Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-26
weather and nothing is SO changeable a:
DR.. PITT Is THROUGH.
Will Not Make Further Reply to DR..
Hope.


Hope.
Rev. DR.. r. H. Pitt, of the Religious
Herald, said yesterday he had no desire
t. pursue further the matter in contro-
versy between Rev. Mr.. Hope, OF the
Christian Advocate, and himself.
'!Dr. Hope and are friends, :
he said land I have not the
slightest desire to pursue the matter al
issue between Us. ] found in the report
Of the Virginia conference of Nov. Is, pub
lished in the Times of the 18th, this para
graph giving in part the utteTances Of
DR.. Hope before that body:
"'He has been aware of the complaint
that the Advocate had not met all eS
pectations. and that other religious pa
pers We're held up and contrasted with
it. But these religious papers are raio
for the space they give. This applies par
ticuarly to religious paper OF Rich
mond. which has recently been giving
great attention to s. movement for the
college here. The college poured money
into the treasury of the paper for the
work it did," he said when a number
of the copies of that paper went to the
General Association last week the paper
was paid for the extra expense.
Dr. Hope says in his card that he does
not question the correctness of this re-
POI l. vi Ibut Dc IL ID pain lAoL ii1S iSA'
e-ence was to the Religious Herald.
There are three statements in it of in1me-
date interest to us. One is that We were
paid for the space we gave to the
Richmond College movement,
"The second is that the college poured
money into the treasury Of the paper for
the work it did The third is that the
Herald was paid for the extra expense
incurred in sending extra copies to the
general association last week. AS the
Herald did not charge or receive dsie
for the space it gave to the Rockefeller
movement. as the college did not pour a
!, nickel into the treasury of the Herald
or the work it did, and as nobody en-
ept the Religious Herald Company paid
or the extra expense of the general as
ociation number. and as ali these errn-
locus statements were discrediting to the
Herald, and likelN if allowed to stand
o do us serious injury, it seemed nee
ssary to correct them, 1 was out Of
own when they appeared and did not
see the paragraph until the afternoon Of
he Goth
The statement has been made in the
presence of hundreds of Methodist prea CHI
rs who were already in their homes all
over Virginia. the publicatio in the
times had already forty-eight hours start
II any correction J. might make, and it
seemed to me that in simple Justice to
he editors of the Herald L ought to act
promptly.
DR.. Hope now says that in his statement
ne did not mean that we were paid for
space" or that money was poured into
our treasury for the work we did" He
only meant that when we mad to print
four extra pages in order to make room
Cor the college editorials and contri-
outed articles. the college paid for tn,
extra white paper and printing. I. OF
course, accept his statement regretting
that his usual and recognized gift for
accurate expression seems to have failed
him at critical moment, and that thus
it has been necessary to trouble the pub
IL with this matter. He takes no notice
whatever of the statement that were paid
for the extra General Association num-
Der.
"Dr. Hope seems to think that 1t was
not fraternal in us to seek to make this
correction for ourselves, and that we
ought first to have complained to him.
But two days had already elapsed, and
the erroneous statements which are more
serious than DR.. Hope seems to think.
were already scattered far and wide over
the Commonw ealth. Besides, if we are
to Judge by the somewhat grudging cor
rection which DR.. Hope now makes It
was better for US to look after the mat
ter ourselves.
1T make this statement In the utmost
goodwill. have no reproaches for my
friend and brother. I am sure he could
not have meant to do us harm. know
it was an exciting episode and make all
allowances for the peculiar situation In
which he was placed. But that his ut
terances were misleading and damaging
and needed immediate attention, every
reasonable and self-respccting man must
admit