The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-13
Or. KiIgo's Article, Inc
ViIeness of Politics "
DAMAGES COILS CHURCH
Resolution at Spring Garden Street ChuFcn
Conference Demands Either Retraction
or the Names Of Church Officers
he Charg. With Theft.
ESPECIAL to News and Observer

| Greensboro, N. c., Nov. Ill nc
ssKilgo'' issue in the Methodist church
seems to have been revived in the past
ten DAYS.
Last week Webster's Weekly, EDITED
by a prominent layman in that church
had a bitter attack on DR., Kilgo for
communication of his in the Christian
Advocate, the organ of that denomina-
ton. in this conference.
| Last night at the fourth quarterly con-
ference of Spring Garden Street Metn-
odist Church of Greensboro, Rev. j. H.
Scroggs, presiding elder in the CHAIR
under the head of miscellaneous busl-
ness" the following resolution was
adopted:
"Whereas. The North Carolina Chris
| tian Advocate in its issue of October
9th, contained an article headed. "The
| Vileness of Politics." written by Rev.
John c. Kilgo, president of Trinity Col
| lege, in which the writer seriously re-
| fleets upon lay officers in several OF the
! churches, and;
| whereas. We know Of no Methodist
stewards, Presbyterian elders, Baptist
deacons, or Episcopal vestrymen, OF
| Sunday school teachers in any of the
churches who are guilty of practiclng
theft in stealing, in securing votes or
counting ballots, and do not feel wiling
to sit quietly under such grave charges;
therefore.
"Resolved, That in our opinion the
Rev. John c. Kilgo has done great
wrong to official laymen, and has serl-
/ ousIy damaged the church of Christ by
! making these charges, and we demand
j that he give the name of these offend
ers. with proof to make good his asser-
| tions, or publicly in writing, retract
what he has said"
Referring to the article of Dr.. Kilgo,
the Record of Greensboro, says edi-
! torially:
There is some truth in it, but there
is also more vileness in it than in any
politics about which the learned gen
| tlcman discourses. Some of his brethren
may be guilty of the crimes he charges,
| but it can be said that he is the only
minister in the State who has ever been
convicted-and twice convcted-by a
! Jury of his countrymen of slandering a
brother minister"
The portion of the article written by
DR. Kilgo, which seem to have opened up
anew the old sores" which everybody
had hoped would be allowed to heal, is
as follows:
That political faith influences men
more than religious faith is not COM
| Portable idea. but it is a true one.
Caesar is on the throne and Christ is a
prisoner before the court of a foreign
| province The word of sensual selfish
ness passes judgment against the King
| of truth, and the multitude go in high
glee to execute the verdict. Many may
weep and the thunders turn loose, but the
! political edict proceeds with bold in
Edfference and defiance. Truth and
righteousness have no show under such
conditions. The people are with PLATE,
| not Christ. They are jealous for Ahab
and envious of Micaiah. Woe to the
lands when Gods prophets are hated,
and Satans ministers are public pets!
/
"Of all the horrible influences that are
making for ruin among the American
people, politics is the most gigantic. 1t
| has inspired hatreds, nursed jealousies,
fostered sectionalism, petted intolerance,
fired racial antagonsm, Knocked the
pulpit, belittled the church, paralized in
dustries, wrecked business, excused
lying, engaged in thefts, defended murder,
joined fortunes with gamblers and liquor
vendors, and set God at naught with
contemptuous freedom.
"Out of such situation must come
bad government and finally a ruined
country Men persuade them
selves that morality goes down before a
| crowd He who aids in getting a ma
iority by election frauds and thefts, as
| truly steals as he who robs a bank. But
in these crimes some Methodist stewards,
some Baptist deacons, some Presby-
terrain elders and some Episcopal vestry-
men and some Sunday school teachers of
| all churches have joined, while they hold
| their reputable standings as Christians
and applaud their pastors in their pulpit
denunciation of the dance and card
tables Will God always tolerate this
shameful crime?
ITO be sure, those who have profted
| by this shame will wage the warfare of
Satan on those who rise to stop it, but
the prophet of God is no coward, and he
who shows willingness to join fortunes
with sin has no commission from the
| ord
| A prominent gentleman in speaking of
| the matter today said, cit was unfOr-
| tunate that DR.. Kilgo should have writ
| ten the article Immediately before the
| announcement of the election, by an
| overwhelming majority of Judge Clark,
| whom he mortally hated, to the Chief
! Justiceship of the Supreme court and
when he had no doubt been largely in
strumcntal in forming the so-called In
| dependent Democratic movement to act
in conjunction with the Republicans to
| defeat Judge Clark"
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