New-York tribune., 1876-05-31
financial legislation. In word, currency and
banking should be taken out of politics.
BEUOLD HOW PLEAS1NT.p

A quarrel between two churches is scanda-
lous enough, but an intestine broil, civil war
between members of the same church, is still
less like the ointment which ran down the
beard of Aaron. Even to the secular mind, the
recent reconciliation Of the Northern and
Southern Presbyterians is uncommonly pleas
ant, and we look forward to the good time
coming when like differences among Congrega-
tionaists, Quakers, and Methodists Will be
abated. We wish it were possible for all
churches to run smoothly along with no dis
putes about the salary or the usefulness OF
the ministers, about building q new sanctuary,
about the pew rents, about turning out THIS
brother or letting in that. Some time, perhaps
it will be. If there is in this world melan-
chOly spectacle it is that of the policeman spe-
cially called into vestry to keep the brethren
from assaultng and battering each other. THIS
was what occurred last Monday evening in a west
Forty-fourth-st Presbyterian Church. In fact,
there were two policemen with clubs in their
hands The difficulty, we understand, has
arisen from the fact that the pastor, the Rev.
Mr.. Campbell, who can point to fourteen years
of service, for some reason has been studying
medicine. a great many clergymen, even
Presbyterian clergymen, have done this before
without any fuss about 1T. In rural Parishes
the double knowledge of physic and divinity
comes very handy. In the old times, many
New-England minister made pills for the
flock, and even bed the COMMITMENTS when
it was necessary. The Rev. Sydney Smith,
we remember, was a good deal OF doctor.
However, some of the parishioners OF the Rev.
Mr. Campbell were so scandalzed by the
Hippocratic sde-studies of the preacher that
they cut his salary down from $1,000 to
$500. The Ostensible business of the meeting
on Monday night was to elect Trustees, and
this was done, the ticket sustaining the pastor
being successful. But it was not done at all
unanimously. In fact there was an immense
amount of the liveliest language interchanged,
fists were shaken in faces, and at one time
there was smart chance of fight and OF
the official interposition of the two policemen.
It did not help matters much that about haiI
the congregation were women. The Rev. MI.
Campbell, however, came out all right, ana
may now divide his time between his theology
and his medicine. 1t is true the church owes
him 5000 which he cannot collect; but we
hone that lie will have speedy settlement
and satisfactory one with the new Trustees.
Voltaire expressed his opinion OF domestic
quarrels by saying that people should wash
their dirty linen at home. DIR. Watts, who Is
better religious authority, thought that there
should be no domestic quarels. and referred
to the uniformly pacific conduct of the BIRDS
in their little nests. Theoretically the mem
bers of a church are members OF one family,
and should agree in their nests, large or small.
1t is hard sometimes to keep the angry pas
sions from rising; but we do most emphati-
cally assert that church without harmony ia
very little if at all better than no church at ALL
Wherefore we do most sincerely desire the
restoration of pacific relations not only IN
West Forty -fourth-st. bat in all other streets
upon which meetng-houSes are standing.