JENTINEL & REPUBLICAN
MIFFLIN TOWN".
Wednesday, Dercmb'r 22, ISWO
B. F. SCHWEIER,
eitob sd rsorsirros.
Colons! A.Wilson XorriV majority
for the State Fenate is 4495.
Senator B'aine proposes to reduce
the postage on letter to 2 cents
Cbnreb fairs iu Philadelphia have
baoi-hd the Wheel of Fortune.
General Grunt was the guest of
General Ueale at Washington last week.
Tbe Europeans favor the Panama
canal route, while Americans favor the
Nicaragua route.
m m
A I 'onpresstnan says that, if the fu
ture pensions cost in proportion to
whit is now hoinc paid, that it will
take $243,000,000.
William 13. Wood of Georgia ha
Leon nominated by President llavs for
a p!ee n the Supreme Heucb, Woods
is an Ohio man.
Mr Thompson withdraws from Pres
ident Hayes cabinet to accept a $l!5,
000 office in the canii scheme across
the isthmus of Panama.
Wade Hampton's preacher wanted to
know about the challenge to Shermin.
The answer is that he only stated
where an answer couid find him. right
was not thought of.
The Conkliu, Sprague scandal has
received an other send off by the pro
ceedings in divorce that Mrs. Sprsgue
has brought for separation from ber
husband.
Jl'DUE Jeremiah Black issues an
piuion that railroads are public high
ways, as turnpike, or eonunou roads are.
Georpe Tickuor Curtis has taken issue
with tbe Judge on tbe question.
The Vermont legislature wanted to
abolish the giaud jury. The Governor
vetoed the bill, declaring it unconstitu
tional because it deprives a mm of the
right of ltiuictment by a jury of his
peers.
The riot damage claims will be
brought to the attention of the Legis
lature this winter in a new form. The
Commissioners of Allegheny county
have settled tbe claims for $2,C00,000.
by issuing county bonds. The Legis
lature will be asked to provide for the
payment cf the bonds. Cheek.
A husband unintentionally poison d
his wife in Seranton Pa., this state on
Saturday evening. At the request of
the wife the husband proceeded to g;ve
Jjer a dose of chloral to sooth her nerves,
-he being threatened at the time with
hysterical convulsba. In a mistake
the husband gave her a dose of Corbol
io acid, tbe amd bottle .stood quite close
to ohicrate bottle. Death coon follow
ed. STATE ITEMS.
A York county ganucr, named Scboll,
Las shut a hundred aud thirty hogs this
year.
Le Moyne, the owner of the crema
tion bureau at Washicgtrn, is overrun
with applications for its use.
The UoniLWooJ Mill Company, of
Lock Haven, have cut aud shipped
since September, l!i79, 2,776,000 bun
dles of kiudlitig wxid.
A Wilkesbarre girl tried to lick the
frost from to iron lamp post tae will
at spoon victuals for a while nntil her
tongue is restored to iiswotuL!j vigor.
A Mr. Mullen, of Prospect, Cam
bria ccunty, last ten children within a
r
coj.fHiuir.) . i j .
- .. r t cr n 0 m rime n v
diptueria snd 6crlot ftver. af'e 'asi
i..m - k,. u;mj lw, ;,,H
V .
few days tinee. He Las throe daugh
ters rtlil living.
Mr. II. H. Albright, an enterprising
farmer aud uiilicuiau of Moutgomery
Coutity, is going to have a novel dessert
(or his dinuer on C hnstmas day. lie
has ratied several fine wateruielious,
and he put tee iu his cellar iu August j
last, to see how loog he could keep it
nd be reports it low in as good condi
tion as wtieti fi st he placed it there.
A Pottstowu man who wanted to
butcher a steer fired eleven Luck-hot
into the beast's bead. The steer broke '
way aud ran into the w inds, where be
wae kiil-d two diys later. Examina
tion showed that some of the shot had
entered the animal's brain.
A Cou lersport merchant has bandied
over 3,0'."J pounds of gingseng root this
year, a.'i dug iu Potter and part of
Tioija coa:.ty.
A httie son of E I. Dtvis' of McVey
towii was supposed to le lott a fe days
ago, and the town, the caDal. and other
places were searched, when finally the
little chap was found fast asleep at
home under the table.
The thread for the glass cloth, now
made at Pittsburg, is drawn out of a
molten bar by means of a rapidly re
volring wheel at the rate of 2.000
yards a miuute- The weaving is done
on looms, about the same as with silk.
The coloring is done with minerals
when the glass 13 originally melted.
A steam hammer in the La Uelle ;
Steel works, at Pittsburg, on Wednes- ,
day struck a tool in the bauds of John j
Ilazzard, a workman, with such force
as to drive it entirely tiir'-ugb Ii is thigh.
A llarrisburg yesterday. Governor
Hojt ist-ued a proclamation announcing
the payment, cancellation extinguish
ment and fiual discharge of G3.(79,
21 of of the principal of the public
oebt of this commonwealth during tbe
past year.
Mr. Joseph Van Paniker, of Wc6t
port, Clinton county, killed a deer in
in the river last Mondav with a jsck
kuife. Mr. Van Latiiker was traveling
10 a waeon between Wes'port and Hen
ova when he discovered the deer in the
rivr. He approached near enough to
sieze tbe animal by the bead, when he
cut its throat and dragged it to shore.
Soma people in Armstrong waDt a
Df.vi connty, to be lopped frcm parts of
Al egheny and Westuiore'and.
An o!J coople died recently in East
Hanover township, Lebanon county,
who had lived together an utinnal
number of years. Catharine Bross
(i'iro Shaffer), th last of the family
of Isaac Shaffer, died on the 30(h of
Ootober, eight v-four years and eight
"month old. Michael Bross, her hus
band, died November 12. being eipbty
nio years, five mrnb and two dais old
Thev had lived together in married
li'e sixty fonr years.
IN EQUITY.
LOST CREEK
MIFFLIXTOWN.
