Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-03-09

Baptist Clergyman of Syracuse, N. " has
published in the Herald of that city, letter
addressed to Charles H. Weeks. in which the
reasons assigned by the latter for his recent re-
turn to the stage are shown to be groundless,
while his conduct is exhibited as grossly hypo
critical and dishonest After preamble of
aifectionate remonstrance, the writer says:
You know that SO year were ready for you
at Rochester, if you would go there and prove
Yourself worthy of il; and that $50 year or
more were pledged to you from responsible per-
sons in my congregation on the same conditions;
and that the ladies of the 10th Baptist Church
in New York city, had written to me proposing
TO support you at Rochester if it would be ac-
ceptable; and that told you to go and study,
as you must if you would succeed minister
of the Gospel, and as long rs you was worthy
of support, you should have it. That what did
not come in one way, should in another. But
from these friends you turned suddenly away.
Upon these kind Offers and timely promises,
such as few young men meet WITH you turned
your back. And now to cover up the SIN ct
your dD0stacy, you are publishing to the world
that YOU was compelled to give up going to
school for want of suppOrt! Were | to he
longer silent the stones ought to cry out.
You cannot have forgotten that the friends in
Cicero and Brewertown wished you TO preach
for them on Sabbaths, once in each place, and
gave you to understand, through me, that you
should receive from 500 to $66Oa year for such
services. And that at one time proposed if you
preferred to help yourself in this way you
should remain with me and preach for them
year, and then go to school; aud that would
assist you in your preparations, and by going
out occasionally to preach for them, leaving you
to preach to my people, and that would use
my influence TO secure for you the best possible
compensation, which had doubt would be
from $400 to $500, but to this you would not
| listen at'all.
There is another matter to which would not
refer, had you not given it such prominence in
your letters and did not see it so likely to de.
ceive those who are unSuSpecting and kind. /
refer TO your brother and sister. Again and
again, you have told me and others that for
eight years you had entirely absented yourself
from thcm and that you returned to them last
summer with scarcely money enough to reach
home" OF course, then, you could not help
them. You remained with them some two
months when you came to Syracuse. You re-.
ceived, or said you did, for preaching in two or
three places along the way "barely enough to
pay expenses and to purchase two or three
articles of necessary clothing"
II the public wish to help your mother and
sisters. they had better make up purse and
send it directly to them, lest it fail to reach them.
Having returned to course of life which for
eight.years alienated you from them, and left
you to return with nothing, to them, | cannot
from you in the future. Besides, if your sym
pathy for your mother is so great, and she has
written to you, as you stated in your letter to
the, that she is so low she shall not lire t,oo
months, why don't you go and see her, and not
remain here pulling down what few weeks
since you were apparently Jealous in trying to
build up?
That you practiced fraud on me and on my
people, in taking money and clothing from to
go to Rochester, and using it in other ways; and
that you did not make faithful effort with DIR.
Baldwin and DR.. Magoon, as was contemplated
in your visit to Troy, but sought other society
and entertained propositions to return to the
stage; and that yon came back and told me, and
told others, that you had not obtained much
help, but that your purpose lcGs unchanged, that
you were going to Rochester Monday, when
your advertisement for returning to your old
loays was already written, if not in the printers
hands; and that you refused to come to my study
and see me. when l requested it, but sent mo
letter of four pages, complaining Of others, and
setting off the necessities of your mother, say
ing at the close that you could not come and see
me, for want of time, when you know, and
know, that you could have come in the time
you was writing either one of the four pages,
rs the whole distance was not more than ten or
twenty rods, only some of the many things
which go to show that your heart is not right
with God, and that your life is not right with
men.