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Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 22, 1910 Dear Bro. Howe: I recur to a letter of yours Dec. 3rd. I am glad to hope that Rev. Wm. Miller has proved acceptable to the Park. I prefer to not be responsible for any official appointment. I suppose Bro. Linker has safely arrived in Africa. I would sooner trust hem as superintendent there, for a year after Bro. Stoltz leaves, than to have a new man. I think our choice of Bonthe for a rest home is good. I have from the first regarded Freetown as impractible. Now I will give you some reason for my lack of confidence in Wm. Beer. My first introduction to the name was to a trustee of the Genesee Church in Illinois, some thirty years ago. Bro. Beers, insisted on having no ventillation through the windows, one of the hottest dedication days I ever knew. A few months later he ran off with the township |
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funds. He had Beers blood in him. Next Wm. Beers was elected by mistake (or connivance) to General Conference at Gains in 1904. Bro. E. E. Plumley had a large vote of a society for A. H. Harrison committed to him, and he "forgot" to give it to the tellers till the day of the expiration of the legal limit, when he communicated it by phone. This phoned paper would have elected Harrison, but it was not legal. Beers knew this fact, as his letter shows to me, but he "excused" his taking his seat because Harrison over the matter showed some temper. We all know how he disgraced his seat at that session! But he managed to be elected on the Missionary Board. At the General Conference, I heard Wm. Beers and J. S. Beers, and perhaps another delegate, caucusing how to put the two Beers onto the Missionary Board. They put the two together on the ballot, and when those ballots were counted they showed just their order, and elected them. |
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I listened to the announcement of those ballots and blushed for those two self-elected delegates to a general Board of the church. I think some who had not known the plot, must have seen the conspiracy. A man who will do as Wm. Beers has done, and leads his brother in conspiracy, must not expect my approval. He is well-qualified to succeed G. S. Seipel and N. D. Wolford at Chambersburg. He is just like P. S. Cook, in looks and ways (though better bearing) of White River Conference, who figured there till 1869. While writing, a letter came from D. L. Dull of Weston, Wood Co., Ohio, enclosing a clipping for the Classmate, a M. E. Sabbath School paper, complimentary to Wilbur and Orville, but representing them as the sons of a M. E. preacher, of Dayton, Ohio, and obliged by circumstances to contribute, |
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by their industry, to the support of the family. Bro. Dull hardly believed these statements. Bro. Dull was for many years a leading layman of Sandusky Conference, and his son was a graduate of Central College, and one year a teacher there. Dull was a remarkable layman, I wish you could find opportunity to visit him. He has joined the M. E. Church. His wife and son were not of his spirit, though she, intelligent, stood close to the itinerant. He was worth much of the Sandusky laity. Possibly he might benefit our cause with money, as in the past. He is a good man. His son was not [?], though brilliant. But I must close. I hope that this will find you all well. For near two months I have had lumbago, but it is mostly gone. The children are at home. Yours sincerely, Milton Wright. |