This Week in Texas Methodist History November 19

Newspaper Editor Shames Methodists in Jefferson, Nov. 19, 1869

The following is presented without comment from the Home Advocate, Jefferson, Texas, Nov. 19, 1869.

While Dr. Finley was preaching at the Methodist Church last Sunday, the stillness of the congregation was so perfect that the spiriting and spattering of the tobacco juice sounded as if a hundred little boys were engaged in a squirt gun skirmish—What filthy creatures we Christian are?  When will Purity be able to command a decent regard in sacred places?