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?0Z. XTXT MO UNI AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. MAY 2, 1912 NO. 43 UPON PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS. Minister Replies in Newt and Ob server to the. Misrepresentation that are Going1 the Rounds of the Press about the part His Church Took in the Allen Af fair. Raleigh News and Observer. To the Editor: Will you allow space in jour columns to correct a misrepresentation) that ha been going the rounds of the press and which has appeared in your paper to the effect that the out law Aliens of Carroll county, Vir ginia, were Primitive, or in the parlance of adverse criticism, "Hard-shell" Baptist? SLANDER Hie originators or sucn iaise r- me oniy lovers or law mid order, ports evidently had other motives ' yet none of our traducers can than the publication of the truth,;. show a better record in morals, in for the facts arc that not one of the outlaws charged with the dastardly crime of shooting up the court officials at llillsville are members of the Primitive Baptist church, and this fact could have been easily ascertained from any well informed and truthful person in the neighborhood of the crime. Were this not an age of boasted religions progress and absolute fairness to the most humble eiti A'i, it would not apiMar so .strange that those who are paid to tell the truth apparently take so much plesaure in hiding the truth. For you remember. Mr. Editor, -that men were hired to deny the resurrection of the Al sa te r, who but for the pressure of popular false religion and the promise of protection and pay, would have willingly told the truth about the matter without charge. And you remember also, that in the days of Nero another dastardly crime was committed bv tli rJiarir. trwiln nf thi.a nrnnd xng of Rome, -which crime was i promily charged to the Chris- to take advantage of the homc tiaas. But from the great show j stead law to keep from paying of religion that is made in our, his debts, and that, he was beloved1 country one would con-j promptly "turned out of church elude that surely the spirit of for so doing1. The late Sam Nero would not now be tolerated. Jones, a native of Georgia, where Then why should this llillsville j there are about, twenty1 thousand affair be charged to Primitive Primitive Baptists, seemingly V ok Baptists? We did not see pub-J ph-saure in stating, when p'reach 1 mlied broadcast over the. country j ing on honesty, that to be a Prim that the Beattie crime was charg-' itive Baptist,' was considered, in ed to his church connection, j commercial circles, as u most though lie was a member of a J trustworthy letter of credit. Kl prominent denomination. We do; der Sam H. Hurst, a minister a not see that) the New School, or; inoug the New School Baptists, in Missionary Baptists are charged a recent published article relative with influencing the crime of; to the llillsville affair, said: Richcson, though he was a minis-1 "There are alnuit i dozen Prin ter of that denomination. But! itive Baptist prcacneis ui the be cause there is a strong element . county (Carroll), with as manv of Primitive Baptists in Carroll churches or meeting places, county, many wagging tongues Prominent among these are El and poisonous quills have been J ders Isaac WeMi, Smith Webb, employed in charging- the crime ; Jr., and F. P. Brnascomh. Abet to these ieople, when, as before ; ter man, more consecrated Chris stated, not one of the several j tian, or more patriotic citizen outlaws are members of the Prim-: never lived in any countv in itive Baptist church. j Southwest Virginia than Elder i But we suppose the ill-feeling j Isaac Webb. At first a school some hold against us can le ex-,' teacher, afterwards county judge,! plained by our refusal to enter j treasurer, and all th time " a with them in the modern mission j preacher of the gospel without schemes of evangelizing the j remuneration. Few men have world. Well, Primitive Baptists been more highly esteem. for claim to be Bible missionaries, j his many virtues than he. Now and it has never yet been proven , some ninety years of age his lift by the Bible that they are not. I has been, is now. and will bo for And they can boast of more ministers today going in the way Christ sent out His called anil qualified preachers and preach ing without charge his everlasting doctrine of salvation bv grace than all their accusers) combined. But be this as it may, there seems! to be in the mountains ofi Virginia and North Carolina a good f ield, and an opportune time for mis sionary work, and we do not think it out of place to advis those who are so nifatuated with i their humanizing and soul-saving ' Dunkards, are plain and simple of missions in foreign fields to in habits and noted as law abid oall in their forces, and pnit them ! ing and law respecting citizens, to work at home. Why leave j and they yield the palm to no your own krth ami kin to i'tro ' iorle for honcstv in navmenf of t. l,o ,1,." , over the sea to bestow your la-' bors bors of love on tb V.