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VOLUME 51,
UNITY—EUALITY—FRATERNITY. THE ORDINANCE—THE DOCTRINE--THE LIFE.
DALLAS, AUSTIN ANL SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. OCTOBEK, 1900.
NUMBER 5.
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Dr. B. H. Carroll pleaded the Statute of Limitation,
left his eodefendants on the battle line and return-
ed to his home. He ought to have stayed with them
and shared Iheir fate whether of penalty or vindi-
cation.
time the "first continuance" was aBked for on April "W
4, the Southern Baptist Convention was only a nonth y
The battle by the Defendants for a "continuance"
in the Court House last week convinced every b s
holder, not excepting the Defendants themselves,
that their attorneys as well as themselves felt that
there was danger in the Court House.
Thirty missionaries under the auspices of the Am-
erican Baptist Missionary Union sailed from '.oston
for Burma, Telugu, Dangoon and Assam last week
Impressive services were held in a mass -resting
in the Tremont Temple. Most of these had oerv-id in
foreign fields and were now returning to their wo k.
We desire to record our gratitude towird our
Church and toward our Association that each elected
us a messenger to the Convention at San Antonio,
by unanimous vote. We shall D. V. present our cred-
entials and continue to do so until the manuevers
which have defeated thus far the will of the Baptists
of Texas shall have broken down by overuse. We
believe the Church Party had a majority at each ses-
sion including 1897, 1898 and 1899. Yet, owing to the
fact that the people will not leave their cotton fields
at the present high prices of cotton to attend Church
Conferences, District Associations or the Gel u'al
Convention, the Church Party will not have their
usual majority at San Antonio. No matter, D. V.,
the editor of Texas Baptist-Herald will be there The
way to do these political Board Party Baptists is not
jto "holt," but to let them wear their maneuvers out.
We learn that this year the railroad rate foi over
100 miles will be one and a third fare for the ound
trip. In 1897 We obtained a round trip maximum
rate of $5. This year we learn that it will V'
more. The "Superintendent" is busy "correlating"
No matter, until the Board Party managers Have ex
hausted themselves, which they are fast doing, a
"majority" and a' "minority" of Church party ines-
• aengers under Board Party count, amount to the
same thing. It will all come right in the end.
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"An ^Eriemy Hath Done This. . . We have long since
come to understand that the friends of the Conven-
tion and all its interests must take care of those In-
terests in the face of the strongest opposition that
S .A. Hay den can array against them. And we are
in no way disappointed or surprised that this suit
should be thrust upon us at a time when it could be
made to do the most damage, by absorbing the at-
tention of men burdened with the weighty enter-
prise of the denomination. . . Are we hopeful? Yes,
but serious, also. There never was as fine a spirit
among the people, but there are special hindrances,
among them—the Godless law suit here in Dallas.
Still, we are hopeful of success."
J. B. Gambrell in Missionary Worker. Oct. 15, 1900.
We wonder what outsiders acquainted with the
facts think of Baptist preachers in the face, of the
facts and this declaration; that is, if they judge them
all by Dr. Gambrell!
The facts are as follows:
1. The case was called for April 4. Dr. Gam-
brell wrote a letter to Gen. M. M. Crane asking that
S. A. Hayden be appealed to in the interest of Mis-
sions to grant a "continuance" until after the South-
ern Baptist Convention at Hot Springs, in May.
Dr. Gambrell's ltter was referred to us. we read it
carefully. It pleaded for delay of the trial on the
ground that if we "did not grant it the Home and
Foreign Mision Boards of the Southern Baptist Con-
vention would suffer." We complied with this re-
quest oft'two conditions, first, that the "continuance"
should be charged against the Defendants and second,
that the Defendants should promise not to interpose
any obstruction to a speedy trial after the Conven-
tion at Hot Springs. Then the trial was set for
June 6th.
2. Before June 6th came, the Defendants went into
the Court House and stated that they could not i os-
sibly be ready for the trial on June 6th. And they
gave reasous satisfactory to the Court for a •contin-
uance" which was again charged against the Defen-
dants. They should have kept their promise.
3. Then by the act of the Defendants themselves,
the settiiet of the trial for October 15, was necessitat-
ed. Because, after two "continuances" there was ro
time when the Defendants could announce ready and
the court docket Would permit. The fiettling of the
case on October 15th, therefore, was /Wholly and ex-
clusively on the responsibility of the Defen-la its.
There was never a moment when we were not realy.
Now for a little Board Party diplomacy: At the
. I turned my face to the West—flfty-seven
a8° the journey to Illinois consumed as much
off. Dr. B. H. Carroll was visiting certain Ba"?t'.3t t^P as it now requires for a trip to Japan. Be-
preachers in the Old States and placing before them i. ten Boston and Central Illinois were three weeks
the alternative of nonseating S. A. Hayden at, Hot at the shortest. From Philadelphia to Harris burg the
Springs or losing the Texas delegation In a lump, time was ten hours; from Harrisburg the traveler
Hie and Dr. Gambrell were anxious to have the ft ct went to Pittsburg by canal packet and inclined plane;
of our being "nonseated in the Southern Baptist Clou- then down the Ohio and up the Mississippi, and up
vention" behind the trial and we believe the Defen- the Illinois to his destination. A little Church in
dants promised to 'interpose no obstruction after Tazewell county of thirty-six members called me to
the Convention" in good faith. But, but when the be their pastor. I accepted at once. Very wisely
Convention failed to "nonseat S. A. Hayden" the in the call they did not mention salary, and for
Defendants found that their reliance on the action the first year or so I received none. How could they
of the Southern Baptist Convention was against them, give me any? There was no money in the country;
Dr. Gambrell had stated that "Hayden's platform not a solvent bank in the state. Our currency was
was right; that he and his Board Party intended largely 'wild cat' notes. Yet all the necessaries of life
to stand on it, but not with Hayden." Dr. Carroll were abundant, but wheat when wagoned to Chicago,
had said that he "would rather be nailed up in his then a city of 5000, brough 25 cents a bushel; corn
coffin than to sit in a Baptist body with S. A. flay- was ten cents and no sa.e; bacon hams $1.50 a hun-
den." Yet in the face of these declarations, they all dred in Cincinnati; choice beefsteak 11-2 cents a
kept their seats in the Southern Baptist Convention pound; hay $1 a ton. There was no danger of starv-
at Hot Springs without a word of protest even. We ing. Every one was glad to give me my board and
had expected surely they would for consistency's sak? feed my horse. But what a field for work I had.
