Daily Republican., 1884-03-11
FruitIess Church trials

terence OF Methodist ministers mas
been taken up in the trial of one Of its
members, which resulted yesterday AT
ternoon i'll the acquittal of the accused
by unanimous vote of the Conference.
The charge was a trivial one at most
and should have been settled at home,
without going farther anyhow than the
local authorities of the church int rest
ed. 1t seems that sometime away back
about the time of the war or soon after,
the old parsonage of the Princess Anne
charge was sold with the purpose no
doubt of making IA change for the bet
ter, and the money arising out of the
sale ofsuch property was invested in the
purchase of a farm contiguous to the
church. The sale Of the old property
was made and the new property pur-
chased before it was discovered that in
the old original deed was clause con-
yeying the old property to the Trustees
in trust for the use of the church. This
being discovered and the church au-
thorities not having the legal right to
sell or purchase, an act Of the Legisla-
lature Of Maryland was obtained TO
legalize the actions of the church au-
thorities Since that time there has
been trouble. Whatever money came
to the church through the transaction
has dwindlrd away until none is left.
The farm, too, seems to have gone with
the money i'll certain SENSE anyhow,
Princess Anne seems to be without Il
in, vii La,
without one unless one is bought by
paying for it the second time. Minis
ter after mipinister sent TO the charge
dislilling to NEEDLE. left the mixed up
condition in which he found things Sc
verely alone.
AT last Rev. w. J. O'Neil was sent
to the charge, and discovering that a
great wrong had been done to the church
was not Of the cast of ministers to let
things take their course and trust to|
time ami chance TO make things come
right. He is an !rislman, none thel
worse for that, and, like a true Irish
man, wherever he saw head pop upI
that looked suspicious, he believed in
hitting it. He prohcd the whole thing
which caused the trouble i'll Princess |
Anne church 70 the bottom, and when
he found that, Us h" believed, a great
wrong had been done to the church, he
very frankly said 81, and when he look
ed over Inc church records and found
that one leaf had been torn out and an.
other one eat ont, he as frankly said
that he believed "A couple of official
members, naming them by name, had
done this to cover up their track-thatI
is, the tracks of great wrong to the
church, fraud. Il may be imagined
how such vigorous talk fired the hearts
of the Princess Anne church officials
with fire not Of very holy order,
MI O'Ncill soon found himself in hot
water. The church officials could very
well stand to see the uroperty of their
church frittere,} away, but didn't like
to be told of In. mIunrr nv which if
was done. OF course Mr., O'Nei]l must
answer at the bar of the Conference for
daring TO Intimate that n fraud had
been committed and great wrong had
been done 70 fine oburoh
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frihcess Anne church, counting loss
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Out Vi IOthtl Solut Illtc thOuodllu dol-
lars.
HIS master argument, however, was
that the act Oh tile maryland heSlSia'ureI
IN us at'empt 10 leeallHe 'he SAFE anu
purchase the property III ulSpute. was
rot worth me paper IL was written up
on, as would DC seen II an appeal was
maze tonne proper courts 1or no Leg
lslature had the rght 10 legaliZe
wrong Inc conference eVi''eh'iy
Thought that under the circumstances,
feV' W. j. y Nelli was nov g"hl'H OF
siahder ana delaha'loh OF clitra'trr|
With Whlch ne stoou charseh,a ana lilah-
lm"lSlv dismissed liie case.
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