-1W anionic , Primitive ll.i;c I black races, who oroCe bv their1 continual refusal to support your missionaries, that they do not appreciate your labors? Thous ands of mountain sections and city districts in our own country have not even the lwnefits of the free school, mub less the gos pel preached to them free. Sujv-, jje you help the Primitive Pap-j tisbs do some of this free work at home in the way of preaching the jroHpel of love free of charge. Hut if yoti will not, and the "devil again breaks loose" at home, for the sake of (rood man ners, to say nothing of th love of Christ, do not charge the devil's work to the Primitive Bap list. Primitive Baptist are not dis jxwed to hojint. We feel we have no right to do so. The Master tells his disciples that when they have done all the good they can to still call them selves unprofitable, scrvnat.i. This we feel, is the right course. But perlia it would not be out of pbuM here, to let others boast a little for us, and to say for our selves, as a matter of fact, Unit while Primitive Baptists lire not me commercial worm and in State and county government than has been made by our ten thousand membership in Virgin in. Our people have ever been noted for their love of law and order. Washington said that the Bap tist. were the most anient and trustworthy defenders of the Re volutionary cause. This was be fore any of the xpular modern missionary .soeieties were organiz ed. Elder John Cano, a Baptist minister and a chaplain in Wash ington's army, was in close touch with the general and one of his most trusted friends during those troublesome times. Thomas Jef ferson said he got his first prac tical lesson in local self govern ment from observing the govern ment and discipline of a little Bajrtist church he sometimes at tended. Dr. Ijofton, a noted New School or Missionary Baptist the ologian of Nashville, Tenn., said he was raised among Primitive il... . . r 1 . . . 11 1 ipiliti and' kiev "thlwn. well and that he never knew but one years to come, a benediction to the comity. Elder F. P. Brans com)e of Laurel Fork, is also a typical man and citizen, and edi tor of a religious periodical in general circulation throughout Carroll and counties. Primitive There is also another Baptist paper published in .'JLt county at Eouia, and widely circu lated through the same section, edited by Dr. J. C. Hurst, of Koanoke, Va. As a peonle the Primitive Baptists, like the .i..i.. " But enough of this. Ye have rurbt. to ..o,n1m n,':,lvf ! the unjust and unreasonable eiiarge it tile Jlillsviile to their account ; and it t ra g treil- I IS but fair to expect all papers that have published such charges, and later having learned the untruth fulmss of them, to m::ke as prom inent front pag display of our denials as was made of the slan- der. We trust your spirit of fainnuulodnewi will actuate your publication to seek to undo the injury that was, unthoughtedly or maliciously, aimed at our people. R. II. Pittman, Pastor Primitive Baptist Church es, Luray, Page county, Va. Ice Prevented Aid for Titanic. Washington, April 27. Failure to give her exact position, a great field of floating ice that offered a wcllnigh impossible barrier to shijw hurrying to the rescue, and the mistake of her own captain in rusMng at top speed through an ico-eovercd sea all these com bined to send the Titanic and her l,t(M) victims to their graves in the north At.buitie. . This was clearly indicated today in tes timony before the Semite com mittee investigating the ocean tragedy. Cajit. James II. Moore, of the steamer Mount Temple, which was hurried, to the Titanic, in response to wireless calls for help, t r . 1 . 