, 1874-11-03
History Of the Secret Session Of
tho Episcopal Con-
Vcntion.
DR., Sullfvan's Lecture on the Re}cC.
ti0n Of DR.. Seymour.
Yesterdays Proceedings in the Gen.
eral Convention.
Adjournment to Take Place This Even"
Ing.
Ministers Meeting in Chicago.


EPfsCoPALLaNs.
DIR. SEYMOUR.
Tr1a INV. yn, su1L1vAN's HISTORY or TIE sEoHrT
eEsS1oN.
Tho Row. Edward Sullivan delivered IN ad
dreas Ia Trinity Epiacopa1 Church last evening
on .Tho Truo History Of tho Secret Session Of
tic Recent Na.ional Episcopal Convention at Now
York" There waH lnrgo attendance. aud great
Interest was manifeatod In tho discourse,
The speaker said tint, In announcing his aub-
1cct, ho hoped ho would not bo understood by
using the word " true" as being about to impugn
any history OF tho secret gesson already pub
lisheI In Chicago. It Was meant simply to con-
trovort statements TINT have boon mado III other
quarters on
1fATTERB PERSONAL TO u1SsELF.
Some OF these statements had been brought
before tho Convention. and he Ind had to explain
bis position. It had, Tor example, been Assorted
that ho had voted for hin,aclf for Diahop in tho
Doccsau Convention. uo did not vote for him
self in that Convautioa. 1Io voted for his FREUD
DR.. Huntington. Of Massachusetts. He held
that any man voting for himself under euch cir-
cumstapcas was unworthy Of the Epiacopato
That charge was. therefore, daposed Of.
It int! nso been charged that he had pledged
himself TO vote for Dr.. Seymour In tho National
Convoution. Tint statement was untrue. lie
never took any eur4 pledge, but indignantly
spurucd proposition that he should tako It.
In fact, he had said that no held himself to bo
q free agent; thnt If on reaching Now York be
found that Mr. Seymour was RituallRt, le
would not support him.
It was also charged that ho had been
1ISLuENuED DY PERSONAL FEELING
against Dr.. Seymour. on account Of lis own
wero true. it would, hs admitted, place
him in " very meau position. Ho never had
heeu clndidGto for tho otllco in tho proper
aeppo OF tic word The matter did not trouble
him for q moment, because he lad never bud
any ambition for tho ollico Of Dishop. He had
scen Dr.. Seymour Int once that was when lie
was iu New York. whon he voluntarily y!eed
tho Bisho1,-olecs for tho purpose Of telling hin,
that he lial voted against linn in Illinois. Dr..
Seymour received him most colrteously, but re-
fused 10 give my explanation of his position.
It Ind also been Charged that he had, In cou-
junction with two or three New York cergymen,
prevailed upon the National Convention to
GO INTO gEcTET SESSION.
Verily. the paytica wAo ehagBed tssis gave hin
credit for great powers Of persuasion. The fact
was that there was standing rulo that when tho
mattor Of discussing D Bislop-olcct ca1no up the
ru!o was enforced in Now York, and. 10 fur from
working tor it, ho had actually fought against it
when frs. proposed.
A good deal had also beon sud OF
CERTAIN DocuMEATs
which he had III his possession. Ho hold those
documents in his hand. 1t was charged TINS ths
papers were prepared In New York, and did not
represent the feelings OF clergymcn In Chicago
Tho prcp.raton Of tho parets had not
boen commenced when hi, loft for Now
York They we're petitions relative
to DR.. Seymour, snd be had only to say that they
oArA
and belonged to Chicago. There would havo
boen much larger array Of signatures had thoro
been tlmo. Ho road tho petition, Blgnea by Sow
oral mombers Of the Illinois Diocesan Conyotl-
Of Or. Seymour, and requested that a
made as to whether Dr.. Seymour WAS
in full sympathy with tho Protestant Episcopal
Church Of the utod atez c The %,tna GtheI Re
vention complied with tue requests, and, for
eight daya, gaye its timo to tho investigation.
n,Saa a1ao stated that tho petitions wero got
ten up on the Board Of Trade, wl4ereaa there Was
only one man Of that body who sgned, and he
could only be found there. That was Rl1 that
there was to that particular charge.
CHEAT oFFENgE.
it seemed, had been committed by him in refus-
ing to show the documents to tho Standing Com.
tee. He refused to do 10, md. under similar
circumstances he would do 10 again. Fur eight
daya so far "a that Committee Was concerned,
he WAS obliged to etand alone and bear the
hrunt Of tue opposition. furthermore, II
was assorted that. by refusing, be
inaultod tho dignity Of tho government OF ths
diocese. The standing Committee waa not IL
Now York In onicial capacity. and, therefore
they had no right to domand m inspection ol
tho documents
THE nEFugAL or DR.. SEYMOUR
to give him hny statenont compelled him tt
lay himself ont to lind such evidence Al Ii
could He did set to work conscientiously t
Ak,n Anr&a arf hr Anurn nnI1rA 70
gardcd the charges OF Ritualisn mud Of tolora
ZION Of heresy against MIN. .-..--,
He believed tint there were many points IL
DR.. Beymour's character that untitled him TO-
ploty, Bishop needed to have equaninity Q
temper and discretion Of tongue. These quail
ties Bishop Seymour had not displayed in h
controverBy, some time ago, S7tth D clergyman
who had reflected on his Rleuallstic tendencies
Mr. Sullivan then wont into statetnont rela
tive to Dr.. seymonr'n sympathy with ha1esy. ~
referred 10 the case OF = student who bad writ
ten tract in which opon hereaios wore fully ex
pressed. The strongest language Of eoaaonna
tion that Dr.. Seymour could bs got to use Sa
that "the language may bo unauthorized. bu
tis not. therefore, prohibited or forbidden, II
the Church" It. had been asserted that tho Con
vontion 1ofuBed to hear statement from Dr
Seymour. Tho doors had been closed eyol
sgainst Nshops-it WAS necessary for impair
tia1 dacusaon,-apd, therefore, DR.. Boymou
coalu aot complain Of his treatment, for nothin
unIalr or Q!BfeApeot1ul was lntended 70 Lin II
a'ao alluded to tho Introduction Of
rnAlERB POE TIE pEAD.-
an abominabla Aeresy auricuas confessiou-
still worse sy1npathy with tha Confratornity o
tho Blessed saofa'nent-with The Cowboy Brother
hood-knowledgs Of what WAS called ss rc
treat" at Bridgeport Conn.,, which some student
attended. but Or. Seymour denied that lie kne,
anything At oil about 1t. Tie letter from Disho
Coxo sud tho aories Of questions mud ausw wors--ai
publahed in Tue TRIBUNE Of yesterday moruip
-wero oil road, ana tho speaker closed By tAnnh
Ing God that tue Church and faith had beo
Ea1rsd safely through crisia Ao perlous.
THE GENERAL CONVENTION.
oloB1N0 BUSINESS.
NEn YonK, Nov. 2-Ihe Episcopal Ocnera
Convention resumed its eessioas HllB mornue
rhoze waa a married. decrease In tho numher o
aelsgatca present, Us well as In the at.eudauc
IL tAe galleries.
TIE LKCT10klnY.
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