The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-28
MORE ECCLESIASTICAL SQUABBLEs

MORE ECCLESIASTICAL SQUABBLES.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
The excitement in Chicago on account of
the trial of Rev. Mr.. Cheney, for unauthorized
omission of the words ''regenerate' and ''re-
generation" from the 'sBook of Common
Prayer" had not subsidized when another great
excitement was occasioned there by the Assis-
tant Bishop of Kentucky, Rev. DR.. Cummins,
who preached last Sunday at Trinity Church.
in that city, in direct opposition to a very
autocratic and bitter letter" from Bishop
Whitehouse, of Illinois, accusing him of stir
ring up trouble in the diocese, and formally
forbidding him from coming there to preach
or for any purpose whatever. The Chicago
ECeRiRg Post thus states the case, adding that
Dr. Cummins, deeming it monstrous as
sumption for the bishop to prevent a clergy
man in good standing from preaching at the
request of a church, especially when that
church was his former charge and believing
it necessary for the vindication of his own
reputation and rights, paid no attention to the
| mandate. 1t is repetition, on a larger scale
and with more conspicuous opponents, of the
famous Tying and Boggs case. Bishop White
| house, like Boggs, has all ''high churchmen'
and the letter of ecclesiastical law on his side.
if not the spirit of that Gospel which the
| founder of Christianity bade his disciples 90
| and preach to every creature. DIR. Cummins,
| like young Tying, is sustainedby 'low church
men everywhere and by the sympathy of the
| general public. To outsiders, who care but
/ little about the difference between theological
tweedledum and tweedledee and who wonder
why Dr. Whitehouse, with his fondness for
ntualism and his reverence for authority, does
not aspire to be Pope of the Church of Rome.
and why the Cumminses and the Tyngs of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, with their i'm
patient disregard of its regulations, do not
found sects of their own, it is pretty quar-
rel as it stands.
The quarrel between the Bishop of Illinois
and the Rev. Mr.. Cheney involves points of
interest and Importance to all American citi-
zens Mr.. Cheney may have unwisely vio-
lated the prescribed forms of his Church by
| emitting certain words from the Book of Com
mon Prayer, but it is not surprising that the
community in which he lives should justify
him in appealing to the civil courts to restrain
| Bishop Whitehouse, at once prosecutor, Sc
lector of the jury, and president of an eccle-
siastical court organized to convict and
appointed to condemn, from proceeding
to remove him from his rectorate and
break up his business and profession
The ground on which Mr. Cheney asked
for and obtained an injunction was
that his accusers were combining and
confederating' to injure his character, and
that their actions in the premises were ''con-
trary to equity and good conscience" The
Bishop has postponed the trial until the 29th
of July, and vehemently protests against all
claims of the civil tribunal to interfere,
whether by equitable proceedings or in any
manner of supervision and control in the
ecclesiastical discipline of the Church in the
trial OF its ministers. Brigham Young like