The daily gazette., 1879-10-21
WILMINGTON, DEL. TUESDAY, OCTOBER H. 1879
DeUOted to their Pastor.
THE WAR RECORD OF THE PASTOR OF ST.
rAUL's CBUhCH-HIs CONDENSATION
SAYS 1T is ALL RIGHT, AND CkNsURE,
THOs Il WHO TRIED tn DEFAME 1T.

THE WAR RECORD OF THE PASTOR OF ST.
PAULs CHUhCH-HIs CONDENSATION
SAYS 1T is ALL RIGHT, AND CKNsURE,
THOSE WHO TRIED To DEFAME 1T.
A story hangs upon certain action
OF the Quarterly Conference Of st. Paul's
church ut the meeting on Friday night.
which has been kept so quiet since then
that 1t has only bren on the lips OF q
few favor d ones who happened to be
pre>eut. Toe action was upon Gel tain
'rouble that has existed among the
church people for some time past and
grew out of an alleged effort vt defama- :
ton made by Rev. J. A. B. Wilson, pas
tor of Ashury church, upon the war
record of Rev. j. II. Caldwell, pastor of
st. Paul's
The matter has fl .ured In the columns
OF The Gazette once before, on the Occa-
sion of a meeting OF Methodist ministe RI
who were appointed committee at DR..
| Caltwells request to investigate the
charges. Al that time the committee
exunerated ID, Caldwell and the Pre-
siding Elier, Rev Il. q. Matlnck, de-
| clar-d that there w. n,thlng oUection-
able in The war recor of the accused.
The publication at that time excited
| considerable remark, as only a limited
| circle had been aware that ant thing OF
the kind was TO take place. The CAUSE
OF the meeting of the committee was an
attempt on the part of Mr.. wilson as
stated 10 make DR.. Caldwells war rec
ord reflect nntavorably upon him. The
motion in doing SO WAS strongly surmised
to be hope of injurina the ministers
chances of election TO the next General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, as one of the two delegates ,ent
from the Wilmington Conference. Mr..
Wilson, 1t was cbarg by Dr. Caldweirs
fri-nd-, was also d-sirous of being dele
gate 3uu tried to creat, an uhfAvorable
impression for his own benefit.
This WAS secuted by many OF Mr..
Wilson's friends who believe him to be
"A man too pare to take such a course, and
1t il but fair to say that the impression
that Mr.. Wilson brought the mat er up
out OF malice andin order to increase his
own chances If electi IN to the General
Conference, has been far from univeI-
sal one.
IL now seems that the report Of the
committee OF minister's was not exactly
satisfactory 10 the St. Pauls cOngrega-
tion, and at the meeting of the Quarter
ly Conference, Friday, evening, q COM
mittte was app, inied to draw up suit
able reso lutions upon the sutjecf. The
committee con isIed OF the following
mem bvrs of the church. Lewis A. Zeh
ley, George w. Todd, William Y. Swig
get, Caspar Kendall, aud Jauez Hodge
son. DR.. Cald well was presiding at the
time the committee was ready to report
and he at once left the chair and would
have nothing to ito with the mat er. The
commit teo had not been appointed by
The pastor.
The committee then made report, In
the form Of resolutions, that was adopt
Ell UNANIMOUSLY. The resolutions were
noted more for pointedness than profun-
dity, and while they acquitted the pas
tor from all re f1ections Cast upon hun
they, at the same time, censured Mr.
w lsou in strong terms tor the course ht
had taken. The reso iutions were kept
/ side the church, and are &c upul1usy
guarded from all outsiders.
WHAT THE COMMITTEE HAS TO SAY.
Hoping to get copy of the resolution
or at least definite idea of their tenor
a reporter of the GAZETTE has callet
upon he COMMITTEES until assured that Il
Is AZ impossi Bile to get them to reveal the
contents of the document AZ 1t would bt
10 prevail upon the sea to give up its
dead. One of the committee says: "No
sir you cannot get them; there was an un
derstandlng some time ago to the effecl
that, the subject, being church matter
and one that concerned none but the
III. mbers of the church in which 1t Origi-
mated, should not 60 outside of the
church."
"But can you not give me some idea of
the gist of the paper?" asked the repor-
ter.
"Can't do it; one thing you may rest
assured on, however, and that liz that IL
exonorated our pastor very strongly;
very strongly Indeed"
Further than this the committee men,
Der would not say word. 1t appears
that the whole body is following the re-
quest made by the District Conference at
Mount Salem church some time ago III
the famous "newspapsr resolution" 1t