Christian Cynosure . hy, the very brother who electioneered and nom-inated Bishop Edwards, as our first president, in ournational convention at Pittsburgh, when persecu-tion arose because of that way forsook both Ed-wards and us. At that very time, Edwards had longshrunk from, or by lodge influence had been excludedfrom the pulpit of the First ITnited Brethren churchin Dayton; though he afterward preached there. Andin the family of the brother alluded to above, thatgreat, good man was spoken disrespectfully of, as harsh, crabbed and unyielding. And in the social circle of the church, where the
Christian Cynosure . hy, the very brother who electioneered and nom-inated Bishop Edwards, as our first president, in ournational convention at Pittsburgh, when persecu-tion arose because of that way forsook both Ed-wards and us. At that very time, Edwards had longshrunk from, or by lodge influence had been excludedfrom the pulpit of the First ITnited Brethren churchin Dayton; though he afterward preached there. Andin the family of the brother alluded to above, thatgreat, good man was spoken disrespectfully of, as harsh, crabbed and unyielding. And in the social circle of the church, where the gay preponderatedover the grave, as in the Good Templar lodges towhich some of them belonged, opinions concerningBishop Edwards were given that he was old fogy,and uncomfortable to get along with. As in Mo-line, 111., the U. B. presiding elder and his wife; saidthat Masons were courting young ladies to drawthem into sympathy with the lodge, and away fromthe U. B. church, in some cases, even, where they S^- ,-:/!* M^.
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