Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1890 — The Way to Do It. [ARTICLE]

The Way to Do It.

The Marion County (Ky.) Gazette recently printed the following paragraph: “We promised our readers to publish the names of all preachers who should get drunk from that time forward. Little did we think that in so short a time we would have to give the public the sad intelligence which is now being rumored about the town, and, so far as we can learn, not denied, that Rev. was drunk last Tuesday. We should be pleased to set the reverend gentleman right if he is falsely accused, and we are willing to do all in our power to clear him of the disgrace which has fallen upon him; but if these rumors are true the Church of God ought not to be imposed upon by him.” The paragraph indicates a deplorable decadence of religion in the back districts of Kentucky ; but it also indicates that public sentiment is healthy enough to cure the evil in time. While the preachers are drinking too much whisky, and, without doubt, quarreling over their respective claims to divine authority, the editor comes in with his lash and begins the work of clearing out the temple of those who profane it.