enter a "protest." But instead of this, they accepted My parish measured sixty miles from north to south,
the situation in silence and returned to ask the Court The nearest Baptist pastor on the road to Chicago
for a second"Continuance." The Court gave «t and was forty miles distant. There was no finished meet-
after the Court had thoroughly questioned their at- ing house of any denomination. My preaching was
torneys as to an acceptable time, no time could be done in private houses, school houses, court houses,
agreed upon that the Court could give earlier than barns, log cabins; in summer time under the trees.
October 15. And yet Superintendent Gambrell My study was the shady side of a hay-stack, and I
claims that "S. A. Hayden thrust the trial upoi them moved round with the sun. The library with which
just on the eve of the Convention"!!! I began my pastorate I carried in my saddlebags,
but I mastered the books so that I could have stood
an examination in them. These two summers under
the hay stack have shaped my studies, my preaching
and my teaching during my whole life. Under that
hay stack I began and continued the daily syste-
matic study of the New Testament."
ORGANIZED CHURCHES.
Dr. Weeion soon began to organize Churches and
build meeting houses. His pastorate at Pretoria was
most fruitful. In 1853 he was interested in the es-
tablishing of the Christian Times, now the Standard,
and for a time was one of its editors. His influence
was felt throughout Illinois, where he held a foremost
place as a preacher and pastor.
In 1859 he removed to New York city, where he
preached in Oliver Street Church till 1868, when he
accepted the Presidency of Crozer Theological Semi-
nary. The year he removed to New York the Univer-
sity of Rochester conferred upon him the degree of
D. D.
Dr. Weston has been described as a man eminently
fitted to be an educator of those who are preparing to
instruct their fellow men; one the influence of whose
native genius, sound scholarship, correct taste and
ripe Christian experience reaches far and wide
Rev. Henry G. Weston, D. D., President of Crozer through the able ministry of those who have sat un-
Theological Seminary, completed his 80th year last der hls instruction.
month and the Baptist ministers of the Philadelphia ~ 4 ' *
Conference did not allow the event to pass without Brethren in the old states are receiving cl^ulars
giving some fitting expression of their great affection signed by J. B. Cranflll in which occurs the following
and esteem for their venerable brother, who, for sentence: "Dr. J. B. Gambrell, the greatest writer
fifty-seven years has labored untiringly in the work of among Southern Baptists, and Rev. G. W. Truett,
spreading the gospel. The routine of the mlnistere' the American Spurgeon, each furnishes us an article
regular meeting was practically suspended, and the eac^ week."
occasion was one of the felicitation in honor of a Here is a confession for you. The Corresponding
man who, after years of fruitful missionary work In Secretary of Texas Missions is announced as a reg-
\arious parts of the country, became head of the semi- ular contributor each week to the Baptist (?) Stan-
nary at Chester, and has devoted his remarkable dard (?). This, too, in the face of the fact that the
talents to that institution for this last thirty-two said J. B. Gambrell receives for himself and family
years. '• approximating $2500 a year. How much Dr. Gambrell
HIS EVENTFUL CAREER. receives for his labor on the Baptist (?) Standard (?)
Dr. Weston was born in Lynn, Mass., September 11, 'fl n°t mentioned. But surely it is fair to presume the
1820. His ancestors were Puritans as far back as greatest writer among Southern Baptists would not
1630. His father was a Baptist minister, and one furnish an article each week without some compen-
of the publishers of the Boston Christian Wajch- sation. But whether he does or not he owes this la-
man. After being graduated from Brown University bor to the Baptist General Convention of Texas
in 1840, Dr. Weston entered Newton Theological In- which pays for all his time as Corresponding Secre-
3titution. He was ordained to the ministry at tary.
Frankfort, Ky., in 1843, and then went to Illinois It is a notable fact that Superintendent Gambrell
where he was a missionary for 3 years in Tasew^U, is writing very extensively in many of the Baptist
Woodford, McLean and Marshall counties. In tt84i6, papers of the South. We do not suppose that he is
he settled as pastor of the Baptist Church in Pedrla, receiving any pay for it as much in his articles
111., where he stayed thirteen years. He was mpflbf- self serving and in his own interest. As this must
ator of the Baptist General Association of Illinois take much of his time it is an uncertain quantity
in 1849, 1853, 1854 and 1856. W as to how much remains for his duties as Corres-
>' ponding Secretary of the Convention. Is It any won-
UEV. HENRY G. WESTON, D.D.
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EVERYTHING PLENTIFUL BUT MONEY.
Referring to his early labors Dr. Weston ■
d«r that the Baptists of Texas clamor for Reform?
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Hayden, S. A. The Texas Baptist-Herald (Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1900, newspaper, October 25, 1900; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth379736/m1/1/: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Montgomery County Memorial Library.