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Let him Prove his Charge.
RALEIGH, n. O., Sept

RALEIGH, N. c., Sept. 81.
To the Editor OF the News and Observer
DIR. Thompson has brought an unjust
and an uncaIled for accusation against
the church; but be has presented no eyt-
dence whatever to sustain his charge. Ii
stands solely on the saying of DR.,
Thompson; and until I've gives some proof
to establish his charge, there is moth
ing in it to be refuted My answer to
the charge is 10 say that I am OF the con
trary opinion.
Here in North Carolina, where DR..
Thompson brought bis accusation against
the church, she stands as the friend OF
human freedom and as the helper OF men
to better and larger manhood.
And when | say the church, | mean
not only the Methodist church, but also
our sister churches who are working by
our side under the same great commls
sion.
And the church here has hitherto
borne a good name among the people.
The story is told Of a certain bright and
we'll furnished lawyer who was empha-
sizing point of law before a poorly
furnished judge. The judge inter
rupted the lawyer by saying "Thst is
not law" Whoreupon the lawyer in
stantly answered, at was law until
your Honor spoke" The church 10 our
midst was the friend of human liberty
until DR.. Thompson spoke.
| shall not think less Of it now.
shall 90 on preaching to sinners and in
viting them to Christ and His church,
believing that the church stands for
everything that is tue and noble and
good in human life.
| read in my Bible this morning
Everything shall live waithersoeyer the
river shall come
And turing to my atlas ! saw the full
filment OF this prophecy among the
christian nations Of the earth to-day.
The fairest arts Of our planet, the
most civilized portions of mankind, the
happiest lands, the largest liberty, the
noblest developments of character, the
enjoyment Of the largest num5er Of hui
m N rights are in those Ia d where the
church has had her saving aud uplifting
ministry. J N. COLE,
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ASHEyILLE, n. c., Sept. 10.

ASHEYLLE, n. c., Sept. 10.
To the Editor of the News and Observer:
1t is truly remarkable that man of
intelligence should at this day assert
that the church of Christ is against hu-
man liberty. 1t may be that the author
of the assertion has lost sight Of the
distinction between Iiscense and liberty,
that is, between liberty without law,
and liberty under law; or it may be that
he has made the mistake Of putting GER
tain communities in certain ages of the
world, for the church Of Christ In any
event, the statement is not true.
Without entering into elaborate def
nitions, it will be granted that the
church consists of two sides, a doctrinal
basis and an historic development The
doctrinal basis, by all authorities and a
common con- ensus is the Bible-and
more especially through the doctrine
of Jesus of Nazareth. The first
thing the gospel, as presented by the
church does when it sp 1roaches a man
is to touch and stir his sense of lndivid
uality, personality, freedom. 1t is by
arousing and developing this sense of
freedom, and consequent responsibility,
in the individual that the community
and the nation are prepared for fir edom
and made free On its historical side
the church has been and is now true to
this doctrine and the consequent duty
of helping the helpless in the matter of
liberty as well as in matters of morals
and bread A survey of the political
field of mankind, taken as far back as
two decades ago, will show that about
six tenths of the land areas of the world
and about seven tenths of the earth's
population were embraced within Chris
tian States. A further survey will re
veal the gratifying fact that the freedom
of the populations and the thrift of lib
eral institutions is in direct proportion
to the prevalence of the church's influ-
ence over the masses. Our own nation
stands at the head in both respects;
and the respects correspond; thor
ough church prevalence and
complete freedom. Next comes
Great Britain with singular CORES
pondence, followed by the German En-
pire, the Netherlands, Sweden, Swift
erlaud, Norway, Denmark: thence came
b1G II Ildu OdLuOiIS WIN ILduCC
and Italy at the head; and after these,
the East Church S ates, headed by the
Russian Empire In all this graduated
line of nations it will be found that the
development of the doctrines of the
church in the life of the people as we'll
as of the princes is the measure of the
liberty there found. There are in
stances of seeming variation from this
rule in those fields ID which there has
been long union and almost identity
OF the church and State. This is easily
acc0un ell for, if space allowed, and
does not materially affect the rule
When you 20 beyond the lowest form of
the Christian Stare into the territory of
unrelieved pagaism, you fad much
license leading to wreck, bus no liberty
leading o free institutions and an en-
larged orb of manhood. In paga EN-
piros the individual is passed out of
sigat into the mass, and the
mass moves only under the
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Let DIR. Thompson Prove His Sincerity.

