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SALISBURY CALM AFTER LYNCHING
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(Continued from Page 18) Episcopal Church the Rev. Dr. Robert S. Chalmers, rector, said the occur' rence "of which -.ve are all ashamed arose out of a sudden mob impulse, but these impulses could only arise where race prejudice continued to exist."
"Very Much Regretted"
The Rev. Kingman A. Handy, pastor of McCormick Memorial Baptist Church, said:
"The affair is very much to be regretted, and during the trying hours which our citizens feel so keenly, it behooves us to keep our minds occupied with high and noble things."
Mr. Handy was pastor of the Salisbury Baptist Church several years ago. Calls Deed Dark Blot
The Rev. Dr. Don S. Colt, pastor of Govans Methodist Episcopal Church, said in a sermon last night:
"The lynching at Salisbury was a dark blot upon the fair name of the State of Maryland and a crime against a brother race that has its home among us. The good citizens of the State ought to rise in burning protest against it and the leaders of the mob ought to be brought to immediate justice."
The Rev. A. Brown Caldwell, pastor of Walbrook Presbyterian Church, in a "prayer for pardon," referred to those who did the lynching as persons "who had judged and executed in ruthless and unholy manner" and called them "a heedless mob that had wreaked sodden vengeance." Says All Are Cursed
The Rev. Hardigg Sexton, pastor of Hunting Ridge Presbyterian Church, gaid:
"By that which has been done in the sovereign free State of Maryland there has been laid upon every citizen of this Commonwealth, whether they sit in a Christian church this morning or not, the curse of God's righteous wrath for a fiendish crime."
eye; that one might see clearly to cast out a mote from a brother's eye.
"Obviously the example of the ostrich is followed when conditions in Baltimore are to be considered. If Baltimore city* is ashamed of the so-called mob spirit of the Shore, let Baltimore know that many a time has the Eastern Shore been ashamed of the moral condition of that city.
"Yes, Mr. Rabbi, we regret the lynching as we also regret the outside interference which we believe responsible for the first lynching on the Shore in twenty years."
At Christ Protestant Episcopal Church the rector, the Rev. Dr. William F. Gould, in his morning sermon stressed the importance of obedience to law.
Blames Tardiness Of Laiv For Salisbury Lynching
Easton, Md., Dec. 6—The Rev. T. N. Tombes, pastor of the First Baptist Church here, teaching the men's Bible class in Sunday-school here this morning, put the blame for the Salisbury lynching on the delay in meting out justice to criminals. He said, in part:
"This lynching at Salisbury was brought about by the failure of those intrusted with the enforcement of law to give the people justice. If the authorities had gone ahead with the Orphan Jones trial this lynching would not have happened. The case tried in the Circuit Court here a few days ago when a man accused of criminally assaulting a girl was set free whom everyone deemed guilty also helped to arouse the people. Delay in justice favors the prisoner, and such serious cases as these should be tried at once and sentence handed down."
After the Sunday-school meeting Mr. Tombes further discussed the matter, saying the Duker case was another
example of justice not being carried out. The people, he said, were getting tired of seeing so much crime and not enough punishment handed out promptly.
Mr. Tombes did not refer to the lynching in his sermon this morning.
Negro Preacher Urges Law Obedience In Sermon
Crisfield, Md., Dec. 6—The only comment made by any preacher of Crisfield on the lynching in Salisbury Friday night last was by the Rev. James Kraty, Negro, of Shiloh Methodist Episcopal Church.
He said he knew Mr. Elliott, of Salisbury, as a man of good character and prominent in business and church circles and that while his slaying was an awful crime on the part of Mack Williams, Negro, the law should have been allowed to take its course.
He urged his congregation of Negroes to obey the law and not get excited over the lynching.
Cambridge Preacher
Answers Rabbi Israel
Cambridge, Md., Dec. 6—The Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Mulligan, addressing the men's Bible class of St. Paul's Methodist Protestant Church this morning, said:
"Rabbi Israel wants to know the attitude of the churches of the Eastern Shore regarding Friday's lynching. The answer is:
"They regret it, just as they regret any moral lapse on the part of their people.
"But why the sudden zealousness on the part of the rabbi and Baltimore city to lead our community to a belief
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