IitPOBT Of
YT. X. SEIBERT,
Master in Chanckbt.
Last Fri-lav V. X. Seilx-rt Master
in Chancery in th3 ense in Equity,
Lost Creek, aiul Miillintown, jiliwej
his report among the archives ot the
ProthonotATv's office. It is an inter
esting paper, and is divided into live
grand divisions :
I. The Ecclesiastical History of
the Relioous Societies of Miillin and
Lost Creek, in connection with that
of the Pat ent Congregation of Cedar
Spring.
IL The Financed and Temporal
History of the same.
IIL "The Hintory of the Ecclesias
tiVsl Separation, Division of the Re
ligious Stcieties of Mifllintown and
Lost Creek.
IT. Certain Facts are Specially
Formed,
Of which brief mention is here
mide, as above stated, by title only,
excepting the fifth grand division,
which L given in full, as follows :
V. Opinion or the Mastek Upon
the Case.
1 he formative held of this case is in the
Pnki.rtf t.-trv Ordnf in trust la certain Clti-
; a(lhe;ine to the pre.,bv,erian faith a.,d
j , , . ... ..-, r . r ,,
iipnii in mpinuii'. i, i ii iu vi uiu'-i f
tot dated 30th of March, 1767, and direct
ed to William MaClay, Deputy Surveyor,
for 2(0 acres of land for a Presbyterian
Meeting House and graveyard, alleged in
the bill aud admitted in the answer.
This was not a conveyance to trustees for
the nse of a specilieally designated religious
congregation a in Erendel vs. Ger. Kef.
Cong , 9 Casey 4 15, and McAnley's Appeals,
21 Smith 397, but by the terms of the grant
the conveyance was in trust "tor a Presby
terian Meeting House and graveyard," a
purpose somewhat gener.il, but specific
enough to clearly show the scope of its op
eration as intrusted.
Whether this proprietary grant was a vol
untary consequence as a gil t to a charitable
use. or whtther it as a consequence for a
valuable consideration contributed by a
number of persons, and mide to these cer
tain citizens "in trust" fur the purpose des
ignated as intended by the contributors ot
the fund in both of which cases the "cer
tain citizens" would be a baso of qualifica
tion, fee, a fee in them for the uses of the
trust, or whether the consideration money
was paid out of the independent personal
funds of the certain citizens, whereby they
took an absolute fee, with au executionary
trust of their own creation limited upon it
does not appear, and in the present con
dition of affairs is unimportant, because
although the original grant has been con
verted, it has not been diverted, and the
title to the estates purchased with proceeds
of the original grant, or r.ither with the
a hole of the converted original grant, was
merged and commingled, no matter where
or how invested, is held iu trust for the pur
poses designated in the original grant. See
Kirlin vs. Campbell, 8 Harris, 5G; GritHtts
vs. Cope, 5 H trris, W ; Brendel v. Her.
Kef. Cone. 9 Casey, 424 ; McGinnis vs.
Slatreu, 3 Wr., 9; liar vs. U c!H, 12 It-mis,
M ; Mar!i:i vs. McCord. 5 Watts, 433 ; Trice
vs. Maxwell, 4 Casey, 23.
The first question to be considered is,
" What was the efTV-ct of Charter of incor
poration upon the trust exp-essed in the
proprietary grant J" That the grant was a
trust at the tinie of the creation of the cor
poration there can be no doubt, and the
trust being lawful will be vigoronsly en
forced ; no matter where its inception, how
it originated, or what its present condition
The grant for a Presbyterian Meeting House
and grave-yard, having by appreciation of
. -j .. conversion and judicious man-
,
,ement, commingling therewith of o.her
- ralnm vuliintrttr contributed, or
iims - . .
whutnot resulted in establishing tico Pres
bvterian Meeting Horses snd two Presby
terian graveyards, the VZ1 of tbe oli
ginal grant are carried out in f nr-!!"""""
the object sought to be atta'nod thereby, 'C
rcit: the propagation and perpetuation of
the Presbyterian faith and form of worship,
but the result is doubly augmented as com
pared w ith the capabilities of the grant as
estimated iu the mind or minds of the per
son or persoas who instituted the same, at
the lime of the establishment of the meet
ing house. The change from Cedar Spring
to Mifllintown and Lost Creek in no way in
fringed upon Ihe trust, but. while preserv
ing it, extended and amplified its operations
within the scope of iu purview, a result
certainly the reverse of adverse to the pur
poses of the donor. It must be remember
ed that the trust had attained this condi
tion of augmentation as early as October 2,
1799, for we find by the records of Presby
tery of Huntingdon, that leave was granted
Cellar Spring parent and Lest Creek
offspring to apply to Carlisle Presbytery
for supplies, and two years lat'T, Nov. 10,
1801, we found Kev. Matthew Brown re
ceiving a call from the United Congrega
tion of Miillin and Lost Creek, at which
time the present church seems to have
given way to its legitimate offspring, Mif
flin and Lost Creek, and we find them ad
ministering npon its estate, selling the
Glebe lauds, and making distribution and
settlement once iu 1822 and again in 1829.
Six years after the united congregations
had called the Rev. Matthew Brown, to wit,
iwI, March 1st, these ecclesiastical bodies
became an aggregate civil corporation, un
der the provisions of the act of April, 1791,
(3 S. L., p 20,) by virtue of the charter of
the corporation as printed and contained on
pages 9 and 10 of defendant's answer in this
case, which see. This civil charter could
in no way restrict or limit the trust pie
vionsly existent, or operate to dhert the
application of its revenues. It was simply
an instrument of the civil law, an auxiliary
to the religious societies it is incorporated
and made a body politic.
By the terms of the act of fith April, 1791,
that corporation was created tor a religious
purpose. What religious purpose f Why,
only that which the original grant names
and if the charter conflicts with that, the
charter must succumb, and the original
grant j revil. McGinness vs. Watson, 6
Wr., 9 ; Henry vs. Dietrk-k, 3 Chrsis, 280.
