The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-03-18
Astute Philosophers.

It must be a solaee and prove JOY
forever 10 the RI Rev. Or. DeKoyen,
that the Standing Committee Of our
iJnd du Lac Diocese was so very mag
n.nlmous as TO assent to the conservation
u both Drs. DcKoven and Jaggar Such
breadth Of catholieity has scarcely ever
been equaled. In one grand generous
Impulse they admit the man who adores
Christ in the Eucharist, and, on equal
footing. the man who accepts the Eu-
1harist merely as memorial. While
&C reflect that the constitution Of the
D.oceseis based on the Darwinian theory
a. .egards woman, we are lost in a maze
Of admiration for their conglomeration
u inhdel and Christian tolerance.
We learn that Judge Gary Of Osh-
kosh, Blackstone lawyer layman, is
credited with drawing up that part Of
the Constitution which declares that
their mothers and wives were not suffi-
oiently intellectual, as get, to have voice
II the election Of delegates who elect
Bishops.
We need not despair. however, as the
great diocese of Illinois seems similarly
afflicted with laymen of the ''big head
order, as will be seen in their late
troubles. After electing Dr. Seymour,
they quarreled until his conservation
sas prohibited. Then came the election
Of DR.. DeKog en-. The first gun of con,
graduation came from Bishop Doane OF
Albany, \ Y, Ca man said to verge
nearer to the ragged edged " Of
Kitualistic tendencies than any Episoo.
Yal Bishop in the United States, }
thanking God that the Convention hac
elected DR. DeKoven;" which kept the
DeKoyenites in high glee for a season
Next came what has since proved to ha7,
been :" the hand writing on the wall. ;
The Standing Committee Of the Indian;
diocese sent in their emphatic profess
against his conservation, in obedi
enee to and recitlng the Pastora
Letter from the House Of Bishops o
1871 condemning eucharistic alteration
9Th other innovations as an "awfu
error and antagonistic to the doctrine
VI the Church. :"
This was eyide ntly the first intimatior
to DR.. Dckoyen, that bis last effort a
mixing our Sayior's unexplainable dia
logue with Nicoiemus, with his humbl
plain his eucharistic alteration dogma,
had wholly failed of its mission il
smoothing the way to bishopric.
This brought the Rev. DR.. Cushmar
TO his rescue with a new and elaborat,
edition Of DR.. DeKoyen's peculiar faith
at the end of each article Of which wal
duly appended, the statement that th'
foregoing doctrines were held by severa
eminent English Diyines, Or. Pussy
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In the mean time, anti-DeKover
standing committees were coming IL
TWO to one-to the great disgust o.
Dekovenites until. from last accounts
they have voted standing committees a
nuisance that must and shall be abatcd.
Like our own diocese, Illinois has a
Blackstone lawyer layman, (Winsted by
name, } who has also immortalized him
self BY the announcement of the re-
election Of Dr. DeKoyen, in September
next; Just read his war-like thunder to
repor er of the Chicago Times, in
speaking of the action of the standing
committees:
If they permanently refuse 10 admit the prin-
CHILE Of the right Of any independent diocese to
elect its own priest in good standing for bishop.
then stand from under for il Will raise question
u the American Episcopal church which viii shake
sroal ono end Of the land to the other, and which
must eventually he decided in favor Of freedom of
election aud liberty Of religion the church is a
Myth and We are but sect.
Unlike Henry the VIII, he viii not