Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-11-22
court OF review
SUSPENDS CRhPSEY
DECISION AGAINST EPISCOPAL
REVEREND SUSTAINED BY
ECCLESIASTICAL BODY.
WAS CONVICTED OF
HERETICAL TEACHING
Cannot Exercise Functions of Min
.ster Until He Recants Doctrines
Formal Action in Celebrated
Case Taken at Buffalo.

Buffalo, N. Y, Nov. 2O.-Rev. DR..
Algernon S. Crapsey, of St. Andrews
Episcopal church, Rochester, is con-
demned to suspension from the
church as result of the decision of the
ecclesiastical court of review, which
was made public Monday. The court
of reviews sustains the decision of the
lower court, which was that DR.. Crap
sey should be suspended for heretical
teachings. The announcement of the
decision was made as follows:
"The court of review has confirmed
unanimously the decision of the lower
court in the case Of Rev. Algernon S.
Crapsey, D. d.
DR.. Crapsey in his sermons and writ
ings questioned the virgin birth of
Jesus. He also contended that there
were fallacies in other beliefs and doc
trines forming the foundation of the
Protestant Episcopal church.
The probability that DR.. Crapsey will
recant any of the opinions which led
to his ecclesiastical condemnation, or
that he will in any way recede from
the position he has taken are so very
slight as not to be worth considera-
tion.
Case Attracts Wide Attention.
New York, Nov. 20.-The Crapsey
case has attracted wide attention since
the publication of DIR. Crapsey's book
of Religion and Politics. and also
since he preached a number of SER
mons in which, it is charged, he
taught doctrines which were contrary
to the faith of the Protestant Episco-
pal church. DR.. Crapsey in reply to
these charges contended that he had
only preached according to what he
believed to be true. He contested the
proceedings against him vigorously
and among the counsel he employed
was Edward M. Shepard, one of the
most noted lawyers in New York. Mr..
Shepard, in arguing in behalf of DR..
Crapsey cOntended that Dr. Crapsey
had acted within his rights through
out and had shown himself to be
straightforward and sincere in all his
preaching.
The charges against DR.. Crapsey
we're first heard by an ecclesiastical
court at Batavia, and after trial
which attracted wide attention, the
court reported verdict sustaining the
charges. An appeal from this decis-
ion, which was Immediately taken,
was heard by the board of review of
the Protestant Episcopal church,
which met in this city. The sessions
extended over a period of several
weeks, and the noted counsel who ap-
peared for and against DR.. Crapsey
in the Batavia trial again appeared
and reargued the entire case at
length. The final session of the board
of review was held last week, and at
it's conclusion announcement was
made that decision had been
reached but would not be announced
Until it had been served upon DR..
<-raHsey and the bishop of the west
ern New York diocese.
The decision, which was announced
Monday, apparently brings the Crap
sey case to an end. Under it DR..
Crapsey will be suspended from exer,
cising the functions of a minister of
the Protestant Episcopal church until
such time as his teachings conform to
the doctrines of the Apostles and Nj
Gene Creeds. There can be no further
appeal, as the board of review which
heard the appeal from the original de-
cision, is the highest court in the
church.