Could or does this civil charter lessen the
ecclesiastical powers, vested in the chnrch
judicatures by the original law of the Pres
byterian Church t It would be an anomaly,
indeed, to hold that a number of persons
who had become members of a sectarian
denomination (and in this case, as such
trustees be an express tru-tt) and thereby
subscribed to all tne rules of church gov
ernment, order, faith and discipline (whLb
the trust was established to perpetuate)
could be released from obedience to these
' rules, 4.e , bj- dimply being incorporated
into a civil body thronrh a charter contain
ing provisions conflicting with those rules,
and so forth.. To establish nch a role of
law would brf to give the incorporating civil
power the domiuion and authority to abro
gate or annul any or all rulea of church pol
ity, and thereby render the ecclesiastical
antonomy granted by the Bill of Kighta
something lesa than words of promise kept
to the ear and broken to the hope.
This charter is a peculiarly framed instru
ment. But for tbe language of the pream
ble and 1 and 6, its verbiage would
seem to refer to but one church edifice.
Some of the incongruities may be found in
the following sections: There shtll be a
board of trustees of the said congregation
(equivalent of corporation) which shall con
sist of 6 members, and who shall
have been at least one year a pew bolder or
proportionate supporter of the church afore
said (which f Presbyterian generally, or
Mifilintown or Lost Creek) before he shall
be elected. J 9 That the power ot the
board of trustees shall extend only to the
temporalities of the church (equivalent of
corporation) in renting and selling tbe pews.
collecting tbe pew rents aud when dues of
the chr.rch (equivalent of corporation)
keeping the place of worship and burying
ground in repairs, (there mere two, which 7)
providing for and paving the debt of the
church (equivalent of corporation) fixing
and paying the salary of tho minister, clerk,
and sexton (there was one minister, two
clerks, and two sextons ) 55 13 and 15 ex-
hibitalike iudeliniteness as te from tho
desk or pulpit of which church the notice
therein required to be given, shall be given,
These inconsistencies or crudities are
probably the result of this particular char-
ter having been copied by a layman from
some former charter, or from a form for
such, net comprising two church edifices
with separately wort-hipping congregations.
J 9 Also provides, "but they (the trus
tees) shall have no power to alienate or let
ofl" ground, on ahieb it (the school bouse)
may be built now or hereafter claimed by
the congregation (corporation), or dispose
of the money for any other use than that j byteriaus, and we must conclude they acted
for which it was originally intended, rtthout j consistently, else they bad not been in sub
tht content of two-thirds of the congregation ! ordination to the Presbyteries of Donegal
(corporation) convened agreeably to public I and Huntingdon, as the record shows them
notice." Suppose these corporators for ' to have been. Then how can it be argued
i this is the charter speaking did convene
agreably to public notice and I of the con-
gregation did authorize the trustees to dis
pose of the money of the cori-oration, pro
ceeds or it venues of tbe original grant or
that which may represent it, for some other
use than that originally intended, the act
would be n.'ra rrr and void, became it
would not only be violative of the original
grant, but also in conflict w ith S 4 of the
charter itself, requiring revenues to be ap-
prupriated according to the w ill or intention
of the donors, and hence the power im
pliedly conferred by the Concluding clause
of 9 is inoperative, lirendel vs. Ger.
Kit. Cong., 9 Casey, 421 ; Brown vs. Hum
mel, 6 Ban, tl ; Plymouth vs. Jackson, 3 ;
Harris, 41
5 9 further provides, "That the power of
1
the board of trusties shall apply only to
tbe temporalities of the church." Chapter
XV, 7 ot the Presbyterian form of gov
ernment authorizes corgregatious to sub
scribe a call for a pastor by the trustoes.
The calling of a pastor does not belong to
the temporal or civil side of a church, but
to the Sjlnlual or ecclesiastical side. The
calling of a minister is as much a part of
the worship as tbe appointment of an or
ganist or choir. Walnut street Presbyte
rian church cafe, 3 Brewster, 2ti; 3 'J., 7
Philadelphia, 310. The terms of this char
ter would seem to estop the trustees of the
corporation from exercising the ecciesias
tical act of signing the call for s pastor, per
uiitted them by Form of Government, chap
ter X, 5 7. However we find this corpora
tion placing its own construction on tiiis
clause of tbe charter, and to thtt effect that
the pow er conferred upon the trustees by
the charter was only auxiliary to their pre
vious ecclesiastically conferred po'-vers.
The minute Ixx-k of the corporation trus
tees, page 200 testimony, p:ge 40 re
cords that a congregational meeting, held
in Miffiintowc 20:h March, 184 Lost Creek
participating by delegates for the purpose
of electing a pastor The first called alter
.. . .,.- .
the incorporation in lSOi . as pastor, was
Ilev. John Hutchinson, who was pastor
trior to the incorporation, and continued iu
i2; -t reNtion until his death, November 11,
1S44 ai which njeeting Rev. Matthew Alli
son was unanimously e'-ted, aud by reso
lution the trustees weiw authorized to sign
the call.
These statements respecting this charter
which Attorney General M ihlon LVkcoson
most likely "perused and examined" by
proxy are only made previously to consid
ering the agreement made that but one min
ister of the two congregations as a charter
requisite.
