Show 1 I AM PASTOR paston NOW LAST saturday we published some details of curious pro proceedings in madison avenue N Y congregational church of which J P newman is pastor the meeting of tuesday the esth dinst was still more peculiar and justified the statement of dr rankey ran ney of the antl anti newman faction thattie that the pastor would tender his resignation with the full understanding that it would not be accepted A prominent exchange gives this description of the singular scene more characteristic of a gathering of blatant political logroll log roll ers than an ail assemblage of christians i stalwart policemen with night clubs swinging at their sides guarded every aisle of tho the madison aladia ou avenue church as the loyal Newma tift 0 s swarmed through the big entrance doors tonight to night hight and massed to the number of soo SUO odd about the pulpit silken cords were drawn across the aisles and newman sentries stood near to prevent strangers from passing in inside the lines A handful of the ranney ln phalanx gathered in a bunch in lonely seclusion atthe at the extreme north of the church and waited for the beginning of what thet they called the I 1 I 1 newman farce I 1 at 8 0 clock dea finch einch offered prayer ra Y or and dea cummungs rose on the tun orth north in his war paint and flourished a protest which he read and asked to have entered on the minutes the protest wa was signed by J W ranney T hopkins pil F gett H al cummings eura euma G A palmer and A E harnes barnes bames it recited that on behalf of themselves and members of the the church these gentlemen protested a against ainest the he meeting on the ground zat nat that it was neither a meeting of the church society nor of the church members but a mixed assembly of members and pew holders such as the advisory council bro sherman and lawyer abbott had expressly dischun ced as illegal and that etwas it was not properly called and had no authority a ut hority to do anything g about the church affairs chairman breen had his war paint on too and pulling his grey beard he invited the meetie meeting to table tile the protest and loyal promptly and vociferously obliged the vote reached dea cummins cummings lust just as his tall hat ol 01 disappeared tp thrash through the church door dea peter dewitt invited all those opposed to dr newman to retire four men and two women arose and swept past the policemen amid a storm of hisses and derisive laughter dea rea dewitt wheeled round lil lii int inn the doorway with wilh his 10 eyes es bazin babin blazing und tind cried 11 1 thought this was a chiman christian assembly but I 1 should judge now that it was a den of vipers lf ife shot out of the door amid a fresh out burst of laughter sunday sundays school superintendent brush ascended the pulpit pulli steps and read a letter from parson newman offering his resignation when the reading ceased they all stood up IM hi a body while tellers wright atan and ut anderson andorson counted lust just heads in favor of keeping the ithe parson there a solitary negative voter left lefts and the loyal newman ladies and their loyal hus husbands bands applauded till tile the ga gas s jets danced parson newman appeared P eared opportunely at the vestry door I 1 in n his spring overcoat with his black b beaver eaver in his hand and cheers cheera mingled with the hand clapping at length bengt h the parson walked reading stand and andrest resting iw on an the big bible bibie stated that he had tendered his hig resignation in profound sincerity but as it had not been been accepted he would devote his talents henceforth to the eternal welfare dlf those who had stood so firmly by bt the church and by him lle ile lie jle forgave all ali I 1 his opponents and asked his friends fr le ads to do the same then the women crowded around until ahe the parson could not move and shook i hail hands barson with him for sor 15 smi minutes without es topping stopping I 1 the next nest move was asked of the then anti nanti pnewman cabinet cabinets well meet dr newman in the courts replied dea Itan ranney ney nev n I 1 everything Is peaceful and settled sett sctt ledU 11 said parson newman as he go tready togo home 1 I am pastor now 11 the description ascription of such a scene is liable to create in the a feeling of mingled amusement and disgust didgus tile the participants were professed followers of christ yet their conduct condu qt showed an aa utter destitution of the characteristics of the great master the few who heid held opposite v views i aws from those entertained by the majority were indecently almost violently expelled and treated to hisses M and derisive laughter I 1 A merited rebuke was met byi by byl nother another dose of the sai sat same saino no medicine pastor newman who never intended to resign as the tile whole affair shows evidently evide nuy not only stretched tho the truth but deliberately resorted to its op opposite PG when he said his resignation was tendered in sincerity probably but few if any will believe that a man of hig his caliber will devote his talents to any blodys eternal welfare his interests being too much swallowed up in look ing hig after his own worl worldly pt 1 y advant advantage dc 9 as exhibited in the exit exultant tant excia exclamation ina lna 1 I am pastor now not only was the meeting as described by the ran llan ney ncy faction a newman farce but a travesty of reli religion giop glop |