The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1927-11-05
WAR LOOMS Up IN
THE METHODIST
CHURCHES HERE
DR.. FL. Brit, Presiding Elder
Of This District Strikes
Pastor With Fist
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from the local charges, to small towns
away from the city, and have conferred
the local charges upon his favorlte.
Quinn Chapel, one of the Oldest
churches in Chicago, and long bull
wark of the A. NJ. E. Convention, has
refused to accept DR.. H. E. Steward,
who was sent there at last annual con-
ference by Bishop Gaines. Wayman
Chapel, another influential church, has
been split because DR.. Maloney was re-
moved and relegated to the country
Neither pastors nor congregations are
pleased.
Five Ministers Die
five veteran ministers with long years
of service, whose records are untram-
meled and unSullied, have fallen asleep
during last year in Chicago. Strange 1t
seems, but still true, each OF these
ministers had recently felt the iron heel
of their Bishop. DR.. James M Hender-
son formerly president of Morris Brown
College and in recent years pastor at
Institutional and presiding elder, was
removed from his duties and scheduled
to very small charge in Aurora. Cha
grined and broken down by thirty
years of active service, DR.. Henderson
broke under the strain and six weeks
ago breathed his last. His friends say
that he died of broken heart. DR.. N.
z. McCracken, Whitehaired and patr1-
arolal divine, was not spared by the
fiery little Bishop. DR.. McCracken, whhs
in the evening of his life, was Snatched
from the district over which he has
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pulled to Waukegan. A few weeks ago
he laid down his burden and crossed
the Great Divide. His friends say that
he died of broken heart.
DR.. Higgins and DR.. w. w. Lucas.
ministers of the gospel, too, have died
within the last year DR.. Lucas was
snatched away from his charge in
Evanston and was left with only the
lice Sc of an evangelist to preach. He
could not bear the grief and leaped to
his death from local hospital. DR..
Higgins was shipped to Clinton, Iowa,
and his friends say that his Bishops
ingratitude broke his noble heart. Five
men, say the people, have died Of a
broken heart.
Christianity Gives Way
It seems that politics, revenge-Seek-
Ing and SelfishnesS have driven Chris
tianity out of the local churches. At
the last Annual Conference held in
Evanston, during the month of Sep
TENDER, it is claimed that every con-
ceivable scheme, trick and artifice was
employed by Bishop Gaines and his
allies to carry out their program. Bishop
Gaines was so busy with politics that he
dispensed with the annual sermon and
disregarded the established custom OF
administering communion to the Evan
gelistS an6 DeaconeSSes. He dismissed
the conference at twelve with forty
minute recess and then started to voting.
His actions, violating all precedents
and traditions, deprived many Of the
delegates from the privilege of voting
because they had not yet arrived.
1t is claimed and rumored by men,
bers Of their conference that Bishop
Gaines had ballots printed with three
stars on them and it is said that minis
tiers voted that ballot in fear Of losing
their churches Delegates to the next
general conference we're elected in this
fashion, and each Presiding Elder who
wished to stay in the good graceS OF
his Bishop was required to carry his
precinct" Such actions have dismayed
an daroused the Methodist ministers
and their followers in Chicago.