Daily Republican., 1881-07-11

bers OF this faction, had been goin
their rounds trying to dissuade tn
Board of Education from electing III
Principal of the Public Schools
that there remained no hope of heal
ing the breach. And all this time thu
Bishop was staying at his comfortable
home in Wilmington and letting thi.
faction go on working out wi.l ven
geance the problem ofstarving me out
and he received secret accusation.
against me!
If his course was one of discretion tt
keep out hot water with this faction
where was the good temper toward one
of his priests? He goes on The ON
ission to administer the communion tc
a very i'll parishioner
was extremely unfortunate would
be willing to emphasize what the Bish-
op says here, by my saying If it were
so, such omission would have been Grim.
inal.
There was all omission in the case
maliciously reported to the Bishop, but
it was on the part of the young person
who managed the affairs of that house.
hold.
The truth is made the first offer to
administer the Holy Communion to the
sick parishioner.. His daughter however
wished it administered on Sunday morn
ing before breakfast. But daily intes.
tinal hemorrhages had rendered me
physically unable to add this extra ser
vice to my other Sunday work. Of
fe1ed therefore to administer the HOLY
Supper at any other time, and 1 repeat
ed the offer. She was offended and
never accepted it. But, instead, a
clergyman from another parish, who
had previously been ofiicious in the
troubles OF this, was brought over here
to administer it as part Of deep plot to
produce a certain impression against me
and they succeeded through his credu-
lity.
This part CT the Bishops letter how
ever, proves evidently that the Bishop
had secretly been receiving accusations
against me from untruthful persons, and
he would not leave Wilmington for u
day to learn the truth, but he acted on
these accusations, and never has he
brought me face to face with my secret
accusers. He continued his calm, cold
insult: 'and as our Missionary funds are
designed to build up the Church in weak
points, not to destroy it, cannot prom
ise to continue your appointment as a
Diocesan Missionary. With sincere re-
CARDS % Yours, A. LEE"
From such sincere regards, Good
Lord deliver us poor priests -
Bishop of the Church of God adding his
fp Of nh I'D
out poor priest
If the Priests of the Episcopal church
in Delaware are not between the upper
and the neither milestone, then words
have no meaning. If the church in her
General Convention does not interpOse,
then all honor, self-respect Gnd manli-
ness will be crushed out of her priest.
hood, and they will degenerate into the
hirelings that the wckehly ignorant es-
teen them; or they will die out under
the cowardly starving out process with
no gentlemen of spirit to take their pla-
CeS.
Now, these points are patent to any
ingenious mind. The excessive weak
ness OF the Bishops memory in Conven-
ton, so that he did not recall II very
important point, viz: My positive re-
ply to this letter and moreover my ask
ing him to come down here, preside at
ameeting of the congregation, and learn
on the spot facts, &c. Right here was
the turning point of this whole case
Had he come as faithful Bishop and
Shepherd Of the flock, he could have
learned the true merits of "such incl
dents as We're brought to his "knowl-
edge" by secret accusers, and he could
have prevented much scandal to the
cause of religion, to the Church, and to
this much maladministerel Diocese.
But, true to his rule of never going
where there is trouble in u parish, he
refused to come and has not been here
for II months . Again another point,
that is manifest, is the excessive credu-
lity of the Bishops mind, such as to
lead him to receive as true, without in
quiry any secret accusation of any
kind.
Another point, which is patent is his
invincible inertia to leave his comfort
able home for six hours, even to test
two Of his priests of unques-
toned standing in the church were tell
Ing him the truth or a faction of mon
yrel religious beliefs, whose conduct is
\ scandal in the community. Their
desperation of character manifesting
tself recently in their even breaking
nto the church, because the legitimate
sestry would not let them have the
Keys. In conclusion, another most i'm
)ortant point is patent which releases
he Bishops quarrel from its limita-
ion to every American citizen, viz l
vas condemned by him without hear
ng, and upon secret accusations enccur-
lged by him under the operation of a
ort of Spanish Inquisi1ion, or Mexican
set up in Wilmington. The
ssuing of the sentence of Deprivation
lgainst me was only the Delaware Dio-
esan mode Of delivering me over to the
secular arm to do its worst upon
of the Sheriff coming to
Inhouse me became then 50 loud and
'ioltnt that my children were afraid to
% to the door when the bell was rung
" a visitor.
This system Of Inqni>itorial accusa-
ion and condemnation is the answer to
he question asked over and over in this
What is the explanation
f this Reversal of the sentence of 1880
" the Bishop and his Standing Com
nittee?I was condemned without a heal
ng; deprived illegally of my parish:
he sentence of Deprivation issued to
AXE place less than twelv. hours before
Caster Election, in order to put an enc
nv in the chair and thus to put our
eOple into the hands of our enemies,
lany of these enemies being seceders
rom other denominatio tionS, some Of them
, get out of ill odor they had raised
nd when | presided at the meeting Of
he parish with the consent and wish of
le people, was inhibited ont of pure
evenge for generating the Bishop
nd all this in a free country-"imper-
I'M in republi"a" !
Now it wont do to say had hearing
ffered me later, when was summoned t
eforc - meeting of Standing Commit
ae. That very meeting was unlawful. 5
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