Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-27
THE RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY,
Rev. Father IIoutlou's Reply so Rev. Mr..
Dryden.

Rev. Father Doutlou's Reply so Rev. Mr.
Dryden.
To TIE Editor Of he Register:
naturally expected Rev. DIS retort
REGISTER, April 25th), and many OF your
readers, lam confident, were only surprised
that it did not appear sooner. After his
.sutlemanly treatment of Bishop Kahn, of
Father McEliigott, OF Rev. Ulfert, c0uld /
expect to fare any better? Before the
oublic stand now selt-convictPd of false
hood; such is the verdict of the Reverend
gentleman.
Iwant it 10 he clearly understood that
when my personal character is attacked by
Rev. Dryden, do not in the least feel
bound to repel his attacks, unless my ST.
lence would imply the admission OF facts
uot already eontradicted by me, which
might mislead the public judgment on the
question at issue between him and me.
Rev. Dryden publicly arrajgns my per-
sonal veIdCity on three scores. L take the
points "a they appear In his card Of the
18th, quoting his own words, taking only
the liberty to italicise some OF tn m.
l. SAYS the Rev. D: 1T was to exam
inc these authors W. Justin, Tertuiiian,
etc. J and every one of them that re mCt
And when Rev. Boutlou says i: was only
60 examine one author he couvicts himself
If ftlss hood" Can the Reverend gentle
man, so prompt to brand me az convicted
# falseh09d, point ont one sentence Of my
previous cards in which ] slid that arc
had met "onIy to examine one author ~
Does ne consider me as another st. Justin
70 make me say what never said? If
Rev. ID. cannot bring forward the passage
where / said such q thing, will he
withdraw his words, as q gentleman?
And in the future, when he quotes me,
will he please quote me honestly aud not
in the stop not" fashion? To make short
work of verificatiop, staked the vsracity
of all of Rev. DIS quotations on the first
two on his list; and told him that, as far
a. was concerned, / would be satisfied
with all the others, If he could only verify
these two. According TO the words of his
challenge april 19), Rev. Dryden was
obi ed to stand ready to verify all his
texts. He is therefore fully justified to
declare that he had cone to verify every
one of his quotations, if called upon; but
what right has he to say that we had
met" for any such purpose?
I'd. Again Rev. ID. says: REV. Boutlou
declared that he must take the train for
Moundsville which left the depot at 5:45
D. m. and the fact is that that gentleman
spent the night in the city. This gentle
msn did not care about the train ".
Mr.. Editor, l never said or declared that
[ had to or wished 20 take the train for
IL ~ 81
D m. When / entered your office at :
o. m. on Thursday ! soon expressed my
desire to get through with the verihcation
Of the texts in IS little time rs possible,
and | said that / wished to return TO
Mourdsville by the ReIt train, und the
next trAin, as every one knows, left the
depot at 3:45 p. IN. When Mr.. d. re-
questsd US to wait until his friends, DIR.
Cunningham, Rev. Cook and others, bad
come, we, as gentlemen, consented to wait
and we waited in vain until p. m.
When, duIiug the debate, Rev. ID. made
me remark that "eighty-ffith" (sic) chap
ter, in his first quotation, was atypograph-
zeal error for sixty-fifth chapter, and vol
unteered to produce his manuscript FOX it,
I. as a gentleman, took his word for
l'it and refused to see the manuscript
When, in his card Of the 25th OF April,
he tells the public that The reference in his
third quotation, Second Apology" is also
a typographical error for First Apology"
/ again, as q gentleman, take his word for
a Can't also Rev. Dryden, rs gentle
man, take my word for it that my wish
was 10 90 to Moundsville on the Rsxt
train. that very train which he caused me
to miss? Will he exact of me to produce
the affidayits OF the many persons who
heard me express that desire, before and
during that meeting at your officer What
right has he TO say that / did not care
about the traiu," when l repeatedly de-
clared that my wish was to take 1t! L had
missed that train when l left your office,
after D. m. Can't Rev. d. IS gentleman,
suppose that new reasons arose between
4 and 4:45 d. m. for my remaining over
night in your city. In fact such reasons
arose for my remaining not only over night
Int for the whole following morning Shall
I be Obliged to submit those reasons to
Rev. Dryden's approval? And if fail to
give him full satisfaction, shall / remain
forever branded before the public as an un-
truthful man?
3. The third arraignment against my
personal veracity is thus expressed: Kew.
Boutlou says we did not exsnine the quo
tation from the Goth chapter Of the First
Apology, when every one knows that We
uassed directly from the 65th to the 66th
chapter and that ID was at this point that
the discussion arose. Aud would inform
TIE public that that gentleman tried hard