The Christian Leader, published by Bro. Rowe, 426 Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, is one of my favorite papers. I get it regularly and read every word in every issue of it. Bro. Rowe’s father, John F. Rowe, the founder of the Leader, was one of the pioneers of the Restoration Movement He graduated from Bethany College while a young man and Alexander Campbell, President, wrote and signed his diploma. Bro. F. L. Rowe has been connected with the Leader for fifty years. His father’s work among the Restoration forces goes back much farther. F. M. Green, in his "Life and Times of John F. Rowe", says that among the last things John F. Rowe said was: "Tell Fred to keep the Leader pure and clean". I believe he has tried to do this. I believe he is a fair-minded man. The following from Bro. F. L. Rowe’s pen should encourage all who are fighting to keep out the late innovations.

"When I was on my trip west, I was told by a reputable member of the church of a statement made by one of our leading preachers out there, a statement that surely did astound me. He was defending the individual communion cup against the old one cup practice of the pioneers. The language attributed to this preacher is this: ‘If they want to eat and drink like hogs, let them’.

"Regardless of what our view may be regarding individual cups or the one cup, language like that from any preacher today is an open insult and slap in the face of godly, consecrated men who have gone forth and paved the way, through their sacrifices and sufferings, that have made possible our position and strength in the world today. It ill becomes any preacher who will slur the work or practice of the pioneers of the Restoration, and any preacher guilty of such language ought to drop on his knees and pray God to forgive his thoughtless sin.

"My own father belonged to that group and there are others, whose parents belonged to that group, who will resent any such language or slur on the scriptural practice of these spiritual giants who went forth to conquer a world of sin, and whose only authority for everything in doctrine and practice was backed up by the doctrine and practice of the early church,,. F. L. Rowe, publisher , in Christian Leader, Oct. 26, 1937.

Bro. Rowe is entirely right in his criticism, and we hope that other editors of brotherhood papers will speak out as he has done. One of our leading debaters said publicly at Holtville, Calif., in the winter of 1929-30, that he would "defy the practice of the church at El Centra: i.e., all drink-out of one cup like a bunch of hogs drinking of the same trough". But when brought face-to-face with a proposition in defense of the practice of that congregation, he would not deny it! "Talk is cheap", but it takes a man to defend his practice!