The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
j. u. I DILL !. :, NG+iAM.
Answers Rev. r. Seymour's Article
in Last Issue Of st. Paul Appeal.

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Rev. R. Seymour: IN your paid for
space in last Saturdays APPEAL you
asked yourself and yourself answered
some questions. In your pretended
interview you aimed tosmake the read
ers believe that you was interviewed
by some one. This. you know is not
true. as you asked every question
yourself and answered the same This
indeed is a strange role for chris
tan ministar ito assume. Of course [
will have to deal with You as minis
ter, and can not use as plain language
as would like to- in answering some
OF your false statements, where my
name is mentioned or implied. You
stated in your pretended interview
that /, representing the Building
Committee gave out a booklet in
which it was stated the parsonage
would cost $2,435.00 and that we had
S1,040.00 Of that amount in the bank.
Now there is no such statement in the
booklet and | challenge you to prove
it. There We're about 125 of these
booklets given out and have about
that number on hand yet, and if you
or anyone else can find in it the state
ment that you have made, I will eat
the book. SO that statement of yours,
in this particular, is wholly false and
you knew it when you made it. You
close your statement on the booklet
by saying the entire debt today is. an
proximately 100000. Now, if you
had as much brain as either Of the
two smart alecls, that you mentioned
further on in your pretended inter-
view, you would have known, and I
believe you did know at the time you
made that statement, that it was not
true, for the entire Indebtedness was
not over s2,600.O0
Next, you refer to me, although in
an underhand way, when you asked
yourself about the lawsuit and pro
ceeded to answer, yourself in your pre-
tended interview, when you mentioned
two smart alecks,'' I know you
meant Mr.. r. G. Minor and myself, as
two smart alexis, who have more zeal
than brains. AS the word "aleck'' does
not appear in any dictionary and is
considered slang without any known
definition, this again looks strange for
a man that styles himself a christian
minister to apply such slang to two of
his members. Now I confess that [
have considerable zeal and it leads
me. to seek from you some informa-
ton. You say the cost of entertain
ing the Conference last September
was about 100000 of this amount, the
Conference itself gave $217. 90, now |
have reason to believe that there was
more than $4,000 collected here in
the city for this purpose beside the
OIL hu
will ask you some questions. Did you
ask the Trustees of st. James A. NJ. E.
Church to give you a letter authoriz-
ing you to solicit money for the
church, if so, how much money did
you collect and from whom? And.
have you reported the same to the
Trustees? Did your or any one at
your request solicit monies for the
care Of the Conference, if so, will you
give the names of the givers and the
amounts given? Why did you ask me
to wire to Rev. j G. Anderson, of Chi
cago, and tell him I had changed my
plans and that he need not come to the
opening Of the new parsonage? | had
not changed my plans and you knew
it, at that time. What little brain
had was almost paralyzed at this
request coming from man styling
himself a christian minister Why
did you read statement just before
you began to preach ON December II, ,
1905, that five persons who had been
duly elected as you stated on the.
previous Tuesday night CAT the time
you had two policemen presently, had
after a careful investigation found the
financial affairs of the church in such.
a deplorable condition that they did
not feel like undertaking the task of
Strengthening them out, and that they
all resigned? No Investigation had
been made and you knew it. at the
time that you made that statement.
Here again my little brain almost
turned over in my head to see and
hear man styling himself to be a
christian minister with one hand on
the bible and the other holding a
statement which he read knowing full
well that it was not true. Did you
really hear the call? There must be
some mistake. Now. 7 find that my
zeal is still high and L will ask you
another question. Will you make
public, at my expense. through this
paper, a list of all the churches that
you have served as pastor, giving the
names, the denominations, the loca-
tons and under what conditions you
left them? AS my zeal is the blind
conductor Of my WILL ] must ask you
another question. Did you ever sell
a church to our race that you so much
dislike to see in court? If so, how
much commission did you make for
yourself, and did you change your
denomination about the same time?
Twill not say about how much brain
this smart aleck has, but challenge
you to answer the questions above
asked, as you and are now both be-
fore the public and Twill leave that
for the public to judge.
Now My Dear Sir: you have un-
doubtedly heard of that fellow that
lives, in glass house and il you have
forgotten it, will just mention it to
refreshen your memory. This is not
a paid for interview but a paid for
answer to your pretended interview.
J..H. Dillingham;.
Rev. r. Seymour's Article in Reference
to Mr.. e. r. Morgan.
Below you will find the sworn state
ment of A. ]. Bell and T..sR. Morgan as
to st. James A. M. E. Church coal bill:
A. ]. Bells Statement:
A. J.. Bell being duly sworn. says
that he ordered all the fuel to be used
by the A. NJ. e. Church and for the
parsonage from May Is, 1904 to May
9, 1905 dates inclusive) excepting one
ton of stove and nut coal delivered on