Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-30
Men Who Presented the Charges
Against the Bishop Explain
Their Course
WANT CONTROVERSY STOPPED
Church Has Been Injured by the Con-
tinued Bickerins and Troubles
Which Have Been Stirred UP by the
Bishops Alleged Attack on Irvine
More About the Case.

Huntington, Pa, Dec. 30-While they
will not admit unfriendliness to Bishop
Talbot, the FIVE men in st. Johns
Protestant Episcopal church vestry,
who signed the presentment of charges
to be heard at Reading next month, say
their action was due entirely to a de-
sire to have the controversy settled fin
ally.
"For two years. said A. j. jackson,
one of these presenters, "tfle church
has suffered, and we considered that it
was only due to our communicates
that the affair should be adjusted. We
considered that Bishop Talbot was I'M
fair to DR.. Irvine, and when the letter
to DR.. Upjohn, came to our notice we
We're convinced of it, and when this
had been done we made the charges.
They show that we We're not unfriend-
/, ly to Bishop Talbot, and will state
that John Langdon, one of the pre-
senters, entertained the bishop when he
was here last spring."
How about the charges of fiscal ir-
rgularities made against Irvine?"
well, I'll tell you now. Irvine, an
freshman and the son of titled land
holder does not know the value of a
dollar, and is as generous as outdoors.
/ have known him to spend his last
cent to buy poor boy a pair of tro,ls-
ers. He did keep back part of the
money given him for the choir master,
but that was because the professor did
not fulfill his contract.
THE rumor of DR.. Irvine behaving
immorally with wome here is false
and the charges have II yer been prov
en-. He is a ge,r1eman and too schol-
arly and shrewd for some people who
are trying to pull him down, so they
resort to methods that will not bear
Investigation. I think when the court
Of inquiry gets thru with Bishop Tall
bot the public will know where the
blame should be placed"
Can a bishop, or ought bishop
write defamatory letters in secret, in
order to injure any member of the
ministry"
This is the question which will be
decided at the meeting Of the board
OF inquiry in the case Of Irvine VS.. Tall
bot, said the Rev. Ingram N. w. Ir-
vine. the plai-1tiff in the celebrate !
case, yesterday, lin discussing the
charges which have been made against
him.
MY reinstatement" continued DIR
Irvine, "is of secondary consideration
when contrasted with the above query
OF course, want to have this unjust
11nnl1f ia fina1t
entirely without malice to be vindicat-
ed in the sight of God and my friends
In discussing the motives of the pre-
sentiment DR.. Irvine said that it was
because he had persistently refused to
serve communion to Mrs. Emma d.
Elliott, of Huntington, Pa, who is d.
yorced, against the wishes of Bishop
Talbot.
Bishop Talbot and j, along witt,
about 1000 other members of the min,
istry," said Dr. Irvine, signed the dec.
laration which was sent to all the Dish.
ops and clergy in the United States and
presented to the general convention III
1898, and which prayed for more strin :
gent restrictions in the matter or di.
vorce and remarriage.
The canons of the church provide
explicitly that a man CIR woman, di-
vorced on any charge, except that of
adultery, which may be proved beyond
the bounds of reasonable. doubt, cannot
receive the holy sacrament. IN the
face Of this, Bishop Talbot, while the
publicly supported the petition, covert
ly, and by secret meetings with Mrs.
Elliott, who is a woman divorced on
the grounds of desertion, sought to
have her remain in the church.
Now, who was the most consistent,
Bishop Talbot, or I? Did we not, both
OF us, sign the petition mentioned
Us 1t not curious that Bishop Talbot,
although he has written me saying that
Mrs. Elliott was, by canon, excommull-
tcated, should, by other methods, SEEK
to retain her as communicate"