The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-15
ACongregational Church Sensation.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. |
CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-THE Congregational
church at the corner of Oakley avenue and
West Indiana street is in the throes of a
great distress. Their new pastor, the Rev.
G. H. Schuyler, has gone, they know not
where. The Union Park Theological sem
inary,ssat which he was a student, is in a
state of intense excitement. The quiet
community of theological students shell
tered almost under the caves of DIR.
Mobiles church, is almost as much wrought
up with as much surprise and amazement
as it would be if the beloved Prof. Curtis
should deny the divinity of our Lord. And
yet it seems probable that the Rev. Schuy-
Ter has simply succumbed to severe at
tack of home sickness.
All that is known of the mysterious pas
tor is that after a ministry of about three
years in and about San Francisco he came
to Chicago about a month ago to take post
graduate course in theology. He was pre-
ceded by letters which secured him at the
same time the pastorate of the Oakley mis-
sion; a branch of DR.. Mobiles church. His
pulpit powers and talents as vocalist and
the polish of varied experience, charmed
his flock; they were in raptures over him.
But Mr.. Schuyler pinned for the clear skies
and balmy weather of California. He told
his landlady that if he had had money
enough he would have gone back on the
next train after arriving here. His oft
expressed wish was to get back. Every
thing he saw reminded him by con
trast of the land he had left be-
hind, and every reminder added to
his longing to return. He had room in
the seminary dormitory, but like the other
students, took his meals out He changed
his boarding house frequently for no other
reason apparently than an inability to re-
concile himself to any place not California.
His last boarding place was at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. z. H. Smith, IS St. John's
place. He left the house Thursday morn
ing right after breakfast, having previously
asked Mrs. Smith to bake him some pota-
toes for dinner as they were the only
thing that seemed like his California
life. But he never came back
to eat them. The only person who re-
members seeing him later than that is the
ianitress of the seminary. She met him
an hour later in the hall of the seminary
with grip in his hand. He told her that
she need not keep his room for him longer
as he was going to room out near his
church. Since then he has not been seen
by any one who knows him. IL was no.
ticed that morning that he seemed
preoccupied and Respondent, but
then he often appeared that
way His failure to return to the Smiths
was thought of lightly there as he was so
erratic in coming to his meals, but when
he ia led TO return Friday and Saturday, or
to appear in his pulpit Sunday, surprise
and alarm grew apace. His congregation
assembled yesterday morning and was dis
missed with a prayer and a song. No
pastor was there to preach to them.
Mr.. Schuyler's disappearance without a
word of explanation has given rise to a
world of conjecture, but the only theory
which TALES wholly with his demeanor
and character is that home sickness has
overcome him and with the money received
from his pastorate he has returned to San
| Francisco.