The Newtown bee., 1888-10-05

the Merwin house in Fairfield with his I brother. On the first Sunday of that va cation, Rev Mir Lawson occupied the pull pit of Rev Dr Garner of Bridgeport, but l did not preach on the second Sunday, re- turning home on the next day, the last Monday in August. Ofthat unfortunate trip, during which Mir Lawson vomited in the Bridgeport depot and returned home in an unsteady condition, the pulp lie has been fully informed. MT Law in the BEE on the honor of his sacred of flee, that he was merely stomach sick, as he had been on previous occasions. 9th CTS, however, to be plain about it. believe that he lied and that this was the devel- opment of a life of hypocritical pretense. The lie was worse than the drunk, it is said. Let God judge righteous judgment between such conflicting opinions! The Stepney church appointed it's three dea- cons, all sterling men, Deas Hawley, Botsford and A. B. Curtiss, with Mir Moses II. Thorpe of Easton and Mir Beach Hill of Long Hill, to investigate the re- ports atloat with regard to their pastor. All but Mir Hill thought the affair serious enough to require further investigation, but, at church meeting on the first Sun day ill September, the committee was dis charged and resolutions adopted by a vote of II to 6, by no means full vote, eXonerating Mir Lawson from ga story wholly unjusrifiable and malignant Sunday, September 9, the pastor request ed that the committee of investigation continue their research, as many were dissatisfied with the action of the week
 before, but, the next night, Rev Dr Gar
 ner rescued him from Godfrey's saloon
 at Bridgeport and got him home to Step
 ney. MT Lawson confessed this fault,
 both to his church and to the public
 through the BEE, pleading that his troubles had weakened him by temporar- fly unsettling his brain. His friends think
 that his subsequent course has been ag-
 gravated by the spirit of the church, in
 not tempering justice with mercy, but the
 majority of the church justifies it's action
 on account of the enormity of the oflense.
 Some scout the idea of temporary insan-
 ity and claim that the appetite once more
 aroused has made the Man Beast again.
 This is but simple statement of fact,
 cruel as it may seem. MT Lawson was
 suspended from his pastoral functions
 and, Friday, 2lst, was dismissed by A
 vote of about 50 to or :, the dismissal,
 cruelty as his friends think, taking effect
 at once. The next day he was brought
 home from Bridgeport reeling, but de-
 nied again that he was drunk. The dis
 missal aggravated MT Lawson's condit-
 ion, threw him off his mental balance as
 is claimed for him and, though he preach, ed, Sunday, September B, at White Hills
 where the church had hardly acted in a
 sisterly manner toward the Stepney l church, while their common pastor was
 under fire, he got drunk in Bridgeport or
 both Monday and Tuesday, September 2 and p and, Wednesday morning, wa: dismissed from the Bridgeport lock-u,
 with reprimand, like a common drunk l 'iu' A 'oou todludTltdu got IIe DeIuu dled man home, that night and, soldering : up, he was under the doctors care for ; couple of days.
 Now, as the BEE has said to commenc, with, is the time for mercy. No matte what subsequent developments may be the man has got into the gutter agail
 and, whether it be from temporary in sanity or an overmastering appetite, h. } and all connected with him are to be pit } jed. The church has it's own good nam, 2 to maintain, but let the fallen go il f peace, admonished to sin no more. It i the lost sheep that the Gospel comes t, save and it can save to the uttermost l The Baptist church meeting, last Fri day night, adjourned to Sunday, whel = o. H. Hull was in the chair and motion = to call council to consider Rev ID. G Lawsou's case was voted down. A mo 9 tion to give him the use of the parsonag, |. and his salary until New Years was als, g voted down and it was voted that his sal q ary cease immediately and that he vacat y the parsonage at the wish of the society n Rev MT Lawson went to White Hills witt e his wife, Saturday, but did not preacl S there, Sunday.