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Show WHY .HJNKS U KNTAWAY j Tho Pint Methodist Church of Salt L't Is Waiting for Faster la Hi Absence, EI3H0F NINDE WOOLDS'T KEEP EI5f j Immoral Life lo the Lut Follows Up a Clerejniau-Hti Confess ami It Forgiven. There, is a thunderstorm hovarinff oor the good Method!! people of Kill I Lake. li.ither it h.M luscn hove rip and has broken, but not until Tm: Tihk reaches thriu tonight will they know of It. It Is all about a preacher. 11 n.titvv-is n.titvv-is J. W, Jones, "nml for three, month and up to June i0 he occupied the, put pit in the First M. K. chinch f tbl city, lie is a young mm and iirri considerable oratorical frn with hint and the member ,f iU church wi th satisticd that they had found u shepherd ot the ery highest order. A month ago, however. I'm pastor g:ie it out that he proposed lolcvvtv was going to (.ennnnv to pursue hn studies further, tint divining lim-rif entirely tip to t lut Salt Lake utandard. Vainly the church nought to show him that he win just the personage needed to lead tho llo k. Ho was immutable) concerning his purpts to U.tvtt and go abroad ami study . A l;tum ti drawn up by the i hurt-h meinU'r anil rivMiod by the entire iitiiclal board. which cumpri'hi-uils Im-iil prearher. xlint'tcrt and steward of tho church, asking the bi-hop In dot-hnu to Icb him go. When thU pulition w. pre sea ted tu Hishop Niiiibt thn Utier qiiii-lly informed inform-ed the people that uudnr thn eurtiin-Hlancf eurtiin-Hlancf it would be iuiiihl to rtus, Mr. Jonc the right to resign hi chirg. So the young parson pal hired alt together mid went avtny. Anil nowr It Is Ihnl tint tvaaon th teal reason for his withdraw! come to light. It rotors Iu the form of a telegram from l!hrle City, la, where the Methodist conference I now in si'-iion. ami ulittin that the oamit ot Ihe Itiv, J. V. Jonen Is on every tuligtiit uml Im U being more talked of Uin anybody.' It all came about through tin t on fi ssion of Treacher Join s himlf. ha liming again joined tlm church on probation. pro-bation. 'In tliuse who did not know that the prearher had ever bpen out of I ha church the aiib-oqiieul reeUlion will come more forcibly. The fact tun like Ih'm: Jonen, a gradual of thn Depau, hid , university, enirml ihn Metbmli.st ministry, min-istry, ami , mm n'ltlinneil at Lafayette. I ml Ho had been preaching lh-nl about nine months, hIiti lie li- im" in-liiuiitri in-liiuiitri mUIi Mr, frank II Sontliworlh and fell. The matter prllv hushed mi, nnd he left the town ami went to I'lubiilolphin.ttlid for A time or-eiipii'd or-eiipii'd omi of the must prominent pulpit in Ihe city. Ho wa. nneltHpiPiit young tlUlue, and attracted (urge , eliiwds When a vacancy occurred In Hie Melhodi-I tipin-np.il church at Mason City on annuel of Iho Illness of It.'V. W Ft'ink I'itMnn. .bun's was re,oioiin nd.'i si pa-tul" and fur live iiiiiliths oeenpii d.tli'i pulpit with raro abililv nnd int, lii'i timl poer. At Ihe I'ppi-r Inwa cinforrno h ) plied for ndiiossinu and w is tnki ii on probation and was tt limed ' Wri i 'hion. lb1 rwoived a very thitti ruigi-til from a church nt Omnhn and withilrevv a pastor at West Union. Alter preaching preach-ing there fur n lime ln sn-nreil thn pn. tnr.ile nf the First M K. rlmMi of "sail Lak City. I'tah. and ha!ncii l burn fur the six mouths. A few week ng i 111 h"p N ill'b' .1 apprised of lb" fuel f voiuik .IiiiicV previous bf" In the ministry and tskd-hiiii lo surrender hi rmb'iiii.iU !linl w illidrvw Ii miu ihe rhlirt h, lucl lie h is dune. Of Ins wrmii doing ho now miikes a full and complete coilcs-sloii coilcs-sloii and ask the f .iv'm-iifs ,,f nun. Nnthitig has ever lt;i' i-ued in the M y ministry in luwa lhat h;i at .ots.il puMic interest. Mr. J'Mm i an iinuiirricil to.n nf nlmul The rtfort Mi wb- lo Ihvm loin ritjiiH-'l lore l-'iid lo ho lli feeling III ;lt Lake in his fiir H ciij'ivi-d Ihe 1-iiiitiib'rn'i' of ,ll oi thn p, tol.ite, His ii.iioii mill unpi' trs tut tlio dour of the eloireh. led lr lliff U ft.)) dueling 'he st rvtt.-s while ntmt( thn apHiiiitnii iit of a regular ti plieid |