The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-21
MANY FEATURES
 IN M'KAY CASE Taylor church's Former Pas- tor Charged Rev. Frank
 R. Luckey With y
 Plagiarism.
DR. SMITH AND THE 0kuA
Ladies Aid Society of the churchy Rallied Of Piano to Pay for the Salary of the
 Preacher.

The second round of the meeting vr the general council of the Congrega- tional church yesterday developed sev- eral very interesting and rather sur prising things which have been going on at the Taylor Congregational church during the past few years, dur ing the pastorate of Rev. Thomas Mo- Kay,
 One of these is that after MT. Me- Kay had been charged with plagiarism and with delivering sermons delivered before by Dr. Talmadge, he in turn stated to members of his parish that the Rev. Frank R. Luckey of this city on whose sermons many had com mented, delivered in the Taylor church a sermon written by the we'll known divine, pr. McArthur
 The persons who testified to this were Mrs. Thomas Waite, primarily, and her words were corroborated by H. s. Hamilton, clerk of the parish, and others. This created great storm among the other Congregation al ministers who were present and the names of the persons who so testified were immediately taken to be used later. One of the pastors present said that MT. Luckey had told him that he never read any of pr. McArthur's ser mons.
 Mrs. Waite said that Rev MT. Luckey came to her house with the printed sermon and told her that he was not the only one who preached other peoples sermons. He showed her the sermon, but she would only admit that there were strong points of resemblance. She said that it was not | the same sermon that MT. Luckey had preached. This latter clause was brought up by Rev Artemas J Haynes l who asked her directly if the sermon was the same or the same only in the main idea Mrs. Waite answered that the sermons were the same only in the main idea
 Another rather surprising point dis closed was that money was raised to pay Mr. McKay's salary partly by holding a raffle in the church and raf- fling off piano. When asked if this was the general custom at the Taylor church the witness then speaking said that it had been since MT. Mckay came; the former pastor would not allow it. Asked whether MT. Mckay helped sell the tickets for the raff1e. the witness stated that she did not know. The night the piano was drawn | for Mrs Hyde, the president of the la [ldies aid society, went up and asked MT Mckay who was the lucky pc
 and though 1t was the ladies' aid so- ciety which conducted the raff1e the request was refused Dr. Haynes ask ed what finally became of the piano, but nobody could remember.
 The meeting started with the re- reading of the charges against the for- mer pastor, substantially: that MT.
 Mckay had tried to disrupt the c'-urch and that he had been untruthful. The explanation why a letter of dismisslon
 had not been given him so that he could get another position, given yes-
 terday was that he had been untruth-
 full and deceptive and so would fill out
 all the blanks in the letter to suit his
 own ends. The charge finally stated
 that MT. Mckay was disturber of the
 peace and had tried to split the church
 and get at the head of the largest fac- tion.
 j. D, Bradley, a member of the con-
 gregation stated that since his resig-
 nation from the pastorate and the
 dropping of him from the church roll MT. Mckay has been going from house to house trying to get the brothers and sisters down on each other. Much bad feeling was aroused and quarrels among the church people followed. The : pastor had been approached and asked
 to refuse to be candidate for election
 another year After he had left the
 church Mir Mckay never came to the : church again until to a prayer meeting 5 in November where trouble occurred.
 After the prayer meeting, when the
 people with whom MT Mckay had en- q tered the church, tried to pass vote Q to give MT. Mckay the letters of dis T mission he wanted, MT. Bradley said B that MT Mckay had clustered up to - Rev. MT Harris the present pastor. : and told him that he wasn't afraid of Il him, although he was four inches high e er MT Bradley brought up old charg-
 es against lMr Mckay from Pennsyl- Il vania. Among these was plagiarism .~ and the fact that he had tried to split y a church there.
 John Crapp, another former member
 of the congregation, stated that MT
 Mckay had preached Talmadge's ser
 mons to the people of the church and l that this was soon seen as the sermons