The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-20

in il and when he bowed his head over
the principals table he received such q
blessing as / wish might spread itself
through this conference this afternoon.
Finally Mr.. Kicker began looking around
| for soma of his sturdy helpers to aid
| him in building up the school. He hit
upon man whom you Methodist breth-
ereu won't approve Of. His name was
| Puyson Tucker and he was man No. O.
If ever man entered into q work to do
good it was that man. and brethren I
believe Jesus Christ will yet obJain that
man as a member of his own flock. Now
Pm coming to delicate ground, said Mr..
Shaw.
"Your right said s,me one on the
| floor.
Now these two men, pnyson Tucker
and j. S. Kicker had been associated
with Frank Jones all their lives. know
you'L not approve of him brethren, there
was no other way and nm sure that
Christ led me to that man for his own
sake. Ii God would only take him and
SNAKE the sin cut of him there is a pow
or OF good in that man. Well had con-
ference with that man at night He Is
! very line gentleman and he gave mig
only three minutes at first and held his
watch in his hand while | talked to him.
L stated my case and brethren I was
| with that man for three hours. told
him all about keDt's Hill from the day
that The Old man gave up his farm to
found it, I told him that we had boeu
feeble and had appealed to the conference.
put had been turned out to browse for
ourselves. And Jones told me how he
came to get possession of the brewery.
toid me all about himself and said that
ne wanted to do soule good in the world.
told him If he dared to accept an cleo
tlon to the board of trustees he would
put his foot In Christ's Kingdom and
would surely be converted''
While he's a brewer" some one said.
hes very far from the kingdom Of
| heaven"
II you had the faith that you preach
Tor us to have and that the Lord tells us
10 hava, we'd have that mans soul in
~ honrs, F." said Mr.. Shaw.
Now " said Mr.. Shaw, 81 have told
you about this matter. We members of
inc Board of trustees have no compensa-
tlon for our work which ia only labor
Oh love and for my part any time the con
'fenc6 wishes to relieve NE from that
oho'l and take it on their own should
ers and bear it's burdens, shall he glad
to let you have it"
Rev NJ. e. .. Thayer said: "In con.
demnation of Frank Jones T yisld to
no man on the floor of this house but I
mink we had best lay this matter over
till another year,
At this point there were loud cries for
the resolution and for the vote on the
matter. Rev. Mr.. Munger got the floor
and said, IF we let this matter 40 over
until next year we will let this churon
rest under shadow for another year,
Rev. Mr.. Hewitt was oil of this tine
clamoring for recognition from the chair
put Mr.. Luce refused to recognize him.
several members pointed Mr.. Hewitt
out to Mr.. Luce and told him that he
hau sometnlng to present but Mr.. Luce |
continued to disregard him.
Mr.. President" said Mr. Hewitt. 81
demand recogition.''
Il won't recognize you, !" said Mr..
Luce.
After some time Mr. Luce reooonized
Mr. Hewitt who presented the following
resolution and moved its adoption; 81
Resolved that in view of the frank
rscognlUlon ana confession on the part of
the PRESIDENT of the board of trustees of
Kent's Hill of error in the seIectinn Of . |
brewer to the trusteeship of the school
ana III view OF tie irrevoca bility Of the
elective act we continue as a Conference
to send visitors to the school,.
Rev. Mr.. Woodbury. now got the floor
again aud started to speak when some
one rule him out of order as speakino
twice on the same subject but MIR.
woodbury. went on and said. 81 wish
that the man who made the fiery speech
would tell us enc fact. We were motif
He'd that the trustees did not cara
much about what the conference did any
way. man told us that this was tho
statement of some of the trustees them
selves.''
What was the name of that man.
said Mr.. Locke jumping to his feet.
But Mr. Woodbur did not answer.
referring to Mr.. Hewitt's resolution
Mr.. Berry said that he hadn't under
stood that Mr.. Locke hadn't acknowledge
an error. MIR.
Locke said that he had said, "To
err is human to forgive divine. But l
do not acknowledge to making mistake
this matter and brethren if 1 had to
do it over again would vote for Frank
Jones tomorrow fer believe l did |
right
Mr.. Hewitt's resolution which he offered
as an amendment to the original resolu. |
ton was now put to vote and was lost
by big vote. Before the original resoln- |
ton was put to a vote Rev. C. A. South
ard took the floor anu said, "That school |
is not amenable to this conference. |
What will be the result if you won't |