Jon Gary Williams
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W. T. Boaz vs H. H. Wallace (Missionary Baptist)
May 28, 1914
(By James A. Allen)
One of our brethren, noticing that the Baptists were drooping a little under the weight of Boaz's very clear and forcible presentation of the truth and asked him how he felt. Bracing up and fixing a smile, he replied "just fine." The brother answered: "Well, you ought to for you have heard more real gospel than you have ever heard before."
A newspaper editor in Illinois condemned debates. For once Wallace and Boaz agreed that the editor was inconsistent and wrong. Boaz said: "Any man in liberty loving America so narrow, prejudiced, and one-sided as to oppose any kind of candid investigation of anything was mentally so imbecile that a mosquito could sit upon the bridge of his nose and drink out of both eyes at the same time." The audience laughed!
Wallace read extracts from writings of Alexander Campbell. Many were garbled. Boaz looked down at the garbled quotes and said: "Oh, Bro. Campbell, you have been maligned, misrepresented, and slandered; your writings have been iniquitously garbled and dissected; they hounded every step you took, and in malignant hatred have appointed a rendezvous over your tomb; and yet, though you yourself condemned appealing to any man as authority in religion, they have the barefaced audacity to try to get assistance from you to prop their tottering cause."
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