Word: tilton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...packed in the parishioners at Brooklyn's big Plymouth Church for 23 years. Then, at 57, and at the peak of his influence, he was accused of practicing what he preached against. "On the night of July 3, 1870,'' writes Author Robert Shaplen. "Elizabeth Richards Tilton, a small, dark-haired woman of 35, the mother of four children, confessed to her husband, Theodore, that she had committed adultery with her pastor, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher...
Shocking Medium. The confession was the outcome of a weird triangle. Tilton had long worshiped Preacher Beecher as "my man among men." Beecher, who had married the Tiltons back in 1855, visited their home constantly, hinting freely at his own marital unhappiness. Tilton would say: "There is one little woman down at my house that loves you more than you have any idea...
After the little woman confessed that the love between her and Beecher was not merely spiritual, bushels of self-abasing letters were exchanged. The three met tearfully in Mrs. Tilton's bedroom. "I kissed him and he kissed me," Beecher later recalled, "and I kissed his wife and she kissed me, and I believe they kissed each other." With that, all hoped to hush up the affair...
...since the last century, when Henry Ward Beecher kissed Mrs. Tilton, has fashionable Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. had a clergyman as controversial as the Rev. William Howard Melish, 44. Melish, an ardent, undeviating representative of the far, far left, has joined, helped found or led almost a score of organizations long since discredited by Communist infiltration. Melish's politics forced his father, the Rev. John Howard Melish, out of his job as rector at Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The younger Melish hangs on as acting pastor in his father's church only because the bishop cannot...
...rest of the first ten were Arnie Howe of Kirkland, fourth; Ivan Nabakov of Lowell, fifth, Guide Peroira of Eliot, sixth; John Tilton of Dunster, seventh; Bob Swett of Eliot, eighth; Dick Hooke of Dudley, ninth; and Al Joyce of Adams, tenth...