Chapter IX

THE PULPIT AND PRESS ON THE SITUATION IN MISSOURI.

Ministers of Peace—Course Pursued by the St. Louis _Christian
Advocate_—Rev. Dr. M‘Anally its Editor—Candid, Truthful, Honest—The
Cause of its Suppression, and the Imprisonment of the
Editor—Ministers of the M. E. Church, South, Labor and Pray
Earnestly for Peace—Days of Fasting, Humiliation and
Prayer—Ministers who became Political Partisans had no use for such
days—“Breathing out Threatening and Slaughter”—Spirit of the
Northern Methodist Press—False Publications for a Purpose—One Mr.
John Stearns and the _Western Advocate_—Glaring
Falsehoods—Excitement in St. Louis and Throughout the
State—Persecution of Ministers in Kansas and Reign of Terror along
the Border—Rev. W. H. Mobly and Rev. John Monroe in Southwest
Missouri—Systematic Efforts to Break up the M. E. Church, South, and
Disperse her Ministers—Editorial in _St. Louis Advocate_—_The
Central Again_—Impressions Abroad—Baptists and Presbyterians
Implicated—“Religion in Missouri”—Missouri Conference at Glasgow—St.
Louis Conference at Arrow Rock and Waverly—Conference Stampeded by
the Rumor of a Gunboat—Author Arrested.