The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-25
Preacher Says God Told
Him to Go With
Friends Wife.

NEW YORK. Aug 2A-Declaring there
had been no elopement. the Rev. Asbury
5. Whedon, hfty-seven years old. and
Mrs. Charles w. AIOhet- seventeen years
old of 455 Bergen street, Brooklyn. whose
strange disappearance last Thursday re-
suited in the husband Of the young
woman sending out a general police
alarm for the couple, have returned 20
the Moffet home.
The Rev. Mr.. Whedon, who for eight
years has been the spiritual adviser and
business associate Of young Moffet. saw
to It that there was an immediate re-
cancellation between the couple, and an
nouneed that he woSld continue 10 make
the Aoffet apartment his home
THE idea that we went away with
the intention Of clipping is preposterous,
he said. Mrs. Moffet has been staying
with friends. She did this to discipline
her husband. He was unlSind to her
By Voice of God
When the couple returned the husband
was at the Life Line Mission. in Van
Brunt street, near Hamilton avenue, con-
ductine religious services. His gtrl-wire
called him on the telephone and said
she had been directed by the voice OF
God to return to her home
According to Mrs. Moffet, her husband
understood thoroughly why she had left
home and he instantly forgave her The
minister and Mrs. Moffet waited in the
narlor for the return of the husband.
1--WE were. ordered by the voice of God
IN return home" said the Rev. MI.
Whedon- I'VE did not elope. as was
II @-f~ IRE
away. because she said she was unhappy
with her husband She told me he was
cruel TO her.
I'VE have not lived in the same house
since we went away. but we have been
within easy communication OF each
other. Mrs. AIoffet did not leave. her
room on Thursday night, as was sup
posed. For two nights she slept IN an
empty room at the top Of her husbands
house. She did not wish to be near him.
At night she would creep downstairs
and procure food.
Did Nothing Wrong.
''Then she told me that she could not
stand such a life any longer and asked
me to take her away. I did so. and am
sure I can give satisfactory explana-
lluH 70 44EA nuSnaA4u why We went away
We have done nothing wrong.
1T was a remarkable thing the way in
which God told us to return. I called
Mrs. Monet up by telephone and told her
that God had directed me to tell her to
return 10 her husband. She said that
God had also sent a like message to her.
I instantly went to her and we have re-
turned"
The fact that the pretty wife was vel
coined back to the home Of her husband
did not create surprise in the neighbor-
hood. Even after Moffet had requested
the police TO aid in the search for the
couple and had publicly announced that
she had been enticed away from home
by the minister, he asserted that all
would be forgiven II she would only
come back. He even announced that he
would be willing to share the coy little
apartment with the Rev. Mr.. Whedon.
Mother Is Angry.
ont Of the story Of the unusual con
duct on the part of the minister and
the girl wife. who is not yet eighteen
years old, 1t IS revealed that this is
not the first romantic chapter in the lie
of the latter At the age OF fifteen
anna Rotter M9net ran awayfrom the