The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-06-21

/ do not boast of it; but am forced to speak
of these things in vindication of my charac-
ter, which is so dear to me, u have spent
between thirteen and fourteen thousand dol
lars of my own hard-earned money in estab-
fishing and bringing to its present condition
the SOathern Presbyterian, and between
three and four thousand in continuing the
Southern Presbyterian Review. Have l
sinned in so doing? Have l sinned against
God in making these efforts to promote his
glory, as l firmly believe these periodicals
have tended to do?
l would trespsss little while longer upon
your time. Many other things have been
neutrality-suspicious. regard to me. Would
God they were brought forward here in the
open Assembly 1 will not turn aside now
to notice them.
The remainder of Prof WoodrOws speech re-
fers to the circumstances of his coming twenty two
years ago to the South, while yet boy; to the
kind welcome he received; to the repeated evil
dences of confidence reposed in him; to the good
name inherited from ancestors in Scotland; pa
trick Woodrow of 1926, James Woodrow, first
Professor of Theology in the University of Glas-
gov in 1888, Robert WodroV, author Of the
Annals of Scotland and to his own venerable
father, Rev. Thomas Woodrow, now under his
roof, and the anxiety of his own family, to
whom he desired to transmit his good name un-
furnished by such rumors and attacks as had as
sailed it. The great length to which this address
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this conclusion entire, but the late hour at which
it was received. in a revised copy from the hands
of the author makes it impossible to publish it,
and also the other things necessary to finish the
subiect-which we desire to DOZEN. PRES
ADDRESS OF DIR. j. LEIGHTON WILSON.
! DR.. j. LEIGHTON WILSON, came here this
morning expecting to make an extended speech.
| came to that resolution as | lay on my bed last
night, and because of conversation that | had
with respected member Of this Assembly, who
made the remark to me- that while | stood per-
fectly erect in this Church. and that no man had
complaint against me, yet some did except to my
associate, brother Woodrow. That determined
me to speak, and make perhapsa long speech; but
feel now that the necessity for such speech is
entirely removed. Therefore | direct my remarks
to only two poiDts-One is in vindicaton of myself,
if that is really necessary.
One of the charges here is that, in addition to
my ordinary official duties my time is occupied IN
the care of large school, Now, it is true that L
have had school under my general care ever since
the close of the war. 1t is charity institution.
felt that my region OF country was gone, unless
female education could be promoted. | felt spe-
cial interest in the daughters of ministers, many
of whom around me were utterly unable to educate
| IL cnho hos in
now for five years. For four years past | have not
spent four hours in it, apart from simply opening
it with prayer-four hours in four years. My off.
cial Iabors have been sufficient to engross my at
tention. Now, | said the other day that | did not
ride hobbies" as | had been charged. | take
that back | do ride one hobby, and that hobby
is the education of ministers daughters. And the
Assembly will excuse me for referring to the fact,
(which would never have been mentioned under
other circumstances that that school has in no
| year cost me less than five hundred dollars, and
several years it has cost me more than thousand
dollars. | have the satisfaction of knowing that
have educated about thirty girls, the majority of
them daughters of ministers, and the rest daugh-
tiers of widows who we're unable to educate them.
But while state this out of Difference aud re
spec to the Assembly and IN answer to the charges
preferred against me, do not take up that as the
line of defence hold that when a man who has
an office in the Church discharges the duties Of
that office, the Church has no right to ask what
he does with the remainder of his time. There is
not an effective officer connected with this Assem-
bly, that could not be convicted, if that principle
does not stand. Why, MODERATOR. do not you
yourself, while you are a Professor in Columbia
Seminary, write books that are edfying and COM
| fortng our people every wsSle2 Who would say
20 you that you 'zere vicia, oblisations
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