Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19
Trouble In the Church.
Rev. RsIPH HoYT-fHE Provisional BISHOP
AND LOLA MoNTEZ AT LoGGERHEADS.
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Rev. RALPH HoYr=THE PROVISIONAL BIsHoP
AND LOLA MoNTEZ AT LoGGERHEADS.
[Cor. Philadelphia Pennsyluanian.l
New YORK. Oct. 1Ith. 1853.
Rev. Ralph Hoyt, very worthy Episcopal
clergyman of this city, has got himself int"
hot water, in consequence of accepting very
handsome contribution from Madame Lola
Montez, toward the Reconstruction of his
Church of the Good Shepherd, up town, which
was blown down in a gale of wind in March
last. Mr. Hoyt has been advertising in the
religious journals. ever since, for aid. TO ena-
BILE him to overcome his mistortunes, and the
spiritual sympathies of the EX-COuntess of
Landsfe1dt being touched, she generously ten
dered the worthy Rector of the Good Shep-
herd the proceeds of a Lecture on Rome. to
be delivered at Hope Chapel ON Wednesday
evening next. This offer Rev. Mr.. Hoyt
gratefully accepted.
Meanwhile the Tablet and other Roman
Catholic papers began to poke fun at this
''scandal ousf alliance between the Church and
the strange woman" and as the matter was
noised about, many of the friends of the
unfortunate rector,-good Churchmen and
Church-women,-withd the light of their
countenance from him-with an intmation
that if he was going to take up with Lola
MonteZ they could have nothing more To do
with him. or his Church of the Good Sbep-
herd. Promised contributions were speedily
cancelled. and. all OF q sudden, there was, on
every side, general stampede.
To make matters still worse for the good
Mr.. Hoyt / understand that the Bishop of
this Diocese, yielding to the urgent solicita-
lions of those who think the ex-mistress of
the King of Bavaria altogether too miserable
a sinner to come into the Church. has placed
the rector of the Good Shepherd under a sort
of interdict,- in other words he has for
hidden him either to countenance Madame
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ture. The Bishop it is said. has been severely
exercised upon the subject; he did not wish to
wound the feelings of the Rector, but the
scandal of having so distinguished a sinner as
Lola Montez, as a patrOness OF IA Church with
in his Diocese, left him no Alternative but to
issue his bull of accommodation.
Thus the matter stands at present, but as
Lola says she does not recognize the right of
the Provisional to exercise any spiritual or
ecclesiastical authority over her, she is deter
mined to give the Lecture on Rome at Hope
Chapel.-iust as if the interdict had never
been issued. She is said to be awfully wroth
at the Bishop, and publicly declares he is only
a Jesuit in disguise!
What the denouemet of this curious bust
ness is to be, it is impossible to tell, but it is
given out. by Madame's friends that if the
Bishop does not permit Mr. Hoyt to receive
her donation. she will devote it TO the cree
ton of Good Shepherd of her Own,-sOme
where near her present suburban residence,
at Yorkvile.
The Episcopalians, here, it may not be amiss
to add, have always betrayed an extreme SEN
sitiveness at the introduction of strange wO-
men into their churches. Everybody remem-
bers what breeze was raised, some years
since, when certain Mrs. Brown hired a
pew, for her lady boardcrs, at Grace Church
Mrs. b. got no peace there, and Brown the
Sexton mo relation of Mrs. BrOWn) was OBJ
liged at last to hustle her Out-sO that it
would thus seem. after all-that Christ did
not come to call sinners, but the righteous, to
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