The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-04-18
OUR LETTER FROM eRoApeR,m

OUR LETTER FROM eRoAoeRim.
He Wrote = Book and 1t Undid Him-A LII.
! liputfan Attacks the Giant Of Infidelity-
Post-master Pearson's Reappointment-
Sale the Seney rictures-From Afau-
:ence to Rags-The Nations Dying Hero.
NEW YORK. April IL, 1885.
EDrToR CHEF:
The peace which passeth understanding
reigneth not in the Congregational Council
and it occurred thuswise. Something
more than year ago gentleman made
his appearance in Brooklyn, and signifed
bis intention of founding an Independent
church. He was no ordinary saint, for he
went to work with pick-axe and spade,
hammer and saw, and as the result of his
physical and spiritual energy he saw
modest temple rise, of which on its COM
pletion he was installed pastor, and that
his seed vas sown On. fallov ground was
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short space OF year he had built up
goodly congregation. Independence is
good thing, an excellent thing, yet after
a time congregations like men feel that it
is not good to be alone. Mr.. Hageman
had prospered in worldly sense-and in a
spiritual sense for matter of that-but il
his secret heart he sighed for church con-
ferences and ministers meetings where he
could blaze forth as q bright and shining
light.
After n time independence began to be
monotonous; a church meeting was called
and it was resolved that application be
made for the admission of the church into
the Congregational body. A notice was
sent out to all the churches interested, and
week ago there was convocation of the
saints most intimately concerned. Mr..
Hageman. the applicant, had evidently at
tended church conferences before and he
knew the weakness of the average minister
for good feed. So the female members
of his congregation prepared lunch in the
Sunday School room that might have
softened the heart of wooden Indian.
Knowing that the hospitalities would not
be neglected, there was general gathering
of the better elements of the cloth, includ-
ing number of lay brothers who serve as
deaoons and church trustees, and who are
never absent when there is anything to eat.
The council went into solemn oonclave
and the Rev. Mr.. Hageman was put upon
the stand. He got ON swimmingly till some
one discovered that he had written book,
and when pushed in corner he declared
ho ha1 v,o<h;,r - %eka ha.k svrln Ao~h
was aprofane novel, and in it he declared
disbelief in he'll; in short he was as hetero-
dox on this cardinal point of Calvinistic
belief as Bob 1neersoll or Beecher. When
this was announced the conference was
seized with horror, and they departed rend-
ing their garments, but not till they had
devoured every vestige of poor Hageman's
lunch, calapash and calapee. The thing was
most ingeniously done. All of the minis
ters knew what the decision was going to
be, but one of them fearing that the lunch
might be lost sight of in the general indig-
nation, made motion that the conference
adjourn TO the Sunday School room for
consultation. The motion was carried
Oudu1uOubAy1 duU Wuou tne CONSULTATION
was ended you would have thought that a
fight of Egyptian locusts had passed over
the tables. But the feed had not mollified
the brethren, and when the last doughnut
and pickle had disappeared they threw
brother Hageman overheard with as little
compunction as the sailors threw over
Jonah. T
While on religious matters am reminded
that an English clergyman by the name of
Hines advertised the other night that he
would reply to Ingersoll and demolish him.
The spot chosen for the punishment of the
great unbeliever wes in the theatre where
he had scored some of his most signal tri-
jumps. Mr.. Hines is not a very poetical
gentleman, and his first appearance on the
stage brought forth general var. He stood
about five feet IN his high heelsd shoes, and
his girthswAs almost if not quite equal to
his height. His English was Of the pro-
nonuced type, made immortal by Perkin
Middlewick in "Our Boys,'' and is still
'eard in the vicinity of 'Olborn Ill. As
soon as the eloquent gentleman opened his
mouth there was q roar that shook the