West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-08-31
THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH
TROUBLE.

with evil speaking and falschood
and no verdict in compliance with
the charges or discipline was ever
found against him. What Domer
says was the trouble is not the trou-
BILE, but the starting of the Framed.
zeal in opposition to the regularly
established church organ and large
iy shared In by those eleven dee
gates who would not sign the Gen.
,eral Conference proceedings or obey
il, and supported by an anxious
an speculative minority at the
church's expense and ruination,
was the cause. Things moved
rapidly on and Dubs and his faction
seeing their end made separate
call for a General Conference of
their own, but before this call was
adhered too Domer's faction did
everything against the ehnrch's
Publishing House at Cleveland.
that they could. They worked for
their joint stock companies interest
at Harrisburg, thereby violating
every pledge of law and order that
they made to the church as section
lOl, items 6, z and IL declare i'm
the following: "Let him be eau
tlous about believing what he has
not personally witnessed" -"That
he speak evil of none for the word
of culininator especially il he be
a preacher eats as does cankerp-
1T does not become him to amend
cur rules. bnt to observe them, etc.
The reader Will learn that our
Discipline on page 14l, section 14S.
says: "0ur Printing and Book
Establishment shall be in Cleveland,
Ohio" In the face OF the above
quotations Of law Domer's faction
works for the interest of his Harris
bug Company and directly against
the church's established institution.
not giving any of their support or
Influence the church's esta bIished
Publishing House since the Buffalo
General Conference in 1887. even
throwing out the church's estab-
lished Sunday School Literature
cut OF every Sunday School wherein
they bad control and putting in
hen thereof their Harrisburg litera-
ture and against q resolution of
their own Pittsburg Conference, as
recorded in their Journals of 1887
$50 and 80. Yet in the face of all
these citations of Disciplinary law
and Conference resolutions Domer
says his faction have stood unflinch.
TAgty by the law. (?l
In 1891, when Donors faction
Conference left the Church. thew
fescinded the above resolutions
referred too, so tAat they might
support their Harrisburg Company
But as long as they are ministers of
she Evangelical Association OF NJ
A., or claim to be such, they ought
TO comply with the following por.
ton of the Discipline Oh rage 20,
ITEM 8 ellie (the ministerl shall
see that our societies are supplied
with such books az are recommen-
ded By the General and Animal
Conferences" This is under tho
special duties Of the minister and
relative to Sunday School work.
Dear reader, no GeHer@ Congerenc,
ger Tecommenaied their AarrisBvrs
Literafnrei
After Domer's faction have VIC.
htcd all these portions of law an6
resolutions they next call for q
separate General Conference IN be.
half Of r. Dubs and those clever
who refused obedience to the Gen.
eral Conference Of 1887, and aftet
ignoring the Publishing House Al
Cleveland, Ohio, they jointly SEND
representatives from oil the Annua
Conferences wherein they have an,
adherents and bring suit ngains
she church officers for possession o
the very institution they tried Z,
destroy by not giving il their sup
port, and putting one Of their owl
Do ~ stead, however, the Appellat,
Court in this quo Worganlo pro
seedlings, refused to grant thef
prayers. This Last action b.
Domer's faction caused the division
- the church and now We will sho,
how and Why &c was done and tber
answer DomeF's article in full.
Al The General Conference a