The Irish standard., 1913-06-07
a majority of Union Seminary faculty
members and trustees.

members and trustees.
Union Seminary was organized on
a liberal basis. 1t went into the Gen.
eral Assembly and then went out
again. Now it is out, although there
exists committee to see how it may
be got in again, a committee named
at the instance of the New York
Presbytery and it's members. In a
controversy growing out of the views
of Prof. Charles A. Briggs, member
of its faculty, the whole Presbyterian
Church was for years upset. Then
followed the McGiffert heresy cases,
also coming from the Union and later
the circumstances over the accept
ance by the New York Presbytery of
Union graduates who were in doubt
as to the virgin birth of Christ and
other things declared vital by the Con-
fession and the assembly.
The Episcopal Parties.
Two parties have long existed in the
Episcopal Church, the High Church
and the Low Church. There is a
Broad Church party, but it is only a
division of the low. The High Church
party contends that the Church is
catholic" not in name only but in
fact, and it teaches and practices
many of the Roman Catholic dogmas
and much of the ritual. The Lows are
evangelical, and in line with the
greater Protestant bodies. The two
elements have dwelt together in what
has been most of the times patched up
peace, and have called the attention
of other bodies Protestant and Cath
olic, to themselves as a model and a
center about which extremes might
rally for Christian unity. Episcopal
ian pretensions at unity have been de-
rided more or less openly, hut the fact
has not deferred serious propaganda
in favor of world conference on faith
and order.
The controversy is aggravated by
what has been called misrepresenta-
tion in the General Convention. The
Diocese Of Fond du Lac, famous for
it's Catholic" pretensions, insisting at
this time that the iisil,e !;a;xszaneriean
Catholic" must be, adopted, or at any
rate that Prot estant Episcopal" must
be dropped, reports 5,327 commune
cants. 1t has eight deputies in the
lower house of the General Conven-
tion and a Bishop in the upper house.
The Diocese of New York, which has
not voted on the question but is be-
lieved to be in favor of letting things
deputies in the lower house and a
Bishop-its suffragan has no vote-in
the upper house. The Diocese of New
York, which has not voted on the
question but is believed to be in favor
of letting things remain as they are,
also has eight deputies in the lower
mousse and Bishop-its suffragan has
no vote-in the upper house. Yet
New York reports 10000 commune
cants. ..
High Versus Low.
That situation is beaten, however,
by Michigan City Diocese, with 2,712
communicates, and the same repre-
sentation precisely as Pennsylvania,
with $1,000 communicates Michigan
City is High Church, Pennsylvania
Low.
1t is admitted by the Lows that
there is no possible way to level up
this representation. The Highs will
not give up any power, and there are
enough High Church Doceses to hold
on to it. Worse than that, from the
standard of unity. the High Church
party will have in the next General
Convention, as unfinished business,
proposal to give the right to vote on
all questions to the missionary dis
tricts. There are 20 of these districts
and hardly more than two have as
| many as 1000 communicates each.
Nevada has 949 and North Texas ZIG.
Based on these slim numbers would
be created, if the proposition passes,
40 additional votes. And it is said to
be the High Church party program to
push this plan through before the vote
on change of name is taken.
Inquiry among the High Church
Dioceses fails to discover any DISPOSE
tion to go slowly. Some say they have
gone slowly for some years. and now
they will go as rapidly and as far as
they can. Officials of some Of the High
Church districts change official papers
by erasing Protestant Episcopal" and
inserting what more nearly meets
their views. Many High Church cler-
gy use the words American Cath
olic" in their correspondence and on