9 of charter provides, "That the power
of the board of trustees shall extend
to fixing and paying the salary of the
minister ," and this is tbe only refer
ence made to a minister in that particular
instrument. Can it be taken to mean that
this incorporated congregation, " worship
ping separately in two church edifices eight
miles apart," shall never be permitted to
have but one minister, and thereby as abro
gating VIII of chapter X, of Presbyterian
Fonu of Government, which provides,
"Tbe Presbytery has power to uuite
or divide congregations, at the request of
the people, or to form or receive new con
gregations ." The Master is of tbe
opinion that it does not so mean, because
with the election, calling, installation aud
ministrations of a pastor the corporation
has nothing to do ; its duty was simply to
fix aud pay the salary of the minister to and
of any future minister or ministers that the
proper ecclesiastical authorities, having
jurisdiction and actiug in a constitutioual
tanner, might supply in f urtherance of the
trust, that by no possible system of con
struction can that clause of $ 9 be taken as
meaning that Presbytery shall not have
power to "divide," lor that then the char
ter would agaiu be at war with its own re
quirements and purposes as expressed in
2, and that, in addition, it would attempt
a thing the civil law would not permit it to
accomplish. Bi unell vs. Itif. Cong., 9 Ca
sey, 418; ilcGiiiuis vs. U'atson, 6 Wright,
9. $ 2 provides who were at that time, aud
should or might thereafter become corpo
rators. " The subscribers and such others being
citizens of this Commonwealth, as shall
hereafter be admitted and become members
of the cougregatiou" this word cannot
here be takeu aa the equivahiut ot " corpo
ration," becau-a it is a word prescribing
qualifications of membership in the corpo
ration "and who a.ihere lo the religious
principlea and christian doctrines bold by
the lte United Synods of New York and
Philadelphia, and at this time (1807) men
tioned and expressed by the General As
sembly of tbe Presbyterian congregations
in their acts and testimony of their Chris
tian faith and directory for church discip
line among their ail here nts throughout the
United Stales ol Noith America, shall bc-
come and be a corporation and body politic
in law and in fact."
By the Master's construction this power
vested in Presbytery by the fundamental
law of tbe church chapter X, $ Till was
a part of that specific directory for church
discipline relerred to In the above section
at the very time the church was adopted,
and therefore, adherence to the rule was
and ia a pre-requisito to attaining and re
taining membership in the corporation.
Although the present form of Government
was "amended and ratified in May, 1821,
yet the substance of VIII, chapter X, was
a part of the organic law of the church, not
only as adopted by the late Synods of New
York and Philadelphia, aa far back aa 1708,
and was most likely brought across the At
lantic, and therefore onlv le-adopted in the
. corporation of 1821. See atk, panes
16
and K'J. The present rorm of Govern
ment of the Presbyterian Church is divided
into three books,
1st. Of Government,
2nd. Discipline,
3rd.. Directory of Worship.
The charter expression, Directory of
Church Discipline," is taken by the Master
, to have been then (lt7) intendtd to coin-
' prise generally the substance of what in
121, was divided into the niiove three head
iugs. That which is now il. very first
' chapter of Book 1. of Government, was first
; drawn up by the Svnod of Jvew lork and
Philadelphia, and prefixed to the form of
; Government, as published by that body in
' 17f 8. In that year the Synod of New York
' and Philadelphia arranged the plan on which
the Presbyterian Church is now governed.
i The Synod as ditided into four Synods,
; and gave place to the General Assembly as
j the Supreme body, which met for the first
'. lime in 1787.
Now this exhibits the reason
hy the Master states that J VIII of chap-
ter X, of Book of Government is compre
hended within aud by the expression of
2 of the charter. These early corpora-
tioos would scarcely have subscribed to part
and not all of the Form of Government, tion reads, to unite or divide congrega
. . , i ,, . I lions, at 1 he refines t of the people," or to
If the, had, they would not have been Pre,- , I .JZni This
that the clear expression of 2 of thechar-
: ter can be nullified, rendered nugatory, by
the i and obscure expression (as re
lating to the subj ect matter of the argument
in this connection) of J 9, in , "That
the power of the board of trustees shall tx
teud to fixing and paying the
salary of the minister.
But suppose the Master to be in error, in
his construction as to what was compre-
j beaded by the words "directory lor church
discipline" in j 2, aud let us move a step
turther.
This charter became operative March I,
107, seventy-three years ago. How many
of the subscribers thereto or others who
were members of the religious society at
that time are now here t The Master caa-
dt..K.p fti noistwir. Tepiitinp bv mav-
j
i inir that in nidv:ny from orduiaruv excen-
tiocal cases of longevity, there can be but
few. Almost all must have passed away,
and the few, if any, left be gray-headed and
very aged men, the '-silver cord" of whose
mortality is near unlnosid. The great ma
jority ot these corporators are those ho
hate becorue attached to the worshipping
congregations of both churches since
lf2!, when the present book of church
government was adopted, and all these
must have joined these congregations.
recognizing them as a portion of the Tres-
byterian Church, and by connecting them
selves therewith contracted themselves as
constituent individuals in sub irdination to
the constitution and rub s as contained in
that form of goveruiueti' in them baw
they ever since ecclesi.isticallr lived and ,
moved, through them procured their minis
ter, by them have their representatives in
Presbytery, Sjnod and (Jenera! Aseml.iy,
and under their provisions were the appeals
in this cause enrried to the highest Judi
catory ol the Chcrch. In that Consti'u- c'"lri'h judicatories, in the light ol the
. . , lacM, what nu'ter I Its obioct would be to
tion orForiuorovemnieiitare wctobnipiveno1CL,4n,, enab0 atteuailuce ,,e
the standard by which we are to judge this j rooer time and place. Lost Creek was
act of division, and if the Chnrch is to be ! represented and heard in Presbytery p:ior
i. :,. .. H i, ,..,, i,..r ic ,h i to continuation of tho report ol the com-
, c " . , , '
Mate imposes law upon it for its internal i
relations, beyond what is necessary lor the i
order and security ot the 5 talc, tln;n is it !
not free. The State not having instituted !
any positive law for tlie case, w e must re- j f,:,....,! all(l beard, and lhat body ap
sort to the law to which the panics have I j,ruved the action of the inferior jodicator
alwas heretofore submitted. Belore co il ' ies. If subsequent leg.il rltarmn was t c-
.. ,j . i : u cessarv, should it not have been directed to
aulhoniv the q!i"s'iin is, not which party. , ..as, ... . ,
' ... . the ap joul.i lietore the Church Courts I
has the m jjorfy, but which is right accord- J , "Ag , .,:,, f thP!M) cnur.h judk-a.
