The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-05-13
PROVO CITY.
MAY Is. 1895
THAT MABRY CASE.


to journalism, especially in the west,
where one has a right to expect nerve,
faithfulness to duty, as well as utter
fearlessness. A great, a shocking
scandal has recently occurred, involY-
ing a name of the very highest re-
spectability, an ecclesiastical luminary
indeed, and also that of weak sister.
The facts in the case are plain and un-
doubted, and yet one OF these leading
papers has been editorially silent, or
what is tantamount to that, and the
other has boldly put itself forward as
the apologist of the wrong doer. This
would argue a state of morals before
which virtuous people should stand
and tremble.
The whole case is briefly thus: This
DR.. Mabry is pastor of a leading church
of Salt Lake. He is man of talent, OF
learning and eloquenee. Mrs. Reilly is
q young and beautiful woman. She
visits Mr.. MabrY, not once, but forty
times, in his private study in the
church and remains from two until five
O'Clock. No other human being is
present. The circumstances of these
visits are noticed by the police. They
finally break open the door of the
study and find Mrs. Reilly, with her
clothes disarranged, on the bed, and
the preacher partislly undressed by her
side on the floor.
What more is needed to convince
even the closest friends of the pair of
the utter and entire guilt of beth? Had
that woman any business to be in that
private room by herself, alone
with the minister? Had he any
right, being alone, to admit her2
If he had never touched her person yet
he is as guilty as if he had done so a
thousand times. He has put her good
name and fair fame to hazard, which he
had no right to do. This is guilt, In
condemning DIR. MabrY we do not the
less condemn the woman. She knew
that it was wrong for her to 80 visit
him alone for any purpose whatever,
The reverend apologist who writes in
the Tribune of Sunday speaks Of the
public and the christians "facing a
host of impalpable fears" Alas! no;
they are facing the above real, stern
and unexplainable facts. They are
facing guilty man and a guilty
woman. The unfaithfui pastor who
has betrayed his flock, his God and the
cause Of good morals, while the
woman, the unf aithful wife, has be-
traYed loving and too trusting hus-
Dand, her sex and all that a virtuous
woman holds most dear in life. "a
man has been accused of a sin which
is not even proven" We beg the rev
erened apologist's pardon, but when
the two detectives found her in that
room alone with the minister, was not
her guilt proven? Was not his proven?
What more is needed, pray, TO make a
case2 1t would take a greatness of
soul" unknown in this age or any
other we fear, to enable one to hold
DR.. Mabry an innocent msn or the
woman virtuous, honest wife. 1.-The
Disheartened" who wrote the letter of
Sunday morning to the Tribune is a
canting fool or else he thinks an indig-
nant and outraged public is composed |
of fools entirely.
How can the "Disheartened'' expect |
such a thing to occur without talk, or
Rs he put it gossip" 1t is a good
thing that they do talk and that
they do condemn such conduct.
The absence of such talk and such con-
would argue an insensi0il-
ity which could come from but one
source, familiarity. We rejoice that
the people do talk and condemn. We
do not covet that greatness of SOUP
which would keep us quiet or the pub
lie quiet in such juncture as this "If
citizens expect fair play themselves"
the way to insure it, is not to meet
pretty young women in their private
studies alone. The whole question is
In this simple statement.
Men, we spprehend, talk and condemn
this most hagrant outrage not because
they hate the christian church or the
God OF it, but because they hate the
hypocrisy of the filthy libertine who
jtole the robes of the christian minis
.ry to serve his own filthy lusts in, and
the woman only because she made of
1er own fair person charnel house in
which this moral monster worshipped {
and INDUCED his guilty passions. Never
fear. this thing will Lot lnjure the true
church or the trIe God, but it will !
yive the libidinous and lecherous min
sters black eye and come very near I
such women out and away !
rom Gods holy and pure church, to
where they belong. The writer of the
etter to the Tribune seems an honest
oul, but we may say to him and all
thers that if to be christian it is re-
uired to refrain from condemnation
q this case, then we blush for christi
nifty and blush that we have been born
nd reared under christian influence.
ak 1t out on the house tops and do VI
OF forget to condemn it in your own IL
carts. That's the remedy. and let "
and its churches take care n n,
f themselves.