The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-12

ing that he has violated the rule of
the Methodist Episcopal church,
which forbids the defamation OF
magistrates The specifications Of his
charges are based on. extracts from
Chancellor Days book. 1.-The Raid of
Prosperity" In an interview Chan
cellor Day said
Cooke is something. of a joke to
those who know him. He seems to
have a mania for bringing charges
against some one, and he has exer-
cised that privilege many times in
the past. Something over week ago
he wrote me a letter saying that he
intended to bring charges against me.
Among other things he said: This
is a serious matter for the republic.
1t may as well be fought out over you
as any one else
81 am utterly indifferent to Mr.
Cookies charges or his procedure. If
the time comes when it is necessary
believe I can successfully defend my
self against his accusations. I have
not received any com munication fro m
the presiding elder, with whom he
filed the papers"
Mr.. Day added: "The action was
taken in New York, because my for
NAL connection is with the New York
conference"
Mr.. Day has been chancellor of
Syracuse university since 1894.
He referred to President Roosevelt S
recent message to congress as reading
like the rawlings of a disordered mind"
and is recognized as an earnest pleader
for corporate interests. Born in Maine
in 1S45, Chancellor Day was graduated
from Bowdoin college in 1874 with the
degree of S. T. D., and entered the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He held pastorates in Bath
and Portland. Me, and in Boston and in
New York, and in 1904 was elected a
hiShon nv the farprao hI1f
declined. He is said to possess unusual
ability as a pulpit orator. Chancellor
Day has received honorary degrees
from Northwestern university and
other schools.
From Mr.. Cookies Home.
Brandon, VT. March 12.-Rev. Geo. A.
Cooke of this town whose charges OF
heresy against Rev. ]. T. Mcfarland OF
New York. editor of the Methodist pub
lication, were presented at the Metho-
dist conference in Topeka Wednesday.
is pastor of the Methodist church here.
Rev Mr. Cooke said that the charges
which he had forwarded to the Kansas
conference were based on a pamphlet
| issued about two years ago by DR.. Nc
Farland. The pamphlet is entitled "The
Preservation VS.. the Rescuer of the
| Child"
s"The charges which have preferred. ''
said Mr.. Cooke, ARE based on my be-
l lief 1naI the OOCLTlucS dFOWtu ny LII
Mcfarland in that pamphlet under
mine or tend to undermine the system
of doctrine held by my church. These
utterances Of DR.. Mcfarland have to
do with the spiritual life of the child,
and especially relative to the doctrine
| of salvation by faith and the doctrine
of sin. In relation to these matters
hold DR.. MeFarland's position to be an
tagonistic to that of the Methodist
church. While I do not care at this
time to enter into an explanation of the
exact scope of the charges, may say
| that the heresies complained of might
| be classed as on a par with the views OF
the 'Modernists' against whom Pope
Plus has delivered encyclicals-'
Bishop Mallalieu Comments.
Boston, March 12--Bishop Mallalieu
criticises both Chancellor Day of Syra-
cuse and the Rev George A. Cooke,
| who has assaiIed the educators, for his