The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-02
F." Existing Difficulties in the Prot.
estant Episcopal Church."

estant Episcopal Church,"
Editors OF tho IntellIgeuccr:
ADVICE TO OUR Low. CHURCH CoRRE-
sPoNDENT.
If your correspondent "Wait and See''
had headed his communication Existing
difficulties In the camp OF the Low
Church party in the Protestant Episcopal
Church"-a party, be 1t known, that In
their extreme view Of church polity were
led by such men as the late Bishop Cum.
mins-a party in the Episcopal Church
OF America las shown by its representa-
tlves and their acts IN General Council)
only large enough TO illustrate the fable
Of the dog and the moon-iI, we repeat,
his heading had thus read, it would have
hit nearer to the mark than it did in The
heading adopted.
NOW FOR A CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS.
But as a Churchman, believing what
the Church teaches, and seeking to follow
in her appointed ways, we have failed
thus far to see any upheaval, any disints.
grationJor anything else to indicate that
the pertuFbations OF swat and See" are
well grounded. True, the late Bishop @.
has renounced the Church, along with
four or five deposed Priests, and IS seek.
Ing to create a sChism in the Church, las
Il there were not enough schisms already
10 Chrlstendom); but this fact, to a loyal
Churchman, causes only a feeling Of
shame for the participants, Just as one
would feel ashamed TO see man 'smite
Ills mother, and that mother queen"
HINT TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
Nor would 1t cause difficulties" in sur.
mountable were there others Of the Gum
Minis stripe, VI there are such remaining, J
10 leave the told OF the church for the
home where the heart Is" Certainly
they themselves would be the greater
losers by such step, and the church can
well spare such as through self will per-
sIst in denying her fundamental principles.
now ABOUT GOING TO ROME.
Bishop Cummins himself tells Chica.
20 reporter that "there Is no danger Of
High'Church.men going to Rome, and
gives good reasons Tor his opinion. And
an other seceder from our ranks, the Rev.
Gracratt, late turbulent spirit among the
Episcopal clergy, now a Congregation
sIlst minister In New Jersey, upon leay.
ing The church said that High Church
men had all the arguments and facts on
lhelr side as against the Low Church
party
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT MADE A
wITNEss.
Also your New York correspondent
D. Y. D." puts this point intelligently and
correctly in the following paragraph ia.
ken from letter in this morning 3 INTEL.
MGENoER descriptive ofcertain ritualistic
performances at 81. Adams: .51
-. hltuslism Is making no progress here.
nlgh Church feeling may be, and proba-
Wy IS, upon the increase, but High
GTaurchlsm Is emphatically the foe oI
homanism, and this cannot be as some
imagine, merely a nursery for Ritualism.
Ont the very reverse"
AsTo LIBERTY OF COINCIDENCE,
We are proud to say that our common
mother encircles all in her loving arms
and fairly interpreted, discrlminateS
AVN W nCE SuuuE6u WHO are not
eIther contumacious In their self.will or
HFetrievably violent against her laws. She
Is called upon to deal on the one hand
win pecVtsh, snarly and dissatisfied dis
sea'efs, and on the other with sickly sen.
umental and tancitul innovators. both ri
Tnom form but q small portion of her
SAtholic communion as compared with
aef masses Of robust, conservatives and
loyal soldiers Of the cross.
TUE nlsTINGuIsHNG PRcULL1ARrry nv
THE RPRCoPAL CHURCH.
IL IS this comprehensiveness that quite
ssslSnlshes our friends OF other RELIGIONS
oHalGs who are constantly predicting that
and HirIHfT, S. are going to Rome,
a anS an Low.Churchmen to Geneva, Their
TUs,I slS u! INN to see these predictions
VI They wonder how we can live
~ ~ tne same family and yet seem 10 differ
80 WlueIy. The fact Is we hold onr S;c-
Se aSa, II not in charity at least in'fnr.
I y, DlFFk"SSGEs DETwERN TuE TWO
we beg your indulgence while We 49,
OUT oElel look at some Of their differenc"%Ss
O DSm Low Church brother insists that h.
Sac r, nave no Priest, no Altar. and M NJ
S S.1an, while the High Churcbmsn ~ ~
sTTng!y insist that 10 Be in eomm%a,S y
WIN me Church Of God throuoh ali ~ !
Sges rom Apostolic times down % ' ~ ny
asS ne must recognize Priest " AI ~;
nroo f" ~ p;.o n this point no gives a,
F''V'' Wv ol0le' the Prayer Book, tbI