The Robesonian., 1917-12-24
I'm DEFENSE OF WILLIAMS

He is Intensely Patriotic Now,
Whatever May Have Been His
Attitude in FirstHours ofGloom
-Soundness of His Theology
Also Defended.
To the Editor of The Robesonian:
Why do you continue to hop on Hor-
ace Williams at Chapel Hill? My son
is in the senior class there and was
home Thanksgiving. He said that
Williams is one of the most intensely
patriotic of all the men who has
spoken at all on the subject, not eX-
cepting even Captain Allen, an Off.
fer of the Princess Pats regiment OF
Canadian infantry, who is drilling him
and his mates twelve hours every
week. Prof. Williams is also taking
this military training.
Now, | read what the papers said
about Williams break at Charlotte.
He said he did not understand the
war, when the most enlightened and
Christian of all the nations should
DTedk OIL dllu SO W ouSA Seso ANA- NHN0
in irving to annihilate each other:
when that nation to whom we have
gone to school should prove such an
outlaw in military conduct. This was
more of a conversation than an ad-
dress.
In this connection l will refer to
some talk that has gone the rounds
of a certain church, officially or semi
officially and privately, that Williams
is unsound in his theology, etc.. and
attacking him along that line. | have
heard good bit of it. 1t turns large
ly upon allegations that certain
young man went to his church college
and his seminary and was licensed,
Chapel Hill about that time with va
carries (?) crowding his brain, attrib-
uted to Williams, upset the belief Of
this older brother who had been train
ed all through college and seminary
by his church so that this older broth
er {sic) finally got "all wrong" and
went back to the official body that
commissioned him and offered his
resignation.
Such an incident has some founda-
tion-has this much: A young man
Iwho had younger brother to go to
Chapel Hill]had the training indicat-
ed, and got his license, went I'M
MED!ATELY TO A FAR DISTANT
STATE to- work under home mission
ary committee. After two years he
did come back ard asked them to hear
him, as he was out Of harmony with
some of the church, creed. In the
meantime he had not seen his brother.
Now, as to all this stuff, let me say
that DR.. E. K. Graham, when told of
this, said: "a younger brother did
all that? That is not the way young
er brothers have of doing. He did not
do it. Have to tell me something else
But supposing it true, then we made
the stronger man."
B. T. McBryde. superintendent Of
schools in Cumberland county, re-
hearsed PART of the stale yarn
in my presence to ere "Pat" Viii
, liams, who was reared in Nc
Bryde's neighborhood, and Will
lliams said: "Ben, you know my moth
ser, brought up in Old Sardis church
and you know the kind of blues stock
ing Presbyterian she was and how
truly and reverently pious she was
and how she trained her children. You
know that she never let me reach ma
tWlry without knowing the severa
catachisms and Presbyterian doctrines
and the Bible as far as possible. X
Well, Ben, took everything nearly OF
Williams course nine years agone
The glamour has gone, the magnetism
has subsidized, cold reason can nov
speak if ever. AS l hope shall b,
welcomed by my sainted mother ant
the bloodwashed throng, and look m.
Pilot in the face and shall receive
welcome from Him, as l know al
these things and in view Of the ne
for, nc4 CT Eon o4e,
remember these things, / say tina
Horace Williams did not teach m
anything repugnant to the teaching
of my mother. The great lessons sh
got from the Bible, Horace William
gets. They do not always arrive 6
the same conclusion over the sam
route of reasoning, but the great fur
damental truths of Scripture were III
derstood by my mother and she got tt
same help along her pathway as Wi
Iiams gets from the Scriptures
DIR. +. X. Graham said almost tt
very same in substance, but said tn;
ne came from long line of Presb,
terian elders, and for about 400 yea
back there was scarcely man in h
line back to Scotland and further, b1
that was ruling elder in the Presb
terian church, on both his fathers 81
his mothers lines.
McGeehee, professor of law, VIII,
l told him of these canards, sal
Whose testimony will they take
They won't take yours or mine as,
did not take anything under William
They dismiss the judgment of the bo
now in his classes as immature a
nnder his spell. Whose will tn
take? Will they take the combin
testimony of every white minister
Chapel Hill?"
told him if they could not, tn
the several churches were not givi
Chapel Hill square deal in sendi
ministers there. He said that eve
white minister in Chapel Hill was tn
or had been in the past an enthusi;
tic student under. Horace Villa
and