1 of the great stretch of field of i-i which held him off. Within his view from the bridge he discern ed, he said, another strange steamer, probably a "tramp." and a schooner which was m ik ing her way out of the ice. The lights of this schooner he thought probably Were those seen by the survivors of the Titanic and which they were frantically try ing to reach. v aprain aioore denounced as "most unwise" the action of the Titanie's commander in rushing at 21 knots through the night when he had been advised of the proximity of ice. The Mount Temple's commander testified that he had spent 27 years in the north Atlantic. Whenever ice was around, he said, he doubled his watchj and reduced speed, and i beJiaj2pened,to get, aught jn an ice pack, he stopped his en gines and drifted until he was clear. Position Sent Out Was Wrong. The witness also was emphatic in his declaration that the jxwit ion sent out by the Titanic was wrong. He -said the ship was 8 miles further eastward than its operator reported. This, he declared, he proved by observa tions taken the first thing on the day following the disaster. With what virtually was a fleet of steamers within a radius of .") miles of the Titanic, the of ficer said that thisr mistake in fix ing accurately the position of the doomed ship was a fatal one. With ice bergs and floating ice covering the northern sea, a ship of oven the size of the Titanic might well be overlooked through such a variance. J. Bruce Ismy, managing di rector of the International Mer cantile Marine company, wasi much cheered bv the testimony; of the afternoon. Throughout ; the week he has had a troubled! iook and during the long daily Sessions he has sat silent, seldom speaking to his associates who accompanied him. Today howev er, he listened eagerly to the ac counts of bus conduct at the life boats as told by the stewards and seamen who came in contact with him the night of the disas ter. His eyes fairly beamed when Steward Crawford told how he had called for women to go in cue of the boats and had said to a tman who told him she, .'as a stewardess, "you are a woman, take your place in the boat." . t t . i To Liberate Thaw. New Rochelle, N. Y., April 27, A fourth attempt, through the agency of the law to liberate Ilarry K. Thaw from the Mattea- j wan State Hospital, where lie has been imprisoned for the slay ing of Stanford White six years igo. 'because of insanity," was ...'made today before Justice Keogh Will e . i . .... . rt . ... x- "... i ui i in; .-supreme vourt in .m-w 1 '. U'"'me v.ourt in Rochelle. After a brief prelim inary discussion. Justice Keoirh adjourned the hearing until May f and Thaw started back for Mat tea wan. ........It.. ... .1 1. j nam is iisuiMi) iujru vj : rheumatism of the muficles of the jbaik. for whieh you Mill find nothinj letter than ChainTeiain'! Liniment. Lame back j For sale by All lealer9. j RUIN ROOSEVELT THE CRY. T&ft Leaders Have Determined to Turn on all the Light. Washington, April 27. With the senate planning to begin an investigation of the relations with the "interests' of Theo dore Roosevelt and William How ard Taft, respectively, and both Senator Dixon and William B. McKinley claiming that their favorite will be nominated on the first ballot at ChicHgo, the jioliti cal pot here is "biling- some." The decision to investigate is contained in the action of the senate committee on privileges and elections today, after near ly a year's delay in ordering a favorable rcMrt to the senate on the CuUx-rsou resolution provid ing for an investigation of cam paign contributions in the cam paigns of P'Oi and l'HW. The senate will lfegin at once. As was the case in the resolu tion asking for i wipers in the har vester and steel trust investga- tions, standpat Republicai s joined with the Democrats in voting to report the measure favorably. If other proofs were lacking, this is considered as clinching evidence that tli- standpat Taft leaders are determined to -throw the lime light on everv detail of Colonel Roosevelt's alleged doinys with the money magnates of New York. Though it may reck the Reubliean party, still the full story is to be told. Champ Clark in Lead. Democratic, presidential politics during- the week have been extra dull, as compared with last week, and also with the developments in th Republican party. At present Champ Clark is in the lead and' running like a"skecred houn" Wilson is a close sec ond, and, his friends say, will be nominated at Baltimore, regardless."