The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-04-28

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:. ~ yQur Article - the 18TH inaEs In
Fq9 Deiky 1tzPuU1HAA YOU hevo evi.
oencou an unusual amount 81 excite.
meuk lnaa northou9ht Of creokluR 20
Lluoh fellGioln 4ervur i. si9&Anoiy
solicit your paroon md bog y0W TO-
compose yourself. am not mad,
most mobile kestuEs butspeak forth tho
words OF truth and nobernass."
BEFORE We conclude our encrt to
ennihiiate each other let us review. Our
conference was anxious that the can
didates should know the English lam
guage and therefore resolved az you
quote:
Our mind has been drawn out on q
line OF thought suggested by reading
tho report presented to the n: e.
Conferences In this State BY ono OF It's
COMMITTEES touching educational quail
ftcations for young ministers, which
reads az ioiiows' Whereas 1t the
ministry OF our church would preserve
It's leadership, It must keep pace with
the educational progress OF the day.
Education never made q man any
better. but 1t has been tho means by
which many have ridden to destruction
Pennsylvania exp ends millions yearly
In educating her people and some OF
It's finest scholars are In tho peniten-
tiary. And the Same may be said OF
all the statos. In tho last nve yeara
several men In our own country, with
great mental abilities, excetient edu-
chtional attainments, have been hung
on murderers' scaffold. Then. away
with the idea. that men can educate
men to be good by human education.
Jesus Christ In making appoint.
ments OF men to preach His eternal
tr1rtha did nnt aalaot than frnua tina
seats OF learning at Greece and Rome.
but we lind him down at the fishing
shores. where the most illiterate men
are supposed to be. We lind Him
sending out men to preach Christ and
the resurrection whoee education, per-
haps, was all embraced In the mere
knowledge OF making net and catch
ing fsh."
One OF your friends brought mo the
REPUBLICAN containing your article
and said you would like mo to answer
1t.
took pleasure In doing so.
| you had written would have paid no
attention to It, thought you were
teaching the old theory that whom
God calls He fits. The practical work
ing OF which Ia that all young man
has to do Is to drop the hoe and enter
the pulpit and teach the people. Our
Conference don't believe this aud
hence try to get our candidates to at.
tend school and get q knowledge oil
the English language before attempt.
ing to teach older and intellectual PEG
ple the truths of the Bible. But In
your last letter you deny what I un.
article. Here 1T Is:
"But our brother has seen fit to take
exception to what we have said. sIm.
ply, as tar as we can see, because we
hold and expressed our convictions,
that the spirit OF God was the great
element OF effective force OF salvation
| work. or In preaching and spreading
the gospel, and before which all Other
means was frultles and vain and
puled into insiguiiicance whom com
pared with that Divine, Holy and in
comprehensive Comforter which
jesus told US the Father would send In
His name to teach us ali thinps. WI
say our brother has taken exception
10 our views on tbis line and in ndyo
appear as opposed to education In as
far as ministers OF the gospel are con.
cerned. which is emphatically an ell
rorn
After reading this statement / ne.
cessarily turn from my defense OF the
Conference action and ask by wha
methods did you ever discover tina
we were resolving to supercede th'
Office OF the Holy Spirit by human
wisdom? l think your position In
showing US that Jesus wants us to lis
ten to Him rather than to men, IL en-
tircly gratuitous, We have always
gone into our pulpits from our knees
and SubOruinata all our nrutiirpmnufl
to the will OF our Master. II / fel
that such expressions had any consid
eraDt9 influenza uDon thA Dublic
would greatly prefer to have va,