The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-24
SYKES TO PREACH
Ex- Dean of Grace Cathedral
VIII Supply the Pulpit.
Bishop MilIspaugh Announces
the Latest Arrangement.
WANTS MORE SALARY.
Thinks Allowance For Dean Is
Not Large Enough.
Ebert Hubbard Makes Charges
of Plagiarism.
WANTS MORE SALARY.

Dean Sykes, Of Grace cathedral,
whose resignation was accepted by the
vestry to take effect June Is, will sup
ply the vacancy here from week to
week until other arrangements may
be made This announcement was
made during the morning service at
the cathedral Sunday by Bishop Mills
paugh.
After making the announcement Of
the convention which will meet mere
September IL and II, and asking the
parishiOners to prepare to entertain the
visitors, he announced that the vestry
had invited Dean Sykes to supply the
vacancy at the mutual convenience Of
the Vestry and the dean, week by
week, until he had satisfied himself as
to the parish to which he viii go, or
the bishop and the vestry have decided
upon his successor.
Relative to his successor. the bishop
also added that the vestry had re-
QueSted him not to make nomination
of a dean until pledges were made for
the future support of a dean, as they
were now inadequate.
He also begged the parishioners to
make the pledges on a maximum scale
rather than minimum, and PLEADED
that the making of the pledges be NOT
delayed. He said that the salary or
the dean was altogether too small Tor
one occupying the most important po-
sition in the diocese
My dear people, said the bishop in
conclusion, do not blame your bishop
if there is not an immediate appoint
ment for the matter rests entirely in
your hands. Just as soon as the vestry
announce to me that they have your
pledges for the support of a dean. just
so soon viii he be nominated. And
shall be very happy to do So.
Bishop Nillspaugh recommended that
the deans salary be placed at $1,000
a year. The present dean is receiving
81, 200. Dean Bodley, who was here be-
fore Dean Sykes can e received a 81. 900
1l md f0nI
again be placed at that figure.
IT think" said one Of the members
of the vestry, that 81 200 salary is
adequate The dean has house rent
free. has a telephone and city water
rents paid. Besides this he has other
perQuisites. such as marriage fees. etc,
to bring the sum total of the salary to
at least $1,000 per year.
Dean Sykes has been charged with
plagiarism by Gilbert Hubbard, editor
of the Philistine, of East Aurora, New
York.
Two weeks ago Sunday Dean Sykes
preached a sermon at the Cathedral, on
THE License of Tongue and the Evil
Effects Thereof" and was republished
exclusively in the State Journal The
sermon was preached after Dean Sykes
resignation had been accepted by the
vestry and at that time it was general
ly believed that it was to be his last
sermon.
The sermon bordered on the sensa-
tional and the parishioners who listened
to it expressed themselves as believing
that the sermon was evidently aimed
at those who charged that he was not
a proper person to be at the head of
their church
The following day extracts from the
sermon were printed in the State Jour
nal Copies of the paper fell into the
hands OF Editor Hubbard who comes
forward with the charge that the best
phrases and most impassioned utter
ances" We're lifted from an article
which he himself wrote, entitled "Chi
cagO Tongue" In proof of his charges,
Editor Hubbard compares the two by
running the deadly parallel" The
comparison of the two articles shows
that the same thought runs through this
entire articles, and that many of the
phrases are identical in both Mr. Hub
bard'sl article and Mr. Sykes sermon.
Chicago Tongue" appeared in the
April 1901, number of the s'Philistine.
Dee n Sykes at first claimed that he de-
livsAred 1.-The License Of Tongue and
the Evil Effects Thereof" five years
ego. He now claims. and the vestry-
men of the Cathedral bear him out in
the assertion that he gave Mr.. Hubbard
I credit for the sermon inasmuch as he
in his Introduction to the sermon rec
| commended his parishfoners to read the
article Chicago Tongue" by Mr.. Hub
bard.
The vestry Of Grace Cathedral Is
composed OF George B. Palmer, w. r
Barrett, Charles Blood Smith Johr
Mead, E w Thompson. w. G. Smyzer
D. w Nellis. and William Henderson