The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-09-02
THE JUNIOR TYING ANE THE CUM
WHISTLES.

The reformed" Episcopalians have
always regarded Rev. Stephen Fl. Tying,
j.. as certain to identify himself with
their schlsm at no very distant day. To
that body, then, the following lei, er
from Mr.. Tying will come as q diss;p-
| pointment, while his friends in the Epis-
copal church viii hail it with JOY
Y i have been Il very close observer of
the brief history of the Reformed church
which, more properly defined, is another
| OF the schisms which have disturbed,
| IN almost every century since Christ,
the onward flow of the catholic and
apostolic faith to the present time.
As Binghamton, n. Y, seems to be q
portion of the great see over which
Bishop Crlmmins presides. it may be
well to notice the spirit of this schisrn
as represented by this late ecclesiastic
OF the Protestant Episcopal church
he has visited this city twice now
within the space OF year. Here it
is the smallest OF all schisms, and SO far
it is the smallest of seeds of which any
good fruit may grow. Bishop Cum
minis, not content with his ministration
to the small gathering at the little
chapel two miles from town, where u
few persons of various creeds have
from time to time met, came into
Blnghamton and procured the use of the
largest Congregational church, and on
Sunday evening, instead of preaching
the doctrines Of Christ crucified for o
sinful world, spent over an hour in bit
ter denunciation of the Episcopal church
which III this place has never been ac-
cused OF holding or teaching ritual
ism, has, on the other hand. been
favored with q succession Of faithful and
God-feariDg pastors. This city is well
provided with churches of all denomina-
tions, and the gospel is faithfully preach
ed to rich and poor.
Now there are in the United States
forty-two millions of people, and there
are millions yet unblessed by the saving
influences of Christianity. In this view
of the case, we have never felt any re-
greet at the Cummins movement, but we
had hoped that its reputed cody men
might accomplish great good, who have
gone out from us professedly to preach q
purer gospel, that lost souls might be
gathered into the fold. If it is to be
the gospel of i'll viii, we know what its
end viii be. We had rather hoped that
new movement might develop an enthu-
siasm for earnest Christian teaching
among the masses, some millions of
them yet without a shepard the lost
sheep upon the mountains and in the
waste places of the land, and that these
earnest brethren, who would develop
new fervor for higher piety in our land
would go forth in the true spirit of the
Christian Commission and preach Christ
cruciied to all the world, and thus in
spire the old church which they left with
more fervent zeal for the truth The
rejecting people here and elsewhere,
wherever these men have gone, are dis
appointed at the partisan zeal which they
are manifesting.
SO large is the field and so great the
work of evangelization to be done in this
land, that we had a sincere hope for
that success. The Episcopal church. =, &c
they can see, is in no way distur, ,ad Nv,
the spirit they have shC-wn. On the
other hand, its members are more INTEL
llSently confirmed in the faith, and our
clergy are earnestly engaged in their
1aitilf!:i work, of reclaiming the lost. of
perfectlng their parochial work, and in
extending the church in the waste place
OF our land. In this diocese alone 70
new organized and unorganized parishes
have been opened within five years, and
thefe afe now 81 clergymen receiving
missionary aid. The bishop now needs
from u to Is deacons to fill vacant par
isles now organized. So that this and
the adjoining diocese could give ali the
followers of Bishop Cummins immedi-
ate work among the masses, where the
Episcopal church that they profess to
love is needed, Why then the need OF
wasting their strength in denunciation
OF the Old church Surely their field is
fas3 world yet unblessed by the now well
established branch Of the church catho-
lie.
Let these brethren more fully compre-
bend their mission it is not the gospel
of ecclesiastical reform to which they
are called,-but to the lost sheep to
Christ's fold, the world lying in sin, and
in unbelief. If they will enter that
field we bid them God speed, and the
church Of Christ will rejoice.