The New York herald., 1878-02-23
A CHURCH MILITANT.
Details of the Reformed Dutch
Church's Troubles.
THE CONSISTORY VANQUISHED.
Rev. Mr.. Lloyd Defends Himself and
Confounds His Enemies.

The consistory OF the Reformed Dutch Church, ON
Madison avenue ana Fif,y-seventh street, Is likely
10 receive its chastisement by and by from indg-
nant congregation and public The spy system is not
held In dignined esteem this country ana is not
likely 10 como into favor after the in which
It has been applied by the Consstory toward its late
pastor, Row. William Lloyd. There s q secret his
tory TO this whole case, Is said, which has not been
told anywhere publicly yet, and which will show Il
10 also claimed, that petty Jealousy s at the bottom
Of the whole matter This jealousy, II IL claimed.
takes IN two forms aud has two secret spriuga One
spring mas It's source IN The denomination that hr.
Lloyd hus LETT, and 10 which he belonged more IN
name than IN TACT Tho other has It's fountain
IN the dissemination In which tor nearly
q year ho has ministered with remarkable
success. Mr.. Lloyd 10 neither 4 Methodist
nor Reformed Dutchman Ia the orthodox sense Of
and refuses TO swallow creeds and confessions simply
because Calvin, or Wesley, somo other man set
OF men one, Two or ten hundred years ago penned
them he believes all the cardinal doctrines OF all the
creeds Is in full sympathy, perhaps, with pne-tenths
OF all tho evangelical churches OF the city and land
As Methodl his trouble with doctrine, for
In that Church all shades of doctrine held both by
the ministry and tho membership There his protest
was against church government. In hts first pastor
sse ~ AWcIioa mEs Aloyu was originally COuRroRat
honalst. as he had been in En- gland an Independent
His talents and pulpit eloquencs attracted Methodist
congregation in Rochester, N Y, where ne spent less
than two years as pastor, after which, without hts
consent, he was transferred another Conference
and stationed at Pougnkeepsc. whence he In the
same arbitrary manner transferred to this city and
placed over Washington Square Church He did not
object much to the Methodist tnerancy as 70 this
arbitrary transferring OF from conference or
parish to another.
D0CTRINAL DorBrERs
During the late discussions hell and the future
lite certain members OF the Reformed Church wished
Mr. Lloyd to define his position on those questions.
This he refused to do and hence about that
he was not sound IN the faith that hs was trying TO
break down the Reformed Church that he might build
"Lloyds Church" on It's runs, and that, as some
members Of the Conslstory said AZ The mcetlng on
Thursday evening, hs was = most brilliant word
painter but he did not preach the doctrines that are
peculiar to the Reformed Church and are loved BY
Duchmen. This ieeling OF distrus and fear grew and
strengthened, and instead OF bringing the pastor ace
TO lace with those rumors iacts tho Consistory
adopted another measure, which was emphaticaIly
condemned the other night
THR FOUNTAIN OF JEALOUSY
In Washington Square Msthodiss Episcopal Church
appears that when Mr. Lloyd came there as pastor
an outspoksn temperance maa, the others somewhat
indlderent After Mr. Lloyd had induced Dr. Lindsay
to re-enter the church, claimed that he persuaded
him also to give up his drug business In which bis
temptation lay. Tor. as druggist, he Kept medicinal
liquors for saie and when be needed slim went
70 hts own counter instead of 10 Others aud went
ottsn until the habit mastered MIN; wnen the
habit was broken the temptation was put away. Being
> physician a. we'll ~ chemist Dr.. Lindsay then
began to practise medicine. and naturally enough
drew away some Of the cnuroh patronage from the
othor physicians associated with HIM In the church.
