The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-07-13

midst Of that long continued series of im>
moral, scandalous and disorderly acts, the
deep and damning sins OF which upon bis
soul at the e of more than three score
years, can only be cleansed through the
blood of Christ, bu! by his own blood,
sever Therefore the Bishop need not
send him to Manitowoc on probation for
repentance Of his sins, for it is certain that
! the only repentance he could find here,
,could be that he evcr came
| Again the court say:
''The smallest penalty known to our
canons would preclude the Bishop from
giving the condemned clean papers until
three gears shall have elapsed, we would
lean as far as possible towards the side OF
mercy and infiict the penalty of admoni,
ton
1t is numerically unfortunate to the
cause of the Protestant Episcopal Church
OF Wisconsin, as well as very compi
mentary to the dioceseners Of the State,
that this court in its sentence Of this
condemned" " clergyman, should have
tied up the hands of the Bishop and com,
PEELED him to permit the condemned to
wear the sacerdotal robes, and administer
sacerdotal functions in this diocese, with
soul, and hands, and papers " condemned"
as uncltdn and dirty ! If the condemned
is good enough for the church Of Wiscon
sin, why IS he not good enough tor
churches 0! other states! Why should
the court in its leaning towards the side of
mercy, be more tender of the interest Of
! the churches in other states, than Of those
in their own state? Why should the
court urge that the condet.ned be not
permitted to resume PASTORAL relations
with St. James Church, Manitowoc and
e: him loose upon othei parishes in this
diocese! Is it because The communicates
in the st. James Church Of Manitowoc
have shown themselves too rigid in their
exactions from their pastor, or have the
females Of this church been over nice and
prudishly squeamish in refusing to daily
with him a little longer until he has
placed bis other foot in the grave or
haye.they been unreasonable in their com
plants of the mere ,ritf1ing pecadl!oes
while they, (the court however, have
condemned as being "immoral, scandal
Gus, aud disoIlerly q or do they think
that the female members of other church
es will be more compIaisant and yielding,
| OK make less noise about similar acts. and
does the guilt Of the condemned consist in
the mere fact Of having been discovered
and exposed
If the court would only re assemble
and pas, a resolution that toe three gears
have already elapsed and urge the Bishop
TO give the condemned clean papers
and in no event permit him to resume or
| establish pastoral relations with any
church in this state, he might leave the
country fer his countrys sake.
1t cannot we'll be doubted that this
novel decision of an Ecclesiastical court
should produce error and schism iD, or
detection from this church OF St James Of
Manitow oc, should it reach no further, for
those who have consciences void of
otfense, those whose virtues and sensi.
tive natures instinctively shrink from the
commission of wrong and have the cour-
age to denource it in others, canr OF be
expected TO remain in church when its
holy ordinances are administered by one
whose hands they know to be unc!ean and
whose touch they feel to be pollution
and that for mere policys sake when
founded upon wrong or error, they should
consent TO remain with those who have
denounced them in unbecoming and un>
christian terms for refusing to sustain and
retain as church pastor one whom it was
known to most il not all of the communi-
cants as having been guilty of grossly
immoral, scandalous, and disorderly con-
duct, and who now condemn them because
the Ecclesiastical tribunal has "admon-
ished y their divinaty pet' and all his
worshippers not to walk again over dau>
gerous ground on rotten stills lest they
fall Such may, but the virtuous do not
hold that his crime, being such as would
in cupid's court be called peccadWo,
should be treated in the same manner in
the church, or in an Ecclesiastical court.
The PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION
Southern papers received in Washington
on the 9th, say that there is very gen
cral disposition on the part Of the people
to respond TO the address fer the rhlIa>
delphia National Union Convention
State and distric. conventions tc nominate
delegates have been called In Alabama,
Georgia and South Carolina.
A cal! is published for the same kind Of
a Convention TO meet at Madison, in this
State, on the 1st of August.
The address Of the National Union
Club and its endorsement bv the Demo-
cratic members Of Congress, will be found
on our second page.
MADIsoF Il PORTAGE CITr RAIL RoAD
Va saa iha, tha tnwna ON tho Ena of