- At Underwood headquarters it was said that next week Un derwood' will forge a head of Wil son. Two Hundred Bodies of Titanic Are Rescued. New York, April 24th. Two hundred and five bodies of the Titanic, victims Mere picked up at sea by cable steamer, Makay Bennett, and are Wing brought to Halifax, N. S. The cable ship's captain confirms the identifica tion of George 1). Widener, P. A. B. Widener's son, of Philadel phia, in wireless dispatches. The captain wirelessed that a majority of the bodies will never come to the sea's surface. Cap tain Lanul-r sent word through the (.'ape Pace wireless station that Maekay-Bennett has been drifting in fog since noon vester- day. The captain does not in dicate when he expects to reach Halifax. Bodies arc floating upon the sea manv miles east and west in latitude 47..'l."i north ! iuuid longitude 48.:j7 west says tic wireless. Medical opinion is that death was instantaneous in all cases owing to the pressure ' when the bodies were drawn in the vortex. Executive Council May Decide Richeson's Fate. Boston, April 27 A final step by counsel for Clarence V. T. j Hicheson, the confessed murder er of his former sweetheart, Miss Avis Liiinell, to secure a commu tation o the death sentenc', was taken yesterday afternoon when the attorneys appeared before Coventor Foss. The lawyers urged the governor to lay their petition, asking that the sentence of death be changed to one of life impris onment before the executive coun cil. At the conclusion of the hear ing Governor Foss announced that ne liad taken under advisement i the matter of placing the jx'titioii for commutation of Richeson's sentence before the executive council. It is generally believed he will allow the executive to de cide Kieheson's fate. Poor appetile In a sure sign of ini- : paired dilution. A few doses of , ("Smiuberlain'g Stomach and Liver .TV. 1. I ... . -...it . . ..v j muins will mrcTKinen your Q!t.e8- :tior and impruve your appetite, Thousand! have Uen benefited by ! takinc these Tablets Sold hw Kll iK - alerg. j TEACHES GREAT LESSON. Rev. H. H. Hulten Warns His Hearers That Accidents of the Titanie's Kind Are Too Num erous, Therefore be Prepared. Charlotte Observer, 29th. Preaching to a congregation which jammed the First Baptist church forn pulpit stej to high est balcony, the pastor, Rev. II. II. Hulten, sjHke last night on "The Titanic Disaster: The Great j est Sermon of the Ages." After; eulogizing- the altruism and in-1 trepidity of those who gave their) lives for others, he drew from j it i .,o jian a mur "UK, n o inner i the occurrence a number of lessons . , , , , , . . . , i ; 1 t , , . ,. r; mile broad and 2x feet high, which he recommended to his , in - manv said, hearers. (. hief among these were:i ..An- i . , ui:,..;, ,t ,i . ,i f ibis tragedv is repeated ev A realization of the truth of i .,A i Li ..-,.1-..ui. i-: i .j. i i cry . ) !ays on the American eon- proen, i ride goeth before a . . , , , , . f..u i:i. c i. i - i. in, iiM'niv oi wit u.uier oi . .. i... ..... iin ,.f ,.. i.o ..ii t , nini lint an 'ii- .... l i . siiicn s arc aangerons in me s journey. The wreck furnishes, said he, a striking lesson in vi carious sacrifice and, further, teaches that a man may come very near a happy destination, onlv to miss it. I he service was in part a m - , 'i , , i j I , ,i monal to those who ost their lives on the Titanic, and the hymns were selected with this' idea in view. Ihey were ()n-j ward Christian Soldiers, March ing as to War," "Rescue the Perishing," ami lastly "Nearer My Cod to Thee," the strains of which floated forth from the sinking vessel just before it took its fatal plunge, rendered by musicians who were faithful to the last to their duty of preserv ing a semblnace of order on board. Editor Archibald John son of Thoinasville made the opening- prayer, in which the members of bereaved households were remembered. The theme of the evening was rich iudramatic pooiuiijnrj niui.ii Miiiri' it uutii- inp at the hands of Dr. ITulten. A Favorable Contrast. .The text was Acts 27:41 "Ani falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship a ground; ami the forepart struck fast, and remained immovable, bu the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. rni . .i riius is an excerpt from the ac - count oi the wrecking ot a vessel which had as its most disinguish ed passenger one Saul of Tarsus. Dr. Hulten compared this wreck with that of the Titanic. In some respects the two incidents were .similar. Their chief dissim ilarity was in the conduct of the captain and crew. Iu the former instance, these jtmiH-l into the lifeboats and rowed away. In the latter we see them loading the lifeboats with women and ihildren and themselves remain ing to erisli. "And I think that this difference argues might ily for the advancement of hu man society since the davs of the New Testament." How It Happened. Dr. Hulten described the Ti- taniu encounter. At the most popular season of the year, crowd ed with passengers of all sorts, invalids in search of health, pleas ure seekers in search of pleasure, business men in search of com merce, artists and authors in search of inspiration, the