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Show J --- Elder ~. R. Covert, pastor of fo r - church of God, St. L')Uis, Mo., to f affirm; Elder B. H. Roberts, of the e Mormon Church, to deny. The debate e to be conducted accorclinO'o to Hodge's rules of logic and debate and Roberts' aJ rules of order. y~ .E ach speaker to have one hour each ed for the opening speech to present his tr. 1s~ue or case; subsequent ones to be e lirnited to two alternate speeches eac.h Y, of thirty ·minutes. g~ The time or length ef debate to be cl determined upon hereafter, with ~ther e necessary preliminary matters of areg rangement. 8 : Each disputant to be officially ent.o ·dorsed as a representative man of hjs r. ( own Church. tJ 1 P The object of the discussion to be : truth. ''Let truth with error grapen ple; whoever knew her.put to worse in • 1 1 ,. a free, open encounter.'' 1 < Awaiting an early reply, I am, ' Yours truly, W. R. CovERT, e Pastor of the Church of God, 2929~ Montgomery street, St. Louis, Mo. . T Sr. Lours, Mo., Sept. .1, 1896. b ELDER W· R. CoTJUtT, Pastor r Church of God, 2929 Montgomery 1 Street, St. Louis, Mo., Dear Sir :...,( Your extraordinary letter of this date, .. c cha] lenging me to meit you in public b debate on "Mormonism," time and place to be :named hereatter, etc., did · ~ not c >me to hand until late this even'. ing, though I learned from a repre- / sen ta ti ve of one of the daily papers ot l this city that such a challenge ~ould ' be S(:-'nt, and the proposition you pro• posed to discuss was handed to me. i Hen e my remarks q Hted in this I mor11 i 1g' s Republic. , Iu reply to your commu11.ication I r wou1tl s·iy, that on general pri~ciples I do not look with favor upon conjoint debatc..:1 upon religious subje~ts, as they RtC f'O ·ery apt tO result in the debase ! |
