The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-05-11
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lender had passed resolution that
he would not allow another minister
to visit his pulpit, he would not I'M
der any circumstances visit that
minister's pulpit. Regular Modera-
tor Caver was the prime mover and
abbetor and lord dictator supported
by the old chieftian, KNOWLES. and a
few other henchmen, passed q resolu-
ton that none of the Progressiyes
should be allowed in the pulpits of
what they. termed the regulars, and
that If any Of the regulars should
enter into the pubpits OF the Progress
sizes they should be dealt with
This iron-clad resolution that grew
cut Of intense selfshness, meanness
and ignorance has shown up the real
character of these men. For man
to make resolution and then fla
gravity vitolae it, demonstrates that
he is nothing more nor less than
hypocrite. A few Sundays ago, Mod
orator Caver entered the church and
pulpit Of the editor of the Peoples
Defender. Now the editor of the
Peoples Defender had no objections
whatever so far as the personnel of
the man was concerned, but he does
regard him one complete bundle of
hypocrisy in that he would sustain
and abet and preach publicly reso-
luton Of non association and then
ease himself, and that too without
invitation into the editors pulpit.
1t demonstrates the insincerity of
said contingent of Baptists in the
state of Arkansas. The man who
will%set up a standard, and then
maliciously and wilfully and know
ingly violate that standard, is moth
ing more nor less than a consummate
hypocrite, does not deserve the re-
spect of first class men. Men should
take stand, but they should take a
stand upon principle, and when once
a stand is taken upon principle, and
for principles sake, they should
stand unalterably upon that stand.
If the Editor of the Peoples Defen-
der were to pass such a resolution in
his church he would not enter the
pulpit of the man against Whom he
had legislated even if everybody in
town, died; as the Little Moderator
might plead justification because of
a funeral occasion, but funerals and
death do not alter principle. If it
were right for him to pass resolu-
ton of that kind, then it was right
whether men lived or whether men
died. and even death itself does not
call upon men to violate the princi-
pies of right and Righteousness.
This vein of hypocrisy so promin-
ent and persistent finds itself in all
Of those old leaders. They either are
not capable Of taking stand, or they
do not know what setting up a
standard of Righteousness and what
staying by it signifies. We have be-
fore us a letter written by the hand
Of the president Of the State Conven-
ton, and the National Baptist In
corporated Convention which de-
clared that the State Convention at
Hot Springs last year, that no man
or woman could be related to the Ar
kansas Baptist College as employee
In any way unless they belonged to
a church that belonged to the old
line convention, that they would be
forced to quit the church unless that
church was member of the old line
convention, or they would be sum
marily dismissed from the faculty
of; the institution. The good doctor
and high stepping president of the
National Baptist Convention, Incor-
porated, has proven that he, too, has
aslarge vein of hypocrisy running
through him, or he knowingly, will
lingly or maliciously falsified, for he
has not attempted as chairman of
the Board, Of Trustees nor as the
muokAa-nuch. Of the old line iconven-
ton to carry out any such orders,
ne has simply proven that he was
simply after eliminating the editor
of the Peoples Defender from the
Trustee Board, and that having been
done he was willing to wallow in the
shines of self-contradictio and suck
down the unholy emissions of self
purgations. All of the members of
the faculty including the president
still belong to other churches which
demonstrates hypocrisy in the high
est sense. The president of the in
stitution declared that no person
could work as member of the facul-
ty who did not take his membership
out OF Progressive Church, and
. put 1t in a progressive, or better
lperhaps the old line. He has proven
beyond a doubt that these were sim
+ ply the expressions of hypocrisy, for
he, too, after such blatant and wick
ed and unholy expressions sits right
down with his own membership and
that of-his family in another church.
It Is not that we object to their