Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-06-21


Some delegates from the tobacco growing
regions Of Virginia made a strong protest
against this query and answer being passed.
MI. ID. G. MoomaW said some members OF
his congregation would be ruined if COM
PEELED to give up the tobacco business. But
the Conference adopted the answer. 1t also
adopted the position Of Denmark, that it is
best not to handle tobacco in trade and that
sit is wrong to use tobacco for anything
but medicinal purposes, and members are
urged to quit it. y
THE FEELING BETWEEN THE OLD LINE
AND THE PROGREssIV ES-TIIE PRO-
GREsS NOW GOING ON IN GERMAN
BAPTIST CONGREGATIONS To-
WARDS DRESSING AND
ACTING LIKE THE
WORLD.
I have before alluded to the existence of
an element in the German Baptist church,
called the 'Progressives. There is a very
earnest war being made on them by some
holding to the old-time orthodox dress and
manners of the church. This war, While
not waged on the Conference floor may be
caught a glimpse of, outside. On the grounds
there was. circulated q leaflet which will
give you a good idea Of what the Pro-
gressives are doing in the matter OF con-
forming to the world in matters of dress
and church policy-that is, presuming the
statements it contains are correct. The
leafet opens with: ''In the name of God
Amen Has the glory of Israel departed ~
Its complaints are against dressing in con-
| formity to the world, and having salaried
preachers, both of which are opposed by the
representatives of the ancient orthodoxy of
the church. The following is an extract
| from it
eve legislate against the awful sin of pride,
we pass decision after decision to keep the
evil out of the church. We say sisters must
not wear hats, brethren must dress in the or
der, fine, foppish, foolish dressing, and fol-
lowing after the foolish fashions of the world,
must not be allowed.
Thousands of dollars have been spent to
make the church pure in this respect alone,
committee after committee has been sent out
in past years to cut off the dead worldly vines,
the leaders of the progressive faction were
cut off for advocating worldly fashions, and
opposing the order of the church in dress, but
the evil has not ceased Men who loved not
consistency, men who were secretly in league
with the wild element but who were too cow
ardly to show their colors and go where they
belonged quoted down, threw the blame on the
shoulders of a few scapegoats such as Hol-
singer and Bashor, waited till the storm blew
r,rIxy r. IL, in,
their unholy business again. The same evil
is upon us again, it is growing, and growing
fast, and there seems to be no power in the
church to stop it. Men who have been loud
est in their denunciations of the progressives,
and who have been the champions to throw
dust and dirt in their faces have been equally
industrious in undermining the establi shed
order and principles of the church.
They have done this work not publicly
through the press or from the pulpit, but
quietly from house to house, 'the progressives
went off too soon" say they eve can have the
same thing by going slow. We will work
with the annual meeting, stay inside, and in
few years will have all we want
Then sisters can wear hats and brethren
dress as they please. The old brethren such
as Eby and Wise, are honest but ignorant,
they will die soon and then all will be we'll.
How is it now in Ed Jesse Calvert's congre-
CATION? Sisters no longer dress in the estab-
lished order of the church, they wear fashion,
able hats and dresses and are aided and
allotted in their pride by both Calvert and
Pritsbaugh In Ed William Detlers church
at Milford, and Isaac Berkey's church at
Goshen, Indiana, the order is no longer en-
forced Ed D. NJ. Miller, at Milledge-
Vile, Illinois; S. II. Miller and E. X.
Bully, South Waterloo, Iowa; Lewis
PETER, Waterloo, Iowa; Conrad Caylor,
Louisville; o. Lewis Glass and S. B..
Stuckey, Sandy Church, O.; Israel Poulson,
New Jersey; Davis Yonce, Syracuse, Ohio,
are among the Elders and Preachers who allow
OF encourage the open violation of the order of
the church. j. r. Meyers, Green Tree, Pa,
who is ambitious to obtain the place in the
church of the lamented Ed James Quinter, his
father-in- law, not only encourages sisters
in pride, but breaches to them when their
heads are covered with feathers and flowers,
and does it without rebuke. Ed Gotswold,
the Bishop of the church, not only allows
Meyers to run things in this wild way, but al
lows an organ to be used in the Sunday Schoo
and church service. The church at Potts
town, under care of Elder j. 2. Hetrick, is as
, fashionable and full of folly as any denomi-
nation around So is the church of Upper
Dublin, Pa Ed. J. NJ. Mohler, could tell a
few things if he would speak. He is a Trusted
5 Evangelist, of course, but he breaches at such
places as Johnstown, Pa. where the church is
| ruined by fashion, and its converts bloom out
in the latest style.
Ed. johnson at UniontoWn. Pa, presides
, over church, where hats and flowers and
feathers and buStles, are the sisters stock n
trade and Ed. johnson aids and abetS them.
E. A. Orr, in Philadelphia, preached for a
stated salary of 500 year, and an order low
+ inc brother or sister would appear full about
: as much at home there fellowshipping the mem
bers and listening to Orr belittle and teach
against Feet washing and the Supper as saint
: would in perdition.
Silas Hoover breaches for stated salary a
!, Elk Lich, Pa, and no congregation OF the pro
f gressive church is more proud OF fashionable
e than his.
Hoover goes out and makes like converts a
other points Then Quinter Calvert's BruSl
Breek church, Ohio, is no more in the orde
=. than the church at Green Tree, Pa, ant
Quinter is getting to be one of the leading
Evangelists of the church. Ed David Long OF
Md. allows his sisters to wear dress bonnet:
e at home and fashionable hats when they sc
: visiting.
At Huntingdon, Pa, under the very shadow
of the college and with the full knowledge ano
$ consent of Brumbaugh and Swigart, the order
q is openly violated. These churches are repre-
san+a1 hara Look at the delegates, and thel
saw the Brethren are the non-worldly church