Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-17
+" RITUALISM."
Was or Was not q TPFOeeS-
SiOnaI Cross" Voted Bishop
QuintaFd i'm London =?
Another Card from Rev. j. W.
Rodgers, Comprising two
Letters from Europe.
From the Memphis Avalanche.

MEMPHIS, Oct -, IS6S.-Wishing to
retire as much as possible from the pub
lie view, (even in my own little spherel
shall deliver my last addressthis morn
ing il the GreenlaW Opera House, ana
ask, perhaps for the last time, space IN
your columns to set matter plainly be-
fore yonr readers, regarding which had
suffered from misrepresentation
had stated, you may remember, some
months since in the AUalaHche, that "a
professional cross was voted the Bishop
Of Tennessee by the Church Of St Mary
Magdalene, in the city of LONDON.
Some of the clergy, being the same week
in convention with the Bishop, prepared
an article for me to sign, which was
simply a retracticn Ofthe above, in which
l should say "the above statement Is
erroneous the Bishop never did receive
a professional cross from st. Mary Mag
dalene," though l had only said 1t was
voted him. Also, a correspondent OF the
AppsaI under the nom de plume Cos
mopolits," who quoted in his article the
very text from which the Bishop had
preached in st. Mary Magdslene, charae-
terized my statement as untrue.
The following, from my vile and son,
is a true and full history Of the case:
LONDON, October 20.-MY DEAR HUs1
BAND: Having rested ever since l wrote
to dear sister this morning, Lam almost
well enough to write you Of Harris suo-
cess in his visit to the clergy CT St Mary
Magdalene. He called on several of the
clergy who were not in, but those he did
see testified positively that there was 3
professional cross voted the Bishop.
Harris will write you their names. Rev.
Mr.. Barnes went with him TO the church
and showed him a card tackled on the
vestry door, the purpOrt Of which was, as
near as he can remember: All wishing
to subscribe to the professional cross
voted Bishop Quintard Bishop Of Ten
nessee) will send their donations to Mr..
Dowson, No. Is WestbOurne Park; 80
there cna be no doubt about it
Harris writes, October 2Sth:
my DEAR PAPA: | called to see Mr..
Dowson in relation to the professional
cross. He was very much astOnished to
hear of the controversy, and that the
BishOp was opposed to Ritualisn, mas
much as he understood him to say that
he was yery much pleased with their
services; and his firm impression was
that the Bishop said or intimated to Mr.
West 1.-THE incumbent) that if cross or
pastoral staF-he did not know which
was voted him, he would thankfully ac-
cent il; however, no more than a gulrel
(twenty-one shillings) had been contrib
uted toward it. Mr.. Wood, the Canadian
clergyman, Rector Of st John, the Evan
gelist, Montreal, (whO returns home to-
morrow was more astOnished than Mr..
DowsOn, and said it was O great pity the
Bishop should have been guilty of such
folly. that he was like another Bishop
who had oficiated at st. Mary Magda-
lene but on his return home prohibited
the use Of candles, waters, flowers, etc.
all of which, with the glorious services
of the church, seemed to delight him so
much. He said suppose Mr.. West
and the clergy, admiring the Bishop for
being such a High Churchman, as they
believe him, voted him this cross, never
thinking that he would be ashamed to &c
knowledge it (addIng) |, myself con"
tributed to it.
Thus, only to protect my own yeraelty,
without eliminating any man on earth
leave the matter where the Bishop placed
it-before the public-humbly hoping
that he had never heard of Its being
voted him, and that Mr.. D5Ws0n was ms
taken in saving that the Bishop promised
10 accept il. One word more
Believing my Bishop and nearly all hls
clergy, would 90 heart and hand
| Vitb me in such services as / had
| Notwithstanding my straightforward
truthfulness Notwithstanding alone IN
| the surrounding darkness, and trusting
| but little 10 nv humble abilities, l visited
the holy affairs daily Gin the only churches
near me opened asking God for light and
| Guidance He overwhelmed me with
sense of my own insuthciency to carry
| ont the corporate union with the Church
| Of Rome, which so many approved, but
would not proclaim, and | resolved to en-
ter the Ark, though all the world should
nerish around me. Bat it is alike due to
/ myself and the noble men and women
| who sustained nv family in comfort by
| their offerings and subscriptions to say
| that [ have not yet joined the Roman
| Catholic Church, though | shall do so IN
! due season-that I have acted without
| admission 10 her Priesthood before my
remuneration or any kind Of conference
with them; and that am still amena0ie
and ready for trial, and will answer any
indictment that might possibly be
brought against me for breach OF ca
mons in the Episcopal Church.
J.. W. ROGERS.