The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-19
Bishop CummIns Again.

Editors oil the lntclligenccr:
There appeared in your issue Of Mon
day communication over the signature
Of await and See," to which should like
10 reply, inasmuch as am the designing
person at whose request you published on
Saturday last the cXtractssfrom the Hart
ford Churchman, and which "Wait and
See" fears may "torestall public opinion"
The eminent theologian IS slightly mis-
taken in credi,iug tho Charchmdn with
the authorship OF the extracts. The first
was iron leading article in tho Phila.
dclphia Ecening Bulletin Of the 18th Of
November" q High Church. paper, posi-:
bly,, but daily secular one l suspect; and
the second, the one that more than likely
aroused the eminent theologian, was "the
substance of communication to tho Epis.
c0pal Register" a Low Church paper; both
copied by the Cturclsmda. a. :.
As applied to his own party, "Wait and
Secs" criticisms Of the article are anu
sing. ......,...,.,,-.,s ..rg, ~,
good Churchmen, both High and LOW
are contained In the following from It's
editorial columns Of last week, which will
YOU be kind enough to publish for "Wait
and Sees" especial benefit. a. gs..
I.lr.. .'.i ssT ll CHURCHMAN. y
"The wretched end Of a long course o.
halt-hearted allegiance and conditional
LOYALTY has been reached by DR.. Cummins
Ii may surprise some Of our readers to
know that he declares ip private letters,
that for wears he contemplated his final
act Of disloyalty. DR. Cheney has stated
10 his congregation that for four years Dr.
Cummins had boldly defended the course
pursued by that congregation. { He had
written letter after letter, approving Of
all that had been done by that copgEegar
ton and rs pastor. Finally, this hall
hearted loyalty, OF. rather disloyalty,
found It's natural conclusion In an attempt,
not merely to abandon the Church, but to
make sChism.
No matter how Insignificant the per-
soual. makeup, or the number oil, those
who gathered In one Of the parlors Of As.
ISOLATION Hall, no matter that that six oil
The "clergy" who met him there, had 'Vir'
tually abandoned the Church's ministry
long ago, and that oil but two had been
CepOSeu, no ubtleE INV SIOeSsI0S oAa
absurd their Legislation" was, no matter
how bascIess was their dissatisfaction
with tho Church's doctrine, the miserable
fact stares us in tho face; that q Bishop
called them together with the hope Of
making schism In the Church. o I'm
worthy OF notice as tho event Is under
other aspects, tho sacred office borne by
tho man who made himself the leader,
and the greatness Of the wrong which his
act involved, gayeit a certain "bad emil
nence," and almost dignity, SEkor the
higher and more sacred the Office, md the
rreater the trust and the Tesponsibility,
tho more shameful aud SAD Is the betrayal
Of tho trust and the confidence.
/ That shame comes now, not only on Or.
Cummins, but also on the Church In
which no was o bishop, which gave nm
the powers, and reposed In him tho CON,
tldence which he so grossly abused, and
In whose councils he sat during the last
Jour years. Just US, when one member o.
a family brings disgrace upon himself, al
thc meinl ers Of that family are brought
into sadness, and, not rightfully but very
really, share the disgrace, SO now the
Chufch's members are saddened by this
event, and admit the reproach: !
We arc glad, however, 70 mark the o..
feet upon the Church Of DR.. Cpmmins
act. Aversion and . deep sense Of the
!, wrong attempted have brought The
Church's members more closely 70 her,
Instinctively and spontaneously men o
ali shades OF opinion have united In mel