The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-03-21

and are not satisfied with that. o. ii. says
| that the members of the nj. u. society did
| not pay our One-half the cost of the church
| Now o. III. knows better or else he does
not know anything about it; there are four
members OF the M. p. society that paid
nearly or quite ene-half of the cost of the
church, and good many paid S25 and $50
each. They had quite sum all told OH the
list that was not paid, but l do not think
there was one dollar signed by the M. L.
members but what was paid. o. H. further
says, 'yet they want to take all the credit"
They do not, neither have they ever carried
that idea, and as far as L could see, the NJ.
E. and other denominations have always
been welcome only where they have shown
domneering, over-ruling, crOwding-Out
disposition which has not always set well
to the M. P.s and now when they claim
their rights the M. E's cry out injustice.
He further says ''The church belongs to all
the people of Burton and vicinity" l find
that some Of the people of Burton that
never paid one cent towards the church are
the ones that are making the greatest fuss
about 1t, and i should judge that D. ii. was
perhaps, among the ''wee bits" of subcribers
by the way he takes on. The Baptist su-
perintendent whom you speak of was virtu-
ally an nj. +. man; to prove this let me say,
little ever year ago when the pastor Of
the M. Z. church announced a children's
day service i'm the church, stating that there
would be collection taken up to help sup
port missionary in Japan, this superinten-
dent said that he would have nothing to do
with it unless they would give half of the
proceeds to the M. Z. people. To avoid one
difficulty the M. p. minister took up his
announcement stating that there would be
no chldren's day services in the church.
The very next Sabbath the superintendent
gave out in the school that there would be
children's day services in the church the
10th of June that being the day the nj. 4.
people had set for such services. Not
word was said to the NJ. u. people. o. ii.
goes Oh to say that M. p. papers were taken
in the school the last year, which was not
so, also that the Union school had right 10
keep up their organization, they most GER
tainly had right to re-organize a Sunday
school and call it by what name they choose,
and no one has ever disputed that right.
Now let me ask If two men entered into
partnership and for some cause after a time
dissolve, think you that one of the partners
would continue the business alone. retaining
the former firms name? think not TO be
honest ought he not to settle up with his
former partner, dividing the profits, If there
was any? What did the sOcalled Union schoo,
do? The collections over and above the ex-
penses were nearly $17, they took every cent
Of it. Their superintendent stated publicly
in the church, at the time the M. l..
people organized their Sunday school, that
half of this money honestly belonged to the
M. p. people, but his people were bound to
keep 1t and so they have, also the nj. l..
people helped purchase two dozen Sabbath
school hymn books and banner. What did
the M. K. people do? They sent man to
the church when the jantor unlocked the
door and took them away. After the M. P.
people organized their school the superin-
tendent of the so-called Union school got up
and asked the M. Z. minister if he woulG
advise the organizing of another Sabbath
school, does that sound like carrying OH the
same Union school? o. II. says that the
M. p. minister remarked that there was too
many outsiders in the school, and that he
did not wish to lock arms with the worlds
people. Now, positively, that is not true;
on the contrary he said 1t was not a sectariap
school, but denOminatiOnal, and cordially
invited all to attend. D. II. further states
that member of the NJ. p. church stood in
the door and remarked that If the M. 4.
got in they would have to walk over her.
you are mistaken again, it was member OF
the Congregational church who said the
course the nj. f. people and some of the
scholars of the Union Sunday school had TAX
Ell that she would shut the door, or stand III
the door and let them run over her before
they should come into the church If she had
her way about it. And l have no doubt
that You would have said or done worse than
that il you had been there interested i'm the
M. p. school and had seen the way that
some of the young men of the Union Sunday
into NNI,n
iulcl OH the floor until it looked like corner
grocery, and although frequently requested
not to do it, yet persisted in it until during
service one of the M. =. church members
walked briskly down the church aisle to
where the rowdies sat and ordered them TO
cease this filthy insult or take their hats and
leave the church and also TO see these young
men walk up on the platform of the church
during Sabbath school and dance Jig and
then skip lightly away to the Union Sunday
school also one of the members of the Union
Sunday school said they would have the or
gan out of the church or they would have
blood, and soon after, one Thursday evening
when the janitOr opened the church fer
prayer meeting and when all alone, three
stealthy forms were seen approaching from
the southward, until they got near the
church platform, there pausing a moment
10 liSteH iOT lcar OI COMING 1OOCSlepS. tnel
walked briskly into the entry of the church
peering cautiously around the half-Open door
and seeing only the janitor, walked up the
aisle, siezed the organ and bore it triumph
antly away to tho school house against the
protest of the janitor and the request that
they would wait until others might witness
the scene. o. III. says the M. E.s as a So
ciety do not have anything to do with the
Union Sunday school. Well, perhaps tha.
accounts for all these things. / should be
10th to think that good Methodist folks of
any kind would uphold such things as i
have been telling you, but they were done
by the Union Sunday school and if they are
not united with the M, Els where does the
union come in. o. Fl. says that one of the
Nj. p. members paid more towards the
church than all the rest of the M.P.'s COM
bined. This is not so but IL it had not been
for his energy and generosity the church
would probably not have been built. This
good whole souled man whom you speak of,
we all know and every eye Is turned TO him
when you speak in these terms, and IL it
had not been for him apd few others you
would not have had to this day any church,
hall or depot in Burton.
And 1t Is this very man and his cause that
you are trying to injure and defeat. Now