The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-25
EERRjN IS A MORAL EP[R
REV. DIR. HILLS DOESN'T MINCE
WORDS IN STATING HIS OPIN-
ION OF HIM
HAS REFUSED TO MEET HIM
Declines to Have Anything to Do
With a Man Who Deserts Wife
and babes for Another
Woman.

NEW YORK, April 24-The Rev Dr.
Hills, pastor of the Plymouth chuch. to-
day made a statement in reference to
Prof. George d. Heron, in5 which he
said:
My refusal to meet Mr.. Heron at the
Get-together club next Monday night
was not based upon his position as a
ScclaHst, his criticism of the church or
OF the administration. NY objection to
appearing with Mr.. Heron was not bas-
%d upon the VagarieS of his intellect or
upon the fact that his thinking seems TO
me crude, superficial and false in it's
premises, but upon the deeds that rep e.
sent his will and character.
L do not wish to be unkind, but there
are sins so grievouS, so bald vulgar and
Grass in their persstency, their virulence,
that they consume the mantle of charity
as flame the garment.
Consider the conceded facts in the case.
MS man marr1eS young woman, and
is the father of four children almost
babes; forms a friendship with a young
unmarried woman. from whom he &C
ceptS money to buy his clothes, hats
shoes and travelling expenses: against
his wife'S protest goes abroad with this
woman friend and her mother for wear:
returns to tell his wife that he has ceas-
ed TO love her, but loves another, and
persistently urges his wife to obtain a
divorce. This mans spokesman and
bosom friend in New Haven justifies the
fathers desertion of the four children
wife $4,000 to give her husband up TO
her. Mrs. Herron's friends assert that
the amount paid was only $4,000.
Now, some money was paid Mrs. Her
ron, or else 1t was not Suppose no money
was paid her. Why has he not denied
The statement to save the honor of the
mother of his children? If any sum Of
money was paid his wife by this woman
friend, then this man sold himself and
whether for Judas thirty pieces of silver
OF $4,000 makes no difference.
The first supposition leaves him a cow
ard in not defending his babes mother
The second leaves him a monster, and his
friends may take their choice.
Why should | go to the Get-together
subject? ] cannot hear what Heron
says because the sobs of his deserted
babes thunder in my ears
If he will publicly renounce this woman
friend and break his pledges to her for
their announced marriage; if he will
then rinse out his mouth with sulphuric
acid and cleanse it of foul pledges; if he
will ask the judge to remarry him to his
deserted wife; if he will return to his
little children. and, when they are old
CROUCH to understand it, beg their for
givenness, / will, after l am confident of
his penitence. gladly meet him on any
platform. though 1 will never have any
interest in the economic statements of a
man whose intellect can be guilty OF
such VagarleS.
HERRONS CHURCH TRIAL.
GR1NNFLL, To-, April A.-The GrinnelI
Congregational association, which is to
try Pref. George D. Heron, is embar-
raised because of the disappearance OF
the petition for divorce and other papers
in the case from the court of Algona.
Despite efforts that have been made, it
has been found impossible up to date to
secure copies Of the papers. 1t is sup
posed that the petition is either in the
hands of Judge OuartOn or in the nos
session of one of the attorneys.
According to the clerk of the court at
Aigona, the charges alleged in the petit
: ton were deSertion, cruelty and III
--uman treatment. The desertion, it is
alleged, consisted in the refusal of Prof
Heron to live with the plaintiff for
period Of five years. The charges of
cruelty and inhuman treatment. 1t is
said, were based on Prof Herron's ac-
ton in travelling about the country, leav-
Ing his wife at home, because of which
she suffered nervous prostration and be-
came almost physical wreck