Evening star., 1923-01-27
EDITORIAL DIGEST

them. He is not entitled, however,
to make the Episcopal Church the We
hicle for expressing those views in
violation Of his oath of ordination"
There is also no persecution" in
Bishop Manning's attitude, the AL
bany Knickerbocker Press points out,
and DR.. Grant acts unfairly when.
by his defiant tone, he seems to seek
the. sympathy accorded to a martyr
1t may be hoped that DR.. Grant will
make a trial for heresy unnecessary.
IL only because Of the indecorousness
and the needless hurts to faithful
hearts involved in such a contest.
Such proceeding could have only
one outcome. 1t would seem that one
who really loved the church which
has fostered him for so many years
would avoid inf1icting upon 1t such a
source Of strife
The Utica Observer Dispatch
sharply insists DR.. Grant should quit
because amy man of honor and in
tegrity. finding himself out of tune
with an organization of any kind,
secular. religious, private or public,
will deoently sever his relations
Herewith and follow his own bent.
The Rev. Dr. Grant doesn't seem to
Ing to his clerical character. he sets
himself up to deny many of the
things which he had solemnly sworn
and pledged to uphold. Why doesn't
he get out and stand upon his own
footing. not attempt to conceal his
cioven hoof under the gown which he
was once authorized to wear"
1.-The creedal faith of the Episcopal
Church does not depend for its exist
ence upon the adhesion of those COL
lege boys who may be inclined TO re-
gard 1t as bunk" is the reply of the
Brooklyn Eagle to DIR. Grants latest
sermon. "Dr Grant quarrels with 1t
because, In his Judgment. it is in
elastic, because IT promulgates doc
trines in which he does not believe.
DIR. Grants disbelief in the creed OF
the Episcopal Church cannot change
that creed. All 1t does Is to make his
retention Of an Episcopalian rector
ship intoierable to the great mass OF
affected by the suggestion OF sinister
financial powers or by the alleged re-
i volt Of the immature collegian."
"Heresy trials are not interesting to
the world" points out the Philadel-
phia Evening Bulletin. They seldom,
IL ever, are profitable to the church.
bishop Manning challenges, not the
clergyman's right to liberal inter
pretation of the creeds and standards
of the church, but the good faith and
propriety Of his course In fatty deny
Ing the doctrines set forth in the
position and prestige as preacher of
that religious Jurisdiction. That puts
the issue on lines somewhat differ
ent from those on which such con-
troversies ordinarily are argued. as
between orthodoxy and heterodoxy,
, and instead of a question of heresy'
rropounds a question which Is more
understandable TO the lay world" In
dorsing this summing up. the New
Haven Journal Courier feels that
having made himself by his own act
an outlaw. DR.. Grants flag becomes
automatically the flag of an outlaw.
This Is the fact. regardless of whether
his intellectual conclusions are sound
! or not. As a Christian gentleman he
should seek TO relieve his fellows of
| embarrassment instead of heaping 1t
up. Having taken his own prescrip-
| tion. he should let the medicine do its
work"
Eighteenth amendment is now
called the leak OF nations.-WalI
Street Journal.
Still water runs deep, but the
| sleuths hnd 1t occasionally.-Roch
ter Heraid.