The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-16
LOVE PERFECT
 SAYS PREACHER

Beacon, N. Y, July 16-'T haven't sanctioned or condoned the elopement of my wife with Earl Yer Nooy- l was helpless to prevent it, and so just decided to lst her go to the end of her rope"
 So Clark Durea, pastor of the Holi- ness Gospel Mission at Monticello, N. Y., summarized his attitude toward his wife's elopement. He was found yesterday at the camp meeting of the church of the Nazarene on the out skirts of Beacon, where he has been since he closed his deserted house at Monticello.
 '1f I had a home to give her and she would come back to me, would forgive her, he said. Mine is the perfect love; I love her with all my heart, sinful as she is.'
 Durea said he had received one letter from his wife since her de- parture. It was sent from Passaic, and she asked, him to write to her in care of general delivery there She told him she had left their son, Ross, twelve years old. with her mother, Mrs. Robert Darling, No. 266 Marion street, Brooklyn. Durea has not an swered the letter, and he said he did not intend to do so.
 Durea is a slight figure of a man, thirty-eight years old, and wasted by his four years struggle with lung
  pIained, has been used up by sick ness and worrying about his wife.
 "But now I. is ended" he said ''She won't come back, because I have nothing to give her. I will devote the rest of my life to the church, and we will pray for her,
 when I first saw that she was going around with Yer Nooy, gave them both Christian advice. Later just talked with her, trying to exhort the devil out of her and make her see the light. I particularly warned her of the laws of God and the conse- Quences on the day of judgment.
 My aunt was supporting us be- cause I haven't been able to work. Sometimes when I would talk with my wife, begging her to give the man up, she would get mad at me and tell she she wished I'd die. At the begin ming I felt badly over 1t and would gether. Then I pretended l didn't care, because didn't want her to know how badly she was hurting me.
 Several times she asked me to get a divorce so that she could be free, but told her my religion would not thing else for her I could, and she told me she just wanted to be rid of me. People in Monticello used to talk and say I should throw him out of the house. But what chance had I against him7 There wasn't anything I could do uxcept beg her to give | him up.
 tNThen my aunt wrote me and told
 me she couldn't send us any more l money. I told my wife, and she said, well, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to go!' Then one night after I had gone to bed I heard him downstairs. Pretty soon she came up and said, I'm going tonight So I | just said, All right Then I rolled over and went to sleep.
 CA few hours later she came up to say goodby, and she brought the boy and the girl with her. l said goodby to her and to Ross and to little Gladys-she's just nine-and then heard them go away
 ''She didn't want to take the chil- dren, but he did. I guess, maybe, he thought it would make them look married She told me she was going to send Gladys up to Canada with some friends of ours and she would leave Ross with her mother Durea said he plans to return to Monticello and resume the work at his little mission It is not a "holy rollers mission, he explained.