The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-12-11

" and now hesitate because q young
man from Kinston last night ntinat
that | was a back number and the young
men we're going to run things TO suit
themselves
Mr.. e. ". Blanchard: Il beg DR.. HUFF
hams pardon, l meant nothing OF the
kind. He is my friend and I had no de
sire TO reflect on him"
DR.. Hufham: We'll, l thought he was
too much a gentleman to have intended
the meaning his words conveyed.
II have often been touched in reading
Homer-for still read him-that when
Nestor was too old to go to the battle
field. the young men crowded about him,
heard him speak with reverence and call
ed him The Old Man Eloquent.
DR.. Skinner: And they say he nod
ded sometimes. too"
DR.. Hufham: NO they don't. 1t was
Homer that nodded Gaughter).
Dir. Skinner: Il thought you were talk
ing about Homer"
Or. Hufham: NO. l wasn't. | was
talking about Nestor. You never did
know much Greek and you've forgotten
what you did know" (Laughter).
CHURCH NOT CONSULTED.
My objection to this report is that the
denomination has not Dttn
about it-not a church or an association.
The convention was given no notice OF it.
Only $50 letters written about it, and
they sent out secretly. For this reason
| am opposed to it. This convention has
always been a success. and it has sue
ceeded because we have never done any
thing until after it was referred to the
denomination, and action taken after a
full fair and free discussion.
'HCnly 80 letters, and they sent out
secretly. l would never have known what
it was proposed to spring here this morn
ing had | not come upon one OF these
accidentally. It's going back on the ira
ditions, spirit and genius OF the denomina-
ton.
again it is the taking up of a thing
that has been tried over and over again
by other Baptist conventions and by
other denominations, and in every case
it has failed. Like the cows tracks be-
fore the lions cave, they all lead in the
same direction
DR.. Hufham then told how Jesse Mer-
Ger had bought the old Philadelphia In
dex and moved it to Georgia and failed.
Then he presented it to the convention,
with most disastrous results to the con-
v~ention.
MI. AElItS. DOAtCi NAi yoo 'ot IH"b
ii paid while the convention had it,"
DR.. Hufham: sir. l will not
state it."
Mr.. White: 4 simply wanted the con
vcntion TO nave the facts
Or. Hufham: That's what I'm trying
to give them, if only you'll stop talking
| believe have the floor
He told how a similar venture had fail
ed in Arkansas, and in Texas. Also he
said Mississippi had tried it and failed,
and Kentucky and Alabama.
There is not a Baptist convention IN
the United States today that's running
8 paper. And here you come and want
the North Carolina convention to take
up this c~ast-off cIout that other denomi-
nations have thrown away. 1t is centrali-
cation in a way that even the Episcopal
:ans have not dreamed Of
The method adopted by other churches
in the conduct of their dencminationsl
papers was discussed. Then DR.. Hui
ham went on to say:
I'VE are trying to establish q neWspa
rer syndicate-a trust in North Carolina.
The editor of the North Carolina Baptist
doesn't want to sell out. but he knows
he's gene if he does not, and this thing
goes through. That's why he's in this
report; but how about the 'Skyland Bap-
list and other UNCONVENTIONAL papers,
| wrote to a man who's engineering this
thing minister-the other day and ask
ed these questions. He replied: If cur
arrangement interferes with private in
rerests, it's not our lookout
SPIRIT OF THE TRUST"
"That's the spirit of the trust-Jhe
spirit of business, if you please. Business
says: You shall not light the lamp I'M
less | furnish the oil; you shall not smoke
d cigar unless l manufacture it
This arrangement puts into the hands
of Livingston Johnston an autocratic pow
er. and he'll use it, too. He's a good
man, but he's q man. The missionary in
the field will know that his Job depends
on his loyalty to this paper. I'm talking
IN plain language, but it's q duty / owe
TO myself and my denomination. l would
not otherwise be true.
AS sure IS God rules this proposition
that's %sole1nnly laid before YOU today
means division and wreck and ruin.
In the early days Of this State we
went to Jail in Newborn and to the whip
ping post for freedom of opinion and ac-
ton, and | tell you when We ourselves
declare that we. as a Denomination are
going into the newspaper business and
nobody else must run one we are going to
hear an explosion.
But they point to the success Of our
orphanage paper-Charity and Children.
Well now this paper is no more like
Charity and Children than q needles like
q button. The orphanage paper had it's
plant given to it pays no rent, no salaries.
has few expenses. It is printed by the
orphan boys, but mark my prediction: If
there's ever trouble at the orphanaga it
viii come through the paper there.
Then DR.. Hufham spoke of the difficult
ties in the way of successful newspaper
management in North Carolina and added:
Its the great quicksand into which
brains and money are sunk. but you'll
find many men who think they know how
to run a newspaper
DR.. Hufham next took up the Baptist
Book Store to which Mr.. White had refer
red as "a money making establishment"
no MOUNTAINEERING SCHEME"
"Icu know we didn't so into it with
that purpose. If it makes money. we'll
and good, but that was not our object in
establishing it. 1t has just happened to
be so managed that money is made out
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