New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-15

trasted with the oiuor anu WV UlsroRICus
Sew. YORK, Nov. 10, 1878.
THE POSITION OF BISHOP CUMMINS.
SOME AUTHORITIES UNFOLDING BISHOP cUMMrNs.
rome Bdttor Of The Trf6Nne.
Sm. have read with considerable interest
the correspondence In your paper anent Joint Com
munion" and especially that part OK IL In wnch Dr.
Cummins and DIR. Drumm are engaged ike 70 see
such conducted with strict reference to fact
and authority wordy deliverances OF mans own
opinions however good they may DO VIII 10 httio W
decide such questions that debated py these gentle
mon Nothing but law aud allowable precedent can
really be pleaded on the one side, and nothing OUT law
and uniform usage on the other
It seems to me that Dr. Drumm knows this ana tnat
he makes very fair Of the means OF Information that
he possesses but 1t quite plain that he has not at
command several books that TO full troat
ent of the subject IT he Is anxious 10 ascertain the
tru has he professas to land do not doubt i he Will
NOT be sorry to have some additional authorities sup
piled, although they are in favor OF his opponent
l. Archbishop Parker wrote TO ISLANDER. November,
1853:
"After, nv hearty commentators right ,worshipful
friend and brother give you TO know by these lines
from mine own unworthy hand that am now placed 10
would rather not be (consder,ug nfrmitesl but
was forced to yield to the VIII nnd fsvof Oh or @
our Lady Elizabeth. She hatn put on me an TINS
honor but wish you TO KNOW good brother that es
not but humane dignity An tho nstry C oi
and mine be the same, and We hero In England think
none otberwise."-tLiie OF Andrew Osanaer' by Heo
lampadius, translated by norton, LONDON 1000
IL Flaccus nyricus in the dedication OF his History
OF Heresies published 1891 says TO Queen Elizabeth OF
England;
Above all, most noble and Right Royal Lady. we
thank you for having given Us such teslmony Oh yon
graeOns favor and your love for tho pure Egangel IN
accepting cody preachers aud placing them 10 your
churches without once demanding That they should re-
N
Lady, you have ueat blow ut the root OF Tue ropes
pretensions"
III. Bishop Miles Coyerdale Is thus menloneu In
letter from BeEs to Sohenkel:
That rlrhr godhe man refused the Aaronca habits
and the higher ordo OF bishopnooj AMI yet
allowed herein by C.nteroarie himself, whP saa
Bez8 et ALorum ccxn'
". simon Gryueus was appointed vicar OF Holm
firth near Tenby, by Archbishop Hutton l5o) tho said
olympus having had other ordination than that ne
received at Frankfort, from the Reformed preachers
See Delaunes "Ples for Peace In the Church. London
1914. page is.
" Dr. Horne one OF the Exles in the reign OF Mary,
was at his return made Bishop OF BAth when asked If
he rejected the ministry Of tho Foreign Reformed
Churches he answered
"0od forbidi would our own alike good. and
that we could return to the simplicity OF tao Gospr
do not reject but IT, ami doth my brother ton.
and all our prelates for aught know."-L;ter from
StumphuS to Bulngor IN I1lru ooilco hhlCn LoVtSr,
second Edition. ls4l
vi. BishOp Limplugh Gays IN his Life OF Archbishop
Ward: He was questioned by some concerning two
ministers from France who were bene1cei IN his do
cese though they had not boon ordained according to
the usage OF his realm whereupon, with some heat he
answered
his acts do not better what their Church allows
Those ordered at Cnarenton by tho iaudapie
form OF our sister Church OF the Reform tion, aud that
is In itself good ordering as ours tho no. Tor TINS
realm lawful, un they sigu the Articles OF Hehsioh'
Page Is.
These may do for the present ALTER HIsToRICUs.
Philadelphia. Penn. Nov. TO- 1873.
BISHOP CUMMINs'5 RECORD. =
TO the Editor or The Tribune.
SIR: Inasmuch as DR.. Drumm has thought
proper to call Bishop Cummins TO account through THE
TRIBUNE and as other gentlemen have thrown doubts
upon his scholarship etc. desire TO call attention 10
the following biographical sketch OF the Bishop, from
The Churchman's Calendar for 1885, edited by Bishop
Arthur Cleveland Coke OF Western New-York
Right Rev. George David Cummins. ID. He was
born Tn the State OF Delaware, Dec H. 1874 educated
Deacon by Bis6op Lee Of Delaware ia October, 1915
aud Priest by the same prelate IN July 1871 re-
1855 His first parish CHRIS. CHURCH Norfolk Va the
me- 81 James Church. Richmond Va: the next Trinity
Ratmore Nd; and Last Trinity Church Chicago ILL.,
while charge of this parish lac was elected Assistant
Ionisyie KY Thursday Nov IS, 1885, By the Bishop OF
vermont, assisted ~ the bishops Of KsntnoSy Smith
ant Bsnop o., Indiana (raboD, Tennessee (QlDtardl;
Missionary BISHOP or Nebraska (Clarksonl' ana the
Bishop of Pittsburgh (Korfoop.
From this It will be seen that, although short time
IN the Methodist ministry. he has been 2s years the
Episcopal ministry; has bad thorough collegiate train
ing has been rector OF fvo churches all Of them large
and influential; received his Doctors degree from
Princeton College which b remarkable for lite cautious
ness In comforting honorary degrees; and WAS conse-
Grated by seven Bishops. thus receiving In seyenold
of Anozto1Ie the
pal touch has power to impsr Is too much TO asa OF
Dr. Drumm produce his literary theological and
ecciesiasticsl testimonislsf NoS-EPLc0PALIAH.
Passaie, NJ J, Nov. Q. 1873.
QUESTION TO DIR. DRUMM ANSWERED.
70 the Edifor Of Ths Tribune.
SIR: In your issue of yesterday An Episco-
pal Clergy asks certain questions which Epscopa-
lians viii consider pertinent impernent according as
they believe their church Divine Institution
the Collect has It, built upon the foundation OF the
Apostles and Prophets" or like Cslvnsm. Lutheranism
and Weseyauismsn ably devised organization Of skill
full and earnest men. These questions are 10 this effect
II Dr. Drumm and olergymen who hold his views really
believe their ofaoo 70 DO "Dviney appointed" which
seems very absurd thing 10 An Episcopal Clergyman
why should they object to Bishop Cumnns any other
Bishop giving the Sacraments IN all their funess TO
Presbyterians and other non-Chrrchmeni
May reply, Yankeelike by asking him another ques.
toni It Is we'll known that. matters now stand. 1t IA
amply Impossible celebrate tho Holy Eucharist In the
wards OF any of large public hospitals, ike Bellevue,
and col communion can never be gwen 10 the
sick and dying except those rare occasions whom is
celebrated In some permanent or temporary chapel
within the walls In OF pestonce, Also like cholera
or yellow fever Is mspiesty impossible for any priest
to celebrate 50 often the dying might require a. his
hands the most comfortable sacrament OF the body
and blood of Christ" VIII IAN Episcopal Clergyman
nforp us why faithful and earnest priests cannot fol-
low the undoubted OF the primitive church, still
ynaintained By the Roman aud Eisern cOmmnniOns,
and ressrye the blessed 70 be carried 10 tue
sick aud diving VINO must otherwise BIO deprived Of the
bread OF lifof Simply .ni entirely because tue
prayer Root forbids any reservation wh1teVer, and.
arrange IA IL may soem n gh CAurchmon consider them
selyes bound obey the Pfaycr-BOok WA your cor