Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-10-23
"uuHo[Y uMIoN."'
Rev. |. johnson on State Appropriation
to Holiness 0rphanage.

In q sermon on State Missions
at the First Baptist church Sunday
morning Rev. Livingston Johnson,
corresponding secretary of the
Baptist State convention, made
an attack upon the action of the
last Legislature in passing "an
act to appropriate one thousand
4 dollars for the support of the Ell.
hanan Training Institute for
Homeless Children" at Marion.
| His sermon was statement Of
things for which State Missions
stands and was outlined as follows !:
First Evangelation; second, In
doctrination; third, Expansion.
Under the head in Indoctrination,
he said among other things:
''The Baptists have always stood
for the complete separation Of
Church and State. An act of the
last Legislature shows that we
need to emphasize this principle
in our State today, A woman
came to Raleigh during the last
| IIepislature who could teach the
old professionals a long time in
the art of lobbying. She said she
had founded an orphanage and
was looking to the Lord alone for
it's support. She spent good
part of her time in the Capitol
Square with a little child on
either side. These children she
said she had gotten in the East
and was carrying to the orphan
age. One morning The News and
Observer published the fact that
a bill had been introduced and
passed both houses appropriating
1000 to the support of this Or
phanage.
"To say nothing of the woman's
faith which seemed to drop sud-
denly from the Lord to the Legis-
lature-quite drop by the way
our lawmakers, in the act, tramp
led under foot most sacred prin-
ciple for which the Baptists have
ever stood. The orphonage; ;s said
to belong to the Holiness church,
and at this hour a meeting is be-
ing conducted in lts chapel by
those who hold to the latest re-
ligious fad, namely "the girl of
the unknown tongues. Some say:
the title of this property is vested
in its manager, who holds it in
trust for the so-called Holiness
Church. But does that improve
matters any? If she holds the
property in trust the appropriation
is to a church, and if it is her in
dividual property the money has
been appropriated to private in
terests. The last Legislature then,
put it's hand into the pockets of
the citizens of the State and took
therefrom ST, 900 and gave it to a
so-called church, thus recognizing
the the unholy union of Church
and State, for the dissolution Of
which our fathers went to Jail one
hundred years ago.
"A few years ago our convention
sent message Of encouragement
50 our English brethren who il
their protest against the iniquitous
educational bill are making thei1
lest fight for the separation Of
Church and State. I say theil
Last fight beeanse the victory Ii
, ,rtain. Is it not about time fol
QUE convention to register a deel
7 and starnal protest against tht
act Of tbs lsst Legislaeure?;'
The sos Alr. Johnson referred t.
/ is printed herewith as fellows:
"That ths guna of one thousant
+, dollars is hersky appropriated, fv
t hundred for ths year one thous
and nina hundred and seven, an
Q five hundred for one thousan'
4 nine hundred and sight, out o
t any money in ths State trsasur
n not otherwise appropriated, fe
). the euppors of the Elhanan Train
d ing Institu to, st Marion, Mort
K Carolina, aud tie saao .cseeus
9 shall be paid to Miss M.ssess a-ray
n the owner and superip asssess c
said institution, in quart ,My ray
ments, commencing the fs-5 "a
Of June, one Thousand, nine huf
dred and seven. Views and Oh