The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-09-27
Rev, 7. J. Gattis Writes
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Of hearts. | pity you for doing it.
have been Il member Of the North
Carolina conference for thlrty-clght
years. have strivcn earnestly year
after year. and day after day TO serve
my Coo and the church as best | could
with the lights before me. | know L
have made many failures. and the work
has often been very poor, but. II. during
Ill these years. there has ever been Il
breath of suspicion against my reputa-
ton. my character for veraclty ana
honesty on the part of any meinb 81
his conference. | nave not heard Of It.
But it has been left for q man, Who,
according to the testimony of the venera-
bic Rev. T. CT. Herbert. was a storm
centre in his native State. and VINO. ac-
cording to the testimony of President J..
+. HAYNES. said at our late General
Conference held in the city Of Baltl-
more: The men in the South Carolina
Conference, who are opposed 10 me are
a set of white-livercd towards, and
who. since he came to North Carolina,
according to two reliable witnesses. sent
to the venerable DR.. Kingsbury. Of VII
mington. y. c.. this message: You are
Il hypocrite. and Ihave the medicine for
YOU. and the preachers ut my back.
Yes. it has been left to this man to
declare that T. j. Gattis is a ~slanderer.
backbiter, mali@ncr. Stabbcr III the back
and worse than Il highway rohbcr. l'ut
AS to all these things, | am willing to
leave the verdict TO the true and UNI
Drciudiced men and women of both
North and South Carolina. Once more,
he said in his speech at his lnVestl@a-
ton that DIR. Peacock testified that
had slandered him John {. kilgo) to
DR.. Peacock. This IS not according to
DIR. Peacock's testimony, so | pass 1t by.
All the SANDERS and falsehoodS. mlsrep-
re~scntation and ~innucndoes III reference
to myself. about which | have written
in this article. were uttered by john
G.. Kilgo. III a speech delivered 10 the
trustees of Trinity college. on the 3lst
Of August. 1893. and thousands Of cop
les of this speech. by his authority or
his consent, have been published III the
Raleigh Post. the Raleigh News and
Observer and other paper of the state,
and about ten thousand copies OF 1t are
being published in pamphlet form to be
scattered far and wide through North
and South Carolina, and though seven
Of the trustees who were present live
in our town and three of the trustees
were in my store within the next two
o. jl11tt udAS dIttI III !
heard not one word of these SANDERS
and misrepresentation and falschoods
until | saw them III this speech pub
lished in the Raleigh Post. And this
is the man who WAS 4 storm centre III his
own State and Conference before he
came to North Carolina. and who has
been for about three years past, L be-
lieve, the greatest diSturber Of peace
and fomenter of trouble in educational
matters and in our beloved Methodism
that North Carolina has had for forty
years. This is the man who is at the
head Of Trinity college. one of the sue
cersors Of the great and sclf-Sacriticing
BraXton Craven. This is the man who
has harped upon and rung the changes
on the words, Christian Education. from
MOUNTAIN to SeabOard, until the very
term itself has become offensive to
many among the noblest people iii our
own and other churches.
Just as am about to
close his article. the North Carolina
Christian Advocate, the organ Of our
North Carolina Conference, of this weeks
issue, has been handed to me. The first
editorial in this issue has the following
heading, "In the Interest of Justice and
Truth" But / ask. where is the justice
and where is the truth, about which he
is talking, to be found. and when will we
have the peace, for which the editor says
he so earnestly prays. A minister of our
church and conference is earnestly re-
QueSted by one of the leading trustees
of our college to go before that body, in
the interest of the church and the college.
and testify to what he knows to be 4
fact. He is advised by the president Of
the board Of trustees to go on the witness
stand and testify to the truth. however
it may be to him. He takes this
advice. and in the performance of what
he believes to be a duty. he testitics to
a simple fact, which is one of the least
of all the sins of which the defendant
IN this case is accused, and that minister.
whose reputation was hitherto unsullied
is held up before that board of trustees
in ridicule, contempt and scorn, is called
slanderer, a maligner, more to be
han a highway robber ana
twenty-five of his brethren listen to all
this and not one word of protest is of
fered by them. But the statement is
made that the speech in which all this is
said is one Of the finest ever heard. and
that the vlndicatiOn of the man who made
this speech IS complete. My dear brother.
you may cry peace. peace. peace. as
long and as loud as YOU please. but there
is no peace. there will be no peace. there
be no peace while all this is endorsed.
or allowed, and the man who does it is
said to be completely indicated.
And just here | want to add nv SOL
protest against the attempt of DR..
kilgo and his friends trying to make
the impression that a criticism Of him
and his conduct is an attack on the
college or the trustees or the church.
Such an attempt ought not. and trust
will not. deceive even children. To testi-
fly before that board of trustees as to
John c. kllgo's reputation in South Car
DINA was 2 very painful duty. and one
IF the most painful things that T have
ever had to do in a ministry of almost
forty years has been to write this article
in my own defense. but have written if
n the fear of God and so far as T know
myself, in the love of truth and nv
church. | think | have counted the cost.
If stand or fall alone. let it be so. If
my head. literally or figuratiyelv is to be
cut off nv m brethren or those -, on+ho,;