Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29
RELIGIOUS COLUMN.
UNITED BRETHREN.

the organ of the United Brethren Church
says: We have not been success in
cities" Upon which Arthur Edwards OF
North Western Ad0ocate remarks: "Ne
matter brother your day will come yet
Help keep the country clean for without
pure provinces our cities will decay.
Grateful cities will yet honor and receive
YOU" We suggest one way to gain ad
mission, is to leave "Secret Societies
alone in their work And to our "Breth
rem" around this city who are in the habit
of overdrawing descriptions of the pride
OF our church members, we ask them to
come in and give ms an example of enter
prise and humility.
PROTESTANT DISQUALIFICATION
EPISCOPAL
Rev. j. Vaughan Lewis offerd, in a
a note to the Independent, to prove in
any Methodist review that John Wesley
never meant to make any bishops. DR..
Whedon accepts his challenge, and dares
him to the fight. 1t will be a bloody one
If Mr.. Lewis can get the Anaerican Quar-
terEy Church Reoieao to accept Dr. Whe-
don terms. DR.. Whedon thus writes us
NEW YORK, April 25, 1878.
EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT:
MIR. EDIToR:-Will you allow me space
enough in the Independent for reply to
Mr.. Vaughan Lewis's proposal to be
to publish his falsifcations of the
history of our American Methodist Epis-
copacy in the -uethodist Quarterly ReUaeso
L will allow Mr.. Lewis twenty five pages
for that topic in our Quarterly on two
conditions; First He shall furnish a Ger.
LITIGATION from his bishop or some other
acceptable authority that he is proper
person to represent his denomination on
that subject; and second, the leading quar-
terly ofhis church shall publish both his
article and my reply of a length, i
choose, equal to our twenty five pages
D. d. WHEDoN."
Rev. Yundt, Rector of st. Thomas
Parish of this place, grew somewhat tired
of pumping water from his cellar and
flooding Center street therwith, and in
his business mediiations struck upon the
happy thought of driving pipe down
to some Subteranean passage. de sue
ceeded in finding one, and it is limited he
VIII apply for a patent to drain cellars,
lakes &c, by this modus operandi. We
wish him success.
They say that when the hour of death
drew near 20 the late Bishop McIlvain,
he asked his friend, Dl. Carus, to offer
prayer. When asked if he desired the
form of the Prayer Book to be used, he
replied, mo, make the prayer yourself"
1t is as good thing that Bishop White
house has no power over the dead. This
prayer was terrible ''innova-
ton
Bishop Mcllvaine was a sanity man,
truly evangelical, and therefore a pro-
nounced Low Churchman." He often
offended his prelatical brethren by his
Jealous fraternization with other Prot
estants. He was the st. John of his own
Church, and his profound Christian hu-
mlilty revolted at the unusual ceremonious
ldolatry addressed to dead bishops. Hence
his dying wished TO be buried without
such attentions but upon no American
bishop have they ever been more persist
entity imposed. In London his remains
were borne with them to Westminster
Abbey, where they. lay in state for some
time, and were then received at New
York with greater funeral eclat They
have now gone to Ohio, where the ostent
atious ceremonial is to be repeated, The
sanity man must look down from heav-
en- with peculiar feelings at this pompous
transit of his dust He is worthy of all
genuine honors-no man in his Church
has ever deserved them more; but in life
he would have blushed with shame at the
of such display over his coffin,
and in leath he solemnly deprecated
them.