The New York herald., 1920-01-24
BE LOYAL, HE URGES
Prelate Denounces Appearance
of "Reds" and Atheists in the
Church of the Ascension.
CITES ORIGINAL DONATION
Holds That Edifice Must in Future
Be Kept from All "Unhallowed
and Common" Associations.

pal diocese Of New York. explicitly takes
Grant. rector of the Church Of the Ascen-
sion. at Fifth avenue and Tenth street
and the vestrymen OF that church, in re-
gard to DR.. Grants right to permit use OF
the church for other than religious pur-
poses.
In letter to Or. Grant, which the Bishop
made public last night, he solemnly pro
tests against the use OF the consecrated
building as meeting place for a forum TO
which speakers who not infrequently are
men who do not believe in God, who pro-
fessedly are opposed to the government"
because he says there is no law Of the
Church behind me on which 70 proceed
against YOU on either Of the points named
in your letter.
Bishop Burch bases his right to say what
shall be done with the church building
upon the instrument OF donation" handed
to a predecessor, the late Bishop Hobart
in 1879, which asks the Bishop Of the
diocese to take the building under his
spiritual jurisdiction and thereby "to
separate it from all unhallowed, worldly
and common uses"
DIR. Grants Letter.
The letter of DR.. Grant referred to was
sent to tho Bishop on January 49, in which
DR.. Grant made an explanation OF oojec-
tions that had been brought against his
sermon concerning the deportation OF
aliens and against other uses to which
the church had been put. DR.. Grant :
letter. which the Bishop made public. was
in part as follows
THE three points were:-First. the May
flower compared TO the Buford; second
nv objection to deportation; third. the use
OF the assembly hall in the parish house
No. IL West Eleventh street, by the
Peoples Freedom Union as gathering
plac ce before its march up the avenue on
Christmas morning in favor OF amnesty
to political prisoners.
"The Mayflower matter may be dis
missed. as my point was not one of COM
parison. but of contrast. The sailing OF the
Euford. IL seemed to me, was the denial
of ASYLUM In America to foreigners. AS
the Buford sailed on December 2l-the
2oeth anniversary of the landing of the
pilgrims--the contrast was especially
empha tic.
''I object to deportation because II is a
form of ntlnlgnnenI dlltIt w Nit cpilA "
American institutions. America Is place
of welcome except for the very sensible
provisions of the immigration law. BY
which the insane contagiorsly sick and
paupers are not adnltted--and would not
have been nut on the ships that landed
them If the agents of the steamship COM
ranies in Europe had done their duty
Once here our Institutions. | believe. are
adequate for men and women healthy III
- THAR IDEAS
II have no sympathy or excuse for acts
or violence. But let an alien as well a. a
citizen be tried before judge and jury
So ndinr aliens out Of the country, practi-
csIlv ON the recommendations of employees
OF the immigration Department, is not In
harmony with our institutions. 1 do no.
need to tell a brother clergyman that
consider I can show sympathy with any
one in distress without approving MS
acts. sympathy with SUFFERING 10 hot N0''
luson with crime
UpboId. Amnesty Parade.
"As "a the amnesty parade Christmas
norn,ng I, was entirely within the law
as knew when / gave permission for II
to assemble. what position would .
church be put in that refused the request
~ highly intelligent younS women and
yo,,rg mon 10 come together on Christmas
,norninr in one OF its halls. In order that
thew might sing the Gospel or Christmas
Dav--'Peacc on earth, good viii toward
nen.--not only 10 the ear. in the tunes OF
actual Christmas carols, which they did
hut ~ tho eve. in specific appeal on behalf
~ riven cases demanding peace and good
wiII NJ present before the public. The
nolice ca ptain Of our district saw the pla-
cards and the people and said they were
ali right Judge Corrigan said the march
ers were within their rights.
"of course. there is another way OF han
ding this subject which you might con-
slider simpler and preferable. AS the
forum Is a corporation entirely distinct
from tho Church OF the Ascension. and
rses the church by courtesy, strictly
aneaking. its sessions sunday evenings are
not within Episcopal jurisdiction. except
nc Won might wish TO advise the vestry OF
the propriety or impropriety OF their hos
pitality.
"Tho Public Forum Gnc) Sunday at p.
NJ is neither the evening prayer of the
nraver hook nor the third service permit
tod bv the canon. II is merely the occupy
ing OF the premises by another corpor-
alton. of which the rector Is president and
one of his assistants is secretary. Morning
PRAYER and evening prayer are a II and 1.
you may like TO know that during the
war Ascension parish put its parish house
AZ the disposal of the Draft Board, which
used II for many months, and that war ac-
tiyities OF a humane sort also went on
there. At the outbreak OF the war had
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