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Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Trustees of the 4th Presbyterian Church respond to a newspaper claim that the church disregarded the National fast day by working on it. They explain it was an unauthorized action by a cleaning contractor finishing her contract, express regret, deny contempt for the day, and request the paper publish their correction with informants' names.
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Presbyterian Church.
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Intelligencer:
In your local column of yesterday's paper, 10th instant, a statement is made in reference to the 4th Presbyterian Church and its observance of the National fast day. You say the statement was made to you by "members of the congregation, who requested you to give publicity to the fact."
How much "Christian piety" there is in members of the congregation who without any examination of the case, would condemn their brethren in the church, and who would publish far and wide a statement so injurious to the usefulness of the church of which they claim to be members, we leave the public to judge after they have seen the following statement of the facts:
Those who control the 4th Presbyterian Church, namely, the undersigned Trustees, made a contract with a painter to repaint the building, and with a widow woman, who earns her living by such work, to cleanse it, for a certain sum of money, we giving them the keys and exercising no daily supervision. We ourselves were much surprised and vexed at any work whatever having been done on the National fast day, and on making inquiry found that the woman only intent on finishing her contract, had thoughtlessly proceeded with the labor of cleansing, and the part of the work which fell upon that day was moving the carpets.
The woman herself is very sorry the occurrence happened, but denies any such intention as that attributed in your article.
For ourselves, who control all matters of repair or labor about the church building and grounds, we explicitly deny "making our contempt for the day," &c. and "declining to observe the day," &c., as your article intimates, and we request you to publish this note together with the name or names of your informant or informants.
Richard Porter,
J. C. Van Fossen,
John Scott.
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Richard Porter, J. C. Van Fossen, John Scott
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Editors, Intelligencer
Main Argument
the trustees clarify that work on the national fast day was an unauthorized mistake by a cleaning contractor eager to complete her contract, not a deliberate disregard by the church. they deny any contempt for the day and request the newspaper to publish this correction along with the names of the informants who made the original accusation.
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