Wilmington journal., 1873-07-04
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FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1873.
LOCAL INTELLiGENCE.
..rsey-' Charles Wesley warren
anOiHOr Chapter in the Life Os u
clerical lnpOst0r.
WILMINGTON, N. c. /:

sIcric;i 1mpOstCrs =. $50 E
The following letter received on yes
ferday from a gentleman in Canton,
Mississippi, gives the details Of War
rens career i'll that place. It's SINH
Iaritv to his career IN North Carolina
j. indeed remarkable.
From the letter Of Cur correspond
fnt it would seem that those persons
who regard the admission of Warren
To the pastorate OF the Fifth Street
Methodist Church by It's proper ecclc-
slastical authorities as an act so brneg-
ling and unusual rs to astcnish every
one" and who think that ''those inst.'u-
mental in importing him here directly
from Fall River, Massachusetts, y
sllnnld expose "tllis Important feature
i. the casG, rs well as the whole memo
rable history Of this accomplished
clerical scoIndrel i. our State" Will
have to include in their ccnsurc Bish-
np havnnnagh, for he too was most
successfully imposed upon:
lu4j. JOS. 4. Engc/hdrd.
Wilmington, n. e. );
DEAR SIR Your favor Of the Doth
IN reply to mine of the 9th inst. came
TO hand this a. m.
There is no doubt in my mind that
on, w. f. Horton and yo'r' Charles
Wesley Warren is one and the same
individual.
The photograph accompanying yonr
letter is undoubtedly the image Of
Horton, although it represents him
with side whiskers, facial ornament
he did not possess while he soiourned
III our tewn. ] have shown the photo
graph to several parties and all recog-
nIZe If.
will endravor to give yon what I
know of the man and his history III as
condensed form as possible were / to
90 fully into details it would take sew
eral columns Of the JOURNAL to pub
Ilzh it.
The Reverend gentleman came to
Canton. Mississippi, about January
1st, 1872, the beginning of the Confer
ence year, as preacher i'll charge of the
Methodist ChnOh, he was regularly
appointed to fill this station Hor, on
stated that he had, for eight or ten
months prior to his coming here, trav-
elIed with Bishop kavannagh in
the capacity of Secretary and
visited with him at the Tennessee,
Alabama and Louisiana Conferences,
and was ordained an Elder while in
attendance at the Louisiana Confer
cnce On one occasion Horton told
me that he would have joined the
Louisiana Conference If he could
have been sent to the Liberty Street
Church i'll New Orleans, but finding
there was no prospect for his getting
So prominent position, he concluded
to accompany Bishop X. to the Miss
issippi Conference, which was about to
hc holden at Meridian. All this time
he had so won the affection and conf
ience of the venerable Bishop, that he
WIS wont to call him (ffO,9O1a) 3: nv
boy" and finally when hc was appoint
ed to this station, Bishop X remarked
to one of our Iay-members, Take
good care of my boy, at Canton; he's
Just the man for your people; Il lire
fHutr, and the biggest man for his age
Ill the Southern Conferences.
When Horton came to Canton he
was quartcred at the hospitable home
of one of o1lr oldest and best citizens,
an old-timc Methodist His first ser
mon carried his congregation by storm,
and his fame began. He dressed i'll
fine style (this pleased the young,)
preached liberal sermons, Instructive
and eloquent, and shed tears over the
follies and vanities Of the day, (this
pleased the Old.)
His Church put on new life and be-
gan to grow. The Sabbath School too
received his special attention and Ia
bors; he taught the children to sing
and joined III the chorus with his rich
voice, and fairly made the walls ring
with its melody as he sang
i" Beyond the sunset,
There Is a brighter world" ;" &c.
Maybe the Methodists of Wilmington
will recognize these lines.)
The Sunday School prospered and
doubled its numbers, so much SO that
other schools We're depleted, much 10
the chagrin and annoyance Of the
pastors and snperintendents OF the
ether churches and schools.
Matters went we'll with Horizon and
his congregation for five or six weeks,
every Sabbath his sermon cXcellel that
"ftheprcviousone, and the people were
amazed, and wondered to what
pinnacle of excellence he would arrive
his sermons and eloIuence could only
I.r excclle'i by himself. He won the
love and esteem of everybody; WAS
admired and courted; the girls voted
LIm ''splendid fellow" the boys said
he was a ''brick,' and mothers said
IF God had only blessed them with
such a son as w. +. Horton their cup
Of happiness would be full and their
pride satisfied" Truly H. was in his
glory, the great day star, around
which lesser lights fitted and envied
him his brilliancy. Men of the world,
who had not attended church for years,
fiocked to hear him, and when he had
gone, with cloud and stain upon his
chan acter, these men were 10th to join
IN the denunciatiOns that were show
cred upon his devoted head, and de-
clared that if he would come back that
they would attend his church in prefer
ence to all others.
While here he preached and lectured
OH popular subjects, and his fame soon
sDrea.! far and wide. The induisitiy g
.lI;en was .-lust like the Wilmington
teople--ani wpenCe he oall.e, for nc
tnan like him had been seen or heard
before i'll these parts.
9 Horton claimed to be Il Missorrian
lSt. Louis by birth, born of Scotch
parents, WHO sent him at an early
8 age TO Scotland to be educated for
= prashy tprian Minister, hut prelest1,
90 .!atlGn was stumbling block III his
. way, and he did not follow the Pres
byterlan creed.
" On his mothers side OF the family
" he was heir apparent to large for
time III Scotland, the most of which
- was i'll the possession of the Bank
" ing House OF Frazier, Barnes n Co.,
of Edinburgh, but owing to some
pcculiarities of the Scottish lnw his
possession of the same would be
" indefinitely postponed
After graduating III Scotland he
8 he removed to New York City, where
" he married. He engaged in various
lines OF bus irass-Llfe Insurance
" Agent, &C. Was fOr-two years {
" Wall Street Dr6her, one 81 the bears
fh that space of time had hlsups ant
downs, made and lost fortunes.
{ = IN his successes and 'misfortunes
- he recognized the hand of God-h'
E, vas Npdef the conviction tAat hewa
caIieI 81 GcI 10 preach His Gospel
tp f9iaht arain6t this conviction