HOLLY SPRINGS, N. c., Sept IS.
To the Editor of the News and Observer:
Since reading Dr. Thompson's iustifi-
cation Of himself. in his attack upon the
church i'm his speech at Cary, | desire to
say few words though your columns,
Some two years or more ago seeing,
as | thought, spirit of wrong existing
in the church brought about BY a secret
political organization, / wrote TO my
church paper setting forth that | was
surrounded by what I considered to he
anarchists or communists. ! was honest
and sincere in what said and appealed
to the church to pray that the brethren
might see right | thought | had this
right Of freedom of speech and
worship, but, 10 aud behold, ! found did
not. My motives were impeached in the
most abusive way through the Progres
siye Farmer at once. | struck in the
brush and they said | hit the Farmers
Alliance. It raised a mighty rumpus
among the little ones. They even en-
ragged my near neighbors against me,
whom / had never given any cause to
denounce me. And my neighbor5 were
as good as the neighbors Of any body else,
think. Since seeing the attitude of DIR.
Thompson toward the church of late, and
the fact that he did not come to my res
cue at that time with all his profcssed
love for humanity, it seems that DR..
Thompson himself was under that bush,
and, that the blow struck him. And
yet, he processes that his love for human
ity is SO great, that he would sacrifice
the church that established freedom OF
worship Of the true and living God. And
he would set himself up as the true light
and select his little secret crowd and
turn on the light under the bushel.
Great God, has the time come when
good men and honest men, the best and
safest Of citizens, as the farmers have
always been considered, and | can't out
believe they are yet, will follow such a
leader, and all fall in the ditch together
I believe some of them are beginning to
see q small light in the dis ance. Is
Dr. Thompson so blind, that he would
think that ne could teach the good PEG
pie of tho Farmers Alliance that this is
not 8 country founded on he truth and
charity z
Is he in earnest in what he says? Let
him 60 and sell what he hath and divide
it among the poor ard take up his cross
and follow Christ. That would show his
great friendship to humanity ard true
Christianity, Until he does that him
self, since he has attacked the very foun-
dati0n of all charitable institutions, hon
est, thoughtful Christian people will con
slider him a hyp0crite and a blind guide
The Bible is the foundation Of the church
Of America; it is the fundamental law Of
this country The laws Of this country
protect the true chruch By granting free
dom Of worship. E en- when that free
dom was not allowed, the spirit of true
hristianity caused that. freedom Of wor-
ship to be guaranteed in the Constitr-
ton Of our great republic, and on these
fundamental principles rest the shaping
Of he destiny of our country aud the
policy Of governing it. and no hypooriti-
cal Gem g0gue can show to the contrary,
neither can DR. Thompson make the
people believe it,
G. B AFFORD.
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+. Ii. PRITCHARD.
DIR. Thompson ana Sob IngersOll.
HEREFORD, N. c., Sept. 10

To the Editor of the News and Observer:
There is no necessity for an ar
gument to prove as false the state
meut of DR.. Cyrus Tompson in his
speech at Cary that the ''church to-day
stands where it has always stood-on the
side of human slavery and not on the
side of liberty"
He says ne believes his statement is
true; well suppose he does. Bob Inger-
soil has made the same statement and
claims that he believes he told the truth.
| would commend to DR.. Tompson the
perusal Of H. E Dowlng's reply to Mr..
Ingersoll in his "Reason and lpgersoll
ISM"
| will make few quotations. "The
truth is that liberty finds no resting
place in heather or barbaIous lands
Her place of abode is to be found only
in Christian countries. She feeds and
thrives upon Christianity. Her susie
nance is the Christian church. Her rest
ing place, her sacred bosom. She wor-
ships at her august shrine, and bows
with imperial grandeur before her ma
| ID tic throne" 1.-The chu CHI is
now, and ever mas been, the deadly enemy
of every ort o. Rickedness, the champion
and advocate of every sort of good.
She opposes intemperance; she encour-
ages sobriety; she opposes idleness: she
encourages industry; she opposes all the
vices known to man; she upholds every
virtue; she is opposed to, and does all in
her power to put down every evil that
tends 10 undermine or corrupt society;
she is opposed to atheism, skepticism,
socialism, nihilism aud communism; and
when her immense influence over the
minds of men IS duly weighed and con
sidered, it seems to me that it is no eX-
aggeration to say that the church is 4
only mans greatest beuefact0r, but she
is doing more to suppress crime and
misery and alleviate the condition OF
man and increase his happiness than all
the other human institutions in the world
united.
And any man who deliberately at
taeks such an institution and claims te
be the friend Of humanity, does it With
hatred and malice in his heart, and /;
nothing but a despicabls hypocrite. lii
is not a lamb, he is a wolf. He is not q
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wand of some lordly Neptune. The
church seeks with vast labor and self
sacrifice to redeem man from this condi
ton and to make him free from the cen
turial wrongs Of the oppJessor as we'll as
from the bondage of sin. The church
has been, and il. more and more, the
friend and patron or intellectual, spirit
ual and civil liberty.
To say that Christ is all right and his
church is all wrong; that the gospel Is
all good and that the church is all bad, or
chiefly bad on any line of human life, is
but poor compliment to Christ, and the
gospel, aud is unjust to the church, both
in ethical, ideal and life illustration.
am sorry that DR.. Thompson has
seen fit to take such position and to
maintain it. l fear that the holding Of
such a position may be of injury to him
self and possibly others. 1t will not
seriously affect the church Beyond this
regret indulge no feeling in the matter.
JAS. ATKINS
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GATEsyILLE, N. c., Sept. 10.
To the Editor of the News and Observer:

