The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-04-19

OF the Protestant religion; CnaC nc ""0
Catholic by profession and a Negro Dy
birth; he was a Catholic because ne wanted
to be; he was a Negro because God made
him such. He took me by the hand and
said "Mr. Boyd, your case shall be well de-
Tended. know the court, and if these peo-
pie haven't a clear, legal case against you,
you have nothing to fear. A Negro can
get absolute Justice in this court" He said,
81 know the white man who is pushing this
case; know that he has paid Mr.. Oscar
Terant, LII. B., Columbian lawyer, seven
ty-five dollars to take care of this case; |
know that he has put up one hundred dol
lars in gold for expenses or cost of court.
You have no money up and you owe me no
fee. | will win this case, but | will make
the cost fully one hundred dollars. am
going to push it to the last limit and ask
no favors."
This black Negro talked with so much as
surance that it got our fighting qualities
rumpled up and we felt like going into the
fight. We returned to the courtroom.
After two other motioned cases were de-
cided, at 1870, Chief Justice Gudger
threw himself back in his big arm chair,
placed his feet>upon the judge stand, locked
his hands back of his head and said, "Now,
brethren, you remember you Baptists have
disagreed and the court is going to pull your
skeletons out of the closet. Mr.. Marshal,
bring in all the witnesses, swear them and
put them under the rule, and we will spend
the day in looking into Baptist quarrels."
When the witnesses were sworn, Mr..
Thourbourne first took the stand to give di-
rect testimony. He told of his place of
education, when and by whom he was or
dained, how he was sent to Panama Zone,
how he had been supported for the last five
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had looked after and located the property
and the payments that had been made from
time to time, the helpers that he had en-
ployed, what he had paid them and the diff
ferent visits he had made to the States,
when, how and whom he had married, and
gave general account of his work in a
straightforward manner. He also told
how he had met Mr.. Pinnock, stranger
on the Zone, introducing himself to be a
Baptist minister from Jamaica; how that
he represented himself as having been in
the employment Of the English Baptists
twenty-four years in South Africa. Be-
lieving that he was the man for the place.
he employed him. First as school-teach-
er and afterwards as a lay preacher, prom
Using that as soon as the Board could have
another regular ordained minister he
would recommend him. He showed how
IlldG TIC Ldu Recommended MT. TlQnOCK TO
the Board and the Board had asked that
Rev. Mr.. Pinnock would present his ere
dentials of ordination. Mr.. Pinnock said
he had none. He then asked Mr.. Pinnock
to give the names of the Presbytery that
ordained him, which he failed to do, and
that he received word from the Board that
he could not employ Mr.. Pinnock as a regu-
lar minister until he had been ordained;
that during his absence, without his knowl-
edge or consent Mr.. Pinnock had been ad-
vised by some one and had undertaken to
administer the ordinance of baptism and
the Lords Supper, and had married one or
two couples. Finding that Mr.. Pinnock
was violating the orders of the Board, he
at once dismissed him. When he had dis
missed him. Mr.. Pinnock refused to give
up the house, locked the church, took the
money that was in the treasure, took the
organ and all the books and refused to give
them up. He then presented a resolution
that Mr.. Pinnock claimed was passed by
the church, but was signed only by J. J.
Pinnock in typewriting. These resolu-
tions set forth that the church had decided
to go over to the Southern Baptist Conven-
ton. Mr.. Thourbourne showed then that
he took legal steps and had the officers to
open up the church and clear out Mr.. Pin
mock.
Mr.. Darlington thought that he had made
complete case without introducing anoth-
er witness in the direct testimony. Dr. Te-
rant then put on the stand Mr.. Pinnock
who came forward and gave testimony that
he had been in the employment of Mr.
Thourbourne for two years; that he felt that
he had the same right, as a colored man, to
perform the ordinances as Mr.. Thour-
bourne had; that he had written to the
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secretary had asked questions that he did
not think concerned them. He said that he
had worked twenty-four years in Africa
under the English Board and no such uues-
tons had been asked him, and that he saw
an opportunity to better his condition and,
he felt, to better the condition of the church.
He, therefore, called few of the officers
together and they had agreed to turn over
the property to the Southern Baptists who