, 1875-09-26
| THE CHURCH.
Secret History of the
Election Of Bishop
McLaren.
A Few Pretentious State
ments Corrected---
Active Workers.
4 GeVeland Parishioner Of Tho
&shop.Mect Describes
Hin.
Summary Of the Guibord Case
"A Catholics Views Of
Louise Lateau.
Synodical Council Of the Reformed
Episcopalians---The Irish
National Church.
Union of Methodists und Epis.
copalians.--Beecher's
Position.
Notes and Personals 1T
EHnr~~4 --L
Syno2icaI Council Of the Reformed
t. EpiscepaIians---7he Irish
National Church.


| HOW BISHOP M'LAREN WAS ELECTED.
SECRET u1sTunT OF THE CONVENTION.
! 10 The EaacT Of 1hs Chicago Tribune:
CHICAGO, Sept 2f.-The edito1ie. srticfa In
the Chicago Times Of Sunday, Sept. 1e. on
"The Episcopal Convention is crooitabla
! neither to the head nor to tho hearr or .,,a
seymour-DeNoyen R1tua1istio leaders Of thu
Diocese ct Illinois. But I freely acouit thu
Times Of all other responsibility for 1t than that
! OF putting into ahape aud print the uttersnces
| of one or two well-known men who, under necu-
lar circumstances, have obtained . Leading
influence and exercised most unfortunate q
control over the Diocese, and espoc1ailv over
the last Convention OF the Epiaropal Church III
Illinois. During al thia time, and especially
Tor the Last two months, these men, who arc
we'll known, and Will hencesorth become
notorious not only IN tbs Episcopal
Church in tho Diocese OF Illinois, but
throughout the United States, have usea tho
Times as their organ, and hare IN it Get forth
| their policy, such as It Was, nnd dealt out tho
most u114ttnted ahuse of nj who -opppsed their
plans Tor The government OF tbs riocee4 aad for
ar1alsn1cg it in hcstiGty to all ot}er ps1+a Of the
| Church.
10 expose these plans to cou .:eract their mig
chleEors rn5uecce, and TO do iuatice to tha
minority whom they miarepre sent, i propose to
anayze the editorial Of Sept. 49, IN which these
men endeaFoz to coTer up como OF their past
o'unders and take aezr departure for tho future
control OF the Diocese End Of tho new Biahoo, :
1he5 commence BY axguiu & thnt they "feal zzati-
ned tnat the diocesan Con vention OF Illinois saw
ut to follow their choice in the election Of
bishop" The truth IL TINT the Diocesan Con,
7ontion d1d exactly tho oprosita OF whzt tho
clique which the Times represents prooosed.
Ihey proposed ore Of two things fn4t, il they
could IN any wny edeG it, to make Dr. De- Eoyen
bishop OF u1ln'3is, and, at all events, to keao
nm IN IN the 'ioaition ct Bishop elect But,
secondly, II tFaey could not etect that factn,u.
purpose, the14 tQ plnce the Diocese In coEnu,m-
slou, a5 thf'y termed is,-that is, to rafueo to 90
INTO new election 1or Bishop, but to commit
the Dloc ese, for An indefinite tima to
tne care either Of = nei2hbo1ing Bishop,
or OF some oEa brought from abroad.
Whetb ar from England OF from Au5trnl,au
The object in doing this would OF course be- to
SET tho General Convention and Standing Com
NJ ttaes 81 the Church, who had rejected thsx
{ lndittates, It defiance, and 50 manipulate them
that they would be compelled to receive eithex
oa84sf, those rejected candidates OF some other
ot$6G4a1ne stamp.
iBA*the good een3e md loyalty to the Church
Of DR.. Locke, DR.. Mansfield, Dr. Chase Judge
Otls~ and some others, Elo had supported Prof.
Lyman and Dr. Do Koven for the Epscopate.
the accomplishment Of these designs
Of reckless clique. These gentlemen refused
TO so into tho scheme just ske.ched, aud thus
broke the power OF tho Clique ia that
direction, go that TREY had TO entiresy liter
their plana aod sgree to 80 into In