The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-02-22
"Torn into Flindcre."

| ilCFNiu anu NcWs. Ono Oh your COr-
respondents Ia evidently laboriug under
u miscOncoption and therefore doea me
u great injustice, touching my sorvIccs
az ST. Philips and Bachman Chapel
churches. First, no makes Tho impress
| ston that gave up tho work there 10.
cause "thc salary was too low" and
gives mo no credit whatever for my un.
selfish devotion to tho people In that
community; and, thcn, hr charges that
my "rcsignation, rs ho terms it, "has
torn the now charge into tlindcrs."
On sober, second Thought he must
SEQ that he greatly wrongs me, and
forces mo 10 state tho facts In the case.
Ii ts we'll known that | have boon cd.
itor OF the Lutheran Visitor about ak
years, aud during most of this time
was doing pulpit and pastoral work
requiring all my timc. ami taxing all
my energies. This Was telling on mo
physically and financially. 4 little
more than one year ago. following what
conceived tN hc tho hand ot rrovi.
dence, gave up my pulpit and entered
into arrangements 10 devote my whNle
time tN the work " editing the Visitor.
and visiting the entire Southern Churrh
III its interest. While away from home
IN the pros, ru;ion ot the WORK tu which
God has called me. n letter came stat
ing that the new charge" had failcd
Ia agree in calling II pastor and asking
me whether or not could serve them
in connection with my duties AS editor,
hut no formal call was ever sent mo.
Ga my return honestly undertook to
render said churches the best service
possible lndcr the circumstances, but
soon saw that it would be impossible to
in the charge required three Sundays
in each month and five sermons, thus
leaving me no time to travel in tho in
tcrcSt OF the Visitor. How could pay
house rent, and support u wife ard
eight children when the entire sum
proposed to be given by the charge was
only twenty-five dollars anu fifty cents
per month"; During the two months
services under these circumstances |
positively received from all sources,
only s54.i7,-S27,0S4 per month. The
charge is willing and the members are
all dear friends Of mine, and no blame
attaches to them. II was u mistake for
the Synod to place these small cougrc-
cations into pastorate when it was
known that they could not support q
pastor without outside help.
What, then, was my duty in the
premises? Simply to do what 1 did,
viz: to call the councils together, state
the facts in the case, and ask the breth-
rem to drop me out Of the problem, and
get some one who could serve them in
connection with some other work
This was done, and with the most kind
ly feeling between all the brethren and
myselt-nor was "the charge torn into
flinders" by ME or any one else.
We therefore kindly suggest that it
ls neither fair nor just to place an in
nocent public man in q wrong light be-
fore the general community as your
correspondent has done, and especially
when | stated publicly that l would
gladly preach for them without salary,
II possibly could, but the services re-
quired precIuded the possibility Of car
| rying out my contract with the Visitor
| and securing support for my family
from that source. Surely my friend
| "Chips" would not have me continue a
| work which cOuld not snnnOrt mo and
thus reduce my family to positive want.
No, he simply failed to duly consider
his words-and therefore we condone
his fault. S. n. MAILMAN.