, 1874-03-15

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- TIE MCCARTHY SQuABBLE.
The Union Park Baptist Church has forgotto
the injunction to 10 niso Us serpcnts. Since th
quarrel between pastor and people began, botl
sides have acted Us if their sole object was tt
bring all possible disgrace upon their church
their sect, and their religion. They havo washet
their dirty linen in public. The reports OF thei
meetings are studded thick with such terms ol
brotherly love as 'lnr,' dirty low.
lived skunk" etc. Yet the reporters hay.
| been merciful to the combatauts The
| latter haTe Leon spared the humiliation
Of seeing their worst utterancos in: print
It is incredible that man Of decent ee1f-reapec
should soil lis lips With some OF tho vilenoss
over which tha Council that tried MCCARTHY
gloatod. One Of the worst features OF the case
Was the attendance ut nn the sessions of num-
bers Of women who were not needed rs Wit
nesses OF judges. Though warned that the tes-
timouy would be unfit to hear, they clung to
their seats and listened unblushingly to yilo ac-
cusations banded between their minister and
their Dcacons. ''Sir," said an attorney in d.
vorce case, this testimony is very bad !; move
your Honor that the courtroom be cleared Of
ladies' before We proceed "Tho motion is un-
necessary" was the reply; "no lady wonld re-
main, here" We commend the incido1t to tho
feminine attendants at the Mccarthy trial.
Tho trial has SO far been not only scandalous,
but unfair. Mccarthy forfeited whatever slight
claim he had on public sympathy BY his disgust
Ing sarmoa in reply to his accusers. He is cou-
demncd out Of his own mouth. But the Council
that heard the accusations against him VAS prob
ably rs unfair tribunal as ever sat In America
It gagged the friends and checred on the foos OF
Mccarthy. It refused to hear the latter It
actually declined to give him the specifications On
which he was tried, and then permitted him to be
called liar when he said hs lad not re-
ceived them. We believe the pitiful spite that
showed itself at first by providing bouuteous
lunches for anti-McC Cartnyites, and leaving the
opposite faction to starve, ran it's course before
the Council adjourned The eame spirit showed
itself, however, in other ways.
The utter folly Of tho whole proceeding will
only be understood when it ia known that thia
Council after eaking over all the filth that both
parties present for it's consideration, can do
nothing Save 4vise the Union Park Baptists to
seyer or not to sever the pastoral relation. The
former advice will, Of course, be given. It ought
to be. Then we shall hare more mob-1noetipgs
Of the congregation, more scandal, more hurt to
religion. It is absurd that getting rid OF min
ister should involve such double toll and trouble
The churches would be wiso should tLey a5opt
= rule that the signing Of paper requesting
minister to rcsign BY majority Of the conere-
cation should comretely sever the bond between
pastor and people. If this were part of the Bap-
list Constitution now, Mccarthy could be elected
It once, without scandal The meeting which |
'oted to retain him probably represented the
congregation no more than town-meeting in !
Vest Chicago represents that part Of the city. J
majority againRt him could be eaei1y found. |
low much better to get rid OF ministerial GIN t
Ter in this way than to suffer Ills misdeeds to
mbrol his whole congregation and himself IN |
uch scandalous squabbes as the one that now
isgraces the West Side Baptists. Fortunately.
% shall have breathing space till March 81.
he Council has adjourned until then IN order to
i've McCar thy tina to prepare his defense. What
nat defenso will be can best be inferred from
is own statement that he cannot clear himself
Mess he shows that some OF the members Of
is church are the 'sworsr villains On earth"