The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-26

he ought always to spit out the skins or grapes be-
they unhealthy, he came across the story
of Jonah. He reasoned that if the whale would
swallow one man he would object to another and
that he probably in the habit of exercising the
throat muscles whenever opportunity presented
Still his mind fingered on the grapes, and in some
unfortunate way he got the two subjects mixed for
he said to his mother, 'Do you think the whale
always spits out the skins?'
If you spare the rod and spoil the child, ought it
to be regarded as another instance Of misplaced
switch?"
DR. FULTON VS.. DIR. SAMSON.
PROBABLE ACTION OF THE BAPTIST MINISTER'S
CONFERENCE ON DIR. FULTONs INsULT-IN-
TERvIEw WITH DIR. HoLMEs-DR. sAMsoNs
WAR RECORD.
The Baptist Ministers Conference will hold its reg
ular weekly in the basement of the
Oliver Street Baptist Church. The brethren cannot
in justice to themselves. allow the incidental pro-
ceedings OF last Monday to pass without further
tice. II any of them have accepted DIR. Fultons
greet a quit-caim for the insult offered to them
selves and one of their number. honored and be-
loved by his brethren they will simply deserve to be
treated in like manner again. The interview with
DR.. Fulton published in Wednesdays issue Of the
HERALD shows that that worthy knight had idea
DR.. Samson's war record On the contrary he re-
affirmed what he had previously declared. in a more
offensive form. if possible. DR.. Samson was presi
dent of Columbian College in the District of Column
bia before and during the and it is said, was q
candidate also for that of the great University Of the
South. which was then the absorbing topic in all
literary circles. The patrons OF Columbian Col
lege mainly Southerners because us Dr. Full
insists, the vaciating policy Of the faculty who
were Northern men, had driven away Northern
students. II with the college president and his
associates question of Policy Patriotism and
they preferred the former. and hence Disguised Dr.
Fulton, who. from his castle in Boston and from
Washington, fired patriotic hot shot into the rebel
lines. To of DR.. Fulton's temperament and
patriotic impulses it was simply objectionable that
Baptists who have suffered much for liberty in
the past, and who claim now, denomination, to
be the great bulwark of civil and religious liberty
against the encroschment Of ecclesiasticism and
statecraft anywhere. should hold other than the
most pronounced position on the issues OF the
bellion. And DIR. Fulton Mas not the to let
such supineness and vacation in Baptist minister
pass unrebuked. But the question has, by his action
and words last week. taken larger proportions than
that Of mere verbal difference between two minis
tiers OF the faith and order. 1t is now auss-
ton of honor and moral honesty toward hundred
and vicinity who were doubtless. patriotic as Dr.
Fulton himself during our civil war.
sAMsoN's RECORD
DIR. Samson not then and is not political
preacher. An incident is related of him during his
pastorate in the District which shows what he
thought of political references in the pulpit. new
Baptist church was to he dedicated the membership
OF which about equally divided between the
antagonistic sect ons OF the country President
Lincoln and Secretaries Seward and Stanton were on
terms of greatest intimacy with DR.. Samson. The
great War Secretary ordered that the Stars and
DIR. Samson saw he protested to the President that
in the Alnighty's house and in His work there
should be emblems suggestive of differences and
wars: that this church was not to be dedicated to
the North to the South to Union men to rebel,
but to the Lord Jesus Christ in whose work both
sides believed and for whose glory they had united
in erecting the edifce The church was filed with
people, and it then too late to remove the
symbol of freedom and national unity, but Presi-
dent Lincoln assured the Doctor tina. it should
not again. SO assured were the Presi-
dent and Secretaries named of Dr. Samsons loyalty
that they used him In important missions and rea-
tons with the rebel government. and largely through
his influence and fundamentally the hitch in ex-
changes of prisoners overcome. And IL is to
the record thus made by him during the war that
Dr. Samson last Monday referred his doubling and
nquistiye brethren But they did not want to go to
Washington for that His record of lifetime il be-
fore them, and four years Of indecsion IL II can be
called such, or OF trimming. as DIR. Fulton Is
pleased TO style it, cannot undo the tenor Of
thirty forty years successful teaching in the pull
pit and in the professor chair. Dr. sansons repu-
tation not local, it is national and International
As author mis- works are In European well as
American libraries, that he has need OF letters
of CONNIE n ation from brethren in Brooklyn or New
York But because these things are so, the Bap-
tist Ministers Conference allow last Monday
emete end it did and where 1t didr Not likely.
FULTON CANNOT III TRUSTED.
DR.. J. Stanford Holmes. who made the motion for
DR.. Fulton's exclusion from the Conference,
visited by the writer to know whether lac would or
would not press his motion on Monday. The Doctor
could not tell He would be guided by the circum-
stances OF the occasion. But no that the
matter would be allowed to rest in its present
shape. The Conference should protect itscli from
as.fa ha futff un1t
voted against the extension of time to Dr. Fulton,
because knowing the latter he could not trust him.
He is sure to betray the confidence thus placed in
him and the courtesy thus shown to him. He has
done 1t again and again. At the National Convention
in Philadelphia few years ago. he would have been
expelled for insult offered to Dr. sears in debate
but that ne more prompt to withdraw his offen-
sive remarks than in this before the Ministers
Conference ''Thc Conference, said Dr. Holmes, lis
offence TO me 1t is at present conducted. For
mery IL private meeting OF ministers held in the
book depository, in Ninth street. but when Dr. Fulton
to Brooklyn he insisted that its proceedings
should be photographed over the country every Mon
day and given to the local press. Indeed, he rested
not until he had its meetings transferred from Ninth
street to Oliver street, since which time they have
been public" DIR. Holmes agrees with DIR. Bright
that IL would not be the wisest best thing
close the conference doors against the press but
rather curb the brethren tendencies say things
that do not look well in print. They Chris
tian gentlemen, and nothing should be said or done
in their weekly gatherings that gentleman
should not do say to another. DIR. Hoyt. Brook
1yn, ut whose urgent request DIR. Fulton made the
feeble apology that he did make. aterward regretted
that he mad used his influence In that direction at all
For, 10 make matters worse, DIR. Fulton announced
10 his brethren that he expressed his regrets
Producing political matter in religious discussion
ct the request of his friend DIR. Hoyt; whereas the
latter urged him To make an apology ito him
self from the threatened exclusion What the up
shot will be will probably be decided ut the Confer