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Arguments IN The
CRAPSEY HERESY Case
UNEXPECTED ANSWER or THH
ACCUSED TO ORIGINAL
PRESENTMENT.

Ffrst Time He Has Said Anything IN
His Own Defense--Rew DIR. Elwood
and DIR. McComb of Boston Speak In
His BehaIf--Case VIII Go to Ecclesl-
asticaI Court To-day-.-There May be
Majority and Minority Report.
Batavia, N. Y, April M.-Interest in
the heresy trial of DR.. Algernon s.
Crapsey of Rochester, has centered Ii
the Anal arguments. and to-day brought
q presentation Of their respective cases
by counsel for both sides. An unex-
pected feature was the answer of DR..
Crapsey to the original presentment.
This was read by Congressman Perkins
OF counsel for the accused. 1t is the
only time DIR. Crapsey has said any
thing in his own defense The day was
closed by an address for the defendant
by DR.. Samuel McComb, assistant rec
tor of Emmanuel church, Boston,
The morning session to-day was CIV
en- over to a short explanation of the
position of the prosecution by Frank
lin D. Locke, an attorney Of Buffalo.
and to an address by Congressman Per
kins for the defense. The discussion
during the afternoon was entirely a
theological one, being limited to an ad-
dress by the Rev, DR.. Elwood Worces-
ter Of Boston for the defense; one by
the Rev. Francis J. Hall of Chicago
for the prosecution, and the final ad-
dress by DR.. McComb for Or. Crapsey.
Tomorrow the speakers will be Ed
ward M. Shepard for the defense and
John Lord OBrien for the prosecution.
The attendance to-day was large the
court room again being crowded.
Among the ladies present was the wife
OF Dr. Crapsey who appeared in co,rt
for the first time, accompanied by her
daughter.
The case will go to the court to-mor-
row. The members Of the court win
communicate their verdict to Bishop
Walker of the diocese of western New
York, who will announce the verdict
and the punishment to be imposed if
DIR. Crapsey Is found guilty.
There may be a majority and a mi
nority report; or each member OF the
court may render a verdict Of his own.
In that event the bishop would an
nounce the final verdict in the case II
DR.. Crapsey is found guilty the bishop
may modify, but he cannot Increase the
punishment suggested by the court All
of the papers will be made public with
the bishops final report.
Tn speaking for the defense Dr
Wooster declared that the two import
ant points in the presentment were
those concerning the virgin birth of
Christ, and the resurrection Of the
body
'In regard to the first point" the
speaker continued, 81 ask you to dis
tinguish between the divine sonship of
Jesus and the doctrine of the virgin
birth. The one is an essential fact of
the Christian religion; the other
mere mode Of expressing or explaining
that fact. The clause conceived of the
holy ghost, born of the virgin Mary In
the creed, undoubtedly was to assert
that humanity Of Christ, and play tha
sinlessness of Jesus. st. Paul nowhera
betrays any knowing of the mystery
of Christ's birth. In fact hts illusion3
to Christ are as the son of David
II approach the subject of the resur-
rection of Jesus, with much competence
because | have heard DIR. Crapsey
again and again express his firm belief
in it's reality. he only denials that ap-
pear in his writings are denials of a
certain form of physical material res
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