Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-07
DIR. MAYORS REMOVAL,
A Statement That Fayette Street
Church Never Protested Against His
Appointment.

A Statement That Fayette Stree,
Church Never Protested Against His
Appointment.
The Star of Saturday published the cor
respondence that passed between the COM
| mittee representing the NJ. E. churches OF
this district that protested by resolutions OF
their official bodies against the removal OF
Rev. DR.. Naylor as presiding elder and Bish-
OF Fowler, who presided at the last Balti-
more annual conference and who made the
change in the presiding eldership. Bishop
Fowler declined to reconsider his action. In
a letter sent to the committee from Will
nington, Del, and dated April 16, Bishop
Fowler said: The appointment OF DR..
Naylor was very carefully considered before
1t was made. / tried to open the way for
him at Fayette Street. Baltimore, but l
could not, as l was met by what claimed to
be an official protest"
The final report drawn up by the commit
tee respecting the case answers this state
ment regarding a protest from Fayette
Street Church, as follows:
THE committeeman were aware that II
it had been known that DR.. Naylor was to
be taken off of the WASHINGTON district a
score of the best churches In the Baltimore
conference would have gladly sought his
services. and they could not understand why
the. Fayette Street Church should have Of
fered a protest against DR.. Naylor, when the
fact of his intended removal from Washing
ton had been kept such a profound secret.
A letter was accordingly dispatched by the
committee to the recording steward of the
Fayette Street Church. who was also chair
man of its committee on pulpit supply, re-
questing a statement as to the official pro-
test against DR.. Naylor which Bishop Fowler
had spoken of.
''The recording steward wrote back i'm
mediately that the official board of the
Fayette Street Church had made no protest
whatever against the appointment of Dr.
Naylor to that charge. He further said that
before the session of the conference a COM
mittee of five on pulpit supply had been ap-
pointed. but no protest was made on the
part of that body, either. to DR.. MAYORS
assignment. Further consideration Of Bish-
OPP Fowlers letter developed another point
In which he seemed to take issue with Bish-
op Hurst as to rights of official bodies to
protest to the higher authorities Bishop
Hurst told the cormfttee tha.y neither 1t nor
any body of Methodists had any rights in
the matter at all, and any Interference on
their part was mere impertinence. Bishop
Fowler had not only recognized in his letter
the right of petition and protest. but plainly
showed that he acted upon what he was
pleased to call a protest in setting aside DIR.
Naylor from a charge to which his own
judgment indicated he should go.
In the publication Saturday of the letters
sent by Mr.. Ashley to Bishop Fowler some
typographical errors were made. Mr.. Ash
ley was made to say: But trust that
your considera ton to the service OF God,
&C." 1t should be your conservation. &C."
A line further on the expression Through the
church of ones common choice. &C." should
read 1.-The church of our common choice. &C."
The last word in the first paragraph ending
in the second column should be "vindicated,"
not indicated"