The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-17
Manufactured A DiSgraCGful Fight Among the Flock of the BingVillG COngrGgaShiOn-
 Full PartiGklGrS

They is a disgraceful fight on in Bing- vile which 1t pains us very deep to give the sickening details of, but as writer of current news and a moulder of public opinion, we must not hesitate to do our duty. We made up our mind many years ago that we would never shrink from giving what happened in the collums of the Bugle providing we could find 1t out and we have not departed from this pol lev. We always have made 1t a rule to print all the news that is fit to print and some that ain't We have often printed | things that people don't like to see about theirselves, but we have never regretted | 1t except on several occasions when them as we had maligned come to our office and wiped the floor with us.
 This present squabble in the church was started by Mrs. Cy Hoskins and Mrs. Lem Brown. Mrs Brown she was in favor of raising money to purchase a .new pulpit , for Rev. Moore. our beloved pastor, to preach on. Mrs. Hoskins said that they needed a good many things worse than | they needed a new pulpit and she was opposed to it. Mrs Hoskins said that if money was spent for anything 1t ort to be spent to repair the seats in the church some of which was so weak that they wasn't safe to set down on being as one had broke down with her only two weeks ago, and she only weighs BIO lbs. too
 Mrs. Hoskins said when the seat broke down with her in church she felt terrible humiliated and shook up and tore her skirt in two places
 | Well. as soon as they got argying about l the question all the members begin to | take sides. Some was in favor of a new pulpit and some was otherwise At pres ent the hole entire church Is divided on the question. Mrs. Browns side is going to have a new pulpit whether or no and l eid Ia nf fn one. Nobody on one side won't speak to nobody on the other side. The choir is about equally divided and each half re- fuses to sing with the other half next Sum
 day. Deacon Butterworth and Deacon Andrews almost had a fist fight out in front of the church last Sunday morning they got so het up over the question.
 Rev. Moore has been trying to spread oil on the troubled waters, but so far he has not been very successful. He said he would like to see the onruly members of his flock come back into the fold and the milk-white dove of peace hover again above the sanctuary, but at present the dove is roasting elsewhere. Rev. Moore says he aint particular whether a new pulpit Is got for him not. He says the old one is good enuff for him to preach off of. When Mrs. Browns side heard this they accused Rev Moore of being
 with the other side and was in favor of
 getting new preacher Just to show
 the height of the feeling that exists in
 the church when the collection was took
 up last Sunday morning the amount raised
 consisted of only three cents and a pant
 button. Whereas the amount of the col
 lection usually foots up between 20 and
 80 cents and several pant buttons
 | It grieves us terrible to think that the
 members of the Bingville church would Sd
 disgrace theirselves as to choose off on
 sides, as it were, and hate each other like
 this. It don't seem to us to indicate a
 true Christian spirit They ort to try tc get along in peace and harmony instead
 of saying mean things about each other
 like they have been doing. The Bible says
 that a house divided against itself shall
 fall and we shouldn't wonder this will
 happen to the Bingville Church because
 it was never put up any too stout in the
 first place. Let us hope that this dis } graceful fight will be fixed up in some } way and that all will ask forgiveness oi each other and try to live nobuller lifes. , LATER-Just as we go to press we } have learnt that Rev Moore, our beloved 7 pastor, has thrown the old pulpit out oi } the church and refuses to have any. Thus l both sides are pleased and have become reconciled to each other. We oongratu. [ late Rev. Moore on his action which hal averted what looked like a serious difn.
 aulty.