Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-17
REV. JOSEPH DENPS7ER
And the Bust Up in His East Capt.
tOl Street Church.
AN IMPARTIAL STATEMENT
In Which Tho Globe Stands BY Mr. Dempster
and tho Holy Ghost as Against tho Fallen
Perfected HoIIn5sses The Cause Of The
TrOubIs, Money Matters, as Usual - An
Effort 10 Start Another Church.

The accident on Sunday last to the
open-air revival meeting being held by
the Rev. Joseph Dempster was not due
to the notice of the reverend gentle
ment's church troubles and superior
branch of Holy Ghost Holiness as
published in The Globe Of that date.
out to the frantic efforts Of a runna-
way horse to get at the pastor and in
doing so indiscriminatly. trampling on
and kicking women and children. In
,he terrible excitement which resulted
me Reverend Dempster preserved his
laDltual cOOlness and serenity. a
nouei TO his congregation and an ex-
ample to the unregenerate of the
graces possessed by a man filled with
the Holy Ghost. For whereas Mr.. w.
=, Peake, the well-known merchant.
and other gentlemen eXerted them
selves to save the women and helpless
from the maudened horse, at great risk
70 their own persons, the reverend
Joseph Dempster heroically sprinted
up stairs i'm the building and fell to
Praying for the safety Of his flock.
de subsequently visited the hospital.
where the Injured were being attended
to, but was cruelty denied admittance
lt ,ne instigation or owing to the obiac-
ion of the aforesaid Peake and others
who had failed to appreciate his hero
ism. Now these others are the cause
3f the dislntegration Of the Rev Demp-
ster's congregation of "Perfectos."
And The Globe, in digging around. has
nc last asCertained the real cause for
the ulsgruntlement among the 81 Holi-
nesses who revived from under the
ministry of the nev. Dempster There
are other minor causes but-th real
trouble originated i'm that evil of man
kind-money. II there was no money
in the world there would be more holi-
uesses than in Mr. Dempster's church.
but as money is the root of all evil.
me devil who was watching for a
chance to take a fall out of the man
mainly instrumental i'm running him
off Capitol Hill saw his chance and
with his customary indefatiguable en-
ergy promptly used this money" evil
to unhOrse the eX-Catholic. eX-Quaker.
and eX-SalvatiOn Army eXhorter. And
the devil in Mr. Dempster's case, as i'm
all others he lays himself out to trap
succeeded in his diabolical design.
It came about in this way:
The Rev Joseph Dempster conceived
the idea of erecting a new church In
the perfection Of this idea he discover
ed that it would take money to build
the edihce. He appealed to the Eewe
Hollinesses who never failed I'm mat
ters Of this kind and who, in the
language Of the late Dick Smith. edi. |
tor Of the Cincinnati Commercial |
Gazette. In his eulogy Of their success !
full efforts to complete the Washington /
monument, said
when the ladies' put their hands to |
the stones, the column rises" so I'm |
this case, when the ladies Of the Rev. l
Dempster's church undertook to collect |
the money, it rolled I'm i'm big wads. !
brothers, fathers, and sons /
were compelled to go down I'm their /
pockets by the wives, mothers, |
and sisters in the Rev. /
Dempsters congregation with the re-
suit that quite a large sum was speed |
lily realized And all of which was
very properly turned over to the Rev
arend Mr. Dempster. Time went mer-
rily on, rather piously on, and so did |
the collections. Suddenly they ceased !
and have continued to cease up to the |
present writing. Notwithstanding the |
open air revival meeting and the mad /
lened horse which, Of course, was no |
other than the devil in disguise, A |
fact the unregenerate reporters Of the |
Star were unable to discover because |
Of their unimpregnated Holy Ghost |
condition.
Now some Of the male members of |
the Rev. Dempster's church have been /
active prompted, of |
course. by the deviD in ascertaining |
to what use the Reverend Dempster |
put the collections AS If it was any |
Of their business These disgruntled |
and fallen Perfectos remind us Of the |
Irish patriot who subscribed five dol |
lars to free Ireland, and raised a |
howl which was taken mp by the Eng
lsn and American press because Ire
land wasn't freed according to pro
gramme.
The Rev. Dempster's recOncentradOs /
want to know too much about the root .
of all evil when. as a matter Of fact, |
the object for which they were admit .
ted as Holinesses was to cultivate per
lection and become impregnated with .
the Holy Ghost. What is il their busi- |
ness, We may be permitted to ask in a |
frenzy Of indignant eloquence, If the |
Rev Dempster has decided to eNpend |
the money for something else? 1t |
might have been theirs at one time |
but II Is his now Again we ask why .
should criticism descend on the Rev. |
Dempsters head because a man named |
Williams was sent to the workhouse |
for wanting to accompany his wife |
TO Mr.. Dempster's meeting.
We glory in the emotional women .
who are standing bv Rev. Dempstcr, |
even il he has a red head. Let them |
stick to him and make 1t hot at home |
for husband or father who remonstrate |
W tn them, These male bipeds are |
Jealous Of their pastors perfected
qualifications In securing the female
spiritual heart and ALLEGIANCE. What II
he has had to abandon Fouth and East
Capitol and is now irving to make a
fresh start at Twelfth and IT, BY
holding uD his hands he will soon Sc
ON rn anpthar oonown orokfou and many