Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-26
.fErmcd BY the higher appellate courts


6. The Mif1lntown congregation there
upon called aod engaged the said Rev.
I. j. Sherrsrd as its separate Pastor,
claiming snd receiving exclusively his
labors ard niiuisttstions. and providing
individually tor his salary, without con
sultstio1 with or reference to the Lost
Greek congregation but as if in ell
respects q separate, individual and in
dependent organization - nevertheless
using and claiming to use, own and ap-
propriate the church building and other
Real Estate at Miflin,own owned by
and belonging to the corporation afore-
said.
I. The Lost Creek congregation are
unable to support a separate Pastor /;
aud although they have always been
willing to contribute their proportionate
share Of the expenses Of maintaining u
Pastor employed by the corporation as
practiced for seventy years before the
resignation OF Rev. Sherrard, and here
by offer to conrinne 20 to do !; and to
jnin with the Miffllntown congregation
in electing and calling a Pastor 20 and
for said corporation yet their appi,ca
tions have been refused and assistance
iu that behalf has been denied and with
held by the congregation at Mifflinrown.
And they are now, and have been since
the aforesaid resignation of the Rev.
Sherrard, without pastoral ministra .ions
and their iightful enjoyment Of public
religious worship.
s. 1t being inconvsnient to bring all
the parties interested upon the record,
the plaintiff az President OF the Board
Of Trustees Of the corporation afore
said, brings this Bill on behalf of all
the members Of the Lost Greek congre-
cation by virtue Of Resolution Of said
Board, passed at a meeting thereof,
held at the Lost Creek Church, on
the 29th May. 1877, as follows, to Wit ::
=" That the President of this Board be
and he Is hereby instructed to employ
counsel and authorize such proceedings
to be instituted in the civil courts as
may be necessary and proper under the
circumstances of this CASE" against the
defendants as Pastor and officers of and
representing all interested in the said
congregation at MIfflintown. And he
prays relief as follows:
lst. Tha. it may be decreed that the
Office of Pastor Of the congregation.
composing the corporation aforesaid is
vacant.
2nd. That the defendant, I. j. Sher-
rard, be restrained and perpetually en-
joined from preaching, or in anywise
officiating as Pastor IN either of the
churches of the said corporation aud
from interneddling in any manner With
the spiritual or temporal affairs Of the
same, unless he shall be regularly
chosen and appointed as Pastor thereof
as we'll in accordance with the laws aud
usages OF the Presbyterian church
aforesaid, as also with the provisions
aud requirements of the charter Of the
said corporation and the usage and
practice of the corporation Hereunder.
3rd. That the other defendants be
strictly enjoined from permitting the
said I. j Sherrard ~ anywise to off
ciasc as l.;a.s;c. or pastor in the said
church unless so regularly chosen and
appointed; aud from employing any
other stated Pastor thereof without the
consent of the said congregation at
Lost Greek regularly had aud obtained.
4th. That it may be decrsed that the
congregations composing the corporation
aforesaid shall proceed without un-
necessary delay, in accordance with the
requirements of their charter and the
established custom and practice had
hereunder, ani according TO The laws
and regulations of the said Presbyte-
rlao church, to elect aud call q pastor
of the said congregations and have him
duly installed as such, and provide for
firing and paying the salary of such
minister aud other officers of said con-
grega,ions.
9th. That in case the said congrega-
ton at Miff1Iutown shall continue to act
as separate organization and neglect
or refuse to unite with the Lost Greek
congregation 10 calling a pastor and ex
ercising other rights and performing
other duties provided for in, or in any
wise required by, the said charter, that
it may be further adjudged aud decreed
that the said congregation at MIfflin-
town has forfeited al. right and title to
any part Of the corpsrate Real Estate,
and that The said Real Estate of the
said corporation situate in the Boz ough
of Miffiiutown and all other Real Es
tate owned by said corporation shall be
decreed to belong to and be managed
and controlled by said Lost Creek con
gregation, and all others, members of
said congregation, nov or hereafter. who
shall exercise and perform the rights,
duties aud functions Of the said corpora
tiou as secured, provided for and re
quired in the said charter.
9th. For such further and other re-
lief as the necessities Of the case may
require aud to your Honors may seem
proper and suitable.
JOHN n. MOORE,
President of the Board of Trustees OF the
Presbyterian Congregation of Cedar
Spring, composing the congregations of
sMIfiiin and Lost Creek" for and on
behalf OF the Congregation of Lost
Greek.
WV. A. SPoSsLER and
CHAs. A. BARNETT,
Solicitors for Plaintiff.