The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-11-16
HiLLSBORO COLLEGE
And lis Connection With the Cincin
natl Conference.

your issue OF October Goth with reference
to the Hillsboro College and Cincinnati
Conference of the Methodist Epi copal
Church that is very misleading and no,
in accordience with the facts in the case
and it is due the public and the Cincin.
natl conference that The facts should be
stated, and as was member of the
Conference number of years before the
College was instituted and am familiar
with it's entire history, and at the re
quest of others present the following
facts:
When the College was organized it wac
placed under the patronage Of the Con
ference. Now the question is what did
that patronage involve? ? What authority
and responsibility did it confer or i'm
pose on the conference? We answer:
lst. 1t did not confer any authority or
responsibility to furnish or elect the
President or to organize school The
Trustees alone have that authority and
responsibility if they fail the RESPONSE
bility of the Conference is at an end
ID. Itdid not impose any financial obi
cation or responsibility on the conference, ,,
the conference assumed no such obliga-
ton or responsibility in taking the
College under its patronage. Any fnan.
cial obligation assumed at any time was
assumed voluntarily.
3rd. With regard to the patronage OF
the College in soliciting and furnishing
pupils it should be known that at the
time the conference accepted it's patron
age it had FIVE Colleges under its patron.
age the Wesleyan University at Della
ware, the Xenia Female College, the
Springfield Female College, the Wesley.
an Female College, at Cincinnati, aud
the Hillsboro College, so that the pat
ronage of the Conference was divided
among the FIVE All that Hillsboro could
claim was one fifth of that patronage.
There was no discrimination, all the
institutions shared alike, and Hillsboro
received its full share. The question
will naturally arise, "What has the Con.
ference done for the Hillsboro College,"
We answer, whenever the trustees
have elected president. The Confer
ence has promptly recognized and en-
dorsed their actio when they elected
as president member of the Conference
He was at once, bv vote, released from
the pastorate, and the Bishop was rec
commended to appoint him to that posi-
tion " 1t is asked, what has the Con-
ference done for the College financially
We answer, that at the request of the
trustees for the appointment of a fnan-
cial agent for the College, the Confer
ence at three different times selected
and the Bishop appointed one of the
best tinancieys of the Conference to col
lect funds for the College. These three
men gave their whole time to the work
and served on the meager salary of five
dollars, 30 that the Conference
gave three full years of faithful work in
collecting funds for the College More
over, when the College was embarrassed
by debt and at the pressing solicitation
Of the trustees and their statement that
the College was in danger of being lost
the Conference voluntarily engaged to
raise five thousand dollars for its relief,
and twice in the midst of its business
session the entire roll of the Conference
was called and every member was asked
how much he would give towards it's re
lief, and the minutes of the Conference
show that five thousand, four hundred
dollars was collected and paid over to
the College by the members OF the Con-
ference, many from small salaries that |
were not sufficient to support their fam
lies, but they had 80 many collections
10 make that they did not dare to pre-
sent the matter to the people.
With regard to the Conference patron
age, whenever there was school to pat
roniza the presidents of the College or
heir ag'nts were welcomed by the
Of the Conference to their
>'N By eSAc PuiPAib anu luLIVuuCou
'uch of their families as would be likely
o patroniz, the school and this was con
inued up to the latest period of its sue
'ess During Dr. Lloyd's admiuistra
ion, which was one of the latest, %
pupils were received by the College from
antilles of the members OF the Confer
'nce, and that is more than Delaware re
'eived. can give the names of the fam
lies and the number each one furnished
some of those families were located in
the preacher serving his
charge at distance at great sacrificr
hat he might give his children the ben
fit OF the school and thus patroniz, thu
colleg and this patronage was con-
inued till the College was burned, from
which the school never recovered.
When the preachers at the late session
we're asked to solicit patronage for Del.
aware and Hillsboro was not mentioned,
Il waa from the fact that n.l.- q.