The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-02-05
A HIrh Church Conteat.

| AuSIS u " ue an eleCtlOn lUr hu Eplb
copal Bishop oil Wisconsin on the 1lth o.
this month, and consequently there Is Q
stir in Episcopal circles in that State ai
to who will be chosen. The two most
prominent candidates are DR.. DE- KovKN
Of Racine College, and Rev. DR.. KEMPER
Of NaShotah Theological Seminary. Foul
or FIVE others are spoken of, but these
two are specially prominent. The elec'
ton presents very remarkable features
inasmuch as every Episcopal clergyman
In Wisconsin belongs to the High Church
party. The contest therefore seems TO be
within High Church ranks; between
what may be called extreme High Church
and conservative High Church. The Rev.
DR.. De KovEN Is Of the advanced High
Church party. He was interviewed the
other day by correspondent OF the New
York Herald, who writes a letter In re.
gard to the interview from Milwaukee to
that paper. In the course ot the inter.
view the Doctor was asked in regard to
his views touching the Eucharist. In re.
ply he referred to his speech. in the Gen
eral Convention at Baltimorei in 1871, and
pointed out the following passage printed
on page 500 Of the official report Of the
Convention:
! want to do what my brother from
Wisconsin did yesterday, only in another
direction. want to give anybody In the
house the opportunity Of presenting me
for false doctrines, II he wishes; and fn or.
der to do 80 ! choose language which Is
rather bolder, barer than I myself would
use,excepting In q company Of iheologlans,
and ! use this language for another pur.
pose, which / will explain presently. /
believe in-and this will be printed 10.
morrow, and will write 1t out, Il neces.
sary, for anybody who wants TO use it,
believe In the real, actual presence of our
Lord under the form Of bread and wine,
upon the sltars Of our churches. "my-
self adore" and would II It were necessary
OF my duty teach my people to adore
Christ present in the elements un-
der the form of bread and wine"
And | use these words because they
are bold statement Of the doctrine
OF the real presence; but l use them for
another reason; they are adiudicated
words; they are words which, used by q
divine Of the Church Of England; have
been tried In the highest ecclesiastical
court OF Eugland, and have been decided
by that ecclesiastical court to come
within the limits Of the truth held in the
Church Of England. So much so, that
that very Sir Robert Phillmore, whose
judicial decisions have been quoted here
before, has decided that "if he were to
pronounce those words wrong"-now l
read his very language-"I should be
passing sentence, In my opinion, upon
long roll OF illustrlous divines who have
adorned our university and fought the
good fight Of our Church from Ridley
the delegate from Massachusetts
quoted as entertaining his views
=" from Ridley 10 Keble-from
the divine whose martyrdom the cross of
Oxford commemorates, 10 the divine in
whose honor that university has iust
founded her last college" Then he goes
on to say: u say that the:objective, actual
and real presence, presence external to
the act ofthe communicate, appears to me
to be the doctrine which the formularies
Of our Church only considered and con-
strued 80 as to be harmonious, intended
to maintain. But do not lay down this
as position OF law; nor do say that
what Ia called the receptionist doctrine is
inadmissable; nor do ! pronounce on any
other teaching with respect to this mode
OF teaching. l mean TO do no such thing
by this judgment. l mean by 1t to pro-
nounce that TO describe the mode OF pres.
ence as objective, real actual, and spiri-
tual Is certainly not contrary to law.''
The belief in the diocese is, that in case
Of the election Of DR.. De KovEN, a very
formidable movement will be made in the
direction Of the Reformed Episcopal
Church, by large number OF laymen,
and on that account the election is excit.
ing very deep and absorbing interest,
one prominent layman declaring that II
DR.. De KovRN shall be elected Re.
formed Episcopal Church will be estab.
lished in Milwaukee witaIn thirty days
from such an election.