St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-14
TROUBLE AMONG METHODISTS.
Grave Charges Preferred Against
the Corresponding Secretary.

PHILADELPHIA. Penn, Nov. 13.-At a
meeting of the board Of church extension of
the Methodist Episcopal church to-day, the
committee of foreign correspondence re-
ported that the committee had carefully
considered the application for assistance
from Germany and Switzerland and from
india, but the report caused considerable
discussion and was laid on the table. A
| rumor that there had been defalcation in
the society was denied by Bishop Merrill.
Just before adjournment Secretary Nc
Connell called the committees attention to
the fact that a communication from Thomas
Price had been referred to special COM
nlittee yesterday, and that the committee
was now ready to report. Bishop Harris
called for the report, but before it could be
given motion, stating that lit
was ineXpedient to discuss the mat
! ter at this time was made.
DR.. Hynett the corresponding secretary,
| opposed to this and said that the commune
cation contained some grave charges against
him and he was unwilling to rest under such
mputations. He wanted the matter dis
cussed, but finally agreed to postpone it for
| the present and the motion declaring that
discussion at the present moment would be
nexpedient prevailed. DR.. Hynett re-
make any reference to this communication
out Mr. Price, after the adjournment, dis
tributed to the reporters printed copies OF
his communication. The following are the
PRINCIPAL EXTRACTS:
First-I will direct your attention to some
facts in regard to the German work. The
large amounts received from and donated TO
several of the German conferences led me TO
inquire of some Of your members for an ex-
PLANTATION. To my great surprise / learned
that no money was received from or donated
to the Germans; that the Germans were al
lowed to collect and distribute their moneys
without the intervention of your board, so
that when you claim as part of your work
the collt c5ion Of S19, 592 in 1888 from the Ger
| mans you swell your receipts to that
amount beyond the truth and by so doing
swell your collections to SI0S, 1888, when in
| fact you collected only S9s.94I. In 1884 your
claim of having collected Sis 749 must be re-
duced by deducting Sl9.171 collected by the
Germans. leaving your entire collections but
$50, 5SS. Again, in your report for 1888, you
claim to have given to the Germans $40, 693,
making your total donations SOLIDS when in
fact your donations were but S73, S55, as you
had nothing whatever to do with the $40, 693
which the Germans disposed of themselves.
Excuse me if suggest that this method Ct
swelling your accounts would not be thought
honest in the business world. Is it the prov
ince of a great church board to lower the
standard of business morals? Are you not
misleading the church as to the magnitude of
your work? If you would not lose the coDfi-
dence of all thoughtful people, l beg you in
the future to omit from your reports what
does not properly belong there After call
ing attention to the heavy expenses of the
board and other matters. he mentions several
things which he regards as violations of the
revised charter of the board, and threatens to
call the attention of Gov. Pattison to them.
He accuses the board Of being careless in
managing. and refers in sarcastic terms to
that lrt of the boards report which states
that they have so, 600 in marketable securi-
ties. >, or as he understands it. stocks.