ing ?o the law by which the bony has hith- j tories being contrary to tho laws and the
erio conserved to be governed. Klevcn constitution of the church. Presbytery
, -, , , , ,, -i i confirmed tbe report for the committee
States have ,. sub.-t to an analagousrule j nl,tj.jn division ; Ibis action wa, atlirnied
in both their interna, jnd internal relations, ! by the Synod of llarrisburg ; the General
iot tha" there is j
anv civil authority to control auJ j '
1 . -
1 i id
, :
tatCS, aii'il I
inem, nut oecause surrounuing p
the world, and God control them. fc-utler :
vs. The Kef. Dutch Church, 6 Wright, 509 I
el possum. Were the civil law to hold
otherwise, it would be standing in the way
of church progression, thereby direct!) con
trolling ecclesiastical action, aud positively
contravening the provisions of tbe Consti
tutions, State and Federal, prohibiting the
civil law from exercising such jurisdiction.
Tbe Church moves ever onward, and the
nearly nineteen centuries ptst have seen
changes of faith and formula, rule and prac
tice how varied and great, only the student of
church history can know, and notwithstand
ing charters and parliamentary enactments,
new rules of practice and discipline adopted
by the church as a great whole, have never
been permitted to work forteituro of title
held in trust for the perpetuation of the
faith aud practice of the Church. So if
this charter seeks to limit and couservc4he
government rules of practice of Prestyte
rianisiii back to what they may have been
in 107, if changed from then, then tbe
church is not Presbyterian, while the trust
and its uses are the charter may stand
still and perish, but the trust will move on
with the church aud live. The reason that
new rules and formulas and matters of prac
tice adopted by the chnrch through the
General Assembly, aud ratified by the Pres
byterians must be acquiesced in by the con
gregations, may Bud its parallel in that
which requires the States to acquiesce in
amendments to the Federal Constitution
when ratified by the legislatures of the re
quisite number of States, and to this illus
tration the pro rt uata doctrine of McAu
ley's appeal, 27 Smith, does not apply. At
this time advance sheets, setting forth pro
posed changes in the organic law of the
Presbyterian Church, arc being distributed
among the individuals composing the juris
dictions of the church for examination and
study.
Should the near future see them '
adopted in tbe constitutional mode, the con
gregations and charters sustaining the rela
tions this one does must abide thereby
Hence, again, the Master finds that the
Piesbytery of Huntingdon had the power
to divide the congregation of M.fflintowu i
and Lost Criwk.
Being, then, of the opinion that Presby
tery had the power and right, under VIII
of chapter X of tbe Form of (government,
to divide the congregation of Mifllintown
and Lost Crvek, so that iustead of having
one congregation njon the rolls of Presby
tery, they bare been recorded there aa two,
fbe Master now proceeds to dispose of the
questions raised by the plaintiffs iu the titb
section of the Bill of Equity : As to want
of due previous notice of division, or sub
sequent legal citation contrary to
tbe Constitution and laws of the Presbyte
rian Church.
I. As to want of due previous notice of
dii ision :
1st. The Master refers to the facts from
Jnte. pagea 9. 10, 11, 12, 14, 14, 15, 18.
2nd. The Form of Government requires
no previous notice, neither do tbe rules for
judicatures; and from an examination of
Moore's Digest the Master has been unable
to Uud that any of the ecclesiastical judica
tories have established any rule requiring
notice to be given of a proposed uniting,
dividing or loriuing of new congregations.
The lact of no notice being required may
be because these powers are vested by the
fundamental law in Presbytery, constitu
ent part of which is one pastor and one
ruling elder from each cougregatiou within
its jurisdiction the Master's ecclesiastical
reason tor MeAulev'a appeal, 27 Smith,
would seem not to allow il as a legal reason,
but we can only consider il in Its legal as
pect if the rights of property or civil rights
generally tw entreoched npon. The case
at bar shows tuoru than the semblance of
legal notice required, and also, thus far,
the ixclusivtiivss -f a matter strictly
church polity beyond the jurisdiction of
the civil courts, of SIcAuley's Appeal, as
well as that Presbytery has acted within the
scojw of its authority. Kirra Appeal, 8
N orris, 97.
3rd. Objection Is made that Presbytery
appointed a committee to cstaolisu a separ
ate and independent church organization at
MitTlintown," and that the committee divi
ded the congregation, an act different in
character from that which thev were ap
pointed to perforin. The Master thinks this
objection to be without merit. The com
mittee established a church organization at
MUUii'town separate from and independent
of Lost Creek, no matter what the process.
Here the Master desires to call attention
specially to $ VIII of chapter X of Form of
U.irrrmueut- Tbe clause under considera-
l.:..
form or receive new congreg;
organic law, altered and amended from
time to time, by the ablest ami most expe
rienced intellects in the church, theretore
we must conclude that it contains nothing
superfluous, but that some motive of
strength and reason of weight counseled
the incorporation of every sentence ; and we
must take tbe words, "unite," "divide,"
"and form or receive new," as each baring
a substantially ditl'erent signification, and
contemplating ditl'erent phases of action.
This is the Master's construction. The
Presbytery may, at the request of the peo
ple, unite two congregations, worshipping
apart (as in the adjaceut town) each having
a separate pastor, when in the judgment ot
Presfiy tery either is too weak to stand alone.
