Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-09

The above letters show en- tho face of them that
all was not right in the Congregational church
As the candidate represented in these letters,
only wish to show that the church has done IN
erroneous thing by sending me these letters With
the mark of Cain stamped upon them. So great
was my indignation that returned the church
letters at onoe-consequently still remsin mem
Der Of the Goa gregstional church, and real Con-
gresationalist At heart, notwithstanding an
pleasantly associated with another church BY pre-
fession Of faith. And to prove that the church
has done wrong In this letter matter need only to
refer to Dr.. CheeverI Church, IN. r.. where the ~
parts rebuksd the church severely for giving
singular or unusual letters. The above letter to
me was parallel case, except they asked ence for
. certificate and got etter to some evangelical
church wits eensurS upon it; asked four times
and got bore. The two first times asked for .
letter to seine evan gelical church and failed the
two next to the Presbyterian church. The last
time succeeded in getting the thing you See at
the top Of this article, which Is an exact copy Of
the original which returned to the church tit
tyrannical mother.) And now, as desired to ran
away from the real church feud, where the parties
were drawn out in battle array, to sv,d being shot
in tho head after the heart had been crippled for
years, think it hard indeed that they should turn
on me in flight and shoot mo in the bresch.
would BY no means speak lightly Of sacred
things and especially Of the Congregations
church, Zone that f ret proposed) and it was, in
its purity, the lido. Of my heart. do not intend
to treasure up wrath in this matter. only wish
that right may take the place Of wrong, and a. the
difference may come up in due season ito snow the
darkness that We are all envslopsa in, that 10
shall az soon as NO take the beams out Of eyes
more clearly see to pick the mets out Of cur BROTH
sr's eye.
This letter matter, in all probability, will not
stop in nat shell (whers the pignies livs) nor die
in tho year IN which it born, bat it will still
live and settle on a grand basis that will be >
guide to wandering minds.
am glad indeed that . precedence has bsen
given, by one of the porte council, whs said,
W can 90 homo now and know how to give letters to
our applicants. A. IA RxsW ORTIZ.
Had the church seen fit to have given me
q letter to some evangelical church, ~
twice called for and had right to have, and
at time when there was no difficulty be-
tn cen the church and me, this multitude Of
trouble and sin never need to have been !;
but nv heart has been dissenting from the
Pastor and Butler for some two years or
more, end in . way that it was not in my
power to remedy. / did no: feel it my duty
nor did feel competent to NEEDLE with an
element that thought would blow up the
church and when l carried the FIRST request
to tho Pastor, in his own study, for dismiss
sion to some evangelical church, the pastor
said he would not carry it before the church
to give them chance to vote on it. then
thought it was another specimen of the same
tyranny that I had seen before; and it had
the effect to ALLEVIATE my heart from him.
After few weeks asked T. Fl. Stone if
there was any way that could get q sepa-
ration from the church. He said yes, in
these words: 81 can get you a letter to
some evangelical church," ! said very
good-that will leave us both honorable.
Had this letter been given when it should
been to some evangelical church, there never
could have been any difficulty, because the
| whole matter was in my own breast, and no
one knew word Of my dissent from the
pastor until after l was denied letter of
1ismission. Now, then, the whole matter on
this point sums up in nut shell, like this !:
The pastor and Butler thought that they
ought to have the reasons for my leaving the
church, and thought that it was my own
business and think so yet. did not want
to say that they were the bone of contention,
as ought to have done, and made short
work Of long and miserable job. Their
tenacity has frequently driven matters to
great excess. And now one word to brother
Jacob. In his spread and exploit he went
to great extent to spread a snare to catch me
in. He spread himself like green bay
tree in his speech in court, to make me out
q dishonest man, after proving me very
lgood man with his own witnesses. Alse,
that eur friend O'Connor, who is one of the
best talent in the State, should 20 lend him
self to 60 mean cause as to try to impeach
Iaad abuse 80 good man a. father Hoyt,
who was the only disintsrssted witness in
the case. And again, while our brother
Jacob was fatsering himself with good
j cause and big Judgment, and the execution
4 Of old Mordscai and great glory to himself,
he soon found himself, Haman-like, hanging
\ on his own gallows, fifty cubits high.
And now, brethren, you see your Phillis
a tine champion distracted and dismantled o.