Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-02
RICHMOND PROMISES
TO EJECT SUCCESSOR
Deposed Rector Says He Will
Use Physical Force, if Neces-
sary, and Defy Bishop.

The Rev H. NJ G. Hun will be pre-
vented from entering the yard OF st
Johns Episcopal church, Sd and Brow
streets. II need be by physical force, on
Sunday morning, when he will go ther,
to preach at the request OF Bishop Rhine.
lander. who asked the rector OF the
church. the Rev. George Chalmers Rich.
| niond, to quit the parish and turn the
| keys and property over to the new Nestry.
| known ns the 'curbstone vestry," on or
| before .hc frst OF the month
Authority for this statement came
| from Doctor Richmond today when he
| emphstically declared that he still is the
| rector Of 81. Johns Church, and that no
| representative of the Bishop would be
allowed to set foot on the ground of the
parish, either now or on Sunday,
This man Hun has nothing to do with
the church and won't have anything to do
with IT," Doctor Richmond said. Neither
will any other Huns, 'Snurfs' nor any
other person sent there by Bishop Rhine
lander"
II intend to have my vestry, the official
vestry OF the church. present on Sunday
morning and the gates to the churchyard
will he guarded so that neither the Rev.
Mr.. Hun nor any other OF the bishops
crowd will be permitted TO enter. 1t is
also possible that / may prevent any
member Of tho "curbBtone vestry" from
entering. ms l will not permit disorderly
persons to be In the church. Once be-
fore, when they were present they be-
came disorderly.
you can say that l would not even
permit Bishop Rhineander to enter tho
church on Sunday My church people
have no respect for him and we don't
want TO have anything to do with him.
He is acting mean and contemplate i'm
naming this man Hun to preach in the
church, and he has no authority to do so.
Why does he not wait until the courts
decide as to the legality of the curb
stone vestry." l think that he and his
crowd are getting afraid of the action of
the court. and for that reason requested
that the hearing set for today be post |
poned until the 22d. Whenever Bishop |
Rhinelander has any dirty work to be
done he calls upon this man Huff to do ii |
for him. Well, one things certain, Mr.. !
Huff will find that am the rector of st. |
Johns Church and that he'll never be 4
able to enter It,"
Doctor Richmond then announced the !
subjects of the sermons he intends to
preach on next Sunday and said he was
busy preparing them. He said that II
was probable that he would talk of the
bishops action In assigning a minister
to Ill ST. Johns pulpit in his place. His
subject in the forenoon is to be THE
Prophets Call TO Modern Society,"" and
IN the evening, he said he would preach
on Ecclesiastical Christianity and the
Simplicity of Christ"
The Rev, Mr. Hun will not attempt to
enter st, Johns Church by force on Sun.
lay in event Doctor Richmond's guards
make an effort to prevent him from en-
ering. Neither will he enter the pulpit
% preach, should he reach the interior
II the edlfice, II Doctor Richmond shows
IN inclination to force him from 1t.
There is every possibility of legal action
'eing started within the next few davs
o compel Mr.. Richmond to turn over the
ieys, books and property of st. Johns
'hurch to the accounting and rector's
gardens of the new vestry as requested
y Bishop Rhinelander.
Following g frutless search by CharIes
/. Brown, Tector's warden, and Leroy
}. McDermott, accounting warden, of the
ew vestry, for Mr., Richmond, yester-
ay, for the purpose OF formally request
lg that the church property be turned
yer to them, j. Wilson Bayard. attorney ,
Or the new vestry, decided to make for
lal request I'm writing to Mr. Richmond.
trough the attorney for the clergyman.
The hearing, which was 10 have been
eld before Judge Ferguson, of Common
Teas Court No. 3, today. at which IL was 7
Npected to establish the legality OF the !
ew vestry, commonly known as tbs s
ourbstone vestry," has been postponed /
nti June 22