Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-06-15

GoRDoNs WILLIE. Va June 10. 1895
Dear Editor of the RICHMoND PLANET:
/ write TO answer Bowl
ing Green letter published Juue 1 1897
and 10 viudicate myeeif as q minister d
the gospel. Now IN reply TO the article
written and signed by de8con A. Il San
Oels and * deacon Scott Monroe, il il
l0rg' ly erroneous. is my motto Will
all who knO~ me to act and speak th'
truth Let me say just here If the allow
mentioned persons knew anything {,
write the public about me they would
Now reader rejoice with me through
him that hae kept me by his power IN
spotted as a minister of Jesus Christ
These two individuals want to say
something to the public but they dom
know what TO say. Thus they came tC
the conclusion that they would falsif'
in order to speak.
My resignation was ST red az a rrgu
lar church meeting. Saturday before
the Second SUNDAY IN May and also at Z
cal meeting the following Wednesday II
order that we would bave more mem
bers present 10 consider the matter
My resignation was not granted at eth
err OF these meetings. but when the con
gregatiOn assembled the fourth Sunday
night In May, / asked the third time fol
my resignation and il wee granted. Tbs
gentlemen stated hat the church OweC
on land about one hundred dollar,
! (S100). They only owe ninety five dol
l8rs aud eighty eight cents They stat
cd that the church owed me siNfv-fv,
! ($65.C0) dollars at the time I oasrer
my resignation. The above statpmpnl
is untrue. They owed me $50 90 accord
ing 10 the settlement of the church clerk
and we agreed ON figures. The two
oung brethren failed 20 tell IA whai
the churches and the school paid ma an
nua'ly. Their failure 70 tell " hat 90
annually was due 10 he fact that fsses
did not know matthew tiics OF how Il
calculate. They failo 70 tell by $500
III these two PERSONS had come to IN,
night erhooi while in session by thi,
tio0' they would have learned to be &c
curafe ana truthful
Ever since I became p8etOr of Shilol
Church, fought against those two vul
gar expressions. buii-dozing aud boss
ism. III the denc0n and ex-deacOn hac
consulted the church before ans wering
my resignation which met no Obi ctiOnl
before the body, they would have mad,
some impression upon the public tina
they were not the buildOzsrs and bosses
spoken of in their article i asked wheI
INV resignation was of red, If anything
objectionable OF wrong had been writ
ten. and nothing was the response
| Deacon A. Il Samuel met me IN thl
street in Bowling Green and stated tina
All had written was true. But wher
he read the resignation in the paper h,
did not know III was the same he hag
heard read IN the church. / am sorry Il
say it but il is "a fact, that when tn
1 two brethren answered my articI
through the papers, they did not know
what they were doing. Ex-deacOn MOI
roe was not TAT either of the church meet
ings. / believe that be was Il finences
by the deacon to sign his name to tn
piece written last week.
Deacon Ssmuels has been of more trou
ble 70 me than any other member since
have been paetOr He likes TO have hi
own way and his way is not euccessful
He did not say any thing about tn
church being remodeled which cost owe
two hundred dollars and he did not Civ
been tod. I am answering the two Der
sons who had their names attached t,
he writing, not the chuich, nor Bow
inR Green.
The church did not authorize deacol
Samuels and tx deacon Monroe to hav
the writing done. They had it done @
their own accord. They were not com
petent to write it themselves withou
having IL criticised by some Of thei
bosses. OF course they falsihsd an
some one else put it IN correct Language
The church IL in a better condition no y
than when l took charge by so per cent
Yours in the faith
j. II. TURNER.