UATESVILLE, N. o., sept. III.
To the Editor of the News and Observer:
Upon reading DR.. Thompson's expla-
nation, copied from the Progressive Far
mer in yesterdays NEWS AND OBsER
II, it would seem that bis criticism of
the Church is based upon the fact, that
all church members do not belong TO the
Alliance, For" says he, when its
Che church's) mission is preheLded,
instead of opposing an organization Of
this character, the men that crowd the
altar will crowd into the Alliance also -
wish to enter my protest against the
idea that the church has 10 higher mis-
sion than to prepare men for mem Der
snip IN the allianc | take it that a
Christian may or may not belong to the
Alliance; but there is no Christian obi
CATION resting upon any man to join
the Alliance, Or any Other organization,
that has not for it's chief object, the ad
vancement Of the kingdom Of God upon
the earth.
Does DR.. Thompson mean TO say that
the Alliance is better than the church,
eithery n its principles, in its leaders, Oh
In its membership If so, then let a
comparison be made, and it will be seen
whetherlhe is correct or incorrect.
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The Raptis's and Religious Liberty.
CHARLOTTE. N. c., Sept 30.


TO the Editor OF the News and Observer
/ read with surprise, and / confess
with indignation, the false charge DR..
Thompson brought against the Christian
church OF this day, and while | have no
disposition to compromise my character
as a minister by discussing question OF
politics, | feel free TO yindicate the de-
nomination which | represent from such
a slanderous aspersion by adducing the
facts of history Bancroft, the first Of
American historians, says Of the German
Baptists With greater consistency than
Luther, they applied the doctrines of the
reformation to the social positions OF
life, and threatened an end to priest
craft and kngcraft, spiritual domination,
titles and yassalage. They we're trodden
under foot with foul reproaches and ar
rogant scorn, and their history is writ
ten in the blood of thousands Of the Ger
man peasantry; but their principles, 80
cure in their Immortality, escaped with
Rosr Williams to Providence, and his
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saint, he is a gorilla. His object is not
that of philanthrodist, it is that of a
destroyer.
Dr. Thompson may think that his po-
sition in the Alliance gives him license
to say what he pleases, and that if any
one attacks him he will make the mem.
bers Of the Alliance believe that it is an
attack on the order Of which he is Presi-
dent What he thinks or says about the
church is of very little imp rtanoe, but
should he succeed in conviL cling the
members of the Alliance that the church
is on the side of human slavery, and not
on the side of liberty, that would be a
serious matter.
T.. w. MILAN.
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THE CHURCH VS.. CYRUS
ABLE CHRISTIANS DISCUSS THE
POSITION OF THE ALLT~
ANCE PRESIDENT.
He HAS SLANDERED THE CHURCH

The Recent Utterance of DIR. Cyrus
Thompson and his Reiteration, That
the Church is To-Day, as it has
Always Been, on the Side OF Slavery
And is Against Liberty. is Shown to
be Utterly without Foundation and
Slanderously False.
The church going people OF the State
and all who believe in the power of
Christianity to save, have never been
more indignant at the utterance of a
public man than they now are with DR..
Cyrus Thompson, the leader of the Pop
u'ists; who said in his Cary speech:
"THE CHURCH TO DAY STANDS WHERE
IT HAS ALWAYS STOOD ON THE SIDE OF
HUMAN SLAVERY AND NOT ON THE SIDE
OF LIBERTY
There was disposition in many quar-
tiers to believe that Dr. Thompson had
spoken extemporaneously and had been
misunderstood. They withheld criticism
until he wrote his explanation in the last
issue of the Progressive Farmer. In the
course of a three column letter, which
was printed in full in last Tuesdays
News AND OBSERVER, DR.. Thompson
said
Il have no apology to offer on account
of the speech | made at Gary. | said
nothing unadvisedly. The same speech
/ would make again tomorrow before
any audience. My judgment of the at
titude of the church is either correct or
incorrect. | BELIEVED THEN, AS / BE-
LIEvE NOW, THAT MY ESTIMATE is TRUE
1t was, therefore, what | ought to have
spoken. If it is true, indeed, it is what
any man should have said, and did, in
that case absolutely right in declaring
it. Am / to be censured for right
DOING"
After hearing much expression of in
dignation at such reiteration Of a
wanton Islander upon the Christian men
and women who belong to the churches
in North Carolina, the News AND OBsER-
YER sent marked copy of the paper con-
tainlDg Dr. Tnompson's explanation, ;"
and requested tnem to state their views
upon the question raised by DR.. Atkins.
Below are the replies received;
Or. Thompson and the Church.
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An Emphatic "NO."
MORGANTON, N. O Sui.

