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4:AD YO GATE.ST: LOUIS* WEDNESDAY? MAY 20.Behind Time.—For the first time in two• ■ •years we are a day behind in mailing theAdvocate•aSince Saturday, May 9th, the editor of the Advocate has been seriously,and, at times, dangerously ill. Compelled, therefore, to entrust his dutiesto a subordinate, much of the laborwhich he designed and planned mustremain unperformed until such timeas his health is restored. The noticesWof the Northern General Conference,News of the Week, c., will be carriedon as soon as his physical conditionwill safely permit the exertionk*‘Southwest ern Mete dis ”—Dr. Elliott ast His Book—The St. Louis Christian Advocate and its Editor.Chapter 17*Dedicated to men who love the truth and havea little common sense.• iWhoever has read that amusing little book, “Father Tom and the Pope/'will remember that Father Tom attributed his success over the Protestants,THE CHRISTIAN “D V O Oput him in the front ranks of thosewho were to be the assailers, the denouncers and the destroyers of our denomination.It is because of this, we now noticehim as we do. By a faithful showingof this book, we show also the manwho was its author; and by showingthe author, we show also the denom-ination that has endorsed and sustained him. The endorsers are likethe endorsed ; the spirit of one is thespirit ©f all.A very prominent feature in this sc-called “ history, etc., is the space devoted to the case of the unfortunateAnthony Bewley. As honorable mention is made of him on the title page,and particular attention given fromthe beginning of the second chapteron to a rather indefinite extent, it maybe proper for us to devote a moment or two to a notice of the case at once.The writer of these lines and the*late Eev. A. Bewley were well acquainted with each other in early life,1and to the day of Bewley’s death theywere on most friendly terms with eachother. Their fathers also were wellinteresting part of the narrative, notwithstanding the perversions and false coloring the editor has tried To give them.In, due time, Providence permitting, we will refresh the public mind on the■subject generally, and present somematters connected with it not generally known heretofore.For the present we- close by callingattention to thefollowing extractfrom the 170th page of the book : “Ellis G-. Evans, of Kolia, Mo., addressed acommunication to the Central Christian Advocate, September 7, 1887, relative to this martyrdom and the burial of its victim, in which he says:“ ‘The nest day the body was taken down and put under the ground, but in about three weeks was taken up, and the bones were stripped of their flesh and put upon the roof of the store house of Captain Eph. Daggett,who still resides at that place in affluence.■The bones seemed to be in care of Dr. Peak, who occasionally went up and turned them about. The boys making that a play place, would set up the bones in a variety of attitudes by bending the joints of the arms and legs, and further mocked these remains of this humble Christian by crying ‘old Bewley,’ ‘old abolitionist,’ c^”This storv is not only told in thePAltlA pro see, whoward, usidangeroof formformer dup men sble light.just beenIt is callpendenceadoptedday of Jrespectatrebels ag; the “grea which, t:shone.sundry tconduct lt;ment to ^objected, ment reatively:“ The hiBritain isusurpation;tablishmen
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Saint Louis Christian Advocate
St Louis, Missouri, US
Wed, May 20, 1868
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