The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-03-22
Bishop Ives and Episcopacy.

The following article Is copied BY request
from a New York paper, and our reasons for
Publishing it are the same as those previously
gwen:
Considering the claims Of our Episcopal
friends 10 b. Of the true church, and their con-
slant assaults upon other denominations As
schismatio, they must be pretty often snrpris-
ed al finding some decided marks Of infrmity
both Of opinion and conduct among the Right
Reverend Fathers inGOd, for whom they claim
exclusive apostolic commission Bishop Ives
has gone over TO Rome, some two or three
other Bishops have done woise, and gone
nearer the more ancient Babylon, whilst il is
more than rumor that the peace of the new
jerusalem does not fully prevail among those
Of the lawnsleevs upon whom nc stain has fall
en-. All denominations have their troubles,
and it is not charitable or neighbOrly to deal
haEhly with each others sins. We would
only hint at the folly Of E~piscopalians in try
ing to claim exemption from error whilst they
are so open TO remark. II is certainly a great
puzzle to us outsiders that those who have
been so fully nurtured in the true church, and
protected by its bulwarks against all the at
tacks Of error, should be found 80 waveriug
and so lost.
As to Bspop Ives, he seems to US a some
what weak-minded but highly sensitive and
devout man, who undertook to carry out Epis-
copacy to its ultimate Of apostolic authority,
and found that it was, both historically and
moraly, but a part Of a yet more compre-
hensive hierarchy, and that the shrine Of Can
terbury borrowed its light and power from
that Of Rome. 1t has always been the case
that the attempt to push the mitre up to its
full preroga;ive has led its defenders to shell
ter it under the majesty Of the Romish Crown.
The historical argument, the philosophy of
doetrinal development, and the experience of
every age Of the more rampant High Church
ism, all illustrate this fact.
But the Episcopal press has found a solu-
ton of the puzzle that one of its Bishops has
turned Papist. he was not caught early
enough, or was not dyed in the wool. He
was born in the fold or in the wilderness of
some non-apostohc sentence his apostacy.
They say that the seceders to Rome have been
generally Of this class. How is it with New
man, Manning, Tabor, DC, the fathers of the
Romanist reaction in Englanda Were they
born under Presbyterian or Congregational
rulei They were the very pit children of
English Episcopacy to It's purity, and they
found themselves driven by their great learn
ing and honest argument back to that Romish
sect from which England had seeded. The
same tendency appears in this country, and a
thorOagh-going churchman cannot reasonably
stop short of allegiance to the Roman Pat
riarchats. 1t is only the holder Professionalism,
such as animated the martyrs Of the English
Reformation, that can consistently oppose the
Pope's pretensions by resting church influence,
not upon legitimacy Of succession, but upon
the spirit and the truth Of revelation. II is
notorious as a simple matter of literature and
scholarship that Episcopacy has been defeated
in her dispute with Papacy upon the question
Of p%riestly authority, and her ablest men who
rest the claims of the Episcopal church purely
upon proofs of apostolic succession, have gone
over to Rome. 1t is only such a position as
Whately assumes, by regarding the Episcopal
church as one among various forms of Protes-
tantism, that a reasonable man and a good
scholar can remain an Episcopalian.
But the Episcopal press says that poor
Bishop Ives has been half crazy, and it is
goodto be rid Of him. Why, then, so long
daily with him and try TO keep him in ranks |!
So it was said that Rev. Mr.. Forbes was insane,
and the mild and portly christian gentleman
who now breaches up the pretensions of the
Pope almost under the very caves of the tenn
pie Of Episcopal fashion to far less seIf-deny-
ing congregation, was voted to be fit only for
the lunatic asylum. The truth is, that these
seducers. instead Of being mad, are the only
consistent interpreters Of the doctrine of apos-
tolic succession, which makes religion the pro-
perty of a priestly corporation, and narrows
the worship in spirit and truth into a hierarch-
cal monopoly. The Episcopal church has ex-
cellent men in its ministry, many impressive
points in its service, but its claim to the ex-
elusive guardian of christianity, and TO rule
the conscisnces of men by priestly legitimacy,
are simply presumptuous, and are so made
to appear by the studies, the arguments, and
the example of the best scholars in its own
ranks. Our worthy neighbors in orders have
enough religion and morality in their creed
which they can preach with edifcation but
let them not declaim about their right divine
over faith and conscience to any sterner tribu
nal than the ear Of some giddy girl, who
thinks a Bishops sleeve very pretty, and who
would be as much startled by a new idea in a
sermon as by ghost at midnight.
A Coon JoKB.-Yesterday the well-known
Major r.. while collecting funds To defrav the