Show TILE tiie NEWMAN congregational SQUABBLE DK J P new ran has raised a terrible tempest in the tha new york church in which he has been officiating as a congregationalist congregational st preacher while retaining his methodist membership and ministerial connection lie he is now holding his position by virtue of his ills holding the trusteeship of a legacy bequeathed to the church which its members do not 1 like ike to I 1 lose iose ose control of and by the adherence csome of some of the deacons and a few of the congregation who place technical barriers in the way of the majority of deacons and communicants muni cants who wish to dispense with his services the quarrel has been disgraceful and the epithets bandied about and hurled at the pious contestants from either side have been only suitable for the lowest class of generates henry ward beecher alluding to this scandal recently uttered the following pithy and characteristic remarks you may call councils councils jou you may develop or decide legal principles but the trouble does not lie in any of these things burn down the church give up every dollar of it disband disband for gods sake disband the whole hive of wasps that believe they are honey suckers A quarrel in a church Is a holiday in hell that men gathered together to show the sweetness of the great redemptive savior are clutching each others throats and bandying bitter words that murder murde r itself would hardly utter oh what a spectacle before god and men benl I 1 but newman will only smile in his unctuous manner over such talk as that and while he can pocket his ten thousand dollars per annum he will s snap na his fingers at the quarrel and anything t h ja that may be said oy by way of comment if some methodist church can raise a little on that lomo salary y dr newman will vacate and close the squabble and the congregationalists ma may go to jerusalem for all ali he cares ant and for per ver annum he would woula preach or any other ism orthodox or heterodox meanwhile will e he will hold on to the congregational plum squabble or no squabble |