The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-29
AN INFAMOUS ASSAULT UPON METHODIST
PREACHERS.
The light begins to break.

The light begins to break.
The dav is near at hand when every
good Methodist in North Carolina will
rise UP and demand that new influences
shall control Trinity College.
For years there seems to have been
two distinct impressions going out iron
| Trinity College. An attempt has been
made, on the one hand, to drive
| all the Methodists, who opposed Xii
goism into sending their sons TO the
| college on the declaration that fail
ure to do 50 was a violation u church
vows and an evidence of disloyalty to the
church.. DR.. Kilgo has gone over the
| State ~denouncing all except church schools
as Goddess" and at one place told this
story that shocked and outraged every
good man and woman IN the State: He
said that a widow. who belonged to the
Methodist church., contrary to the advice
of her pastor. sent her son to a school
supported by the State; he became dissi-
pated, lost his health and came home to
die; his distressed mother sent for her
| preacher to come and pray for her son;
the preacher refused to do so, because the
| mother had sent him to a Goddess
school instead of to a church college.
| Either DR.. Kilgo was the preacher who
refused to pray for the dying boy or he
approved or excused the action of the pas
tor who did refuse. He has gone over
Moth Corolino IRVINE tn 1ynchl1rch pNpry-
BODY who did not endorse such un-Chris-
tan conduct and d~enouncing all educa-
tional institutions that were not denomi-
national in their teachings, and ~contending
that none but UNCONVENTIONAL schools I'M
parted "Christian education"
While that has been the policy in North
Carolina Methodist churches and Confer
ences, the direct contrary policy has been
pursued for foreign consumption.
Noted preachers who deny the fundamen-
tai doctrines of the Methodist
church nave been invited to preach the
sermons and deliver the address upon
commencement occasions, and there have
been a score of evidences that the college
teaching was alien to Methodist ideals and
to North Carolina convictions. When
Buck Duke gave his money to erect a
message to the boys: "Think as you damn
please" Steadily, gradually, impercepti-
bly,, an atmosphere alien to old fashioned
religion and o~ld-fashioned Southern views,
hoe Coo,,ro5 on ocoooIcncv at that inS+i-
tuition, and now the attempt is being
made to give it reputation in the North
as the only broad-guaged educational insti-
tuition in the South-the only white col
lege that entertains the same views as
are held by Northern mathematician
institutions.
In a Methodist Conference. we are told
that it is a "Methodist institution and
assessments are made on all Methodists
for a fund to help educate poor boys
there. In the North, it is printed that
|'the college has ceased to be the property
Of the Methodist church, although it keeps
its Methodist 'affiliation' and a considera-
bic number of the trustees are Methodist
preachers"
The Boston Evening Transcript of De
cember 9th, contained a most remarkable
article about the Bassett matter and
Trinity College. Elsewhere it is printed
in full. 1t is written from Durham and
evidently by a close friend and admirer
Of Duke, Kilgo and Bassett. 1t gives us
some INSIDE light upon the meeting Of
the board OF trustees and what would
have happened if the sentiment of the
church and the people, instead of the
trust interest, had prevailed. We are told
Trinity College was ''ahout to die in ''the
commercial phrase in Durham has it,
COMMITTED themselves to it." now it
has ceased to be the property of the
Methodist church, although it keeps its
Methodist 'affiliation'; DR.. Bassett is de-
clared-mirabile dictu.-"the foremost
historical scholar in the South and his
article, that created trouble, "full of good
sense" and the writer fully supports Bas-
sett by saying "the negro was disfran-
chised in North Carolina, not in obedience
to any popular demand, but because a
winning campaign cry was needed by a
political crowd, n DR.. Bassett was to be
sacrificed and for the same purpose
the Dukes "were opposed to the d~isfran-
chisement of the negro and the white
supremacy politicians were the main in
stigators of the movement for Bassett's
expulsion"
All the above is untrue, and every intel
ligen tman in the State of North Caro-
lima knows it. If the author Of the
above expressions is a Southern man he
knows he has written falsely. If a North
| ern man, some men in Durham, traitors to
true Southern sentiment, nave been the
medium for a wanton SANDER Of the peo-
| pie Of North Carolina. But the above is