Word: methodists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Methodist University of Dakota will be located at Ordway...
...which is now public. The Rev. Dr. A. D. Hepburn, President of the college, finds that the actual occurrence out of which the stories grew was exaggerated and misrepresented in the reporting. This conclusion is especially the case with regard to the alleged insulting behavior of students toward Methodist ministers. The result of the investigation we read is particularly gratifying to the many friends of the college, which ranks among the first in the South for scholarship and morality, as well as for the discipline which is maintained in it. At no time, it is stated, has the institution been...
...parade the country round about so that women are afraid to be found abroad. This hostility seems to be especially directed against preachers, whom they compel to get off the walks and insult in every possible way. The Faculty seems to be unable to maintain order. Recently the Methodist Annual Conference was held in Statesville. One of the clergyman thus describes it : "On our way from Charlotte to States-ville, while the train waited at Davidson College station, there was a scene of rowdyism such as rarely has been my misfortune to witness. ON board were several ladies and grave...
...wouldn't be a Methodist...
...They evidently intend to ridicule the ministry of the Methodist Church and show their contempt for it because there were ministers on board the train. One of them pointed to the rear of the car and said, 'there is the bar.' If these young men had been drunk, we would have supposed that they were on a drunken carousal and when they got sober they would be ashamed of their conduct, but as they appeared to be sober we supposed that it was a premeditated attempt to ridicule the ministers on board or their church...