biir ship was pressing shoreward on its maiden trip. Many of the passengers were asleep in their berths, dreaming of home and cities beyond the sea. The night ! was ideal. Not a cloud was in nounced tonight that reports from jthe sky. The heavens -were star- 41 counties in the State which lit, and under conditions which have held conventions assures the seemed wholly favorable, the control of the State convention proud monster of the deep went by the supporters of Col. Poose plunging into the iceberg. "Oh, velt. The 41 counties which have that some mighty hand might named delegates give Col. Koose have stopped her! Oh, that the velt ,V4 and President Taft 2:1 lookout might have discerned the with 11 uninstmeted. It is stat- : danger, swerved her fifty yards I to one side and averted the col i lision. But this Mas not to be. The ship's side is torn asunder, jthe women and children are help-, j ed into the lifeboats and placed jbexond reach of danger, and then jthe officers and the crew, stir- rounded by a band of heroic pas-j jseijgcrs, wrap themselves in the j white shroud of the surf and go j down in the great democracy of t ueain. .na iri xne greai waves J roll on until thev beat a solemn dirge while the eople of two continents bow their head in sor row, waiting for the day when the aea shall fire up its dead." "It is high time you should take your bearings and reckon your latitude and longitude. I charge you, slow down the engine, men. If need be, cast anchor and fctop. Be sure that you get your bearings tonight. 1 warn you that strait and narrow is the channel thst leads to eternal life." All Obstacles Perilous. "All obstacles are dangerous in life's journey," said Dr. Hul ten. it developed that the iceberg ... u ,..f , : i .. i ii'miii, nuiiwreus oi iiirii oe:njf victims of somebody's criminal ,""l?lig.-iiee Dr. Hulten declar ', I ! Cil ed that men are menaced and destroyed by the iceberg of a godless philosophy, the iceberg of a skeptical and materialistic sci ence. "Pantheism, materialism and rationalism," said he, "have so beclouded the atmosphere that II'.. s.-.n ... I ........ ...... I. 'fi , . ., . t . . ,, .... ,a"' ' Jesus ( hnst. in fu eflu - v . . Knu r, i oil r;in rei any son Or religion you want, if yon will onlv not insist, that Cod still rules the ; universe and that Jesus Christ i did die to save the world. Them wiseacres are waitinir for another disaster and when it comes they want to Im- the pallbearers, the undertakers and the grave dig gers, and that will be the burial of the Lord Cod Almighty." Dr. Hulten declared that "whei John Jacob Astor placed his love ly bride in the lifeboat and re turned to the vessel, that was a lesson in vicarious suffering. When J. M. Thayer placed his wife in the boat and returned to the ship, that was a lesson in vi- ner, said he, was the' sacrifice of the Christ. Mrs. Sidna Allen Gets Possession of Husband's Farm. llillsville, Va.. April 2.). Mrs.' Sidna Allen, wife of the fugitive outlaw, has made arrange mens to secure the use of a tortion of her I ii'. 1 . W l '.. M -t . . . . uiiiiiuiu .- mi ir o. so as 10 iiroi- 1 . ' 4l'4 , ' ,,, ' -'g"in im mi 111. .lit (H bur realty ami jersonalty of Sidna Allen was attachel when civil suits for heavy damages were in stituted by the administrator of the men murdered in the court bouse on March 14. By executing a forthcoming bond, Mrs. Allen has secured the release of a pair of bay horses, a two-horse wagon, six bushels of oats, worth of grass seed, three haystacks and a half interest in a stump puller. The bond is sujv Jkosed to represent double the value of the prrjerty released, and was executed before Clerk Dexter (load in his office under the statute providing that the owner or party in possession may secure use of property in this manner. Garland P. Allen, brother of Sidna Allen, and a minister of the Priminitive Baptist church, was the surety. Mrs. Allen is requir ed to produce, the property or its equivalent in cash upon order of the court North Carolina Cinched for Theo doro Rooeevelt ureensboro, April 27. Col Y S. Pearson in charge of the llooie- velt campaign in this State, an- ed that 541 votes give a majority in the State convention which meets in Raleigh next month to name delegates to the national convention. SupjHirters of Colonel Roosevelt in the State reiterated tonight; the claim that the entire 24 votes of North Carolina in the national convention would be .instructed for him. From x1!m made they declare tint Taft will not go into the State convention with TOO votes out of a total represcnta- tion of 1,0-sO.