The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-08
A RELIGIOUS RUPTURE.
RURAL PIETY-A CHURCH FULL OF TRoV
AND FERTILIZATION,

RURAL PIRrY-A CHURCH FULL OF TROUBLE
AND TRIBULATIoN.
The Dsnville special to the Chicago Times
of Monday says: The North Street Method
ist Episcopal Church of this city is in a bad
way. Some three years ago an old and
wealthy member OF the church, named
large amount of property to that church and
other religious and benevolent institutions
throughout the country, and leaving his
children In absolute poverty. The heirs en-
ployed Judge K. s. Terry, of this city, to
contest the Will. and after fight lasting
through several terms of the court the will
was broken, and the property reverted to the
Griffith heirs. The community were well
pleased with the result of that suit, or at
least that portion OF them who were not in
terested in the institutions to which the
behests were made The North Street
Church made q stubborn fight for their por-
ton ofthe swag, but, at the end of the long
and expensive suit, lost all. This was
hard blow on them, but as they still owned
| a church and the valuable land on which it
is located, they submitted with tolerable
grace to what they thought great hard
ship, and went on their way, If not rejoicing,
submitting with Christian spirit to the in
evitable. Just as they had set down
to the realities of the situation again,
1t was discovered that Mr.. Charles G.
Tipcher, q young gentleman of this city,
had bought their church, and
THE VALUABLE GROUNDS ON WHICH IT
l. @ n. STANDS.
1t seems that one George w. Wallace and
wife, many years ago, decided the land on
which the church stands to the county COM
missioners of Vermilion county, as trus-
tees for the use and benefit of the Methodist
Episcopal church of the United States of
America. In the Griffith cases, just termi-
mated, the court decided that foreign cor
porstion could not hold real property in
this state, and as the Methodist Episcopal
church of the United States of America is a
foreign corporation, it is held that no title
! passed from Wallace and his wife. Mr..
Tincher mas bought of the Wallace heirs
The land, and it Is supposed will begin suit
at once for custer. The property is worth
some $4,000, and to say that the mem bers of
the church are raving, is putting it mildly.
There has long been bitter fight be-
tween the members OF this church and
/ those of the Kimber Chapel Society, an off,
shoot of the old church, the Kimber congre-
CATION claiming that the North streeters re-
fused TO make an equitable division of the
church property when the separation took
place, and IL is claimed by the North street.
ers that this trouble arose from this fact,
| they regarding ID as species OF persecution
| on the part of the Kimber folks. However
this may be, 1t Is pretty evident that young
Tincher will gobble their church. Whether
it will prove q white elephant on his hands
or not, is yet to be seen. Mr.. Eincher in
formed your correspondent In an interview
on yesterday that the Kimber Chapel So
| iecty was in no manner interested in the
matter, nor IL he In any way interested in the
Kimber chapel. This is purely business
transaction and he alone is responsible.