Show SPLIT IT may well be asked what is getting into the sectarian churches they are but fragments f rag ments themselves t hem selves and yet have lately been splitting into smaller sections last sunday at calvary chapel cleveland ohio af after ter an invited minister had concluded the sermon MO n the rev J W simpson the pastor arose and said 1 I called on IT r bushnell to deliver the easter sermon not because I 1 considered s myself unable to do the subject f full fuli uli uil justice but because my pastorate here is a thing of the past I 1 have tried very hard to hil hii my place creditably abl abi and if I 1 have failed it is through no fa fault 1 uit of mine what led me to tt take e this step is the information I 1 received that a number of the congregation recently held a secret meeting at the office or residence of one of the deacons for the purpose of callin calling another minister to fill my office it appears from what the cleveland herald learned of the matter that several members of the chapel who are dissatisfied with mr simpson as a speaker held a secret meeting the result was an agreement to the effect that the members should draw up a resolution re requesting the trustees of the old stone church to t a permit them to call the rev H 11 C hayden to officiate as pastor of the cone cong congregation degation Te gation gatlon the first intimation mr simpson had of this star chamber arran arrangement was through the papers an and d Ms his bis subsequent investigations proved roved the truth of the matter hence t his Is action of last sunday speaking of the cause at 0 the split a neutral member of the coda congregation re gation gatlon said isaid 1 I 1 1 I have nothing bothin whatever ver vec against mr simpson Simp son sou and I 1 do not believe that any member of the congregation has the fault that some of our members member shave have found with him consists in this he lately acquired the habit of talking extempore ills his sermons seemed to be unaccompanied by close study ne he not seem to give the proper time to wind up or elaborate his sentences and some of us wanted a man of different caliber but mr simpson should have been lu formed informed a oi the proposed change and now thines have assumed such a serious aspect that the church is fairly divided against itself and you will find two tivo factions the simpson and the hayden men the objection to mr simpsons Simp sons discourses being extempore is the antipodes of the injunction of the savior who instructed his bis disciples to think not beforehand what they should say but in this and many other respects the spirit example and teachings of christ are at a discount in inthe sectarian churches professing his name |