The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-02

was cOnScIipt. but WY uOcS NJ
p. T. L. tell the editer of the Recorde
that the Conference sent ont one maj
who was in the Union army; who has
been wounded several times by rebs
soldiers, and why does he not tell th'
public generally that the Conference
sent out as good Union men as tht
world ever saw. Why does the Unior
soldiers prefer the NJ. P. Church to thai
Newlight Methodist church, The rea
son is obvioas. This new Church ha:
changed many of the articles of religion
as given to us by Mr.. Wesley, and abro
gated others. They have sat aside the
23d article which they have harped sc
much upon, and, in fact, were it not fol
what little they have borrowed from
the N. P. Disci pline, their Discipline
would not be worth the paper with
which it is made.
p. Il. L. says, "They sent out one
bush hacker Mr.. Peterson is the
man referred to, we presume. Nothing
is more ungenerous and unjust than
this, and Laishley knows it to be So
We ask for the proof. We heard Mr..
John w. Mccormick and Mr.. Holland,
Just before the Jesse's Run Conference,
speak in the highest terms of Mr.. Pc.
tersou as q scholar and Christian gen.
tleman. So Mr.. Peterson would still he
all right if he was one of these New.
light Methodists.
"And they fight Us as if We were
demons" This we call misrepresenta-
ton No. 5. Mccormick and Holland
began the war here and the NJ. p.
Church was and still is on the defen-
sive. We have resisted the onset sue
cessfully thus tar, and will contend to
the last. We fight you, not as demons,
but as hypocrites and unprincipled men,
from the fact that yOu profess to be
Methodist Protestants and at the same
time are organizing for this Newlight
Methodist Church. This is enough to
render you ridiculous in the eyes of oil
men.
"They say our religion consists in
arming tJ elevate the negro to social
equality with the white race"
This we call Misrepresentation No. 6.
We do not charge upon you social
equality with the negro, although you
may Justly deserve it. The negro has
been the hobby with you in making him
the equal with the white race. See
their discipline of 1861, Springfield, o.,
and every Convention held by these
Newlight Methodists from that time mp
to 1868. They have made the negro the
hobby themselves. The word uhite and
the word male have been stricken out
giving the right to negroes to vote,
male and female, and not only do they
give them theright to vote but they
give them the right to hold Office aAd
to be eligible as delegates to the Annu-
al and General Conferences. What! elect
females, white and black, to the same
offices that the white man is entitled to 7
Surely then this must be in fact New
light Methodist Church.
See discipline Of 1865, Springfield,
Ohio, second edition, and the Minutes of
the Non-Episcopal Convention, held at
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1866. Now, Messrs.
Editors, in reviewing this extraordina-
~ communication of p. T. Laishley's, /
find it the most exceptioDable that l
have ever seen, and to comment upon
the whole of it wOuld fill an entire news
paper.
"John Clark, the Jesse's Run preach
er, had been doing all in his power to
cripple our financial effort"
In your information In regard to John
Clark being in the way of your finances,
if you had been President of the Meth
odist Protestant Conference you would
have got yOur pay; but as you were
President of the Convention at Grafton
and was laboring for the Methodist
Church, so.called, you failed to get your
pay. | must note here one remarkable
feature of those who composed that
Convention. They are principally
political characters. and have sought
offices, and run w1ll, too, but happened
to fall little behind.
Mono of the ministers and preachers
sent out from the Jesse's Run Confer
ence have sought political preferment,
but have rendered unto God the things
that belong to God, and to Caesar the
things that belong to Caesar.
They are loyal to the Government of
Jesus Christ, and not one of them have
left the pulpit or their fiocks for filthy
lucre. p. I. Laishley mourns over the
loss of John B. Mccormick, and says he
gave him his certificate. The certificate
which you gave him, sir, was spurious,
and was not worth row of pins, for p.
T. Laishley's name, with Othors, was
stricken from the roll of the A. Confer
ence, NJ. r. Church proper, and it has
been going the rounds in the newspa-
pers that John b. Mccormick joined
the NJ. Z. Church from the NJ. p. Church,
which is not correct, for he belonged to
the faction that broke off from the M.
p. Church last August and set up for
themselves.
PIT. Laishley says in his closing up
of his account of the Tyler visit, that
"John Clark is doing much harm; the
Lord reward him according to his
deeds" "The prayers of the wicked
availeth not" If preaching the Gospel
of the Kingdom and persuading men to
be converted and attending to the inter
ests of the NJ. P: Church and rebuking
such men as Laishley and the Grafton
ties in general, for their sins, then
Brother Clark will be abundantly re-
warded in Heaven, and will hear the
Benediction prenounced-"Well done,
good aud faithful servant; enter into
the joys of thy Lord"
Now, if one-half be true in regard to
what is said of p. 7. Laishley's visit to
the Tyler Circuit, he has done more
harm than he will do good the balance
of his life. Sir, yeu should be careful
while you are condemning others that
YOU do not condemn yourself. You say
the ministers and preachers and dele
gates who met ut Grafton were loyal tc
man." Is there one of them loyal &c
the Methodist Protestant Churchf No
not one of them They have all gone
astray!
Where is the 23d Article of Religioni
Why, sir, it is left out Of your disci
pline, and there has baen no General
Conference nor Convention to put it il
the I'd edition. Therefore, it is there b!
no authority, and you may think th'
committee can make the people believe
it was overlooked. No, sir, that com
mittee who read the proof sheets Heve
overlooked that Article. The commit
tee could add it, and did add it ant
placed it in the I'd edition of their disci
pline in order to prevent the III. T
Church from charging upon them wha