The pastor being one OF his PATIENTS induced others
by his example TO follow, and then began little symp.
toms Of Jealousy not only betwcsn the doctors
former and Mr. Lloyd Dr. Lindsay was denouncsa as a
quack TO Nj. Lloyd, who defended the that was
tn some sense mis- protegS THIS. OF course, addsd
fuel 70 the hames and Efforts were made 10 estranxe
tho members OF the church from the pastor. These
suoceeded in par for, beside the doctor indicated,
churcn officials beside, and lew Of the con-
greyation II ts claimed, took up the little spark and
day Innusndoss we're thrown Out as well as in Msdi-
son Avenue church but IN that, as IN this case, no
one would father charges ass,nst Mr. Lloyd The
immediate cause oi Mr.. Loyd's leaving Washington
Square Church was that the official boards did not
formally invite him 10 stay the third year with them
y Is general, though not uniform custom IN the
Methodist Episcopai Church for local church bodies
to invite their pastors from year To year
Washington square Church oricials did not 20
through this torm, but passed resolution recitng
.uDs..nsal'y 'Isi they had engaged Mr: Loyd's
the % appo,n.psas:. When are made ,a only Tor Or
be severed at the cxpatsa Of any year preceding AZ
The will OF eitner party. Had Mr. LLOYD remained
and sustained as he nad been toe other two But little
sense o dignity stepped in aud Mr.. Lloyd stepped
sSsr. pa"'rs S ne a went
three years mad expired they were informed SUBJ
stantally As abovo Presiding Elder Crawford was
approached but mad nothing to say aesiust Brother
Lloyd And when on Thursday night cerla,n In
tinuating questions were put TO him by Messrx
GARRISON aud AapkLsou as TO what DR.. Crawford
Knew about mis- lormer psstoratss IN New YORK and
Poag hkeepse, Mr.. Lloyd promptly replied that DIR.
be- true anything that DR.. Crawford said. But ne
smphaticaiiy denied that his late presiding elder
naa ,.,sa sara n anything against his moral or
the meeting who SAID otherwise spoke what
he. knew 70 DO io. This bold cnallenge
friends, aud his opponents had nothing more say
that point The C0nslstory also visited the church
Cnurch with similar Nj luox. 1he, could get in-
formation sucn as they wanted. But they did alter
ward receive anonymous communication by mail
which led them 10 sci the detectives on Mr.. Loyds
Track with the result already statej. Those missves
came from two quar.ers-irom Washington Square
on the west side and rom Lexington Avenue Aetho-
dist Episcopal Cnurcn on the east side, whence, u Is
alleged, several members oil the church and congreRa
ton were ursd away by tho eloquent and fowery
TINS naturally enough led 70 discussions ana pc.ty
jealousics then, and an effort made 10 stop The
leak. Between two such hres and " nre In the
II would be strange indeed II the Reformed pastor
escaped unscathed. THAT ne was not thoroughly con-
sunsd 10 due only TO the ioarless stand lie took
meet tho issue and overcome u.
wfrkB HsRofrx
But the result, grand ~ is Ia the vindicaton OF
Nr. Lloyd, Is due more to Mrs. Loyds ixith and
herosm ,han ~ ANY bravery Of his own. As no told
The meeting on Thursday night when he LETT Mr.. Han
kinson's house, whore The detectives reports were
read him, IL was with the seiipg that his wife
might be- wiuOwod ana his cniIdres atheress before
mOrningnot, as the Cobsstory interpreted, that he
Intended to drown himself because OF tho shame and
dread The exposure but Ny the breaking Of bis
heart under lis loau OF grieL 10 ave color 10 tho
suicide theory II was said that Mr. Van Dyke, Sr,
NAMED with Mr. Lloyd ali night aud thus prevented
that catastrophe. but Mr.. Van Dyke hinsci declares
that he 100 much afflicted with rheumatism that
night 10 neIp himself much lees TO help Mr.. Lloyd
any Que sise but the members oil the Cohsistory, IL
is SAID, had offered him tneir influence thor prayers
and their money freely II he would leave Now York
where, so that by his absence and inability 70