The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-06
4 Mother Dealing with Her
Daughters Accuser-A Pastors
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Daughters Accuser-A Pastors
Sentence.
The New York Sun Says. There was
large and fashionable congregation in
the Fort. Greene Presbyterian Church,
Brooklyn, at yesterday mornings SER
vices, all intent on hearing the sessions
verdict in the scandal which had been the
topic in the neighborhood for over a
month. The pretty Miss Gertrude Mich.
OILS, the young lady in the disturbance,
was in the church with her mother. Both
we're eagerly pointed out as they passed
up the aisle behind the polite usher, and
| took their cushioned pew. Miss Nichols
place in the choir was filled for the day
BY friend. She was q soprano in the
choir when she began TO receive the at
tentions Of Chas. F. Hatfield, the young
man in the disturbance. They were soon
betrothed, and their engagement was an
open secret. The engagement was sud-
denly broken. When asked the reason:
Hatfield gave ominous shakes. OF the
head, and declared that be wasn't the
man to give any young lady bad name.
Mrs. Nichols, the mother, heard that
Mrs. Elizabeth Hobby, Hatfeld's mother,
had said that Gertrude was not virtuous,
and that her son could noble expected to
marry her. Mrs. Nichols gave the blind
pastor Of the church, the Rev. A. McClel.
land, writtencharges against Mrs. Hobby,
accnsins her Of SANDER In utteriDg 'defam.
atory language against Gertrude. A
meeting of the session Of The church was
held and in ten sittings alhof the testimo.
ny waStaken. Mrs. Hobby and her son
Hatfield announced at the opening that
they expected 10 establish Miss Nichols
impurity, and to this end Hatfield gave
the most extraordinary testimony, in
which he represented that he was over
come by the pretty girls arts. His words
ELECTED expressions Of contempt from the
elders. Not word OF his testimony was
believed. Mrs. Hobby, who had been an
efficient Sunday.school teacher, testified
strongly against the girl, but the elders
refused to believe her assertions, and the
unanimousvote was that the charges were
Enotsustained. .,-,,s7-,u,,.r
The blind pastor was led from his
study yesterday moaning to his seat by
one Of the young men In the choir. He
carried large fat Bible, in winch the
letters were raised. He ran his fingers
lightly over the pages, finding his chap
ter, which he read, marking the lines on
the edge Of the book with one hand,
passing the other over the lines. His
sermon was from Leyiticus xiv, IA,
AThou shalt not go up and down as a
tale. bearer" and from First Timothy, VI,
20, tThem that sin rebuke Before all, that
others may hear" He asked his congre.
CATION not to think that he spoke Of indi.
yiduals in his sermon; he spoke only OF
principles. He compared Islander to hell
lire, and said there was no place for a tale.
bearer In the house Of God, When 81.
anderer persisted In his course, the only
thing 10 do was to enforce the awful law
Of accommodation. His sermon was
a moral taken from the scandal In the
church, which had started in . SANDER.
He then recited an outline Of the trouble,
saying that the members 81 thesession 70.
garded the charges not only aS mot prov.
Cd, but not true. HeWas prepared 10 say