Milford chronicle., 1893-03-17


TO S. Yes, he has been failure with
K gentleman who was left in the super
tending Of the disrupted Sunday scho
Ut because, when his case came before I
IS quarterly conference for confirmation, I
pastor, as was his imperative duty, Ia
e so said the presiding elder) mention'
/ some grave rumors that seriously affect
the moral character of said gentlems
u and would have greatly hindered
i usefulness in so important a position, Al
: which rightly prevented said confirm
ton.
6. His meeting was a failure to tn
same 'sect' because they refused to b
present aud help in this important wor
Of the church "a Methodist" was on
of them.
2. He has failed with the crowd tina
failed to paddock his mouth and us
him TO compass their unchristian object
and aims.
"a Methodist" also says it is not tru,
that the former pastor tore in pieces
the society of the place; and this is {
surprising denial when he knows his de-
nial is false. He knows said pastor did
do this mischief; until then harmony
reigned in the community He knows
there was but one Sunday school in the
place, and that, while, as an accommo-
dation to the various denominations rep
resented, it was called Union" Sunday
school, it was held in the Methodist
church, studied Methodist doctrines, was
superinteuded by a Methodist aud the
whole enrolment with all their moneys
were regularly reported to each annual
by each successive pastor;
wherein can any one see the necessity for
tue disrupture of q year ago? and "a
we'll knows that the presid-
ing elder said in his presence such a pro-
seeding was uu- Methudistic and unwise,
md whent his change was effected by the /
'ote Of promiscuous crowd, madeup Of
children as well as as adults, statement
made in the pastors report, and which
las never been denied, and in the com
any persons who had never befure been
a the Sunday school, "a Methodist" well
that said elder Adams declared
lch a procedure not only un-MethOd
tic but contrary to the laws Of the
hurch.
And when "A Methodist" further says
all that had been
ought to bear against the church at
is place this conference year, she has
pod the test'' he says what is not true'
the church had been left with "A Meth
list" and his class, the pastor would
we had neither congregation nor sup =
IT. and the sexton would have gone i,
gging. These malconteuts are not .,
lie to bear the burden if they were ever
willing. Then of the $I3o in perqui-
es the pastor and family have -
.eived, not dollar has come from the
A Methodist" set. Had the pastors 9,
lrse not been kindly the church h.
uld have gone to the dogs" The
,nied people, in a large measure, are "
ones the "a Methodist" gang have h.
ID to draw out. in
"A Methodist" who says it is not true 90
lat Brother Burke was notified that if III
invited these of other denominations so,
lear him preach that they would with. pr,
d their support from him" But "a
thodist" ought to know that when it Ke
Doblicly said, none but Methodists sio
e wanted to help support the pastor. col
when one Of his stewards said only apl
.hodists were wanted at their church sys
and when one of the lead poi
deliberately left every name off his trei
k he did not like, aud treated them has
most unch1istianly way-even leav- Coi
the church service when a certain tie
ibyterian was called upon to lead in R
,er, and when one of the clan said con
''Unionist" that came to the Aid En- nev
linment, which was held at her house. dec
uld enter over her dead body" and to a
il this same set tried to break up the cha
stian Endeavor Society and substitute iutt
Epworth League for the expressed ing
ose of driving the "Unionists" en- 80
y away, aud when their general con E@
was to "freeze out" all they did not s.,
does it not amount to the same that -.
p said?
st what "a Methodist means by 81
ing birds of a feather flock to- .ne
er," is more than ''Ino" can divine 90
has been said thousand times, I -
:, in reference to the "A Methodist" r,
d. They have been a little colony saso
emselves all the while. Where you Nut
one you find all. They are kindred max
s and have much in common and and
ey get the kind of a Methodist villa
her ga Methodist" says they ex year
it will be very lonely crowd before II
ext COP ference year, is up. 'i0n
t "a Methodist is glad to say their eous
av School still exists aud is "pros. s. =,
is, j." Notwithstanding the break Of a 80. ~,
ago. The school does exist, but as to
there are diverse opinions.
4 a colony of over a hundred goes
rom a school aud leaves only three SV
as as many behind; and when that ehoi'
takes most of the means-to say ,ui' u
ng about the people of intelligence, o1a
efnement and influence that go cut, -.
lhen those driven out organize them This
into a separate school which now verti
a Methodist school in no sense of had
ord it looks as if that break did not three
any marked prosperity in its track. this
-it Of rivalry will increase the at IS
nee Of both schools, but the time is Mars
lg when the novelty of the thing Mite
E gone and the excitement will have D.
out, and then the "a Methodist" vou
# Methodists will see the havoc that ;s "a
ZEN played in their ranks. relia
AN HONEST METHODIST. Sold