The sun., 1909-11-29
THE ALTERNATING PASTORS
MN. HOUSTON KEPT OUT OF
TIMOTHY'S PULPIT THIS TINE.

Last Time RE Elbowed MIR. Moore Ou Z.
but Yesterday q Bunch 0r Negroes
Blocked the Doorway with No Re
spect for Legal Opinion or MaJerttics.
The Timothy Baptist Church. colored.
at los West Thirtieth street. near Seventh
avenue and just up the block from tho
Tenderloin police station. 10 having
trouble with it's pastors and for the last
two Sundays has felt it necessary to appeal
to the police to keep order.
The pastor OF the church for the last
thirteen months-up to three weeks ago
was the Rev. William Houston. a native
OF Richmond. Va. Three weeks ago
the board OF deacons OF the church.,
Of which Ran Van Bundy is the chair
man. held a meeting and decided that
il was best to install a new minister in
the Rev. Mr.. Houston's place. and they
Immediately hired the Rev. N. M. Moore.
Their reasons for the change. accord
ing to Mr.. Van Bundy. were that they
had found that Mr.. Houston never had
been ordained and also that they did not
feel that he was sufficiently well edu-
Gated to serve the church.
The Rev. Mr.. Houston in reply to this
says that as q matter OF fact the trouble
came when he asked for two weeks va
cation and the church granted him two
months. but refused to give him SUM
Client pay to live on during that period.
In the matter OF education the Rev.
Mr.. Houston says that he has found
IL difficult to keep his sermons down to
the level of intelligence OF his audience.
d. ,t.Sl h. lv.tA
for the first time on Sunday night a week
ago. He was there bright and early.
and when the Rev. Mr.. Houston also
showed up armed with a little bag con-
tanning his sermon Mr.. Houston was
was met at the door by one Of the dea-
cons Of the church who told him that he
couldn't come In. Mr.. Houston hurried
to the nearby police station and told
his troubles to Capt. O'Brien. The po-
lice captain said he couldn't interfere,
but would send a policeman along to
see that there was no physical violence
done.
Mr.. Houston then went back TO the
church and pushing past the guard at
the door, strode down the aisle, asoended
the pulpit. showed the unresisting Mr..
Moore out OF the way-the service already
had begun-and began everything all
over again as II nothing had happened.
Deacon Van Bundy. seeing how the
ground lay. left the church and went
over to see Capt. O'Brien on his own
account. He said that the Rev. Mr..
Houston had come down there and had
to the Rev. Mr.. Moore. Capt. O'Brien
again declined to interfere and pointed
out that he already had stationed a po-
liceman at the door to guard against
disturbance Of the peace.
Mr.. Van Bundy went back to the church
u IaNA wtw Il
out past the policeman on guard. and.
hatless and coatless burst into the station
house and told Lieut.. Dempsey on the
desk that her father. Deacon Van Bundy.
wanted a policeman at the church-that
the Rev. Mr.. Houston was preaching
hard. that another policeman joined
the one already standing on the corner.
But the Rev. Mr.. Houston finished the
service undisturbed, while his successor
sat in a front pew and watched him.
All this was a week ago Last week,
the Rev. Mr.. Houston consulted a lawyer
and got from him typewriter statement
! of the law covering the case. With this
statement in his hand. the former pastor
again went to the church last night.
prepared to preach. But this time in
stead of the former deacon on guard.
he found half a dozen young and very
large colored men who heretofore. SO far
as the minister could remember, had
not been actively connected with the
church. He flashed the document in his
said the West Thirtieth street equivalent
OF -Tush!" and refused to bulge from
| the doorway. Mr.. Houston again made
the journey to the station house and again
| told Capt. O'Brien about the case. And
again policemen were sent down to
preserve order-but not. otherwise. TO
All through the long service. conducted