About the year 1844, while I had business in New York.  Theophilus Gates came to me after having read an address of mine in which I urged readers to co-operate for establishing a centre of our work.  T. Gates spoke about a certain point persuading me to adopt it for a sure success in establishing our centre.  I said, that I did not know, whether I understood him correctly or not.  Therefore I would read if he had published anything on that subject and then I would talk with him about it.  Then he brought to me his pamphlet, entitled:  “the Battle Axe,” in which he endeavored to prove “the free love doctrine” by the Bible as well as by authorities of this time.  His greatest authority was a letter of this same John H. Noyse.

I gave a great lesson to Th.  Gates who was ruining people by his infernal doctrine; but he did not digest my lesson.  Then I made acquaintance with some John H. Noyse’s disciples and asked them, how their leader became so blind as to support the damnable doctrine which opens the door to all kinds of lasciviousness, adultery and fornication, which ruins people and is diametrically opposed to the spirit of the New Testament.  His disciples said, that he wrote that letter in a haste, and that it was published against his intention, and that he retracted his view expressed in that letter.  Then I attended a meeting of Perfectionists in Newark, N.J.  Some of them were with Noyse, others were against his supporting the Free Love doctrine.  I addressed the audience.  Then I was invited to dinner by a Perfectionist who did not belong to Noyse’s Party.  I was asked by my host, whether I did read or not, what appeared shortly before that in Noyse’s “Perfectionist” against me.  After my negative answer he gave me the number containing Noyse’s article against me.  I took it to the meeting which was appointed on the same Sunday afternoon and read that article at the meeting and explained Noyse’s misrepresentations of the contents of my article to which reference was made in Noyse’s article, and remarked that it was possible, that Mr. Noyse did not make purposely but only in haste those misrepresentations, and that in the case that he is a friend of Truth, he would retract what he had published misrepresenting my statements.  I added, that in this case I would like to see him and converse personally with him about the matter.  One of his disciples said that Noyse was a man ready to receive truth, and that he wished to go with me to Mr. Noyse and to bear travelling expenses.  We started and took also another friend of Mr. Noyse with us.  At our arrival we were cordially received, till Mr. Noyse heard my name.  At that moment he was entirely changed, took his friends into his room, while I remained on the porch.  He spoke with them so loud, that I heard every word, while he reproached to them, that they took me with them.  It was nearly dinner time, and I found proper not to speak about our case, till we would be together in his Printing