The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-07-25
That Debate In Friendsviiie.
, the Editor of The Republican:

] IL Tic Lu4COI VI lHe hSDuDllCd0.
Believing that your paper is a public
journal, willing to hear the other side,
| write in reply to the article that ap-
peared in THE REPUBLICAN of July H.
l. As to the authorship of the article
in the issue of July 4th, | will say that |
was not the author of it, nor did it come
from the Lutheran church. Therefore,
the attack in the issue of July 18th was
entirely uncalled for.
2. In regard to challenging, am will
ing to let the citizens of Friendsville be
the judges as to which side threw out
the challenges, especially those citizens
who attended the meetings. accepted
his challenge to the world, which | had
right to do. The article says that
my opponent did not know that there
was such person in existence as H. C.
Salem, and consequently without this
knowledge, was in no position to chal-
lenge him. If he did not know of my
existence then, | hope he knows of it by
this time. Now | ask, when a person
challenges the world, or any person,
whether it is necessary for him to know
the person who is going to accept the
challenge before he makes the general
challenge?
There are many challenges thrown out
by men. When they make then, they
do not know who is going to accept the
challenge. | am willing to have the
document published in the county
papers and let the reader Judge for
himself, if it is challenge or an ac-
ceptance of challenge, provided that
the entire document is published
g. In regard to the manuscript and
clippings l will say that prepared my
matter with great deal of care, writ
ing out most of the arguments, which
every man should do when he debates.
| preferred to have some system about
my debate, some logical order about it.
My opponent had notes too. The only
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with a typewriter and he had written
his with pen or pencil Why did not
the author of the article find fault with
the other speaker for having notes?
When we wish to get passages of scrip
ture, must cut them out of the Bible or
can we not copy them from the scrip
lures? In regard to the pasted clippings,
let me say, that several years ago | col
lected a number of passages of scripture
IN which the Greek proposition occurred
and showed conclusively that they were
used in variety of meanings in the
New Testament.
l had the article published in one of
the church papers. During the debate
my time was divided between a very
sick child and the debate | felt that
it would save my time to transfer my
article to my manuscript The matter
being plain Bible facts which | had col
lected, had a right to transfer them
to my manuscript. The writer of the
article never came up to the stand to see
the clippings whether they were from
the Bible or not; whether they were
proper material for the debate or not.
How does he know that they were not
from the Bible? Not one of the three
moderators ever objected to the matter
going into the debate. Now, | demand
of the write Of the article of july 18th,
that he produced the proof that the
matter used was not germane to the
debate. | require him to do so. 1t is
one thing to make bold assertions and
another thing to prove them. My OPP
ponent made bitter attack on me for
transferring the matter to my manu-
script. | demand public apology for
the attack, he never made a public nor
private apology. | had about conclud-
ed that the reason why the attack was
made was because, perhaps, the
Bible material on the affirmative side
was getting scarce and the attack was
to fill in or kill time.
am willing that the matter on the
Greek proposition shall go before the
world for criticism. And | am positive
the unprecedented Greek schools will
sustain my position on the propositions
and on all my matter in the book, and
say that my position is logical and cor
rect.
4. When you come to read the book,
you will find that the author is very
badly mistaken when he says that no
Hebrew words were used. The fact is
there were more Greek and Hebrew
words used than the opposition cared
about hearing. | am willing to let the
book show whether | defined.
The Hebrew and Greek word that |
used and where defined them by the
Bible or by the opinions of men. The
articles casts slur upon the moderator
on the negative side. No man can be
graduated from any Lutheran Theologi-
cal Seminary unless he can stand an
examination in Hebrew and Greek scrip
lures, nor can he be ordained minister
unless he stands rigid examination on
every branch of theological learning. Ny