Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-23
THE CRUEL WAR is OVER
Ana Sunny Tempered Peace Smiles
Once More on Gilead and on
Pisgah.
The hiliiant coup d'Etat 81 coiorcd
Pastoral oaupOlgu brief but
warm

The silver lining at last begins 10 show
on Mount Gilead's cloud. sundays "a.
zErfE contained an account Of the trou
oleS which have SO long harassed this
congregation Of colored Taptists. YES.
terday the two factions buried the hatches
and cemeuted peace with compromise.
One side bought OF, the other. paving
$500 cash up, and brothcrly love viii
once more prevail in Giead.
A MI on nIsToRN
Fewer church histories furnish moro
interesting reading than the records OF
Nv. Ciilead. About twelve years ago
Spencer Forsythe, a deyout colored Bap.
tist, possessed Of considerable means,
! donated lot out Of block 100, Daggett's
! addition, as the site for church which
was chrlstened Mt Gilead The congre-
I CATION worshiped here Ia peace and unity
for several years. Finally ps the town
grew into city, the fashionables
\ became dissatisfied with the humble III
/ Tie church; Il site was purchased on
Jones street, nearer upper-tendom, and a
more pretentous building erected npoh
/ IL. In its new quarters MI. Gnoad nour-
ished and its flock continued 10 Increase
/ The first
MuRAmR on oIsCoBp
( grew out Of a scandal in which the pas.
( tor, 5. II Smith, was involved. IL was
charged that his relations with one Of the
sisters of the church had exceeded the
limit of ais pastoral duties. The erring
female was, herself, q party TO
the charge, but, so his &C.
cusers allege, Smith had anticipated her
testimony and bounced her ont of the
church, thus, according to the statutes OF
Mt Gilead, rendering her statements
worthless. The Mt. Gllead codc,
IL seems, holds the word o.
an outsider as Of no effect, and
thus by little coup detat the
c0lored pastor, SO ii IS represented
cut of The only testimony upon
which he could have been condemned A
portion Of the flock was not satisfied
! with this style Of exonerationi and finally
broke out in
\ orEN MEETING
They seeded and went back TO the lit
tie church In block 100 which hal
been standing vacant since 10
desertion for tonicr quarter
There they set up tabernacle and style,
It Mt Psgah Rev. WilDom was mad
pastor of the seceders and Sidn Graham
was Installed as secretary The power
that be of Mt Gilead were Of cours
furious at this unexpected NOV
and threatened vengeance. The
! claimed the Old church propert
for Mt Gilead and notified the Mt. Pts
sah people 70 vacato IN short order. Il
this dilemma the latter began 70 invest
gate the legal rights Of Mt. Gilcad In tn
premises and discovered a flaw In th
! deed, by which Spencer Forsythe trans
{ fcrred the original site TO II 70
{ church purposes. His wife ha
( not signed the instrument. This iemal
of color Is now The spouse of II. Hines
4 proprietor Of the Fort Worth City laur
q dry. Elated over the defect, the M
!, Pisgahites at once opened negotiation
with the relic OF the lamcnted 70
sythe, and purchased her into
est in the property for $500. The
they announced to Mi. Gilead III,
+. the fort was hers when she could
, COME AND TAKE 1T.
This served to doubly infiame the so'
= creigns of Gilead A conference wa
U called which fired Hines and his wife OF
' OF the church for ''disobeying the autho
: ity Of the church, They protested tn;
y they had only made transfer OF whatevC
u legal rights they might have had
;, the property, but the bosses replied tn;
II they had given encouragement to ii
c enemy, and Mt. Gilead wanted no traitor
The next step was to commence su
for possession. An Injunction was o
a tanned against further worship In Il
y house by the Mt. Plsgah disciples. 81
Z Plsgah was not to be trinc
n with in such manner by the "yile mi
1t ions" Of the law. The injunction W.
s. posted, and the house nailed up by q
" constable Thursday night. On Frldi
e night the notice fell prey TO the JAG
i knife, and the nails were ell eXtractt
i'd with a hammer. On Sunday, III
r gah returned It's usual devotions from u
D. old stand. Mount Gilead
or wRARIED or TIE CONFLICT,
)r and Yesterday surrendered It's rights
70 the domicile OF the Pisgah in conside
7, alton Of the sum Of 5000. Probably u
cause OF the adjustment was that q
originator OF the war policy
Mt. Gilead, Parson Smith, hi
h been bounced by his co
G gregation for reasons not assigned Tn
without leader, Mt. Gilead was III pr
pared for an active campaign.
~ The war-cloud has passed over, Pea
20 roigns again In Gilead and In Pisgah.
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NJ From the Distinguished Confederate &c