The Trouble Will Be Settled

Rev. W. S. Titus.

Hope is springing up, let no one place a stumbling block in the way. After hesitating a long time I decided to write an article proposing some measures for the settlement of our church trouble, but when I saw Dr. Johnson's proposition to give the church a lift out of their embarrassment, provided they would settle their quarrel, and take hold of the work anew and peaceably drop all contention, I ordered that my article that I had already sent to the office for publication, should not be published. That proposition seems to me providential, and such an one as our people unanimously ought to harmonize with, and then we may hope to have peace.

If I understand the proposition, as given by Pres. McMurray, we need nothing else. If that or something covering the same ground is honestly carried out it will place us back on solid ground, and, besides settling our dispute and giving us peace, it will give us an endowment which, if ever so small, is something we did not have before the trouble. So, if this is to be taken into the reckoning, the devil must be considered to have overshot the mark.

And let it be said, by the church unanimously, "Woe to the sore head who raises an objection, to such a proposition."