The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-02
DR.. RILEY WRITES
TO CRITIC AGAIN.
SAYS HE EXPECTED HE WOULD
BE ATTACKED.
.Northing Worthy Can Be Accom-
plished Without Inciting Criticism, =
He Says Finds Fault With DR.. Rol-
Inns classification Of Ministers -
Why Some Don't Attend Conf ference.

80 5. Il
Rev. w. B. Riley, pastor Of the First
Baptist church, has sent to h OUT
al the following letter in reply to DR..
Rollins second communication pub
lished yesterday.
To tie Editor of The Journal
It is a we'll established fact that moth
ing worthy can be accomplished without
melting criticism. The sane man does not
expect to escape it. Its is a price to be
paid for the privilege Of serving the pub
lie, and is not to be whined about. re-
gard my reply to DR.. Rollins, published in
TIL Journ a Of Monday, sufficient
answer to all said in his first attack. This
second letter asks some questions; and to
these it is our pleasure to reply. Permit
u.s. first of all, however, to acknowledge
our appreciation Of the concessions that
Or Guinness is a great and good man.,
and the compliment to DR.. Urquhart that
he is a defender Of 1.-THE Bible and not
one who locks arms with Ingersoll in at
lacking it.
| After naming several gentlemen who
hold stations in schools and theological
seminaries, DR.. Rollins asks, who sees
| the name of such man in the program
of the Northwestern Bible conference?''
| Two or three suggestions: Is any one
| conference program supposed to hold all
is to determine speakers-those appointed
| to arrange program, or some one out OF
sympathy with the work?
| have been in four large Bible confer
! ences this year, in four states, and have
not met in them a man mentioned by DR..
Rollins, save DR.. Robinson, Is this the
proof of narrowness in these conferences?
| The great Wlnona conference has several
of our speakers on its program; almost
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Is it, therefore, also "unscholarly'' and
narrow"
Those Who Don't Attend.
When Dr. Rollins demands, either that
all the leading PASTORS as he calls
| them, stay at home and attend this con-
ference, giving up their vacation season
to 1t, or stand condemned as having let
their names be used to further what they
really did not desire, he sets an impor-
lance by the movement such as its most
ardent friends never dreamed. It is now
less than sixty days since DR.. A. B. Mar
shall, DR.. Fayette Thompson, DR.. G. A.
Hilton and the writer went as a commit
tee to look over Como park and the fair
grounds, and report on a suitable location.
| Vacation plans for these men were al
ready determined; important agements
already made, and to expect them to dis
rupt all and break promises in favor OF
this movement exceeds our ardor In
it's behalf. We could not get ready at an
earlier date and we could not have the
state fair grounds a day later. -
| The reasons assigned by these men fol
their inability to take place this pro-
gram this year, we believe to have beer
wholly sincere and sufficient, and they
were not the one that DR.. Rollins would
have given-"Out of sympathy
| IN
Dr. Thompson's excellent lectures or
Archaeology another year, and the
promise of a series on 1.-THE Holy Spirit
in connection with the work Of the Bible
school this winter. ~
The writer wishes to express his graft
tude for having the promoters of THU
conference dubbed as Sin harmony will
the interests Of the American Bibl
league and his surprise and sorrow a
, hearing few pastors picked out an,
r named prominent" without their con
, sent or desire, and many Others equal,
3 worthy, told fatty, without occasion, the,
i are not leaders, -
y It may be Of more interest to the pub
. lie to know the conference is a great sue
/ cess. The attendance yesterday in tn
day services was twice as large as O.
, Monday. DR.. Prfncell of Chicago, tn
, great Swedish orator, had his audienc
! with him, and will be heard by increasin
crowds. Almost every hour brings new
:. arrivals and Manitoba, North and Sout
: Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin are alread
f represented by residents on the grounds
with many from Minnesota. Not less tina
| fifty or sixty preachers attended the after
noon service yesterday.
The grounds are being made ready 70
} the pleasure of the great crowd expecte
Friday in the Christian Endeavor move
ment, and the greater crowd of Monda
, to hear Governor La Toilette. The the
D ology Of La Toilette is all right Now
in the language of DR.. Rollins, IT ar
5 DONE" unless there are other question
can answer for him. w. B. Riley.