Evening journal., 1892-04-14
Is WILSON PROSECUTED!
His New York Church Will Not Have
Him rs Pastor.

The Members OF His Eighteenth Street
Fiock Hear Everything From Delaware
and Turn Against Him-They Also Fear
He VIII Initiate Parlhurst.
Rev. John A. B. Wilson, D. d the Ia e
presiding elder Of the Dover district OF
the Wilmington NJ. K. Conference, who
was recently transferred from Easton to
the New York Conference. is again IN
trouble, and this time it may result seri'
ously for the well-known Delaware
preacher II is alleged that 1.-THE same
old gang" OF the conference, vexed
a. DR.. Wilson's promotion, has
used methods that have brought up
all his past troubles befor the oficisry
of his church. If this plot was carried
out 1t worked with such success that
the officiary of the Eighteenth Street
Church, to which he was transferred by
Bishop Foss, has been 'poisoned" as
it were. and will have nothing to DO
with their new pastor.
This, it is thought, will cause ths
most unpleasant stir that has yet been
4 felt in the Wilmington Conference. and
unless the new difficulty is quickly sd-
justed something will drop" In
Peninsula Methodism, a. Wilson's sup
porters are as ardent in their convictions
as ever and are confident that Wilson is
Il being prosecuted 1t was hoped
(. by nearly every good Methodist in the
q conference that ths whole past ''unpleas-
n antness" would sink into oblivion, and
q that DR.. Wilson would be allowed 70
4 begin work anew. Fate, or some awful
& enemy, however. would not have 1t So
4 This morning the New York papers con
tain stories with large headlines, some of
q which are as follows "Ooject to Dr.
q Wilson" Eighteenth Street Metbodists
4 Nav Reject Their New Minister, "Wil-
sons Trial on Charges in Delaware.
ONE STORY OF THE TROUBLE.
To-dsy's New York Press says "The
Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal
Church is without pastor Conference
a fortnight ago assigned Rev. DR.. John
y A. B Wilson 20 the church for five years,
DR.. Wilson never had a charge in this
city and opposition has began TO appear
& among the trustees.
1T is asserted that DIR. Wilson earned
n an unenviahle record in Delaware and the
81 Eastern shore of Maryland, and that he
had been transferred to this city because
he was unpopular there.
THEY KNOW 1T ALL.
"In the Wilmington conference he wa:
charged with lying and acts unbecomine
to a minister. He was acquitted bui
was removed as presiding elder and seni
to the church at Easton, Md. He Al
# once announced that be was laying PLAN
to be transferred to this city.
FEAR HE'LL BECOME PARKHURsT II
lone Of our points made against hin
# is that he is likely to become an initiate
N of DR.. Parkhurst, and this the churcl
& doesn't want, 1t is said.
CAN THE CHURCH LOCK HIN OUT?
There has long been disputed ques
tlon between Methodist conferences Ant
the Methodist churches whether tn
church could refuse to take q ministe
sent them by the conference, and Dr.
Wilson may urge the right to fill tn
pulpit.
A STRANGE NEWSPAPER DESPATCH.
A mysterious and remarkable inciden
connected " ith the new trouble is that
special despatch appeared in the Ne'
York Sun this morning from Philadel
phia This also has large headlines an'
the .6rst few lines are as follows
,sEx- Presiding Elder j. A.
Wilson Of the Dover district, VIII
was at the bottom of the recent distur
bance in the Wilmington and Dove
districts of the Wilmington Methods
Episcopal Conference. was acquitted to
day of the charges preferred by five o
the churches of the Dover district &C
cusiug him of misadministratiOn. politi
cal dishonesty, and lying" Then follow
a rehash Of the stories which the EVEN
ING JOURNAL contained five weeks age
The despatch was referred to thre
Methodist ministers of the city to-day
and they assert that it would have bee
impossible for Wilson'to have had heal
ing or trial In Philadelphia One min
s lister claimed that the despatch wa
written and sent by some friend q
Dr. Wilson'S Another stated that
must have heen written by foes of Wi
son to show to the New York people thi
he had been "a bad man. as they teri
him.
80 g.