The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-20

Il certainly do" was the reply.
rs the husband from whom she obtain
ed the divorce Hving?" said DR.. Nor
gan.
Solemn Moment.
He was living three days ago, when
saw him, and he Is a person much in the
public eye just now, by reason OF q bril-
liant book he has just written"
Then Dr. Morgan turned to his assist
ant, who had not yet finished the stole,
and babe him summon Mr.. Bracken and
his best man to the vestry. 1t was pref
ty solmen moment. DIR. Morgan virtually
gave Mr.. Bracken the lie, whereupoTl the
bridegroom raised his hand after the
solemnity of an oath and declared first
upon his honor and then in a more solemn
manner that the bride was widow, never
divorced, and that her first husband was
dead
The organist had moduIated into a key
with richer harmonies and was, to accus-
toned musical ears, ready for another
incubation that should bring him 10 the
strains Of the Lohengrin Wedding March.
Dr. Morgan whispered to an assistant, bid
ding him go to the organ loft and com
mand the oTganist to silence. Never was
there greater establishment in that or
any other church than when that bewllder-
ed musician received that command DR..
Morgan waited long enough for the organ
music to cease and then said to Mr..
Bracken that he should not officiate at the
ceremony.
The bridegroom implored him at least
to notify the guests that they were 10 SO
to famous restaurant one block above
the church, and then DIR. Morgan coming
from the vestry to the chancel advanced
TO the reading desk and there was a hush
in that church. In a low tone Of voice
DR.. Morgan said that there had been a
change in the arrangements and that he
hQd han fed n n eli hn In
go at once to Delmonicos.
The Ceremony Performed.
In the great banquet hall of that restau-
rant. where the wedding breakfast was
TO be served, Presbyterian clergyman,
rejoicing yesterday that the great load
OF debt upon his church had been lifted
and that he had triumphed over Russell
Sage and other rich trustees who had
tried to force him from thai pulpit, per-
formed the ceremony, his conscience be-
ing free, as he said, since the divorce
was not the guilty party, and the laws
of his church permitted him to perform
the ceremony.
DR. Morgan took off his vestments and
The vestry was locked. The organist, al
most stupefied came from the organ loft
and went almost secretively away. The
church doors were closed and when the
reporter whose whistle of amazement
had caused the first intimation TO be given
came later In the day to get news OF that
ceremony for the society column, the sex
ton simply SAID: There wasn't any we'd
ding, after all; we only had the music"
Dir. Morgan supposed that he was
abundantly fortified against embarrass-
ment or trickery through his determine
tlon not 60 marry any person who had
been divorced. He has discovered that
that is not a sufficient precaution. He,
therefore has determined that hereafter
he will marry no person, and allow his
curates TO marry no persons who are
strangers 90 him or 10 them. That is
a rule adopted by the clergymen in the
Connecticut town where Mr.. and Mrs
Perry Belmont were married after that
marriage had occasioned scandal in the
church of which the officiating clergy
man was a member.