(2) Presbytery may, likewise, at the re
quest of the people, divide two congrega
tions worshipping in church edifices situate
apart as in adjacent towns, under I lie joint
pastor, when, in the judgment of Presby
tery, the welfare ol tbe cburchus demands
it." (3) Presbytery may form a new con
gregation where none existed before, as in
a new community or where a congregation
becomes two large, and oveitlows. (4)
Presbytery may receive a new congregation,
as from another Presbytery, or one former
ly actiug in connection w ith a diticrcnt de
nomination. A circunistanc precdent to union or di
vision at the request of the people, Moore's
Digest, page 174, pi. 53, specially required
by the organic law, and the request of a
majority is suliicient, Mood's D'g'-st, page
173. pi. 50, and thin is in restraint of Pres
bytery's power. No such preceding cir
cimistanc is specially stated to apply in the
matter of forming or receiving new congre
gations, as common sense teaches that in
the nature of the thinr a voluntary presen
tation or request necessarilv precedes re
pelling: and ill the matter ot an over-lull
j .weption. tbe sbence of the restraining
tTiauu Ki.ro an t-iiii"iihi uu ni. pi, .
povrer, but, when exercised
if it iiiteneres
with jiroj-erly nehts the civil courts can in
terfere as in McAuluy's Appeal. Then
the action of this couiniittee ui Presbytery
in dividing, was constitutionally correct,
and not in conflict wiih or excess of the
itnty and power committed to them til es
tablish "a separ ilfc and independent rhnrch
organization at Mi.'Hintown." Had it b-ea,
the confirmation of th commit tee's action
bv I'resbvterv cured Ihe detect.
II. As to subsequent legal citation. If
' I.ost Creek were not served with such by
nuttee that made divi. ion. Lost Creek ap..
..i.,.i ,.., ,n ,o. r r..
iVnod, was represented aud heard there
nlUr Ihe constitutional method. Finally
1mM Vrttk .U'J ,,r"'" tbe aiCrmai.ce of
t iii.ul lik tti.' Ui-niT-il Aitsoliililv. was there
Assembly decreed their actions to be right,
aId tbe result is binding on
."otter on U.rp., 6S2 W
i.'-ll-en- -.7!1.
J,1 """J","5 "
"'otter on Corp., oiS-; n atsoo vs. Jones,
The 6th section of plaintiff's bill also al
leges that thi; div-L-'ou by the Huntingdon
Presbytery, and the crtc'n of separate
and indeiiendent PresLyriari congrega
tion at Miftiintown "was in yioh.'ion of
chartered rights." This is an alleg.'fin
which, if the chartered righta are permis
sible in-law, and sustained, brings the mat
ter within the jurisdiction of tho civil
courts, and they nay interfere to pre ent or
redress the h jury.
I. There is allegation of a schism here
of abandoning doctrinal faith or tenets, lhat
would make a forteituro of property rights,
under Ihe trust, as to the schismatics, as iu
c boss's Appeals, 17 P. F. Smith, 1S3, and
Kosln's Appeals, 19 id, 412. But oa the
contrary, all parties are still adhering to ihe
Presb; tcrian f aith and form of worship.
II. L'pon the part ot those complained of
there is no refusal to follow any ecclesias
tical rules, customs or law as determined by
tlx church judicatories ; but on the con
trary, the defendants are acting in harmony
with the rnlmgs and decrees of Presbytery,
Synod snd General Assembly.
HI. There is no secession Iroia a parent
church aud erection or a new edifice, as in
Trustees vs. St. Michael, 12 Wright, 20,
which there was held to amount to a relin
quishment of property rights.
IV. Then we have the single question as
to whether this division by the Presbytery
of Huntingdon has violated permissible
charter rights, or in other words, has inter
fered in auy wise with the temporalities of
tbe rhureh to the detriment of Lost Creek T
The effect of this division by the Presby
tery of Huntingdon was,
1st. To create two Presbyterian congre
gations upon the rolls of Presbytery Irom
tbe same people that had theretofore consti
tuted but one.
2nd. To give to Mifilintown and Lost
Creek each a separate pastor, instead of the
joint pastorate they jirevionsly had.
Sid. To give to Mifilintown and Lost
Creek, each, a separate set ol ruling elders,
and separate set of deacons, though prac
tically this was a change of small moment,
none as to tbeir representative rights in
Presbytery, as each church possessed elders
and deacous previous to division.
4th. 1 bese changes are all ecclesiastical
in ihuir character, and such as the charter
does not presume to control, and, if it did,
could not.
5th There was a special disclaimer by
tbe Presbytery of Huntingdon and the Gen
er' Assen.t.iy uj aneci auy icmpor.. anair.
VI kllCSC: V"HK t(i-inuu, iu auu irj
cleslastical action.
Tbe corporation is still intact. To bor
row partially an illustration used by counsel
in Ihe argument before the Master, this
ecclesiastical division affects the corpora
tion no more than drawing a diamond across
a mirror, thereby dividing it into two pieces,
each giving a separate reflection, would
affect Ihe frame encloaing that mirror. Tbe
people of Lost Creek were never in posses
sion of the Mifilintown church edifice, ex
cept constructively as corporators, through
the corporation trustees, and they are so
yet. The mere fact that some of tbe trus
tees may be acting with the newly-organised
church at Mifliintown affects nothing
it is only au individual act they still Bold
the title in trust for the original corporators
awl tlid ase of the original grant, and could
be legally compelled to join in alienation
directed by the corporators, or to do aught
else necessary and appertaining to the wel
fare of the congregations within the scope
of their powers. Though in 1839, 19th
January, when a joint congregational meet
ing resolved that the trustees build a new
church at Lost Creek and appropriate $1500
for the purpose the trustees at their meet
ing, 23d January, 1839, solemnly, in viola
tion to the joint congregational action, de
clared themselves to be decidedly of the
opinion that such aclion was not binding on
them, but admitted lhat the same was en
titled to mature deliberation as a recom
mendation coming from their constituents,
and thee acted in accordance wilb the in
structions of the congregational meeting.
Vide Corp. Min. Book, pp. 180, 182, 183.
There is nothing in the fundamental law
of the church requiring trustees to be mem
bers of the church, though the charter re
quires them to be members of tbe church,
and congregation, and this requirement can
be complied with now as readily as before
division.
