be
found in the proceeding verse, as
follows: "Now, while Paul wait
ed for them at Athens, his spirit
was stirred in him, when he saw
the city wholly given to idolatry."
In other words, Paul was disput
ing with the people because of
their sinfulness, and was trying
to make Christians out of sinners;
not tiying to make sinners out of
Christians, as Bro. Brown was
trying to do when he was disput
ing with Kev. Lash lee. If Lash
lee is teaching false doctrine, a.->
Brown tried to prove that he is,
then is not Las Idee a sinner' And,
on the other hand, if Brown is
teaching false doctrine, as Lashlee
tried to prove that he is, is not
Brown a sinner'
The nearest thing to one of
these modern "religious" deflates
that we have ever been able to tind
in the bible is described as follows
in Mark !): .‘!1 .‘54: "And he came
to Capernaum, and being in the
house, he asked them, ‘What was
it that ye disputed among your
selves by the way'’ But they held
their peace; for by the way they
had disputed among themselves
who should be the greatest. And
lie sat down and called the twelve,
and >:»it 11 unto them, ’ll any man
desire to he tifst the same shall he
the least of all. and servant of
all.- "
I hese are. the words of the Sav
ior himself. Can you construe
them to mean that ministers of the
Gospel should publicly dispute
among themselves simply heeause
they can’t agree on every little de
tail of the Script ures
tiev. Brown charges the people
ot Newark with Item*; gamblers/
drunkards, fighters, etc., and leav
es the impression that the town it*
a modern Gomorrah, polluted
from center to circumference with
crime and wickedness, and charg
es lht‘ Journal with having made
no attempt to reform the town.
Kcv. Brown has been pastor of the
Baptist church here tor a number
ol ,\ ears, w hy lias he not reformed
the town? Boos In* expect si news
paper, the “little 2x4 editor” of
w hieh is ;ls hud, immoral and con
scienceless as he insinuates that
the editor ot I'he .Journal is, to
ijump in and reform the town
while the preachers lay aside their
work and dispute with each other?
W e have been under the im
pression that it was the duty of
the preachers to do this work
which he criticises The Journal for
not doing; but it seems that our
friend Brown would reverse the
order of things and have the “lit
:tli‘ 2x1 editors reform the people
land convert them to Christianity
j while the great big 2l\:i preach*
ers chase around over the country
harranguing each other over their
I denominat ional doctrines.
If Newark is rotten to the core
with crime and corruption, why
didn’t our friend Brown answer
Lash lee's challenge to debate with
an invitation to join him in a re
ligious revival, and the two join in
a brotherly and earnest endeavor
to convert we heathens of Newark
and bring its up to the plane of
civilization?
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Warning Order.
I ndependence Chancery Court, May
terru., it hi;..
Mary Jane Fry, Plaintiff
vs.
L* try, Defendant
1 lie defendant, I,. I>. Fry is warned
t" appear in this eouft within thirty
days, and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff, Mary Jane Fry.
This 2Nth day of Feb. 1905.
S. a. Moore, attorney for plaintiff.
S. M. Casey, att’y ad litem for non
resident defendant.
Cun L. Pka itcK, Clerk.