Uproar in a Church.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7701, 2 January 1905, Page 2

Uproar in a Church.

RIVAL PREACHERS STRUGGLE < FOR SUPREMACY. i There was a disgraceful sceno yes-tor-'; day (says the Daily News of Navj I 14.) iu! tJfc EvangelVciat Union h Church, Dalkeith, Midlothian, two < factions at war with one another .1 turning the service into a brawl. t For some weeks past the relations J between the pastor, the Rev. It. D ( iJ Brown, and the ofHce-<bearcrs of th'; C church, .who claim to represent thc.i majority of the members, have been t of an extremely strained I Th.j pastor, it is said, 'has been ask-' ed to resign, but declined, aiwl yesterday, a young preacher of Edinburgh, invited by the session, entered the pulpit almost the same •* moirient as Mr Brown. t It was apparent that both meant ' lo liavc control of the service. Eachi 1 man had his followers. The situa-i® tion was critical. V After a prayer by [ho young * preacher, Mr Brown .shouted a hymn, i c anid his supporters immodiatelv; J started "Onward Christian Soldiers!'*,* Then Mr Urown ordered his rivil" 1 out of the pulpit, intimating' tlfat it * lie insisted in staying there he would i® be pushed down the stairs. Both v men began to address the congregation together, • a nd in the excite- fi ment that followed three men slip. 4 ; Ped i ni to the pulpit/ There was an 0 angry cry from the office bearers'' ? '"t'hiL tO ,- t ! le o,7ect 1] "it there were • Kh,tin " 111011 111 the pulpit ° and they should bo put out »'• J o '?® from the other sida re-bm-Kh preacher stated tlmt ht wo k M aside and ,et Mr » Having concluded his address nr.. t( Will not Vstet in "' y youi, B' fi , against the la\ V hT'""? lu ' msc,f lc <hat if ho (Mr Brow n j*"!?' , mWln ® C terdicted }JZ2 « rs „ lllu ,„T^ P , l^aclfec r '' om EaJuburgfi re- ' Wjl ° a ** Brow "