March 2 1890
I have waited hoping to get a letter from you. How are you prospering? well I have no doubt What a sad thing is the division in the Chicago Church I can say with "Martha" "if you had been there" it would not have beenJohn 11:21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
in my opinion. I think there was too much haste in deciding so great a question as
giving up a Church unity. Oh! how I wish they had been patient and if they could not
have agreed to retain the pastor with whom they had built up, to have
parted like Lot and Abraham in brotherly love and friendshipGen 13:7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s
cattle: and the Canaanite and the
Perizzite dwelled then in the land. Gen 13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee,
and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
I deeply regret hearing that Mr. Day is not well. I wrote him when I heard of it, and did for him at the time I wrote what I could to restore his health but have not heard from him. I have had nothing whatever to do with the action of
my students in theChurch matters Mrs. Noyes wrote asking questions about it, sometime about
ChristmasAs Written:Christmass, and I
answered As Written: answerd
that I should not give any advice on either side Also wrote a public notice that I should not be consulted on other people's affairs for the
C. S. Jour. After that, I never heard a word and hoped that Mr. Day and his church were in peace
and prosperity. But one day overheard some students speak of his having resigned his
pastorate and recommended his church to call Joseph Adams. I did not know how things were situated, and so on the spur of the moment sent to
some of my students
recommending As Written: recommeding
them to comply with his wish. But on hearing from them, withdrew my request and have
had no further participation in anything As Written: any thing that has been done How my heart is grieved at such dissensions and quarreling in
the ranks of christians who claim to be more Christlike than other denominations Darling
if I could make all the church love Mr Day and agree to disagree with
his As Written: hi's
views (if they must, for conscience sake) and then continue to live in love for one another as they once did I would sacrifice much to accomplish As Written: accouaplish this. It was certainly cruel to charge me with knowing about what the church did and taking sides or approving
the side that went against Mr Day, for I never did it, and would no sooner have done
it than I would do wrong and know it for this certainly would have been wrong in me
when I had a great love for all of his good sayings and doings, and had forgiven and
forgotten any things that he had uttered against me.
Mr. Joseph Adam's sermons have been sent me of late and they impress me with a sense of his thoroughness in the doctrines we teach and earnest zeal for our cause. I have written him to this effect.
Now darling be patient with a Mother whose heart goes out in a wave of love to all her children that would make them white as snowIsa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. —if she says to you, (one of her dearest) I beseech you in the spirit of Christ to be on sisterly and brotherly terms — you and Mr Adams.
O do show me how great is your love for God by forgiving, yea more, by loving all mankind and for once I ask it show yourself the best Christian of the two by taking the first step towards reconciliation Will you do this dear? My heart bleeds with this name among mem that we are not brethren I would humble myself in the dust to have this otherwise I made the Boston C.S.A. vote to reconsider all their votes of expelling members and permit them a withdrawal This included Arnes and all those who had so abused me without a causeJohn 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. John 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.