did some good preaching. He couldn’t
go only from Monday night to Thurs
day evening without bringing in the
mission question in order to lambast
your pure name and character. He
did it in the most un-Christian-like
spirt.
He came at you in this way: He
said to the congregation, you know
there has been an attack made on
missionaries. A great deal has been
said of late in Georgia; that what had
been said and written was false, mis
leading and rotten, and that it was
gotten up by one that was used to
the devil, a liar, unreliable, ignorant
and was a spitfire of the devil, and
was one of him. He compared the
spitfire to a fire-cracker—it was full
of explosives—stick a match to it,
it would explode, flash and sparkle in
every direction; having nothing to
direct and there was nothing behind
it or in it only the noise and sparks.
He also said that he measured a
Christian by dollars and cents —that
was the only safe standard to be gov
erned by. So I didn’t hear him
preach any more.
