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REECnRk AND BOWEN.
PROCEEDINGS IN PLYMOUTH
''37. CHURCH MEETING,
BoWEN'S CHARGES AGAIN RE-
FERRED 10 The EXAMINING
COMMITTEE,
BEECHER'S REPLY TO BowEN,s
TERRIBLE ARRANGEMENT
He Denounces Him as a Liar and a
Elanderer.
REPLY TO RowEN,s
TERRIBLE ARRANGEMENT

NEW YORK. Feb. ll.-At an adjourned
annual meeting OF Plymouth church to
night, dismissal was granted to Charles G.
Duncan at his request. The clerk then
read the report of the examining COM
mittee, detailing the several meetings be
tween it and Bowen. When the reading
was concluded S. V. White offered a reso-
luton which after several amendments
was adopted as follows:
Res0E0ed, That the whole matter of the insinua
tons or accusations OF Henry c. Bowen against the
pastor of this church be referred back the exam
ming committee with instructions to continue the
investigation began by them, and that they be in
structed 10 summon said Bowen before them
having first given him ten days notice OF the trial
ana Place OF meeting, and to notify him thar
he VIII be asked to state and verify facts within his
knowledge tending to support the destinations or
charges contained in his letter of the 4th Instant
and to give names of all witnesses known to him by
whom any OF the facts within his personal knowi.
eoge may De proved, and to submit to such other
AMI further thorough and rigid examnatio A as sba
be necessary and proper to elicit the fullest posi-
Bile invet tigation.
Mr.. Beecher said he was far from feel
ing In spirited humer.g A controversy be
tween pastor and Il member of a church
was very sad thing. To have a quarrel
was to him was in the nature Of funeral
service. Mr.. Bowen was Que of the Oldest
members OF the church. But he must not
forget that Mr.. Bowen threshold was t. e
hrst he crossed on coming to BROOKLYN.
lie could not think Of anything more sad
than to fnd man with whom he had
walked arm in-a arm aud with whom he had
taken sweet counsel and in whose hospital
lty he had shared. turning against him.
Mr. Beecher had thus far spoken very
quietly and sadly but he now burst forth in
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all the veheEence possible to him. He
ard that II tor the last fifteen years or
more MIR. Bowen had been in possession Of
these facts and never brought them before
him or before an officer of the church he
vas guilty of breaking his covenant with
the church and he ought to be expelled
Ii he 1.-THE speaker was all he was alleged.
he should have been turned out of tn,
church long ago. He was not guilty, and
the allegations made by Mr.. Bowen we're
false. He would pronounce them so. He
referred sarcastically to the fact that Mr.,
Bowen had not had time to prepare to
answer the questions, but sad that he had
time TO charge him with being a criminal,
the badness of which the three titles used
by him could hardly compass. There
should be no secrecy in the matter if he
could help it and everything should be
sif;ed to the very bottom.
Mr.. Beecher lad now allowed his voice
to die down TO one in which were express
ed mingled sadness aud reproach, when
'nddenly bursting fur,h Vita lis lcudest
and most vehement tones he said: As
or myself | pronounce the allegations
false, and with Almighty God before ne,
and the judgmen; day, | arraign him as
slanderer and a liar" Then as he sat
iown was enacted scene which has never
out twice before taken place 10 this Ply
month church lecture rooms, c!apping of
hands, stamping of ieet, aud lnen haiooipg
plaudltS at their pastor. while his wife
placed her head upon her hands and vept
bitterly for some moments.
The meeting then adjourned
At call OF the chair the examining com
mittee met Immediately after adjournment
and decided to summon Bowen to appear
before them en- the evening Of the 23d
at the residence of Assistant Pastor Halii-
day, there to give proof of allegations con-
tanned in his communication of the 4th inst.
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