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Debate conducted at Marietta, Mississippi, July 6-10.
A. G. Freed is a strong clear, and forcible debater. He is exact, speaks to the point, but hindered somewhat by a weak voice. His arguments are well connected, and he presses the truth of his position with crushing effect on his opponent. His direct and pointed questions had a very withering effect on his opponent. This was very perceptible even to the casual observer. With all he impresses one as being fair and as contending for the truth which his opponent is misrepresenting. He uses charts very successfully in teaching the truth. His opponent made comparatively little attempt to overthrow the teaching that was so clearly set forth on the charts. He had his material well in hand.
R. H. Pigue is an easy, rapid speaker, a ready debater, and one adept at dodging. He is quick to detect any weak place in an argument. His strongest characteristic is that he seeks to run over his opponent roughshod and will gladly resort to unfair methods to gain his point. His purpose is not to enlighten the people by teaching but to becloud the truth. He has the ability to satisfy the uninformed with positions in which there is not the semblance of truth. He shows little tact and made attacks on the Baptists when they had no chance to answer. Courtesy may be in his vocabulary but it is not in him when engaged in discussion. He appears to glory in telling those who wear simply the name of Christ that they are all going to hell; but such utterances fell flat, because all know they are vicious statements and will hurt only him who makes them. "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
Freed showed that he affirmed the thing that all denominations, that practice baptism in any form, believe; that the M.E. Church practices it, that R. H. Pigue would go down into the water and with uplifted hand perform an act in the name of the sacred Three, and then deny that the Bible teaches it. This made Pigue squirm. [NOTE: See Life of Freed]
A. B. Barrett on Freed
August 6, 1914
I have been at Marietta, Mississippi this week moderating for Bro. Freed in debate with Pigue. This was my first time to hear Bro. Freed in religious debate, although I was a student under him three years and a half. He is a power in debate. I must say that I have never seen it more ably done than in this debate.
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A. G. Freed vs R. H. Pigue
July 23, 1914
Marietta, Mississippi
(By J. C. McQuiddy)
July 23, 1914
Marietta, Mississippi
(By J. C. McQuiddy)
Debate conducted at Marietta, Mississippi, July 6-10.
A. G. Freed is a strong clear, and forcible debater. He is exact, speaks to the point, but hindered somewhat by a weak voice. His arguments are well connected, and he presses the truth of his position with crushing effect on his opponent. His direct and pointed questions had a very withering effect on his opponent. This was very perceptible even to the casual observer. With all he impresses one as being fair and as contending for the truth which his opponent is misrepresenting. He uses charts very successfully in teaching the truth. His opponent made comparatively little attempt to overthrow the teaching that was so clearly set forth on the charts. He had his material well in hand.
R. H. Pigue is an easy, rapid speaker, a ready debater, and one adept at dodging. He is quick to detect any weak place in an argument. His strongest characteristic is that he seeks to run over his opponent roughshod and will gladly resort to unfair methods to gain his point. His purpose is not to enlighten the people by teaching but to becloud the truth. He has the ability to satisfy the uninformed with positions in which there is not the semblance of truth. He shows little tact and made attacks on the Baptists when they had no chance to answer. Courtesy may be in his vocabulary but it is not in him when engaged in discussion. He appears to glory in telling those who wear simply the name of Christ that they are all going to hell; but such utterances fell flat, because all know they are vicious statements and will hurt only him who makes them. "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
Freed showed that he affirmed the thing that all denominations, that practice baptism in any form, believe; that the M.E. Church practices it, that R. H. Pigue would go down into the water and with uplifted hand perform an act in the name of the sacred Three, and then deny that the Bible teaches it. This made Pigue squirm. [NOTE: See Life of Freed]
A. B. Barrett on Freed
August 6, 1914
I have been at Marietta, Mississippi this week moderating for Bro. Freed in debate with Pigue. This was my first time to hear Bro. Freed in religious debate, although I was a student under him three years and a half. He is a power in debate. I must say that I have never seen it more ably done than in this debate.
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