The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-07-15

81 was true prophet. after all" sale
Aunt Desire. as we walked into her sit
ting room with conscious faces. ..Sadi':
love came to her chimney corner at last ;
''But she had to leave it, said Mr.. Jus
tin, cor that lover could not have proposed
to her without Nettie for witness.
''That's no news" said Tom, when
delicately broaehed the subject OF my en-
gagement to him. g You began vou
courting the very day my hand was hurt. .
And believe Tom is right
How a Beecher Trial was Managed
Two Hundred Years Ago
From the Boston Advertiser
The first minister of Swampscott was
the Rev Stephen Bachler, q nonconform-
ing clergyman of the Church of England,
who settled in 1892, and baptized the first
child born in the settlement. Although
| Prince speaks Of him as "a man of forme
in his day gentleman of much learning
and ingenuity" he seems to have given
the rulers of both church and state much
trouble, not conforming to their ideas of
uniting the two and holding more ad-
yanccd ideas of both social and religious
ilCN'toII} liz W llttlllll Ill ItrpJ,
and had tract of land granted him lie
was the only minister until 1886, when he
lett and preached in several other places
until he settled in Hampton in lG4l, where
he was much respected, and presented the
town with u bell for their meeting house
and received grant OF land He had not
been there long, however, before he was
accused of an irregularitv, which Coy
i,tI l -
''NIr. Bachiler. the pastor of the church at
hands Of the bishop in England, being
about eighty years Of age and haym@
A ILsN, CoMElN WOMAN
to his Wife, did solicit the chastity of his
neighbOra wife who acquainted her hus-
band Herewith; Whereupon he was dealt
with but denied it, as he had told the woman
he would do, and complained to the mag
lstrate against the woman and her huS-
band for Slandering him. The church
likewise dealing with him, he stli1ly de
MED il but soon after, when the lord
supper was to be administered, he did
voluntarily confess the attempt The
church, being moved with hS tree con-
fesSion and tears, silently lorgaVe him ana
communicated with him but after finding
how scandalous it was, they took adVic-,
Of other elders, and after long debate and
much pleading and standing upon the
church's forgivmg and being reconclled to
him in communicating with him after he
had confessed it, they proceeded to cast
him out He was Oh and ON for i long
time, and when he seemed the most peni
tent, so as the church We're ready to have
received him in again. he would tail back,
and, as it were.
REPENT OF Ills KErENrANrr
Alter two Years agitation, tho church
being divided, the matter was referred to
some magistrates and elders, and by their
mediation he was released of his eNcom-
munication, but not received to his pas
tors office. Notwithstanding these scan
tlals MI Bachler had the bad taste to 90
on preaching in several places, and IN lGil
the people of Exeter, being willing To
give the old man one more chance, 'ot-
lcred him 400 acres ot land il Nc would
preach for them three wears, but the church
interdicted In lG5O. when eighty-nne
years DID, he married his third wife, Mary.
Soon after he was fined Go for not pub
fishing his Intentions to marry. Mary
proving to be
AN UNI;frENuANr MAGnALEN,
he pettioned for 4 divorce the same year,
instead Of granting which the court or
deIcl that Mi Hachllcr and his wife shall
live together NJ man and wife, aS in this
court they have publicly protcSSed to do,
and il either desert one another, Chen
hereby fine court doth order that the mar
sli9l Sh''l "pprtheh1 ooli! 'he SIi1 Mt.
bach'Iet ana Mafy ms VIE, an" hf'il@
them ioflhWlth To boston lhele 70 De
| hept niilli we htN1 i"7'ltl to"'t "l ~
7lslanVS' 'hat l'I'h'' c"''7l''ei''loh IngFeo'
may pc i''u' polh oi lhPnl moving 'oF
divorce ana I'M oFdef aliail ne a''lllcleh'
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himselie to another wife, whereby She II
left destitute, not only OF gnde and
helpmeet tor her and her children, but
made incapable thereby of aisposing OF
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