Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-07
FATHER IGNATIUs VS.. SISTER MARY
AGNES.

There can be no possible ques-
ton OF the success OF Kew. d.
+. LYME. otherwise Father IGNATIUs,
81 the Order OF the Benedict" as stir
rer I'D Of strife in the religious world,
but as an emissary to aid and establish
Protestant Episcopal nunnerleS, he is
likely to prove failure in this country,
and that, maybe, through book writ
ten by the celebrated Sister MARY
AGNES, whose name, by the way,
was Miss j. NJ. POvEY, entitled,
"Nunnery Life in the Church Of Eng
land; or, Seventeen Years With Father
IGNATIUs, by Sister MARY AGNES, o. s.
B., Edited, with preface, by the Rev.
w. LANCELoT HOLLAND, M. A., Vicar
OF all Saints, Hatcham."
In this interesting volume Sister
MARY AGNES tells tales out OF school
as TO the extreme rigidity OF the disci-
pline exacted in the institution, which
according to Sister MARY borders
on the absurd, which are calcu-
lated to knock out the plans OF Father
IGNArIUs. The self-styled monk has
done valiant battle with Rev. DR..
HEBER NEWTON. of All Saints Church;
the Rev. DIR. w. S. RAINFoRD, OF st.
Georges Church; he Rev. DIR. HUNT
INGToN, OF Grace Church; the Rev. DIR.
MORGAN DIX, rector of old Trinity; the
Rev. Mr.. MALLORY, editor OF the
Ch,trchn.an: the Right Rev. HENRY
POTTER, Bishop Of New York, all OF
whom he accused OF various religious
crimes ranging from atheism to attend
ance at the theatre, but it has taken a
woman to lay him low.
A lengthy article in the New York
Teleqrdm on the subject, in which the
alleged monks charges against Dean
STANLEY are discussed, accuses Rev.
Mr.. LIME, who calls himself Father
IGNATIUS," OF being, to put it briefly, a
religious 'fakir." Says the Telegram:
The charges made by Mr.. Lyme against
Dean Stanley were, first, that he, as
member of the Broad Church party of Eng
land. was "A Nationalist, and second, that
an old woman had told Mr.. LYME that Dean
Stanley had told her she should not read
the Bible so much, as ShakeSpeare's plays
were much better. He also declared that
Dean Stanley had said in his work on the
Old Testament that the Adonai Of the He
brews was Baal. Taking the latter re-
mark first, if it were possible Tor Dean
Stanley as a clergyman to say that the God
of the Hebrews was Identical with the Baal
of the PhGnicians, it would have been i'm
possible for Arthur Stanley. the scholar,
TO have made such a mistake. What he
did say was that the Baal of the Phenl-
clans was identical with the AdOnis of the
| Greeks
The old woman, also, was hunted up
aud declared that she had never seen
Dean STANLEY. All of which places
Rev. Mr.. LYME, or Father IGNATIUs,
in the unpleasant position OF one con
victed of stating an untruth for the pur
pose of creating sensation, which may
account for his performances in New
York, which have been of a somewhat
similar character. The Telegram con
cludeS:
As may be supposed, his assumption OF
the role Of monk of St. Benedict was
criticised by some of those who wrote &c
the papers at that time. 1t is scarcely
necessary TO say to the readers of the Tele-
grdm that Mr. Lyme is not monk, is no. a
Benedictine Father, is not named Ignatius,
except in the way in which child calls it.
self by some outlandish title. He is dea-
con in the Church of England, who has
/ been inhibited for disobedience to his Bish-
op: he has collected money and built what
/ he calls an abbey in Wales; he has story
/ Of having seen the figure of the Virgin
/ Mary at the abbey miraculously gov with
/ light or move; he habitually walks around
! with bare feet; he refuses TO wear hat; he
/ dresses himself in black robe; he is pos
/ sessed of eloquence; he is here to get more
money he is working the same line of ad
vertising so successful before, and heis de
/ termined 10 agrin make sensation on the
I Scarborough lines.
WE TRUST that Mister RUDINI will
not have a fatal fit over the news from
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