The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-06
DR.. HOWARD N'QUBARY.
His Trial for HereticaI Views to
Begin Wednesday.
FORMER FAIRMoNT PASTOR
Aud Well Known in whcelinG.-.An
Event in Protestant Episcopal
CIrcles.-.what He Says About
His Religious Beliefs.
Special Dispatch to ae Inteatgaer.

| OANTONI W. JAM O.-Ou NeuueEuhJ
in Cleveland, the trial Of Rev. Howar
MacQ cQueary, late Rector OF St. Paul
Episcopal Church here, will begin be
fore committee OF clergymen Of til,
Ohio Diocese. The charge against Rev
cQueary is the holding OF views tina
are heretical and contrary to the stand
ardsof the church. Mr.. MacQueary viii
defend himself, assisted, however, by
some eminent clerical friends.
The defendant is not unknown in the
Weat Virginia diocese, having been rector
OF the Episcopal Church in Fairmont
until about three years ago, and has
many acquaintances in Wheeling. He
is native OF AlbermRrle county, Va,
and previous to entering the ministry
was engsged in business In Washing
ton, D. @. He has attained high rank
es preacher. About a year ago his
book, entitled 1.-THE Evolution OF Man
aud OF Christianity" was published and
created great sensation in orthodox
theological circles. So great was the
storm Of adverse opinion which fell
upon Mr.. McQueary's head and the
shoulders OF Bishop Lsonard, that the
latter requested Mr.. McQueary 10 retire
from the church in which he was preach.
ing and appear before the Diocesan
Committee fortrial.
Mr.. MaCQueary's views on the incar.
nation and resurrection have been those
most seriously objected to, but on these
points he asserts he has been grieYously
misrepresented. He says:
II believe Christ was God manifest
in the fesh'-that is, He was as much OF
the Divine Spirit as could be forced, so
10 speak, into finite human form.
"yAs 70 the resurrection, believe that
Jesus appeared after His death in the
spiritual body spoken OF by st. Paul in
/. Corinthians, xv., and not His feshly
body that He had before He died, and
that all the details about the guarded
tomb, the eating of fish in the Gospels
are later additions to the primitive &C.
count. In short, accept both the mi
raCulous birth and the resurrection OF
our Lord, merely rejecting the physical
element in these miracles because, in my
judgment, insutliciently attested."
Mr.. MaCQueary is the founder Of q
philosophical society and literary club
which advocate the principles OF his
doctrines. 10 an interview he thus de.
scribes his own evolution Of belief;
II was educated in the strictest school
OF evangelical orthodoxy. In the sem.
mary apologetics and divinity always
interested mo more than any other
branch OF study. l left the seminary
thoroughly orthodox, In 1856 attended |
the Church Congress in New Haven,
and stopped in New York, Philadel.
phia and Baltimore to study church
life. My eyes were opsned. and l re-
turned to Fairmont, W. Va, determined
TO reconsider my whole theological posi-
ton. l first broke with the traditional
faith on the question Of endless punish.
ment, and this after careful study OF
Canon Farrar's and Cannon Rows
works. The atonement next claimed
my attention, and soon saw the un-
aud unrationality OF the
theology. OF course, it was
only step TO the question of mans fall
aud the question OF his origin and de.
After a study OF Dawson,
MCCosh, Geike and the DIXIE OF Argyle,
who are neither antievolutionists or
Christian evolutionis.s, l turned to lie
Comte, WinChell, and then TO the fuller
OF the works OF Darwin,
Spencer and Huxley, and the result was
Of the views OF the latter.
"Tyndal!'s discussion OF prayer for
blessings brought up the sub.
iect OF miracles, and l turned first to
orthodox apologists such as Mozley,
WestCott, and then to the |
rationalists, Bauer, Strauss, Renan,
Davidson, etc. flung them aside, took
up the early fathers themselves, and
studied the literature OF primitive Chris.
sianity, and was forced to the conclusion |
stated in my book, which is an outline
of theology from the evolution stand
point, in which l have collected the
opinions urged by many eminent Chris. |
inns, many Of them leading lhsologians
in my own ohurch, the difference
between mo and them being that l have
all their 'heresies' into a com.
plete system, whereas they have divided |
It up among themseives."