New-York tribune., 1921-01-24
Rector Likens
Another to a
Peck?s Bad Boy;
DR.. Christensen Makes Reply
to Grant and Reiland for
Crificizing Office of Prot
estant Episcopal Bishop
He Supports DIR. Manning
DR.. Seagle, Also Backing
Trinity Candidate, Wants
Church Clean of Politics

The Rev. DR.. William T. Manning,
rector of Trinity Church. would not
hesitate, if elected bishop Of the New
York diocese Of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church. "to use curb bit on GER
tain of the clergy" according to the
Rev DR.. Gustav A. Christensen, Of Noly
Rood Church, Fort Washington Ave-
nue. and 10th Street. In sermon
yesterday DR.. Christensen replied to re-
cent sermons by the Rev. DR.. Percy
Stickney Grant and the Rev. DR.. Karl
Reiland, of st. George, and William
N. Guthrie, rector of St. Mark's-in-the-
Bouwerie.
DR.. Carstensen's parishioners said it
was apparent that he meant DR.. Rel
land when he said:
When shallow declaimer AYERS
that bishops are useless, except as
decorations,' his vaporings are not to
be taken too seriously. He is simply
'Peck's bad boy who deserves a good
spanking"
He Assails DR.. Grant
+ DR.. Christensen intimated that he sup
ported the candidacy Of DR.. Manning
for bishop and attacked DR.. Grant as
n"vlng the air OF "pompous panta-
leoA.s
Or. Christensen said, in part:
federation of error and lawlessness
has already gone too far. To the scan
dal Of our Church, men have too long
been permitted to minister at her al
tars who openly deny the faith which
they are sworn to defend and flout the
laws which they are pledged to obey.
When one would discard the Apos-
ties Creed, relegating it to the limbo
Of dead euperstitions, affirming with
the air OF q pompous pantaloon that
men more learned than he and just as
honest can accept it only with stultify-
ing reservations, it is time to call a
halt.
when another debases his priest
hood with weekly shows at VIII ch an
unfrocked priest plays Harlequin, with
the Little Lady Of the Dew as Colum-
bine, and an array Of talent unparal-
leled since the days of Artemus Ward S
Wax Figgers,' we may we'll cry out,
% Lord, how long?'
what some men do and say has been
better done and said hundred times.
They would not be in the limelight ex-
cept for the anomaly of tearing down
what they have promised to build up"
Deplores Politics in Church
The Rev DR.. Nathan Seagle, rector
of st. Stephens Protestant Episcopal
Church, West Sixty-ninth Street and
Broadway, Yesterday morning deplored
what he called "petty politics in the
ch. .ch.' he took exception to "house-
toulouse canvassing"--'i connection
with the approaching election of a
bishop to succeed the late Right Rev.
Charles Sumner Burch.
He said that he did not like whisper
ings" or comment anent the fact that
was born in England, while another,
DR.. Stires, was born south of the
Mason and Dixon line.
The Rev. DR.. Herbert Shipman, rec
tor Of the Church Of the Heavenly
Rest, yesterday criticized the so-called
ritualiptic element in the Protestant
Episcopal Church which is seeking to
change the name Of the denomination
80 AZ TO eliminate the word "Protcs-
tant."
Although he did not mention tho
name Of the Rev. DIR. Grant, it was APP
parent that he had DR.. Grant in mind
when he upheld the Apostles and Nj
Gene creeds, which DR.. Grant had sug-
gested should be relegated to the back
Of the praycr-book.
For "thosc who are boring from with
in tbs church and finding fault with
its historic tenets" Dr., Shipmnn rec
commended a period Of military service
"The training and discipline thus ac-
auired would make a man moro care
ful In a speech," he said