Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-23
BISHOP WH|PPLE
GIVES HIS VIEWS

New YORK, May Z.-Rlght Kew. Ben-
jamin Whipple, Episcopal bishop Of Min
nesota, who has just returned from Eng
land, said to a Tribune reporter: The
most remarkable thing noticed In Eng
land was the friendly spirit manifested
in every quarter to our country and with
1t great desire to learn more about the
organization of the missionary work of our
own branch of the church. There has
been a good deal of talk in England and
elsewhere about the crisis in the church
of England on the question Of ritual.
believe that all this is to be settled by the
wise counsels of the bishops. council
of advice was in session. presided over by
the archbishops Of Canterbury and York,
to which all these questions presented by
representatives of the different schools
and thought / detected in all minds
conviction that the Cody counsel and adj
vice of bishops would be followed. But
the question which was most prominent
and of which l saw most was that con-
nected with Christian work at home and
abroad I think that the great heart OF
England realizes, as it has never realized
before, that God has placed these English
speaking people in the forefront of hui
manity, reports of constitutional govern
ment and Christian civilization, to carry
their benefit to all the people of the earth
and underlying this desire for closer rela-
tons with the United States was the
thought that we had common work and
a common mission to do for humanity.
There is a good deal of talk about the
peace congress, but so far as could
judge the attitude was one of hopefulness
war would be mtigated if not entirely
done away with. Educated Englishmen
give the Car of Russia credit for the
highest motives in proposing the confer
ence."
In response to an inquiry as to how the
English clergy regarded the Briggs con-
troversy, Bishop Whipple said they did
not know anything about it. He said
that he had not heard the subject men,
toned. Asked about his own opinions of
the Briggs case, he said:
Il have not read DIR. Briggs book and
consequently could not criticize it intelli-
gently, but l will say that have the ut
most confidence in Bishop Potter, whom I
have known through all Of his ministry.
He never loses his head. In every fibre of
his being he is loyal to his master and to
his church of which he is the chief shep-
herd. This question which agitates so
many minds is not new question. The
Bible is a very wonderful book. It was
two thousand years after the first chap
ter was written before it was finished
The Bible has been in the past and will
be in the future, the revelation of the
gracious purposes of God to his children
and the story of his infinite love. There
is a divine element of the sacred scrip
lures which j: is impossible that any hu-
man theory or man investigation can ever
touch. A devOut Christian need not have
the slightest doubt of anxiety over critical
scholarship. Truth does not fear inves-
tigation and am sure that it will be in
the future as it has been in the past, that
not one iota of Fod's truth and his reve-
lation- can ever be affected by honest ex-
animation. DR.. Briggs has received much
praise from scholars OF different commu-