The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-03
REBUKED The SOPRANO
And the Young Minister Called His
Flock Scandal MOngers.
TOPIC OF THE TEA PARTIES
The Members Of the Congre gstiOn Talked
too Freely OF the Sudden Conversion of
Pretty Miss Seale-Auburn Haired
Pastor .lIageman Resigns.
BY the United Press.

Pastor liageman Resigns.
BY the United Press.
New York, Dec. 2.-According to ac-
counts church affairs are breezy down
at Ozone park, l.. /. In fact. there was
a full blown ecclesiastical cyclone
there. The storm center of 1t was the
Rev. A. Randolph Hageman, rector OF
the Protestant Episcopal church OF the
Epiphany, who, according to yester-
days bulletins, was moving at the rate
of forty miles an hour toward Philadel-
phia.
The Rev. A. Randolph Hageman came
to serve the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Epiphany last July. He
had just been graduated from the Gen
eral Theological seminary. A year or
so before that, when student, he had
for short time been lay reader for the
little church. He made many pleasant
acquaintances then, and when he came
as rector was received most cordially
He Is handsome, accomplished and in
tellectual His hair is such as Eric
had The young women call it auburn.
lie NdS just d lllllC iuiNhiy NNhiPOiNN'
some persons say, and he is certainly
very determined young man.
The young minister it is said, was
neither married nor engaged. In Ozone
Park, famed all over Long Island for its
lovely young girls, there were naturally
mothers with marriageable daughters.
So there We're afternoon teas at which
the young and reverend Mr.. Hageman
was the guest of honor, receptions
vshere he was the lion, and parties
where fair maidens told him that they
We're 80 pleased to meet him" He
was invited to dinners. He was in
vited to call.
Miss Scale Joins the Church.
Henry Van Wicklen a prominent citi-
zen, welcomed the young rector to
Ozone Park by giving a reception in his
cosy HON on Belmont avenue to which,
besides numerous other guests, all the
pastors Of the other churches were in
yited
Miss Florence Searle was there, too.
She was glad that the Church of the
Epiphany had resident rector instead
of an occasional lay reader. Come to
think of it, she used to belong to st.
Peters Protestant Episcopal church in
Brooklyn. When her parents moved to
Ozone Park, she explained she yielded
10 their request and Joined the Method
ist church, just across the way, of
which the Rev. r. f. Norton was the
pastor. She sang in the choir there.
Did Mr.. Hageman propose to have a
choir now? She decided then and there
to join the Church of the Epiphany.
over the teacups some of the members
OF the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany
said that Miss Scale seemed in great
deal of a hurry to join the church and
decided that they would not receive her
with sisterly warmth
They felt much aggrieved, too, when
this Miss Scale took great interest in
Sunday school work; so much so that
she was chosen to gather up the pennies
contributed by Ozone Park boys and
girls for the support of the missionaries.
AS treasurer of the Sunday school she
had to consult with the Rev. Mr. Hage-
man quite frequently. - '7r
This was observed by the ladies of the
sewing circle and the missionary So
ciety. They looked into their teacups,
replenished with the second and often
the third drawing" and shook their
heads. Some of them had daughters
and some had not. They all agreed
that when they were young such thing
as a feminine Sunday school treasurer
never was
And the Rev. Mr.. Hageman found
that Miss Scale had an excellent voice.
She told him so the tea drinkers said
He insisted that she should sing in the
choir. She sang soprano solos. That
was entirely too conspicuous, thought
the ladies of the sewing circle and the
Band of Hope, so some of them con-
cluded that something ought to be done
to repress that young woman.
They Rcbuke the Soprano.
A few of them stopped speaking to
her and some of them treated her cold
ly. One afternoon as the young Hyson
gave forth its fragrance, somebody re-
marked that a rector should marry a
young woman who had always been an
Episcopalan.
Miss Scale noticed that some of her
Episcopal sisters We're not speaking to
her. She thought too, that some of
them were talking about her entirely
too much She went to the Rev. Mr..
Hageman and told him about It,
The young rector was indignant
Persons of his temperament sometimes
get that way quickly, say what they
feel and think afterward
1t is said that the Rev. Mr.. Hage.
man was a little that way. The next
day was Sunday. This was six weeks
ago. He detained the congregation q
few minutes longer than usual and
scolded them. He called them gossips
and scandal mongers He said that
they had been saying unkind things OF
one another. They had treated per.
sons coldly whom they ought to vel
come. Then the young pastor referred
feelngly to one or two parishioner:
whom he himself had introduced into
the church, who had not been received
cordially
Most of the members of that congre
CATION went home to their Sunday din
ner very indignant They said tina
their pastor was hotheaded and beinf
very impressionable had been in
tluenced by a certain young woman t
say things which he had better hav,
left unsaid A few of them said tina
they didn't like Miss Scale very wei
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