The daily gazette., 1880-04-20
SECOND EDITION
For the Gazette.
ReU. u. n. B. Wilson.

| any n confession (puDncly made)
that he has cherished feelings oil
bitter enmity to Rev. DIR. Cald-
we'll of st. Paul's M. E. church for
the space of seUsnteen months. This
is the more remarkable because many
people remember that when Mr.. viii
son came to take pastoral charge of
Asbury church in this city he made a
bold profession of entire sdnctifcation
and for many months, to the mortifica-
tion of many of his parishoners, who
knew him best, went about the streets
from house to house openly proclaim
ing his superior sanctity by carrying a
bible under his arm wherever he went.
How can sanctified man indulge the
bitter hatred implied in his confession
when the Apostle Paul enjoins, "Let
not the sun go down on your
wrath" But there was no need for
Mr.. w. to rush into print in order to
convince the world that he hated the
man who refused to let him meddle
with the concerns of his church. The
| people of Wilmington understood this
for many months before. But Mr..
| Wilson forgot that it had not been
lished in weekly paper of this city
the following declaration concerning
his opinion of Rev. DR.. Caldwell /:
.'Dr. Caldwell has gone i'll and out
before us for more than six years as
the urbane, dignfied, amiable, courte-
GUS, sweet spirited, Christian gentle
man and able minister. 1t has been
a common remark. Ihave often made
it. lie is a model Christian gentle
man." This was the opinion express
ed by Mr.. Wilson on the 30th of No
vember, 1878. What did DR.. G, do
to cause Mr.. Wilson to change this
very exalted opinion amounting as his
Language imports to enthusiastic ad-
miration to a feeling of bitter hatred
not to be cured IN seventeen months ?
Nothing but this: DR.. Caldwell re-
PEELED Wilson's attempt to meddle with
the business of St. Paul's church and
then he (Wilson) sought revenge in a
manner that never before entered the
brain or heart of sanctlfied man.
Three years before he solemnly de-
clared the opinion expressed in the
above quotation. He met in Boston
man from Georgia out of whom he
pumped story about DR.. Caldwell's
Southern record in time of the rebel
lion and subsequent thereto. This
story he kept safely locked up in his
bosom, but through all those three
years it had not altered in the slightest
degree his exalted opinion of Dir. Cald-
well feeling constrained as he declares
often to remark, "He is a model Chris
tian gentleman" But 10 and behold
the moment he seems worsted in a lit
tie controversy which he himself be-
gun and forced on DR.. c., he writes to
the Georgia man requesting him to
put his story about the "Southern rec
ord'' in writing that he might use it
here against DIR. G.
Only the inventive genious of the
sanctlfied and holy John A. b Wilson
could have contrived such an expedient
as he did in order to get'that story. He
stated to bis Georgia friend that DR.. G.
had offended some leading and inhuen
tial parsonage here III Wilmington with
whom he had been in a controversy.
But failed to inform him that it was the
illustrious Wilson, the sanctilied Wilson
himself. He expected that DR.. e. would
be candidate for the General Confer-
ence and he (the holy, the pure and the
august one whose righteous indignation
was stirred,) wanted the document TO
show him up among his brethren and
d-feat him, such was the pu port, but
perhaps not the very Ian auage of his let
ter to the Georgian. In due time he got
the document dated about the 9th OF
December, lS7S-only about twenty days
fter DIR. C.'s last reply to Wilson in the
Conference Worker. Armed with this
document the vruOus and amiable j.
A. B. Wilson proceeded to show 1t
around slyly and cautiously among the |
brethren binding some of them to |
Secresy. But he breathed not word OF |
it to DR.. q. for nearly nine months |
after he received it, but continued TO |
read it to the preachers at camp-meet-
ings and elsewhere. 1t was thus that
this virtuous propagandist of the great
doctrine of holiness illustrated its prin-
piles even at camp-meetings. DR.. q.
vas kept In profound ignorance of bis
from December 1878 until
september 1879 When he was, at last
Informed of it DR.. q. summoned him at
nc. before the PresidingElder and a, num
WITNESSES composed of ministers
md laymen, and required him to pro-
luce his documents for their inspection.
{ was bitter pill for Mr.. Wilson tu
ave to read the whole correspond
nee including his owl letters to his
ieorgia friend, who had shown him r
elf quite ready to enter the lists IN a a
title local dispute about church dlsc !
liLe thousand miles from his own :
arlsh. But there was no alternative it =
yas the only way to escape immediate
roseculion before committee of min
tiers for defamation aud slandeI. So :,
Ir. Wilson had to read the whole cor !.
sspondence before the witnesses, then
nd there assembled. After he had =
one so DIR. q, answered and refuted =
Il his charges with documents bearing u
pom every essential pon'.. Even Mr..
7. expressed himself ms satisfied and @
tered his hand to Dr.. C. in friendship II
nj reconciliation. DR.. e.. refused to p
Ike it or be reconciled until Mr. Wilson Il
-om so solemnly in the presence of ol
"a witnesses t. retract his calumnies. I'll
Q promised to do so by writing to each w
,rson TO whom he had shown the let in
rs. DIR. Caldwell has MIR. Wilson's
ritten pledge promising to correct his
For the substantial
n rectness of the above statement as vt
what lranspred at the house Of the mr.
esiding Elder | now call on the six az
insterial and two lay witnesses with re
Q p. E. to certify. M
Let them or any one of them answe 81,
Mr.. Wilson dill not express himself -;
tisried with Mr.. CaldwelPs vindica WI