Evening journal., 1908-08-01

posed to do in the matter said had not
decided. You then emphatically said you
hoped nothing would be done during this
Conference year 10 disturb Dover
Church"
This happened, I may call attention
before the General Conference session
Most of my interviews I'm Wesiey's be.
half since the General Conference have
been with DR. Watt rather than with the
other brethren I'm the case. This was for
two reasons-O) that Smyrna. where Dr
Watt lives, is only twelve miles away
and (0 that my personal relations with
him gave me good ground 10 believe that
I could win him to my position and
through him as well as by direct effort
upon the other brethren win them TO said
position. just that has happened as the
following quotations from two Of Dr
Watts letters to me will show. In one
letter he says:
Il met" certain named brethren are
then mentioned. p "and they all heartily
agree that It is best to postpone the mat
ter TIL Spring" This note is dated July
/. The other letter from Dr. Watt says:
Permit mo to say that the rumor or
statement that the LightbourN case was
postponed i'm Difference TO or because OF
outside influence or pressure is in direct
contradiction to the facts, as documents
now in my possession show. The determin.
ing cause. as have said before, was your
iterated, reiterated and earnest assertion
that an ad interim trial would result very
injuriousiy 10 Wesley Church. 1t was for
this reason and at your request that
consented to meet committee from that
church more than a month ago; for this
reason that / delayed my trip to Atlantic
City TO meet you at FELTON,. IL was you
who convinced me and through me the
brethren who had been urging an i'm
mediate investigation that such a course
would result very harmfully to Wesley
Church; and IL was your reasoning and
your evident distress Of mind on ac
count of the harm that would come to
the church that led to postponement. Sub.
sidiary to this was the expressed desire
of two or three Of the Dover officials"
The information of these brethren's
agreement to postpone the case till the
Conference session was given by me with
two letters read TO that effect, from them
to the Quarterly Conference. July 2.
I have written this letter not TO make
It appear that / am worthier or wiser
than any Of my brethren who have seen
differently from me regarding immedi
ate action in the case at issue but who
had not nv official and admin 'strative re-
lation to Wesley Church, but because do
ing as 1 have persistently done and as L
have here proven by incontrovertable wit.
neses it has nevertheless. been wreclSless.
ly circulated that / was doing oppositely;l
and because. also It IS due me and an in.
terested public that they should know
now that they are i'm a reflective mood
the facts as / have stated and proven
them TO be.
AS TO what I would have dcne had 1
not been successful in dissuading the
brethren from an ad interim trial # is
proper for me to state that / would have
done exactly according to my convictions
Of my official duty, our church Discipline
and my own Interpretation Of it being the
basis Of those convictions. and no mans
or no dozen mems convictions, or expedi.
ents could have been set over to me and
made the basis of my action in the case
No Club" exists and no one has tried
to use one over me; and no one will try
#. Any one who doubts a faithful corre-
spondency between what 1 do and what
/ say / do or who doubts that I formu.
late and execute my own policy. admins. !
trative and otherwise. does not know or
does not seem to know the facts. and
does not know or try TO know me and
the invariable rule of my life from child.
hood days; and does not know the rich
inheritance in me from a sturdy and stall
wart ancestry. from every line for known
generations back.
Thanking you for the s1ace in your
paper as a medium to reach the church
public with this communication.
/ am most respectfully yours
S. M. Morgan.
Dover District Parsonage, Dover, Del.
July 81. 1908.