The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-15

holds that the first three Gospels are no
the works of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
but contain merely ssnotes" made b,
! them. The Gospel of st. John was writ
ten by Philonic philosopher sometim,
between the beginning and middle o
the second century The Acts was writ
ten by a Gentle disciple in Asia Minor
and was based on notes by St. Luke.
Mr. MacQueary, while not denying the
possibility of miracles and that wonder
full and, properly speaking. miraculous
events are recorded in the New Tesla
ment, believes that '.those events were
different from what they are commonly
supposed to be- and that the cures
wrought by the Saviour were only ex-
traordinary examples of what commonly
happens"
The theory of verbal inspiration Mr.
MacQueary pronounces to be heather
ish." He accepts the theories of the
most advanced higher German critics on
the authorship of the Pentateuch, and
accepts the theory of inspiration which
makes it "a natural production of the
human spirit" given to Budha, Zoroas-
ter, or Socrates equally with Abraham,
Isaiah, or Paul. AS to the trinity, Mr.
MacQueary asserts the right to refuse to
accept any man made theory. He is
content to rest on the thought that God
is, without attempting to define exactly
what He is. As between the Athanaslan,
Arion, and Sabellian theories. he would
prefer the Sabellian.
AS an evolutionist, he accepts the in>
carnation and defines the divinity of
Christ as consisting ''in perfect union
of the human spirit with the divine,
but he refers to the commonly accepted
doctrine of the miraculous conception as
''the legend of the Virgin, birth by the
Holy Ghost
Mr.. MacQueary believes that evolution
has exploded the Calvinistic dogma of
the atonement and proved it to be not
only inconsistent with any true idea of
God, but a relic of barbarism. He de>
clares that to the natural mystery of the
existence of evil the theologians have
added the artificial mystery of Adams
fall from state of perfect innocence
that they, not content with the awful
fact of pain and suffering in the world,
have added 1.-THE mystery Of the more
horrible dogma that a good God can on
ly be satisfied by the suffering of his
innocent Son." Of heaven and hell. Mr..
MacQueary asserts that they are states
or spiritual conditions, not places. He
believes in future punishment, but re-
fuses to believe that it is endless.
But it is not for these views that Mr..
MacQueary has been forbidden to Off
ciate as rector during the past months
and will be tried this week. Had he
gone no further in hetorodox faiths than
indicated above, he would have had
numerous clerical companions; but it is
because he denies the miraculous con-
ceptions of Christ, and the resurrection
of His earthly body, that he is where he
is. He does not deny the possibility OF
the parthenogenetic conception Of Christ
but its probability, a probability which
nothing but overwhelming evidence can
prove, and he denies that there is such
evidence. He repudiates the first chap
tiers of Matthew and Luke and believes
that what little testimony in the New
Testament is trustworthy goes to prove
that Jesus was Joseph's son.
AS to the resurrection he says "the
earliest tradition simply teaches that it
was spiritual appearance. He showed
himself in spirit to the Apostles, and this
was not subjective hallucination of
theirs, but real objective manifestation
of the spirit of Jesus from the unseen
sphere. Around this kernel grad ually
grew the narrative Of the Gospels, whose
authorship is SO uncertain. so inconsist-
emit with the conceptions of the unseen
sphere which scientific theology forces
upon US, that we must set them aside as
yalueless.' y
The charges against Mr.. MacQueary
are that he has violated his, ordination
VOWS in publicly preaching and teaching
heresy in denying the Virgin birth of
Jesus and His bodily resurrection from
the dead. The court appointed by
Bishop Leonard to try him consists of
the Revs. Y. P. Morgan, A. B. Putnam,
and H. D. AYES OF this city, w. Fl. Gal
lagher Of gainesville, and George T.
Smythe of Elyria. The Rev. DR.. Bates
of st. Paul's Church, this city, will act
as prosecutor.
Mr.. MacQueary, in an interview this
evening with The Times representative,
seemed cheerful and glad that the trial
was about to begin and would soon be
over, for the strain has been great and
has told upon him. 1t had been arrang
ed that the trial should be held in the
Trinity House. but the authorities rea-
lie that it will not seat one-tenth of the
audience which will gather, and are now
arranging for larger hall in which the
meetings can be held. The disposition
manifested by the diocesan court to limit
the trial to the consideration of few
points was not satisfactory to Mr.. Mac
Queary, aud he has induced the court to
alter it's decision and permit him to ex-
pound and defend his entire theological
system.
The Hon. George Chapman of this city
will preside over the court. Judge J. H.
McMath will be the legal adviser of Mr..
MacQueary and the ReVs. Myron Adams
and Amos Skeele of Rochester his cleri-
cal advisers. Many of Mr.. MacQueary' s
Canton parishloners also will be present.
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