Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-15
RIsEEoP QuINTARD AND THE REAL
PRESENCE.


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BISHOP QuINTARD AND tbs REAL
PRESENCE.
Almost all the present readers Of the
APPEAL will remember what EpiscOpa-
Iians called the ''deiection" of Rev. Dr.
Rogers to the Roman Catholic church.
It occurred over four years ago, and was
the subject Of very general comment by
newspapers Of every class and de-
scription throughout the Union.
Or. Rogers had but a little
while before returned from Europe,
where, upon a careful review Of Catholi-
city and study of the pOlity and doc
trines Of the Church of Rome, he
made Up his mind that the Episcopal
church Of England and America was in
error aud needed reform, needed to be
returned 10 the old ways, old before
even WieklifIe had preached reform.
Bold, candid and outspOken, be,
Immediately set about the relorna-
tign. BE secured the Greenlsw
o3erahouse, and gathered large and
sympathizing congregation. The stage
was fitted a. rear as possible as a chan
eel, and the "altar," as he called the
communicable, was made conspieu-
Gus by ali the adOrnments usual in Cath
olie churches. There were flow
ers, vases, csndlesticks with lighted
candles; aud the "pTiest, y as he loved to
style himself, was also arrayed in proper
gsrb. He and his altar were as little
Anglican and as much Roman az posi-
bic. The sermons he preached were all
tinetured with doctrines, as trades
people would say, to match the
altar and the vestments, and the
earnest and logical man of GCd, urged
his people to belief, among
other things, in the rejected doc
trine Of transubstantiation. This was
more than the Episeopslians Of Tennes-
see. educated in simple and primi-
tive forms by Bishop 0tey, could
stand. They were scandalized,
and appealed to their bishop, who
forthwith wrestled with the doctor, and,
of course, bsibg ''a man in authority"
threw him. The doctor retired into the
bosom of the Catholic church, for which
ever since he has labored zealOusly and
effectively, but not before be left an
indellfble impression on the minds
of Tennesseans that Bishop Qsin-
tard was as deep in the mud as he
had been in the mire Of rituslism. The
good bishop had just returned from at-
tendance on the Pan-Anglican council,
and had brought over with him and en-
grated upon bis pastorste in Tennessee
many o. the obsolete and absurd (the
Goddess said, notions of the mother
church in England. He dubbed the
pretty little church on Poplar street,
- cathedral" and made its rector
dean,n though he had no ''chspter -;
and he had the "sltar'' of this eathe-
dral trigged out with multiplicity Of
things akin to those which brought
upon DR.. Rogers first severe rebuke,
then censure, and finally compelled
his necantatiOn. But the storm raised
by the open avowals of a gentleman
whose genius is everywhere acknOwl-
edged, deferred the bishop, so rumOT
had 1t, and so, if we are not mistaken,
De. Rogers stated, from advancing with
his pet scheme. That was four years ago,
and ritualism is no nearer ascendaney
in Tennessee to-day than it was then.
But the bishop, how is it with him
Why, he has at last avowed his faith,
and in doing so has justified DR.. Rogers
and stultifed himself; that is,
if the report we publish in an
other column from the New
York Independent is 70 be believed,
and We see no reason to doubt it, since
what it gives is taken from the London
Church Times, the Episcopal papers of
New York not caring to spread abroad
what is now regarded as a schism
shortly TO break, perhaps, into open
rupture. It will be seen that
Bishop Quintard celebrated mass
at ST. Ignatius's church, New York,
surrounded by clergy, every one Of
whom united with him in asserting the
doctrines Of the resl presence, prayers
for the dead, confession and use Of eu-
charistie vestments and lights. Dr..
Rogers went no farther. And
thus il ever is. Time vindicates,
and brings changes sometimes most
surprising TO those on whom it makes
most change. DR.. Rogers was only a
little in advance of his bishop, a little
bolder perhaps, when he stoutly de-
claimed for the introduction of the old
doctrines and symbolisms into the serv-
see Of the Episcopal church, He saw
what many now admit, that
the Anglican and AnglO-American
churches We're destined 10 experience a
change; and, being heart and soul in
sympathy with those who urged that
change, be thought he would initiate it
on the banks Of the Mississippi. He
attempted it, but was silenced by
the now sacramental Bishop. Whether
the Episcopalians Of Tennessee /
will permit their bishop to
participate in services and preach doe
trines diametrically opposed to their
thirty-nine articles, and to their Ordina-
ton and conservation services, We do
not know. That is their business, and
not ours. We have nothing to say on
that head. And we devote this much
space to the matter only TO recall to our
readers the facts Of DIR. Rogers move
ments that they might see how fully he
stands vindicated and justified by the
bishop who interdicted him from doing
Just what he himself did in st. Igna-
tius's church. Time works wOndeTs.n
G-zzzzs--H---.ua
KILG0RE.