Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-24
PASTOR AND VESTRY,
elsHop WHITE, rev. m'NAse, AND
AvESTRY IN A rANGLE.
yhe bishop stands by the Pastor and
snabs the ycstry- The Latter Claim
20 he Right ahd the Bishop
Wrong.

cese Of Virginia. made visit during tho
past week 10 the Episcopal churches on the
Eastern Shore Of Virginia The Bishop
while in Ouancook Yves the guest Of Rev.
John McNabb, who for tho past six years
has been rector Of this parish, but has re-
Gently resigned TO accept call TO King
George county. For some time past the
rotations between tho vestrv OF the church
here and the retiring rector have been
strained. and IL is claimed that the rector,
since he sent in his resignation about two
months ago. has treated the members OF
the veStrv OF this church with cold anu
scant courtesy.
roLrrr.
On the arrival of the Bishop in this town
fhe Yestry of the Onancock church adj
dressed HIM polite note informing him
that they could not call on him at the place
where he was staying and asking him 70
name some other place where they could
meet him without forcing them TO do vio-
1ence to their self-respect.
IMPoLITE.
To their note the Bishop made no reply,
but on the following day after no had fn-
ished his sermon and administered the rite
of confirmation he proceeded TO deliver
scorohing lecture 10 the yestry and other
complained that during his STAY in Oman
cock not one male member Of the congre-
CATION had called on him: that from such
information as he could gather there was
no legally-constituted vestry IN the parish.
and plainly iutimated that he considered
the congregation of the Onancock church
mainly responsible for the fact that the
parish is again without minister.
CONTENTIOUS.
He referred TO the fact that he had re-
ceived some time ago "a petition from GER
tain gentlemen OF the congregation signing
themselves trustees and claiming 20 Toe
vestrymep," asking him not to consecrate
the church here at present and said that
be was not at oil influenced by the petition
and that he should have consecrated tho
church il he had had sufficient time and
had not been too much fatigued by his
long journey.
MORTIFIED.
The Bishops remarks created profound
sensation and caused rluch sorrow and
modification TO the members of the con-
gregation. II is due to the Bishop to state
that he prefaced his remarks by the state
mept that he had heard but one side of the
case and that If ne made any errors or hurt
anybody's feelings it must be attributed to
that fact.
MIsINFoRNED.
An investigation into the facts of the
case shows that the Bishop was misin-
formed in regard TO many OF ms state
ments. The records of the parish show
that there are at least ten dulc-qualifed
vestrvnen in the parish. and, as has
already been stated, the vestrv here wrote
10 the Bishop on his arrival here explain
inc WHY they could not call on him in a
body where he was stopping, and IN de-
clining to do so disclaimed any discourtesy
TO him.
STRUCTURES.
The Acconnc Democrat. published here,
concluded an account of the incident IN
the following words: :,
"There is genuine regret among ali
Christian people here that the Bishop
should have been influenced by er-pdrte
statements to make unjust and unde-
served structures on the members of the
CONGREGATION and to spoil the effects of an
excellent sermon by an ill-natured talk.
which, while it may have pleased few,
caused much sorrow and in some Instances
must have stirred up much bad feeling.
Certain il is that the Bishops last visit TO
Onancock did not make him any new
friends, and we fear that he Will never
again be regarded here as highly as he has
been in the past"
Ia GRIPPE.
There has been much sickness on the
Eastern Shore during the past week. La
grippe is raging in every section and Is
proving quite fatal among old people.
Among those who have died during the
week was Mr.. Edward ID. Joynes, one OF
the oldest and most highly-esteemed citi-
zens of Accomac, at his home near Pungo-
league, in the seventy ninth year OF his age.
WRECKED.
Last Tuesday night the three-masted
schooner Mary G. Carroll, loaded with fer
tllizers and bound from Perth Ambov, n.
J.. for Richmond, Va. was wrecked on
Dawson shoals, off the Accomac coast.
She went 20 pieces in few minutes after
she struck the shoals, barely giving the
crew time to escape to their yawl-boat, and
before they could signal to the shore for
help. A patrolman had warned the schooner
70 keep of, however, and reporting her
mysterious disappearance Captain Lynn
TAYLOR and crew went to her rescue and
succeeded in towing the yawl-boat to the
station, where its crew, consisting OF six,
was kindly cared for.
BUILT THE FIRST CHURCH.
Mr.. Parker Bowden died recently at his
home. on Chincoteague Island aged fifty
eight years. His father, Rev. Parker Bow
den. built the first Methodist Protestant
church on Chincoteague. and was the first
native preacher of the island, who, in adj
dition TO providing places of worship,
cave the members free Gospel. looking for
his support TO money earned by daily
labor.