| Show WHAT IS HE IT SEEMS that sam small the head und and front of the methodist university scheme at ogden is a sort of religious what is it I 1 he is anything denominational that serves his purpose tor for the time the presidency of a methodist university offers the most profitable opportunity port unity just now so he figures as a good methodist but according to the atlanta Oe georgia orgia correspondent of the denver news he has haa no standing in that church or any other and the question is what is he the news dispatch says sam small is in a quandary he wanta letter of membership in some church ant his efforts to get any so far have been unavailing although a preacher of national reputation and president of a flourishing young in ution af pf learning in III the land of the J mormons cormons Mor mons he finds that he is a member I 1 of no church S ten y years aas ago before his reforma 5 tion mr mn small smal 70 i joined coined trinity meth F odist Church during a revival he became a backslider and led a wild i f life until converted by the preaching r of sam jones no action was ever taken against mr small by trinity church when he strayed away when he came back into the fold aie he still kept his membership at trinity but e when he entered the episcopal y church with a view of preaching for E that denomination the ste stewards waris and members of trinity took it for i granted that he had voluntarily wither drawn and he was no longer consid ered a member when ewhen he announced his candidacy for the legislature the episcopal 9 church thou thought lit he could not cansis gently preace preach and legislate at the i same flame time before election however sud and matters so far as small was conr concerned were in statu quo he went to utah and was offered the dency of anew university of learning at ogden belonging to the methodists the offer was too tempting to ref refuse use and small accepted it although an episcopalian this action severed his connection from that church A letter from small to the stewards of trinity methodist church revealed the fact that he was considered by the members as an episcopalian he can got no letter from beckwith of the episcopal diocese on account of his treatment of the episcopalians Episcopal ians who had made every preparation to ordain him blim in fa that church when they heard of his return to methodism and his change for a college presidency estranged his friends in that denomination |
