The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-10
DIVIDED MINDS
AT FOWLER NJ. E,
MOVE TO BRING DR.. MONTGOM-
cry HERE Is OPPOSED.
Official Board Has Already Recalled the
Present Pastor, DR.. Cool, But Some
Members Claim They Didn't Mean
It-Dr. Cool Resents Action and In
reference of Lavmen.

Fowler church is in an unhappy state
over the pastorate. There is division.
in the church Ger the recall of Rev. +.
A. Cool for another year.
Some time. ago when it was amour
ced that Bishop Joyce would hold the
conference here it seemed as tho the
whole business would be left in the
Joyce became sick and died Fowler
church matters were thrown into a
state of confusion which has increased
momentarily since that unhappy event.
First it was expected that Bishop Berry
would hold the conference and it was
understood that he knew the wishes Of
Bishop Joyce and would carry them out.
But now that Bishop Mcdowell, who
knows next to nothing Of the local sit,
that he will have anything but a happy
| time in October, unless the warning
| factions in the meantime cease their
strife.
A peculiar feature of the situation is
that the last quarterly conference held
tion to DR.. Cool to return. This was
done by unanimous vote, the motion
being made by J. H. Kerrick, chairman
Of the board Of trustees, and seconded
by o. B. McClintock, superintendent Of
the Sunday schoo l. Within two or three
days it is claimed, these same men
Joined in plan to bring DR.. Montgom-
church, ignoring the fact that they had
already Joined in a call to another man:
When taxed with their apparent lack of
consistency they claimed that the
call to DR.. Cool was purely compli-
mentary and that DR.. Cool knew it. This
DR.. Cool denies in toto.
The Montgomery call involves rails
of no Oh, al
thousand dollars year, while the
church has always complained that it
was under too great expense with DR..
Cool, and when as a matter of fact it
now owes hi mseveral hundred dollars
of unpaid salary. The explanation of
this is that Dr. Montgomery has agreed
to bring M. W. Savage into Fowler
church, and that he, Savage, will give
$1,000 toward the running expenses
Dr. Montgomery is also to guarantee
$500 toward the building of Fowler
900 addition is contemplated, toward
, which the guarantee of DR.. Montgomery
will 60. - - -@.-s....-
DR.. Cool is very indignant at the
report that DR.. Montgomery has come
into his parish and held clandestine
communications with his official board
members, offering them inducements tx
call him to Fowler church. He said te
a reporter yesterday:
~ have heard that DR.. Montgomery
has been here and held meetings with
the members Of the official board OF
Fowler church, and I cannot say any
thing except that I cannot believe hi
has done this thing. Tt is unheard Of
, in the Methodist church, and is a thing
expressly discountenanced by. the dis
cipline and laws IF the church. I have
written him a letter in which I asl
him for the exact facts as to his rela
lions, if any, with my official members
have also written to one or two Of thu
; bishops. and I believe that some PEG
pile will shortly learn some thing
Z about the Methodist church which the,
do not know; or which they have chose1
. to overlook.
mon, in which you spoke pretty sharpl,
about the interference Of laymen9'
"Well, that sermon was prepared be
fore I learned or knew anything abou
that invitation being merely compli
mentary, but itiseems to have hit som
people pretty hard, and [ will say tina
if it hurt any persons in my church i
is their fault and not mine, because
stated nothing but what is true an
generally applicable.
One Of the recent developments
that the men who have called DR.. Goo
back to Fowler church are signing
round robin explaining that they di
| not mean it. Whether this will hel
their cause any with the bishop remain
to be seen.
Several members Of the offcis
at the West hotel. but said afterwar
that the subject of call to DR.. Mon
gomery was not taken up.
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