THE GEORGIA SUNDAY CRIMINALS.
IN our issue of December 11 we told how Elder W. A. McCutcheon and Prof. C. E. Keck were arrested on Sunday, November 19, at Gainesville, Ga., on charge of “disorderly conduct,” their specific offense being the arranging of seats in a building where the next day they designed to open a school. They were in nowise noisy in their work, and the man next door, though a Sunday keeper, was in nowise disturbed. The “disturbed man” lived on the other side of the village. They were each fined $50 and costs, or the option of ninety days’ work in the chain gang. They were also bound over to the county court for “sabbath breaking,” which is a State offense. By telegram from Elder R. M. Kilgore we learn that their trial for sabbath breaking came off the 21st instant. No counsel was employed, the brethren conducting their own cases, relying upon the promise of God, as given in Matt. 10 : 19, 20. The result of the trial was that the jury disagreed. A new trial has been ordered on May 21. We will, the Lord willing, give our readers the result of it. All this persecution, be it remembered, is in Protestant America, against Protestants upon whose character rests no stain of immorality.