Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-10-05
Republican Testimony.

BISHOP siWrsoN's ErL0ov or TnE REy.
DR.. PNTTIsoS.
Bishop Simpson, VINO seldom wavers
in his support OF the Republican party
and who stood high in the counsels Of
the Grant administration. in his Cy-
clopmiR OF Methodism,' bears this
testimony Of the late Dr. Patti-on
Robert II. Pattison, y. j.. Of the
Philadelphia conference OF the ". T..
church. was born ia Cambridge, Nd,
January -, 1894. He was converted at
the age of ten years aud at fourteen he
entered the preparatory department OF
Dickinson College. lie graduated in
lsi3. taught for Two years at Baltimore
aud entered the Philadelphia confer.
eucc la 1916. lie filled a uumher Of
prominent appointments IN ihiladel-
phia and elsewhere, and wss also pre-
siding elder Of the Harrisburg district.
Ia 1855 be was chosen secretary OF the
conference and continued to hold that
Office until his death. la lsGs he was
n delegate 10 the general conference,
and was one Of its assistant secretaries.
was for several years q member Of the
foreign missionary board ami was con
necicd with the various organizations Of
the Phllsdrlphis conference. DIR. Pat.
;isou was good man, true Methodist,
a faithful pastor. an accepted and earn
est preacher and Christian gentleman
whom to know was TO esteem and love.
There j. no hint Of disloy atty in the
above against the father Of the Demo
cratic candidate. In TACT, he could not
have been so highly honored by the
Philadelphia conference had he been
Mary land Secess!onist." DIR. +. G.
Stockton Of this city, was member Of
DR.. Pattison's Twelfth Street church in
Philadelphia for three years, and de-
clates that his pastor wss one Of the
most lovablc men he ever knew, and
that he was thoroughly loyal TO HE
country in the great struggle for its life.
lie also SAYS he has known the Demo
cratic candidate from the time be was
mere child, aud though not identified
with any party, vet II he was in Phila-
dephia he would vote for Ebert l.. Pat.
tison for governor.
Burrowlng into the grave Of and hon
orable man 10 suhserve partisan purpose
is infamous, and alike an insult to every
Methodist and to a church that had no
rival in it's devotion TO the Union cause
during the great rebellion. The elder
Pattison was not only a loyal man and
a Christian gentleman, but he was lib
eral in his religious views. lie was not
afraid TO entrust the legal education Of
his son in the hands OF that eminent
iurist, Lewis c. Cassidy, esq, Roman
| Catholic, and his toleration contrasts in
| the fairest light with that Of General
Beaver, the candidate of the Camerons
| for Governor. The late Rev. Thos. NJ.
| Reese, about three weeks before he
died, in discussing the probabilities Of
| Beavers nomination, declared that
though be was a Republican in the
strictest sense. yet he would vote for
the bitterest Democrat in the State he.
fore he would vote for Berver." Mr.
Reese was presiding elder OF the Al.
toona district for four years; had his
residence in Bellefonte and bad ample
opportunities for studying the character
oil General Beaver and learning the LID.
erality of his religious views and meth.
ods. He said that Beaver, as president
of the Y. NJ. G. Association was Tone
Of the most bigoted men in the State, +"
official relation ignored the members Of
other denominations belonging TO tue
association In favor of those holding his
own religious views.
The Tines does not refer 10 this mat.
ter for the sake of partisan ends. II
does not believe in dragging any man e
religion into politics, but IL is fully iusti.
lied in citing this incident, by way OF
contrast, in defence Of grossly calum.
mated dead man.