Show THE DOUGHTY METHODIST BISHOP BISHor TROUNCED BISHOP GIL HAVEN is CatChin catchi glit ngit from all quarters for his speech before those boston methodists and his enthusiastic nomination of grant for a term ferm the bishop bishon it R appears bein being 9 p a rabid abolitionist bo lit lonist had become warm and excited over southern affairs and 1 in the course of his hid speech was impelled to t declare that there was tabe to be a tremendous political battle this year that the tho min ministers 1 of boston llos 1108 toll toli were in thi neld of battle and that the great question quentio n was shall the Puri tarl tari or the tho cavalier rule shall boston or charleston be the centre he then thou indicated grant as the chosen cromwell to lead the Puri purl puritan tarr hosts to victory over the southern cavaliere cavaliers Cava liers e ex xa claiming in stentorian to tones nes 1 61 I believe bellevo that president grant is the only man who could conquer the enemies of american freedom if we throw him overboard we shall regret jf jt 1 and he continued 1 I herewith in the name of the am errean people pie and truo true christianity nominate ulysses 8 grant our present worthy president and defender to a third term in the office of president of the united states jn I 1 n passing we might ask who a authorized uth 0 prized the doughty bishop to speak in the name of the american people and true chri anity vanity tl bo clo far as the blumlo bishops p a own owr sect the methodists are ire concerned it t appears that they almost universally I 1 y repudiate his hasty action and it is presumable able abie t that bat he considers that the representatives of true christianity are found among them if among the members of any religious body i the methodist ministers of new york for instance are reported as asserting that bishop havens speech and the action of those present who approved of it was w wholly holly unauthorized ill lii advised and exceed exceedingly imily foolish and the bishop himself ai eccentric erratic C impulsive outspoken lurty murty ib inh ins in discreet unwise rash radical ultra apt to fly liy oss off at a tang tangent erit elit an extremist d regular fire eater eager for the fray fond of a figh fight t alwawi getting the uie chur church ch into hot water that he lie went ent crazy on the slavery question before tho the war and has never nevek got over it since one reverend I 1 brother felt like kicking him AU all which is highl yumus ing to spectators outside the meth dist pale paie |