The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-06-21

and with what persi s,noy, year after year
But Moderator, ! III here reminded of
tale told by African, travellers respecting
fact in natural histsry, which may illustrate
the point before me. 1t is said by those whc
have travelled in tsat region, that when they
have pitched their tents, at midnight, they
are often startled y the terrific roar of th'
lion in one direction. After little while
not having yielded to fear so as to flee from
the tent, they hearin another direction the
yell and shrek of the tiger. If this does
not drive them forh, from another quarter
they hear plaintiyt wailings uttered by q
very different voice-a cry for pity, to SEE
whether the travellers, who could not be
| frightened, may not be influenced by com
passion to come to the rescue. Yet the ex.
perienced traveller knows perfectly well that
all these animals, The Ion, the tiger, and that
which appeals for pity-which don't mean
any harm are ~ one and the same: an
animal which may pct be named before this
Assembly-oSe anamal, not many. And
would YOU know all the various persons by
whom T haz4 .s~ s.s;.vs,oaa ,s;n various jour
mails, year aftol year, in this way? All
these numerous ,oa'uons, look Moderator
look there they all sit in the single person
of Mr.. Edwin Catr
Now, in returning to the question as to
whether it is Isaacsor his brother who has
brought these chalges, let me say that | do
not intend to refer in any extended manner
to this part of the subject I do not intend
to dwell upon the time when charges brought
by him against a high-spirited ellow-student
were followed By personal fagellation. But
it is proper for me to bring to the notice of
this Assembly this fact-that the experience
which Mr.. Cater told you he had with regard
to trust funds, has besn obtained by watch
ing the management Of trust funds for many
years; and this is not the first time that the
General Assembly has felt it necessary to
consider charges brought by him, indirectly
at least, against it for rmismanagemento of funds
as in the case of fund held in Philadel-
phia, I think, for the benefit of the families
of deceased minister's But I will content
myself with simply stating one case, show
ing where much Of the skill, and many of
the legal expressions wsich | heard fall from
that gentleman yesterday, may have been
obtained-namely, a remarkable suit brought
a few years ago by one church against an
other on the seaboard Of South Carolina
The Circular church in Charleston had GER
tain funds; the Wappotaw church, or at
least certain persons connected with it,
thought they had claim upon those funds.
Hence suits were broug1ts chiefly at the in
stigation of Mr.. Cates. They were contin-
ued month after monH. giving rise to this,
among other thinga-e-tbat the counsel on
one side, who was defending the Circular
church, felt constrained to hold the plaintiff
up to public view as "an ugly specimen of
a Christian" That suit was decided against
the Wappetaw church, or those connected
with the church VII were interested in it,
and against Mr.. Edw II, who was the
principal instrument ng the suit and
seirrins -rp strife alb funds OF the
Now, | sub ~ sucf refer
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