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...embarrassing plight the pious eye is usually averted, but a congregation in Muncie, Ind. last week found this impossible. As Sunday evening service was about to begin, 50 people sat uneasily in Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Behind the pulpit stood their 55-year-old pastor. Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, tall, spare, grim-faced, with lank grey locks falling over his high forehead and gold teeth glinting between thin lips. That morning Mr. Conway had announced that Willard F. Aurand, the choirmaster, would not be present for the evening services. But Choirmaster Aurand was there. He arose and announced...
Someone cried: "All Christians will leave at once!" A few left. With haggard eyes Mr. Conway surveyed his congregation, began a sermon on "The Gift of the New Heart...
Muncie Methodists soon heard why their minister had struck their choirmaster. There had been charges against Mr. Conway, a "trial" by clergymen, a report sent off to Bishop Edgar Blake in Detroit. Mr. Conway heard that Choirmaster Aurand had talked about the charges. What were they? When Muncie found out it began wondering if this grim, sombre Methodist minister were another Elmer Gantry. A pretty girl of the congregation, Helen Huffman, 18, friend of one of the Conway girls, had accused Mr. Conway of having attempted to rape her in his automobile one afternoon last December...
Secluding himself, Muncie's Conway said of his enemies: "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." With soap-box evangelists haranguing outside the Muncie courthouse, a grand jury debated fiercely, at length indicted Mr. Conway for attempted rape...
...Wales Lanrwst had to cancel their Welsh Combination game with Lanfairfechan, most of their players being ill with influenza. In the Vale of Conway League Pentregwyddel had to cancel their game with Colwyn Bay Comrades for the same reason, and Mochdre had to cancel their game with Dolwyddelen. Colwyn Bay also had several of their team ill with influenza...