Show I I 1 I II I I I SPLIT IN CHURCH BY QUARREL OVER ORGAN Mo ro April 2 With ith With the f progressives pro le ive pitted against the anti anti es with wife against husband aud and husband t against lili t wife in one of the tho warmest religious ware wara in Jasper count county county's 8 history thrilling times nr arc in store for the time congregation of the Diamond Grove Cl Christian ristian church and church and an or organ an was the cause gf of mf it all aU Diamond Grove Grote is a n small mining settlement set set- several sc miles east cat of Joplin and the m membership of the time church embraces a lar large larga p. p sweep s' of territory An n installment organ orn was as recently purchased by the Ladies Ladies' Aid Aiti society of time the church after aft they had raised a tidy till turn cum by the sale of fancy quilts The rhe faction which later ater became known as ns the anti progressives demanded that t time tho o ie box boc be removed The progressives pi cs consulted a Joplin lawyer law law- awyer aw- aw yer after which bich they informed tho the antis antis that organ 1 the r 1 must remain Shortly after this 2 assertion sert on tho the organ was Tag fou found d in a small woodshed lack hack of the chapel It Ii had not been handled with gloved ln Hands and when whon time the mem macin- members bers hera cr of the thc Ladies' Ladies Air Aid id society saw the object t of their fondest dreams thus lr scarred and Rod scratched d dumped dumell unceremoniously into It 11 leaky sited shell tIC they rallied in iu LI an indignation on meeting merlin and aud that night 1 by hr moonlight a husky hand band of progressives e reinstalled th time organ and eh chained it to 10 gigantic ant staples that had bad bc been n driven 8 securely curch to the floor Time The or organ m still remains remains and threats threat have been made matil bv U tb the progressives es that t arrests arrests- will ill follow if the thin nuLls II n attempt to carry arn out omit th di jl desires to the tho tho devil il out of or the tho contraption con eon tl tiou with wilh axes axe Th The Tho elders of ot th the tho church with one exception ex cx- n. n favor faor the time Th Tho deacons also with on exception favor or ii it ii The regular minister L. L II Krutsinger favors favors fa fa- fa vors ors it Au An evangelist list who ho lies has been preaching chin at the church assures his con congregation that tho tha Bib Bible does not authorize the use 1 of organs nail antl when he speaks about R time tho n new instrument he lie uses a horsewhip hip with which to bela belay the offending of fending piece of ot furniture to fo lay stress to hi lila his a assertions I The progress progressives cs maintain that while tho thit Bible may not advise o the thc use mo of or an aim or organ nu it docs does not prohibit the us use I of one ODe |