The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-12-04
DIR. PAXroN's sARCAsNI.

The Famous New York Clergyman Has a
Tcw Words to say Regarding Himself
md the West Church Middle.
PrrsDURou, Dec. 3.-The Dispatch has
the following:
"Tell the Dtpatct you came and found
me; seeing me in the light of day with
your own eyes, and that you found me
clothed in my right mind, with the
demoniacal spirits caat out Say, also,
tina: there never was, and never will be,
any shame connected with Johnnie
Paxton's NAME" said Rev. DR.. Paxton,
the New York divine, yesterday.
"Why, sir, am 50 years old. When
n mere boy | went to tho war, serving
honorably in over twenty battles. !
have personally known all the great
generals OF the war. | have spoken
from many platform with them.
When Tecumseh Sherman said: Here,
Paxton, here's glass to Grant, | drank
it. ! drank it openly. l never drank
1t otherwise.
"Aud now this young little kid OF a
clerk, this Van Clan, he stands up in
the West church and couples my name
with 'shamep If ever 90 back to New
York it will DO to kill one or two PEG,
pie. Young Van Clan-as for him I'll
cut his ears of"
The correspondent had, late yester-
dav afternoon, found Rev. DR.. John K.
Paxton, who was recently reported to
have been lost, at the country residence
OF his wiie's sister, Alra. NJ. L. Presley,
near Bridgeviiie, this county, where,
with his wife, ho has been staying since
he left Now York. lie has not been
lost. He has been seeking rest and
quiet, and to promote that he has not
been "at home much to reporters
DR.. Paxton, though very small man,
is very much alive. When the above
parting message was uttered, the
doughty doctor was standing, bare
headed and without overcoat or gloves,
on O broad country piazza, wind swept
with the thermometer half dozen de-
grces below freezing, and the danipness
OF the chilly night shadows beginning
to gather. But there was fire in his eye
and color in his cheeks.
In the course OF the interview, DR..
Paxton said: can this recent trouble
has arisen over the well meant bu: mis-
taken efforts OF my friends in tho West
church. Defend me from my friends !
NV resignation is final. When the
committee OF four came on here week
AGO they reproached mo with deserting
nv duty. They pointed to the West
church and said that there was the bat
tie and there the soldiers. But where
was their captain? He had deserted:
You see they said that to an old
soldier"
But, doctor, the impression has gone
out that you told them you would with
draw your resignation
no, did not do that. told them
they could do what they liked. No,
there has been mix enough. l shall
write to Robert JalTray and DR.. John
Hall to place my resignation before the
New York Presbytery, which meets
there December II, and pay no more
attention TO the West Church muddle.
"Trustee Perkins and | had talk. We
differed about some things. He told
me wasn't preaching rs good sermons
as l used to. think he was right there.
One can't lead the life have had to
live and keep on forever. Itisthc pace
that kills. l have Just led the process
sion there in New York-kept at the
head of the column-ior years, but the
pace is telling on mo,
II told my session 1 would go into
Mysteries in the pulpit if they kept mo
thezc. 1 got very nervous. That oPer-
alton l underwent was more terrible
than the public can know. One can't
tell these things to the public. For five
months aiterwOrd had to care for my
self in ways because OF it that Slapped
my nervous energy. 1 was under the
surgeons kniietor hours, to begin with. "