The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-15

Jfary 10 De true,
 PRESIDENT TORREY TALKS.
 President Torrey, after the reading of the resolution, said; q hope you will pardon me if say few words in con- pection with this resolution.
 hope you win adopt it. When I read the statement of what I was said to have uttered I was silent on the subject, for acted upon the Bible advice, which says, Christ, being reviled, revileth not again."
 But this matter has become more than a personal matter. The papers of the country are taking 1t up, and it is damaging the city and Yale college in the minds of people of the country.
 'T am a graduate of two departments of Yale college, and have used all my influence to turn the tide of education toward Yale. There are members of my church in the college, and during the last year have succeeded in turning one school from another college toward Yale. My little nine-year-old boy is all ready talking of coming to Yale, and I shall send him there. I don't believe that these quoted statements are true and l never made them, as all of you know who were present and heard me. D
 OTHER REMARKS.
 Rev. John c. Collins said in addition to the remarks of MT. Torrey that he had been in many cities, but he knew
 that New Haven, as had been stated,
 to be one of the cleanest cities in the country. He said house of i'll fame
 was not allowed to exist here, and the liquor laws were rigidly enforced. In fact, he said New Haven was an un-
 usually clean city, and as far as the college was concerned with New Haven.
 the City of Elms was just as good as any other college town.
 Rev. H. W. Pope said that it was time
 lost for Christian men and women to
 chase false rumors.
 But we owe something to New Ha- ven and Yale college" replied MT. Tor rey.
 What is gained by whitewashing this city?" asked another delegate.
 We are not whitewashing the city" Chairman Torrey and Secretary Collins replied in unison, and then MT. Collins continued: If it is believed that MT. Torrey and regard New Haven as a bad city, the city as we'll as Yale col lege will suffer-"
 Another delegate said that a New Haven clergyman told him yesterday
 that the ministers of this city had ire quently said as disparaging things about New Haven and Yale college as Mr. Torrey had been credited with saw ing.
 G. s. Dickerman of this city said that he had heard much about the decadence of Yale college, but after diligent inves- tigation had concluded to let his son enter, and now believed Yale to be ST. perior to any college in the land. sev-
 eral other delegates spoke in the same vein.
 CAUSED A GREAT SENSATION. Mrs. Edwin M. Poteat of this city here made the most sensational speeeh heard in the convention. Mrs. Poteat is the daughter of the late Rev. A. T.. Gordon of Boston, and the wife of Rev. E. M. Poteat, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church, where the sessions of the convention are being held. Mrs, Poteat said T wish to state a. word before that resolution is adonted When l heard Monday that Rev. MT. Torrey had made these statements about Yale and New Haven, I said thank the Lord that he has the cour- age and Christian conviction to stand up and say so. We have lived in this city for seven years and have known many mothers sons who have come to Yale. We receive letters of intro- duction from them and put ourselves out to invite them to our house to tea and lunch. They come the first year; then we see them with pipe in their mouths, and then we don't see them at all. They go down, down, down. and l believe that more boys are ruined in Yale university than in any other place l know of. I would as soon send a boy to hell as to send him to Yale and l want to stand up here before the newspaper reporters and say it and I
 would be willing to go before President Dwight and make the same statement" {" Mrs. Poteat is the daughter of the late Rev. A. J. Gordon, a leading Baptist minister of Boston.
 WHAT FOLLOWED. q had my doubts as to the wisdom of presenting this resolution, remarked MT. Torrey, when the sensation caused by Mrs. Poteat's remark had somewhat subsided. q feared that it would do more harm than good"
 Rev. David Allen Reed of Springfield, Mass, said there was fast set in every college and if young man wanted to go to the bad he could go there at any college.
 Rev. H. w. Pope of this city said that he didn't think that it was the part of a Christian man to take notice of any such allegations.
 MT. Torrey interrupted: "It isn't a personal matter So long as my repu- tation alone was involved I took no mo- tice of the affair, but the reputation of Yale and New Haven is in a, mea s. ure, involved"
 The next speaker was an aged woman who said: My husband is a graduate of Yale. I have two boys who are not Christians. My husband came here and looked around and he decided that he
 would be willing to send them to Yale with the hope that they would be con verted to Christianity