M0RGANT0N, n. O., Sept, 10.
To the Editor of the News and Observer:
I am in the midst Of a revival meeting
just now, and have no time to write as
you request.
To the question. us the church the
enemy of liberty 2" My answer every
time would be an emphatic mo
Truly, Z /. PATTON.
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Diocese OF North CarOlina-- RishOp's
Visitafions. 1895.

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to-day stands where has always the
side of slavery and the side of liberty"
etenaly will
take his place Keep up Cy will
making magnificent record
prove disciple of darkness than have
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The Church and Human Liberty.

G. B AFFORD.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-01-17

a miner Operating at Sabe creek,
Idaho, for some time past has
missed a great deal of amalgam
from his sluiceboxes. He determ-
ined to keep watch for the theft;
and several nights ago he saw calf
nibbling grass near theboxes, often
reaching over the rim and drinking
the water that flowed over the
rifles. He, however, paid no at
tention to the animal. The theft
of amalgam still continued, and a
few nights ago, when the calf ap-
peared, he shot it. He ran to
where the calf was lying and saw a
human leg protruding from the ami
mails stomach. 1t took him but a
second to realize TINT he had shot
the thief, who had been cleverly
disguised as a calf. The miner
took the culprit to camp, and much
to his surprise, he discovered the
thief was young woman.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-01-17

There is a constant tendency for
pubic sentiment to so from one ex-
treme'to the other. A few years
ago comparative little attention was
paid to educational matters in Ore,
gon. Then there came tide in
favor of liberia! appropriations for
educational institutions. Now the
public are beginning to conclude
that they have been too liberal and
there is popular demand Tor cut
off all appropriations from highet
institutions of learning. We fea
the thing will be carried so far al
to seriously cripple the state schools.
The training of the children and
youth of the land should be encour.
aged and not hindered. Polk Coun.
ty I;eriizer. D.,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-01-17

+. Gillian, stock. inspector OF
Umatilla county, has inspected
24S,oo sheep during the fall OF
1894, and finds them In all excel
lent state of health. and III his esti-
matiqn, freer from disease and
inpeftfction than the sheep of that
county have been for ten years.
Only a small proportion are in
tested With scab, the Improvement
in the general condition having
been brought about by the rigid
enforcement of the law. In the
spring sethe inspection included
coo, ,ooo sheep, exclusive of lambs,
$4,000 of which were driven away
curing the sumner. Since The fall
inspection 10000 sheep have been
driven and shipped ont of the
county, leaving a3S,coo. The
present average price for ewS is
$I.a5.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-01-17

A form of cruelty to animals very
common in Oregon has met with
deserved punishment in Yamhill
county. Frank Stickler, of North
Yamhill, was taken to McMinville
from Newburg, Tuesday, by Con-
stable w. Y. Macy, and placed in
the hands of Sheriff Henderson to
serve sentence of twenty days in
Jail i'll lieu of a fine Of $40 assessed
by the justice court. Stickler went
to Newburg two weeks ago. and
fastening his horse in shed, left it
without food for several lays, the
animal dying soon after being
found. .-Oregonian.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-01-17
Langley, the trackwalker OH Il

Langley, the trackwalker OH the
Southern racicc railroad, from Er.
gene, to Walkers station, says the
Guard, has had several close calls and
exciting incidents, bit one stormy
night about a week ago he met with
an accident on the long trestle near
Judkins' point that was little closer
and came nearer proving disastrous
than any of the others. He had
started back on the last half of his
ruin and was, when he had reached
this point, running rather slowly,
as the rails were slippery and a
heavy wind was blowing. When
about thirty feet out on the trestle
the wind blew the hind wheels of
his vehicle off:the track, on the out
side of the rail, thus throwing him
off the trestle backwards, with the
machine to follow. As he fell he
grabbed the rail with one hand, and
at the same tirie the handle of the
machine caught one Of his feet,
thus.leaving him partly across one
rail and alnostunable to help him
self, with his red light out and the
train due in d few moments. By al.
most superhuman effort he managed
to extricate himself after time, and
proceeded on his way to Eugene.
By a fortunate chance the train was
late that night, or he might not
have Jared SO well.