The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-05-03
HOLY SCRIPTURE
BASIS or CREED
On. cRAPsEYss STATEMENT rs
READ TO COURT.
CONVENTIONS OF DEFENSE
Rector Claims to Give the Greed That
Interpretation Most Consistent
with the Whole Tone Of
the Bible.

Batavia, N. r.. April 2S.-T estimony
Of witnesses In support OF Rev. Alger-
non s. Crapsey, rector OF st. Andrews
Protestant Episcopal church at Roch-
ester. in his trial for heresy. having
been excluded by the ecclesiastical
court which IS trying him, counsel FRI
day began their arguments. Franklin
D. Locke began the summing up for
the prosecution by saying:
I'VE maintain that the Apostles
Greed forms part OF the faith OF the
Protestant Episcopal church, and
every clergyman in this church must
accept every concrete statement con-
tanned therein. It is intolerable to
think that any clergyman can declare
in his church In the morning that ne
believes these things and utter his de-
NAL Of them In the evening. It IS ad-
mitted by the defense that Or. Crapsey
does not believe some OF the state
ments contained In this creed. Then
this is no church for him"
After reading to the court state
nent OF DR.. Crapsey, Congressman
Perkins addressed the court for the de-
tense. He said in part:
Church Is on Trial.
1T is the church itself which is on
trial here to-day. We believe there is
room in this church for cody men, and
that DR.. Crapsey and Bishop Walker
can live side by side In the spread of
lhriettr lyfnodotr,
"A man is told" he continued, ito
study the scriptures for himself and to
interpret them, not according to what
he is told by others, but according to
what he is persuaded may be conclud-
cd and proved therefrom. These words
are plain and clear; there is no mis-
taking them, but, according to the pre-
sentiment OF the prosecution, DR.. Crap
sey must break this vow as above set
forth"
Or. Crapsey's Statement.
The statement written by Dr. Crap
sey and read by Mr.. Perkins was a re-
ply Of the accused man TO the present
ment brought against him.
IT claim" said DIR. Crapsey, that
from the day that l assumed the au-
thority to preach the word OF God |
have been diligent in the study OF the
holy scriptures and have based all my
teaching upon them"
Quoting the Apostles Greed, DR..
Crapsey declared that he said 1t daily
from his heart He continued:
IF it be charged against me that /
do not give to the creed the same In
depreciation that some other men have
given 1t | claim that do give It that
Interpretation that is most consistent
with the whole tone and teaching of
the holy scriptures, and also most in
accord with the ways of God as have
learned these ways OF His from my
study Of their manifestations in His
outward works and in my own inward
nature.
1T has been asserted that I have
denied the incarnation OF Jesus Christ.
our Lord! Nay, 1 have not denied. I
have asserted the incarnation. If the
word was made flesh and dwelt among
US in Jesus Christ our Lord, then that
flesh was human flesh and human
blood, and the flesh in which the Word
dwelt had its origin in the seed Of
mans flesh. from which It is led by q
process SO marvellous that 1t is an
everlasting and constant miracle.
1T has been also asserted that I
deny the doctrine Of the Holy Trinity.
There are not three Gods, but there is
one, and the Trinity is the unfolding of
the one, not the addition of three, to
make one"