New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-01
THE MONK AND HIS BISHOP
LETTER FROM FATHER IGNATIUS.
HE ANSWERS BISHOP JoNEs's REPORTED STRICT
URES On HIM

UREs On HIN.
r..,,o. Irnatlu, has gfven out the following cor
re.poudcncc Tor publication
'S r EIa morning December 80, 1890 newspaper CUT
ling, have sent to me by Hlein9 ,rn U exIsI,
~ lcler sent By yourself to laS , unaIciSr, t
london copy Of e,t.r tat YOU iI nave Lot seen
Inc letter Itself but only the following extracts WHICH
| have a,toni,hed me- not illfe; m Herald 4, and a.
| oIIota now from The Boston licTdui a.u a.
nave hundreds friends in that city, in.eno th
letter for publication there al W ,hs DaagrapR almost
pruclalms its ecclesiastical origin ~ Jo,S and
referring to charge that the AEehRSnU n Geresy and
Ina tne Welsh monk had boldly enc9nntered the sa
This Is tine sf Sre eeS hdety aud
! 6nrcsy, a. III Mr. Lyme encountered me WIN 'i'as
Charge it certainly was not done boldly snoe n' w
! posItiOn never reached my ears ,o, inf. ,;n,
Nv Lord how could you have rushed lh.o pfih ny
with such utter nonsense! Why did you not at All
events before doing so write NE personally nohe
person who is either Of meound NINA 9r tea1 LIZ liz
inventor deliberate faseho0d must nave pe I'D 10
ng with you and has succeeded in causing you 10 10
vuy foolish thing ana very Wrons tn nan YOUR
ReghborS have never hoard that you have pre Hrr
nfdely heresy and consequently IN r rsyG or in
made such charge against YOU either In pa SHe for
public The ony origin oIco, can and aaSdisnifed
m IaS'e! which bishop Paddock allowed himself
publish n in t the a sos5O Tepy yS psy in part Ills
attacks upon occupied four fun columns 9oo There
RostOn POST OF SATURDAY. NUNcuiDcI 800
we're many incorrect. statements which passed oyer
among them l quote these words: A !t I'm
Father gnauS himself and n others nS B 1S Jones OF
St Dayids, Who has lived him fifteen years a.
ought to say that Father Ignatirs accounts for IncS
two sturdy opponents by the enmiy %cn , 9o prearh
when these two dgntaTieS successfully tooh 10 PiS
ing infdey ard heresy, and he boldly ehcoullIered
This Is one Of the shocking mistatements Of Bishop
Paddock Let the person who informed Bishop Paddoch
that thus account for these two sturdy ~ con
! ut
front me face TO face. Even If Bishop PsddoSh VIII
not unearth my traducer he Himself hn1w with NV
own Iips gave him true statement OF what hapPenGu
in the 1870 between myself aD on 39 Pars Thomp
the other part Neither your na " and only
self was mixed up in that mater pd d G in the follow
t haze in my possession still the correspondence with
the hrcbbshop, and also the newspaper accounts OF
the whole matter The story IS a simple one. an AZ
August, 1876, was giving course Of address ,syoY
high" and low church, had created III my d MINI
Hunt and tho parish church, when al az once or
sudden public notice Of t the 6Id TSe Arch
S SpsH had invited the gifted leader Of the
infdel movement in the Churcn VI t,o In nssrb
cbu rcn.' had only Just finished reading his lat
inSdeI book. entirely undermining the readers fath
irut Ine Of onr Common Christianity, Catholic and
Protestant alike SO shameless was inc way ne ue Ihe
Tnitarans, and was fresh from reading Unitarian
and other reviews Of his diabollcM DoOk. se.G d
mmtuai friend of ArChdeacon Bunt's and my own WIN
letter TO the Archdeacon, 10 say thal IL ne anoweG
Dean stanley to preach In the parish G;ursh %ouiu
cali general conference Of Jesus Churchs disciples Ill
| scar6orough Anglican, Roman Catholic Baptist,
Methodist and congregational to protest against using
| our lord Jesus Christ our God and our atonins
saviour. Nevertheless, Dean stanley came ana MS
teaching such that even the secular press de
nounced IT, ! held conference In tho theatre, ana
c HnG sa TsnE e Cod Sr y S
have the courage to do it, We dare not But The
nd d 6sa SI any anG then publicly de-
him and went straight to York itself 10 d. So
| citizens received me, and the vast mutudes who
| thronged my addresses for the week was there.
nounced the Archbishop with all my might and main
the enemy Of Jesus Christ and the souls of men, but
never said that the Archbishop himself preached in
fidelity and heresy. lie only allowed Dean stanley to
do it for him and backed him up in IT, -. .,.
way in which mentioned your name to Bishop Paddock
was this informed him that a gentleman who
OF me thus Bishop Jones has never forgiven
your attack on Archdeacon Blunt and the Archbishop
| aminlne chaplain at the tme?" had not the least
VI we're S san only S nope that ' Whole heart
and soul went out in gratitude thnt some one even 50
protest for Christ and Christianity never even
limited to any one that you preached Dean Stanleyism
Is it not remarkable my Lord that some one has just
called on in this hotel in New York who was pres
1875 and has with her the Scarborough papers OF that
memorable wcek3
| Tho only other extract from your letter have
Is follows (3 "Yery shortly after my conservation
Mr. Lyme wrote to ask permission TO preach In the
churches Of my diocese which then--as have ever
since-deededly but hope courteously, declined TO
| glve.o You must allow 10 make some comment
upon these words It was for your sake, not my own
for the sake Of the Welsh Church dearly love, not
for my advantage, that offered you my services
without pas ment in your large diocese where evan
gellsts whom the people are willing TO hear are so
sadly few and tar between, Your clergy would gladly
many. many cases and their kind invitation for my
peeunlary help In their noble struggles 70 revive "yr
hen Eglwys Elm Tadau' We always at the monastery
| rejoice 10 answer as we are able.
Ny Lord, by Offering 10 preach for you In q church
I am sacrificing peenniarliy ESQ each tine. for any
SUNDAY in the Park Hail. Cardiff the people give me that
for monastery ss50I. Let further remark that
! by asking YOU 10 open The churches TO me was do
ing conscientious duty faithful Welsh Churchman
| and shifting upon your shoulders the responsibility
shutting the doors Of the House Of God against the
large multithdes who patiently willing to
listen TO me- Wherever 80 in Wales my wel.loved
| Acknowledged give me generous hearing, and
had been at Bangor during the recent Esteddfod In
August believe. from what the good Dean sometime
ago said to me, l should very likely have given an
EsteddfOdic address In the Cathedral. You may tell
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