The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-26
CRAPSEY DECRYS
HIS MINISTRY
OUSTED RECTOR OF EPISCOPAL
CHURCH LAYS VIEWS BE.
FORE THE PUBLIC.
DENOUXCES TEACHINGS
OF PHYSICAL Ascension of Jesus and
Of His Spiritual Origin AS IN
believable and Without
Historic Foundation.

Rochester N Y, Nov 25.--Owine
to the will Of the church in refusing
to make a "cowardly retraction" OF
| the belief which induced the church
/ to terminate his ministry, the Rev
! Algernon S. Crapsey, rector of the st
! Andrews church of Rochester today
renowned his ministry in the Pro.
to tant Episcopal church in letter
TO Bishop William David Walker of
the Western Diocese of New York.
In the letter the Rev Mr. Crapsey
reaffirmed his belief that the motion
of the origin OF Jesus, that son of
man was born without a human
father, is without foundation in his
tory"
IF am to hold the creed at all /
must give TO it certain ii not all Of
its articles. a spiritual, rather than a
literally physical Interpretation,
when | eay of Jesus that he as
and cannot mean that with his physi
cal body Of flesh blood and bones, he
noated in space and for 1000 years
has been existing somewhere in the
sky. in that very physical body of
flesh and blood and bones Such an
existence would seem to me not
glorious but horrible and such a con.
ception to me is not only unbeliey-
ahle Inf unthipkablc
Jesus Born Of q Human Father.
What | do mean by this phrase is
that Jesus having accomplished his
work in the flesh assembled into the
higher life of The spirit, also when
say of Jesus that he was conceived
by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin
Mary. do not mean that the great
and living God in order to get into
le,s world had 10 'tiolate hi wonder
fu law of human generation, break
into sanctilies of marriage and cause
a son of man 10 be born without
human father. Such notion is most
to my id al Of a wise and
holy God
Teachings Not Backed BY History.
Il was not therefore alarmed. | was
relieved whom careful study of the
holy scriptures convinced me that
this not on of the origin of Jesu was
without foundation in history. Jesus
was not lessenod in my worship. He
was enoblcd by this discovery. When
| reached the conclusion as | did
some years ago. that the infancy
stories were not historical. | did not
cease 10 bclic"e in Jesus, | believed
In him all the more and gave to the
words conceived by the Holy Gh1s'
born of the Virgin Mary an interple
ation that harmoni2ed with my
of the facts. He was a
child of the Holy seed sanctified
from his mothers womb A son of
Tod all the more, in my estimation. |
because he was the son of man.
Let no one think for moment !
hat de- not love tic lord .le MS !
'hrist and would not have scy2d /
lim to The last in this church. which |
s. to me the historic church Of the !
treat English speaking race. II only |
Is men in authority had lot me. All |
asked of Them was tolerance. But |
hey have refused TO extend tolerance |
q such as | aud | must with a grief
which only my heart knows accept /
ny dismissal from The service os>thc
.hurch.
Declaring that he was about to
AIRY the case TO the free intelligence
md enlightened conscience of the
world. he counsels the hundreds of
lergymen and thousands Of laymcn
n the Pro estant Episcopal church
Who have reached the same c1nclu-
ion. % not to be dismsyed and to STAY
fhere they are.
Il appeal. he says. from those IN
lacas Of authority in the church IL 4
ELF 10 the great body of people I,
Not Final For the Church.
He asserted that he did no blame
is judges though he bows Ia their
I'M and feels that it is final for him.
Ie says: Il am equally certain that
is not final for the church. When
be- great tribunal of free thought has
ccided his contention. the men who F.
dmiuisicr the church om earth viii 4,
-uiorm 10 this contention
Having let 20 Of tho - MP rary :
nd unstable interpretations Of the ,
reef be declare that be- hollis Z
lore firmly TO the gospel