It is tbe fact that before division Mifilin
town ontrolod three-tilths and Lost Creek
two-fitth of the amount of the joint pas
tor's salary, each enjoining the partial min
istration in the ratio of its contribution, and
presumably, tbe joint pastor's salary was
paid out of the revenues of tbe corporate
property, pew rents, and so forth, which
beyond doubt was entitledjto go into the
hands of the trustees, and be by them ap
propriated to the uses of the congregations
in consonance with the purposes fcf the
grant. Yet in this regard the history of
the case shows the charter bad become ob
solete or fallen into a condition of deswe
tude, if indeed tbe powers were ever exer
cised, for we find the trustees of the cor
poration before division lo have had but
two treasurers, James Knox, 1 bio, and it
li-tin Patterson, 18.18, and they received the
Glebe money and land revenues, but not
pew rents, money foi pastor's salary, jani
tor's wages, church expenses. It docs not
appear that tbe trustees ever "fixed" the
salary of the minister, but it does appear
that such salary was fixed by the congrega
tions. That these revenues did not pass
through the bands of the congregations, of
trustees, or their treasurers, waa a mere
matter of practice having its formation in
convenience that was at any time revocable.
Il is further the fact that since division on
the 15th June, 1875, co corporate funds
arising from the Mifilintown church or its
congregation have been appropriated to the
paying of the salary of a mininter for Lost
Creek. But this fact or none of the ser
vices derived from the Mifllin church being
applied to tbe use of Lost Creek, if sh" be
entitled to any portion of them, is not tbe
result of the ecclesiastical division in the
direct sense, but the result of the neglect
of the corporation trustees. The mere ec
clesiastical division did not per tt in any
tttinnw nr form adect lht revenues or j
have anything to do with corporate proper-,
ty. Vide Kamsey'a Appeal, 7 Norns. If i
corporate fucils were misaj plied or w:ih-
held from those hgally entitled to receive;
them, the action of the ecclesiastical judi
catures is not the proximate causa of direc- !
1 i
tots of the corporation, invested, as to the !
temporal affairs of the ecclesiastic! societies '
of ilil'.liuai.d Lost Creek, with the charter
pouers, and their neglect or improper ac
tion cannot be chargeable to tbe ccclcsuisti
cal division as the impelling cause.
Therefore the Master is of the opinion
lhat the eccle.'i.isiical division has not vio
laltd charter rights of the Preshvtcrian
Congregation of Ctdar Spring, comprising '
the Congregation of Mitfiin and Lost Creek, I
as alleged in $ o of Plaiuiitra Bill, as ali j
ihe functional powers of that civil corpora- j
tion may be as fully exercised now as before '
tho division. j
Tbe Master must not be understood as .
expressing any opinion as to whether or not j
corporate funds have been improperly ap-
plied, or Lost Creek deprived of any por-1
tion of ber full share thereof since division j
be simply states that if Lost Creek is I
wronged or prejudiced in Its civil or corpo
rate rights, it is the fault of the trustees, :
and is not occasioned by the division by the j
rresoytery ot Huntingdon. lne other
question is not before the Master, nnder
shis bill and answer, there is no prayer for
relief against supint ness or improper action
by manda-cas or injunction. Tb4 bill is
against the defendants, and tbe general
prayer 'for such further and other relief as
the necessities of the case may require,"
does not cover the case. The bill pravs for
sptv'tfo relief by five separate paragraphs. .
The four 3rst relate to such matrers as he j
exclusively, undei the facts of this case, ,
within the jurisdiction of ike ecclesiastical '
courts, aud without that of the civil court. I
Tbe prayer of the fifth paragraph is " that
it may be further adjudged and de-creed
that the said congregation at Mifilintown ;
has forfeited all right and title ta any part
of the corporate real estate, and that the
said real estate of the said corporation sit
uate in the Borough of Mifilintown, and all
the real estate owned by said corporation
shall be decreed to belong to, and be man
aged and controlled by said Lost Creek con
gregation "
Under the facts as found by the Mastpr,
and bis construction of the rules of law and
equity in relation thereto, a decree in con
formity with said prayer ought not of right
te be made.
Therefore the Master is of the opinion
that the Bill in Equity, fi ed to No. 2, De
cember term, 1877, in Common Picas of Ju
niata County, Pa.,
Between John N. Moore, President of the
Board of Trustees of tbe Presbyterian Con
gregation of Cedar Spring, comprising the
Congregations of Mifilintown and Lost
Creek, Plaintiffs,
and
Ezra D. Parker, George Wilson and David
Cunningham, Committee, and T. J. Sher
rard, Pastor, of and representing the Con
gregation of Mifilintown, Defendants, must
be dismissed.
John Smith, aged fifty, was locked
up in the Jersey City (N- J.) jail Tues
day night, at tbe instance of his fam
ily, for drunkenness. Lie hanged him
self with a comforter to the cell door,
but the comforter broke and a prison
companion, who was asleep, was awak
ened by the fall, picked him up and
laia ntin on a DeDch. .lesterdaj morn-
ing he was dead. j
Leanl JS'oiicet.
Assigned Estate of JoUn Mines'
IXf O t'ICE is hereby given that John UU
X 1 ler has made a general assignment for
the benefit ot his Creditors to tbe under
signed. All persons indebted to said estate
are reqnented to make payment, and those
having claims to present them without delay
to S. 11. KINZtlk, Assignee,
Oakland Mills, Juniata Co., Pa.
Pec. 18, 1880.
Relief Association.
Tue Middlc PisssvLvasia Mitcal'1
Keliev Association. i
Mifilintown, Juniata County, Pa., j
December 20, 1880. )
The annual election of officers of tbe Mid
dle Pennsylvania Mutual Relief Association
and of a board of Directors will be held at
the office of the Association on Bridge
street, in the borough of Miftlintown, on
Fridav, January 21, 1881, from 1 o'clock to
3 o'clock P. M., of said dar.
LOUIS E. ATKINSON,
President.
Joseph M. Tolasd, Secretary.
DIVORCE NOTICE
In tbe Court of Common Fleas of
Juniata County, State of Pennsylvan
ia, No. 85, April Term 1830.
