The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-21

the intended good in the town of Wells
burg for the cause he proposes to advo-
cate; and that his usefulness as a chris
tian preacher being thus in their judg-
ment entirely at an end, they are deci.
dedly of the opinion that all official
relations between A. Z. Anderson and
the Ohurch'at Wellsburg should at once
be Terminated; and they do therefore
recommend to the congregation and to
Brother Anderson that these offi-
,cial relations should accordingly
be at once amicably termina-
ted: As TO the case OF Lewis Hall;
while the Committee are happy TO be-
lieve that in bringing forward and
prosecuting the various charges
against A. E. Anderson, he has been
anxious TO promote the interest of
truth and the good order and purity of
the Church, they at the same time can
not but express their regret that with
and personal feeling should have been
apparently commingled. The Com
mittee are of the opinion that there has
been manifest absence of the charity
that .'is not easily provoked" and that
''suffers long and is kind" They would
further EXPRESS the opinion that .he
course pursued by brother Hall in for
saking the Lords table and the meet
ipgs or the brethren pending the dig
cusSion of these difficulties WAS an err
ror of Judgment, and u discourtesy we
think uninIeutional, to the Congrega-
tion. The Committee would further
state that they regard the course pur-
sued by James Gelsthorpe. in making
himself an active partisan in
his disorderly behavior while
the Committee were in session
as quite reprehensible and nbecoming
the Christian character. The Commit
tee entertain the conviction that Chris
tian regard and kind feeling prevail
with the greater part of the members of
the Wellsburg Congregation, aud while
they regret that some have allowed
their feelings to become over excited
during the discussion OF these difficul-
ties, they would in conclusion express
the hope that all bitterness and wrath
and clamUr will now be a. once put
away with all malice, that II any per-
sonal difficulties remain between mem-
bers they will feel II their duty to for
give each other even as God for Christ's
sake has forgiven them; and that en-
deavoring to preserve the unity of the
spirit by the bond OF peace, they may
labor as heretofore to promote the in
terests Of the Church and the cause of
Christ, all which, humhly entreating
the Divine blessing, is repectiully sub.
mitted to the Church at Wellsburg by
.. w. X PENDLEToN,
ALBERT ALLEN,
Committee.
Learning that there is some misun-
dersta nding as to the meaning OF the
expression "Opinion of the COMMITTEES"
in the recent decision given by us in the
case before the Church in Wellsburg.
We beg leave TO say that we mean by 1t
tour judgement in the case" and that
we intend it to act under the written
agreement of the parties, so as to termi-
nate at once all official relations held by
Brother Anderson to the church in
Wellsburg. We did not understand
that these relations might be terminal
ed and then during the present distur-
bance be renewed again. Such n course
would in our view stultify the action of
the Committee and involve Brother
Anderson in a UiOLdtiOn Of his iOritteH
pledges to the Committee aud the Church.
w. K. PESDLEToN,
r, RICHARDSON,
ALBERT ALLEN.
OclObeJ. OH 1897