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SGIRGLEViLSCENE OFPreacher Objects to Church Being Used for Fanners Institute.ASSAULTED BY GAK6 OF BOYSLocal Minister Fail** to • ing Tows See Thingsve Neighbor-EKi» Way.!af a paper in knew every-ou” has ones wiiLicii a ntns i«-ui «•ho!d;his standing ob the a “news” paper. UsuallyOccasionally the editor * small town, where “yo body and they all know of the hardest jobs imaginable—that is where there is a dispute pf some kind lt;h t grows to something more serious, oid must be written as a news item it4 mm »ne desires to oublisher ofne side is wrong btr ihey will never tdmit.it/ and no m uter hi-w the article is written, one side -or the other will get “up in the air” about it We iHve another job of that kind thi veek, snd will endi *voij to give tin acts of the case, and just enough of I :he opinions on each side to permit our readers tc decide for themselves 14who is right.” * • \Scircleville M. E. church has for the past year been on the charge with Kempton, Groomsville and1, Shilo, with Rev.. F. A. Wimer pastor. Now the church laws of this denomination makes the pastor “commander-in-chief of he church building. He is the one who has the authority to say .whal 'hall or what shall not be held at the church.Like many other towns of the same - ize Scircleville has no opera house nor % ssembly room with a large seating : .‘opacity, so when a fanners' institute vals planned some time ago, the pronators went ahead and advertised thatthe event would be held at the church,. •without consulting the minister. Hereof ore the ministers had been right in r,jz* anything of this kind, and had taken ;art in the pr gram. Rev. Wimerproved to be a man with different views hi the - sabject— thought that the ■hirch was no place to- discuss such •ubjects as “the value of gre«*n ma-iure” etc.. and announced that tin* auilding could not be used for such .jurpuses. He- consulted an attorney i’nd was told that if he was in possession with some services, that he could no Id the building, so Sunday he an-lutwced that there would be services lijnday morning, afternoon and events* ’ •Now Scircleville has some as- fine jcople as can be found anywhere, hasI *ome! business men that would be ai •;rcdit to a much larger place, and a .»ast majority were not only surprised a the ministers action but were prett\ nuch “out of fix” about it is well, /he news spread like wild-fire and ifter holding consultations it wes deeded to go 'ahead with the. institute v6n though it became necessary to ;.irry the preacher out first. The corn *how was arranged in a vacant storeroom and no action was to be taken until Monday morning at 10:00 a. m. when the institute was to . begin.Sunday afternoon Rev. Warner filled his regular appointment at Scircleville, and to add fuel to the flame,- preached a scathing denouncement of secret so- ] rietiea. He announced preaching for that evening by llr. Pogue, who was to b^ve filled the pulpit at Kempton, while Mr. Wimer went to Groomsville, where he is conducting a revival.Mr. Pogue preached Sunday evening, and after the services at Groomsville, Mr. Wimer drove • to ScirdleviUe, intending to remain ip the ! church all night and hold possession, -Scircleville ptople did not know of this intention oDitbt part of the minister, and be had his bone put up and was onihia 'way to the church when discovered by a crowdcfatlhntisasnfntht•lt;jof :boys. There were probably a dozen or; more of. them, and with their identity safe tutfer the cover of darkness, showing their regards for the r by showering him with stooei,■ticks, etc,- '■••• . ;• j!Near the church door be pat struck cd the noise by a stick of ;wood, that member Sstigbtly pealed, ihis glasaies brloken and his - hat. demo) ished. Hewas assisted into the baalding, and exaggerated reports of hie cofvdition (beguo toapread. Firatwordreceived MB
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Kempton Courier
Kempton, Indiana, US
Fri, Feb 23, 1912
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