Jerome llaldeman vs Adda Ilalda
man. OUDKR of PUBLICATION To
Adda llaldeman Madam, you will
take notice that the Court has granted
a rule on you to appear at a Court of
Common Pleas to be held at Mifilin
town, in and for the Count j of Juniata
oo the 7th day of February A. D 18
81, to show cause, if ntiy jou have,
why a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii
should not be decreed ia tbe above
case, Personal service on you baviug
fa led on acoount of your absence.
James R Kellt.
Sheriff.
George Jacobs Jr.
Atl'y for Plaintiff.
DIVORCE NOTICE.
In tbe Court of Common Pieas of
Juuiata County, State of Pennsylvania,
No. 95 April Term 1SS0.
Mariba D. Pellet, by ber next friend
Samuel U. Alien vs. Wiison Pefler.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
To Wilsi n Peffer defendant. Fir
you will take uotioe that the Court has
granted a rule on you to appear at a
Court of Coirmwu Pleas to be held at
Mifflintowo in and for the county of
Juniata on the 1st Monday of February
A. D. 1831 being the 7th ray of the
mouth to sbo cause, if any you have
why a divoroe, a vinculo matrimonii
should not be decreed iu the above case
Personal service on yon having failed,
on account of your absence.
James R Kellt.
ctieriff.
Jeremiah Lyons
Attorney for libellant.
ASSIGNEE'S SALE OF
HEAL ESTATE.
THE undersigned. Assignee of John Mil
ler, will offer at public sale, on the
premises in Fermanagh towm-hip. about five
miles northeast of Mitfiintown. and one and
a-baif miles north of Jericho Mills, at one
o'clock P. M., on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 111,
The folio ing described real estate, to wit :
A Faini rf 100 ACKE.C, more or less,
1'HJ acre of which are clrar ; the balance i
set with valuable timber. The improve
ments are a
Good Log House, Log Earn,
and tith-T outbuilding ; good wter at the
door and flowing sprit g- in nearly ail the
fields. 1 hre is plenty of fruit on the
farm. There is also a SAW-MILL on the
farm, iu goiJ running order, iih good
water powt-r
CONDITIONS OF SALE Ten p -r cent
of Ihe purchase money to t: paid when the
property is sold, and 10 per ceu!. when the
sale is couiirmed by tlie Court, ami one
halt Ihe baiauce in sis mouths Irom date of
confirmation of sale, and the bil mce iu one
year from the time of confirmation, with in
terest irom April 1, IQ;I.
S. IT. KINZSH,
Assignee of John Miller.
ALSO At the the same i:ne and place,
one iwv-horse tread power and thresher il
miming order, on-j go-v-l grain d-iil.
S. H. Kl.NZKK,
tlec'J Assignee of John Miller.
HEAL ESTATE
AT
PUBLIC SALE.
rjllIE nndersisned, Executors of tbe es--L
tate of David Bashore, Sr., deceased,
late of Fermanagh township, Juniata coun
ty, Pa., will sell at public aile, ou the prem
ises, at 2 o'clock p. ., oa
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, I860,
The following described real estate, to wit :
A Farm situated in Walker township, about
four miles from Miillintown, county seat of
Juniata connty, Pa., containing
EIGHTY ACRES,
more or less, all clear excepting about Four
Acres; flint and sand land, having thereon
erected a
Good Frame Hank Earn,
Wagon House, Corn Crib, Hog Pen, and
other outbuildings,
WELLING HOUSE,
Good Water, Orchard. This property i in
a good community, convenient to churches,
stores and schools. The farm adjoins lands
of Andrew Bashore, Samuel lines, and
others.
ALSO At the same time and place, a
tract or WOODLAND, containing i Acres,
more or less, located about a mile east of
th above-described tract.
The above properties will be sold. Terms
to be made Known on day of sale.
ANDREW BAMIORE,
MICHAEL R. BAS HOKE,
Executors of the estate of David Basbore,
Sr., deceased.
Dec. 1, 1880.
Executors' Notice.
Estate of Jacob Riehl, deceased.
LETTERS Testamentary on tho estate of
Jacob Riebl, late of Beile township,
Juniata county, deceased, having been
granted to the undersigned, all persons in
debted to said estate are requested to make
payment, aud those having claims or de
mands are requested to make known the
same ithout de'av to
NOAH RIEIIL,
FANNY RIEHL,
Dec. 3, 1880. Executors.
ESTRAT 2IOTICE.
CAME to tbe place of the undersigned in
Millord township, 1 miles west of Pat
terson, a reddish roan Heifer, with white
forehead. The owner is requested to come
forward, prove property, pay costs of keep
ing, and take the heifer awav.
GEORGE RUPERT.
Dec. 13, 1880-4t
CACTIOJI XOTICE.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned not to
allow their dogs, cattle or hogs to run,
or themselves to fish, hunt, gath berries,
or cut wood or yonng timber, or iu any way
trespass o.i tbe lands of the undersigned in
Greenwood or Susquehanna township.
Peter Miller nenry Rush
Daniel Shadle George Dressier
E Long to. S Dimm Frederick Roats
Joel Dressier
Sv '-, 178
Jonathan Miller
ytrw AdrerttiHrment-
warn
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TnOMPSONTOWN, JUNIATA CO., FA.
Professional business properly attended
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Physician and Surgeon,
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Olhce hours from 9 a. m . to 8 r. .. Of
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.lendemia, Juniata Co., Pa.
Orrics formerly occupied by Dr.Stcrrett.
Professional business promptly attenikd to
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ITOR SALE !
THE undersigned has for sale the valu
able pioperty, known as the
CUBA MILLS,
located about two miles north of M;!8m
town, Jnniata connty, Pa. The advan
tages of this property are unequalled in tbe
county.
Parties interested in the Milling business
wonld to well give this notice prompt at
tention. Apply to
DAVID D. STONE,
Attorney at Law.
July 2, 1SS0. Mitllintown, Pa-
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