Evening journal., 1897-03-25
NEWS OF NEW CASTLE
COLLINS OR NOBODY!'
No Pastor But Rev. V. s., Will
Be Accepted in New Castle.
IS Positively AN ULTIMATUM

RESOLUTIONS DECLARING NEW
CASTLES INTENTION TO GET
ALONG WITHOUT ANYBODY SAID
TO HAVE BEEN SIGNED BY
UNITED oFFICIARY.
Rev. James NJ. Wise, James e. Biggs
and Thomas Frazer, Jr., representing
an united officiary Of New Castle NJ. E.
Church; Rev. Vaughan S. Collins, late
pastor OF the church, but now pastor
Of Georgetown, who has been summon
ed before members Of the bishops cabi-
net at Dover; and Presiding Elder Bar
rett, whom the New Castle people are
cunning for, and at whose instance
a hearing was arranged, all gathered
up their grips and left for Dover to-day
to have a hearing before members of
the bishops cabinet
The three official men are said to be
armed with an ultimatum, setting
forth that V. S. Collins or nobody shall
be pastor Of New Castle NJ e. Church
for the ensuing year.
The regularly adopted resolutions
are signed by every trustee, steward,
exhOrter and class-leader i'm the church
except two. and these only needed
more time to consider the radical step.
although both are loyal friends of Mr.
Collins
The officials of the church have met
at intervals ever since Tuesday morn
ing when it was made known to them
that Mr.. Collins was to be taken away
from New Castle. Their pride is stab
bed to the quick, and even If the bishop
himself were sent to New Castle and
Pastor Collins taken away, they would
not be soothed. 1t is positively Col
Inns or nobody"
THE belligerent people Of New Cas-
| tie" as they have been looked upon
cannot be convinced that the powers
that be have not been led into a deal.
! The promotion of DR.. Corkran TO the
/ presiding eldership of Easton district.
and the changing of Mr.. Collins from
the Wilmington district to Georgetown
seems to them to have a string to it.
and the people will not let them pull
the string Mr.. Collins leadership
against the Wilson faction in the con-
ference five years ago has it is be-
lieved, been the secret of the whole
trouble. To this end the New Castle
churchmen have adopted summary
measures. Something has to break
and it will not be their pledges to ac-
cept collins or nobody"
DIR. BARRETT ON THE HUSTLE
The New Castle Methodists have GER
tainly made things unhappy for DR.
Barrett, the presiding elder He trav-
eled nearly all day yesterday and came
up with the bishop somewhere in Penn
syyania and told him Of the raging
storm.
MY opinion. Mr.. Presiding Elder,
said Bishop Walden, lis that Mr.. Col
Inns must go to Georgetown, but / leave
you presiding elders to decide it, and
give you fun scope"
HAVE FAITH IN MR.. HANNA.
New Castle people think too highly
Of Rev. j. ID. c. Hanna, Of Whining.
ton, to believe him party to any sucl
scheme to rob Mr.. Collins OF the pre-,
siding eldership of Wilmington distric
next year. as that attributed to him il
the Every Evening of yesterday. They
hold to three reasons showing the alb
surdity of the charge: First, that Mr.
Hanna is a personal friend of Mr.
Collins; second, that he is too good
Christian and too conscientious a gen
, tleman TO scheme to rob Mr.. Collins o
the presiding eldership next year; and
third that he could not even if h.
would, and no other man could stea
!. that office from Mir. Collins If execu
tive ability, popularity, energy and pc