The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-28
COMMUNICATIONS.

Something Regarding Madison Church
Affairs.
To the Editor Of the JOURNAL AND COULTER:
We have learned from various
sources that the impression has gone
forth to the world that the council that
convened here settled all our church
difficulties, that the minority were all
going back to the fold, and everything
was settling down into peace and quiet.
There is nothing that could be farther
from the truth. The minority made it
their settled policy not to go into a
newspaper fight. AS natural conse-
quz1ce the most abominable falsehoods
have gone out to the world unan-
swered, and the majority have had
their own way. We have been repre-
sented as set of old fogies who stuck
to the old theology and could not ap-
preciate 'up to date" sermons;as an
ignorant set of people who could not
comprehend the preaching of Mr..
Brown; as people of no character,
whose only object in prosecuting Mr..
Brown was personal malice, because he
preached that every man should be
honest and pay his just debts. But the
worst feature of the whole is the insult
and abuse that has been heaped upon
Rev. Mr.. Gallup, who has been accused
of being at the bottom of the whole
trouble, and for no other reason than
that he will not endorse the doctrines
preached by Mr.. Brown. We wonder If
there is any one outside of Madison
who is idiotic enough to suppose that
Mr.. Gallup is going to lay aside all the
Christian principles and Christian doc
Itrines that he has preached for forty
years, and endorse the blasphemies of
DIR. Heron. For the last two years
things have been going from bad to
worse, but when DR.. Heron gave his
famous lecture here, and when Mr..
Brown openly avowed himself disci-
pie of DIR. Heron endorsed his rel-
gious views in public, and said that he
had received from him one of the
greatest inspirations Of his life, the eli
max was reached. At the sale of seats
in December there We're about twenty
who would not take their seats, saying
that they never would pay another
cent to support Mr. Brown. About this
time the Sunday school was in q fight,
classes We're broken up, and teachers
and scholars (who We're not Brownites)
were treated with such marked cool
ness and impudence that they left the
Sunday school altogether. People alb
scented themselves from church because
they would not go and hear Mr.. Brown
preach. 1t seemed as if something
must be done. Acting in perfect good
faith, and relying on the justice of our
cause, we called council, supposing
that an association of Christian minis
tiers and delegates from Christian
churches would aid us with their coun-
sci in setting things right. The council
met, and judging from appearances,
they came expecting to have a good
joke in putting down a few old fogies
who were prosecuting Mr. Brown from
personal malice. They found the case
more serious than they anticipated
But it is said yale college was on tri-
al" and Yale college won its miserable
victory. Only one question was asked
Mr. Brown as to his religious belief
and that was objected TO by one of the
council and passed over. There was
not a single witness whose evidence
could not have been substantiated by
from four to dozen in the audience,
but they were not called upon. and Mr..
Brown was allowed to slide through