This is information from inside the Waggoner family, by one of his daughters, Pearl. Pearl Howard-Waggoner always knew her father never was what was reported about him nor what was written.
"The offense of the cross is that the cross is a confession of human frailty and sin and of inability to do any good thing. To take the cross of Christ means to depend solely on Him for everything, and this is the abasement of all human pride. Men love to fancy themselves independent. But let the cross be preached, let it be made known that in man dwells no good thing and that all must be received as a gift, and straightway someone is offended."