The New York herald., 1921-10-07
DIVORCED MINISTER
RESIGNS PASTORATE
The Rev. George d. Adams,
Who Married Again, to
Leave Mount Vernon.
SAYS LIPS ARE SEALED
Shielding Some People
High Up in Church, He
Tells Congregation.
DENIES BEING FALSfFIER
He Declares What He. Conceals
Concerns Two Lives in
Philadelphia
DENIES BEING FALSfFIER

The Rev. George d. Adams, who OBJ
tanned divorce from Mrs. Ina NJ. C.
Adams last March and married again
in August, has submitted his resipna
ton as pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Mount Vernon, to take ef
feet next January 1. His action was
not a surprise to the members of the
church, as there had been falling Off
In attendance since the trial of his
divorce action, and the congregation
has been divided into factions, one
supporting Or. Adams and the other
his former wife.
In his sermon last Sunday night DR..
Adams said that his resignation was
final. and that it followed certain cir
cun1stances which caused him to be
"unjustly termed falsifier."
Some day the facts will be perfectly
clear" he continued. II seem to stand
before you an untrutlful man, but God
Almighty knows that I am not. NV lips
have been sealed. have suffered and
I am shielding some people hign up in
the service Of the Master who would
have to step down and out. 1 have had
to do what I have been doing, and l an,
not going to name the people.
Asks to BE Forgotten.
1T would clear the atmosphere, but
would be traitor as a man. So fer
get me. and don't quarrel about me.
Don't try to defend me- need no de-
fence. You don't have to defend Jesus
Paul or the Saints. If you love me, don't
argue about me. Please drop 1t. / am
thinking Of the wonderful possibilities
of the church,
DIR. Adams said that the thing he is
concealing is on two lives in Philadel-
phia." but he did not go into any detail
He had gone into the pulpit with a
broken heart, he added, when a word
from him would have cleared things but
would have damned some one. He asked
the members of the congregation not to
send unkind words after him when ne
went into a new place and a new under
taking. because he wanted to continue
preaching and he hoped to die in u
pulpit.
DR.. Adams's action for divorce was
filed almost a year before he received
The decree last March. He charged Mrs.
Adams with misconduct. his evidence be-
Ing confession which she was alleged
to have made to him and to his twenty
two year old son.
His Charges Denied.
Mrs. Adams made sworn answer
denying the truth of the charges and in
newspaper interviews said that she had
confessed tC the minister that she had
'een indiscreet and had fiirted with va
rious men. hut that she had done moth
ing which would give him ground for a
statutory action. Her firtations, she
nelp advance her husband in his calling
and were done with that purpose.
DR.. Adams went to Mount Vernon and
became pastor of the FIRST Baptist
Church In 1918, coming from West
Philadelphia with his wife. their son and
their sixteen-year-old daughter Appar-
entity they lived happily and the congre-
cation of the church was greatly sur
rrised one night when a woman usher
announced to the women that investiga-
ton had proved that Mrs. Adams had
been unfaithful A similar announce
ment was n nde to the men oy a male
usher Shortly afterward Mrs. Adams
let Mount Vernon and the fact Of the
filing OF the divorce suit became public
The present Mrs. Adams was Mrs
Cora Valentine Killen, widow of Charles
L. M. Sllien and a daughter of Henry
". Lippincctt.