Evening star., 1924-05-31

would r sw their fight TO get action
at the december session.
Volumlnous notes on what he ex-
pected to prove by the witnesses. the
object being to preserve these points
as bases for an appeal in case his
cIient is round guilty of uttering doc
trlnes not held by the church.
Uniformity Held Mental.
The defense was built upon three
assertions. First, that interpreta-
tions of doctrine are a mental process
ana that the only possible uni
1ormity of doctrine is one which
leaves to the individual member lib
erty TO accept words according to his
individual grasp of them
The second point was historical
claiming that the church had never
attempted to say how it's ministers
should believe, but only what they
should hold in faith. On this point
cltations were read to show that from
.ne tlme OF Origen, about A. d. $50,
10 the present some leaders of the
church had accepted doctrines in a
symbolic or figurative sense and
others in literal or objective sense.
The third point sought to prove that
christianity is but an outgrowth of
ancleht pagan religions. their forms.
ceremonies and facts having been
carried bodily forward and applied
symbolica1ly to Jesus of Nazareth
Bishop Creates Stir.
Bishop Brown took the stand amid
stir of interest in the crowded hall of
Trinity Cathedral.
he led up gradually to his declara-
ton of faith. starting with his ordi-
nation to the ministry in 1888, and
Blshop Brown testified that he was
ordained in Old Trinity Cathedral, the
predecessor Of the gothic structure
IN whose annex the trial has been
neld. He told of service as mission
sive offices of archdeacon in Ohio. CO.
adjutor bishop of Arkansas, and
nnally his fourteen years service in
the full episcopate
Mr.. Sharts brought out that when
Bishop Brown went to Arkansas
me diocese. and that forty-nine
churches and twenty-four factories
had been built during his term. Asked
why he resigned. Bishop Brown said: |
ARKANSAS was very hard diocese |
Il involved a deal of travelling and |
he climate was bad. / contracted |
nervous dyspepsia and was ordered
o rest for two years."
1t was during this two years, he |
said, that he became prey to the |
ioubts which finally led him to his |
present mode of thought.
Bishop Brown said he next evolved |
lis Level Plan for Church Union"
n it he suggested that while he con-
'idered the Episcopal Church the best.
lie thought that as there was only /
me Christianity. no one church could |
lain greater measure of divine |
rigin than others.
Il thought we ought to get to-
ianity leaven the whole lump, thus
living us truly universal church"
e said. !
But bishops and other churchmen
egan writing me and condemnine
ne. That disturbed me. but 1 am
and wouldn't give up,
o L began studying"
Preached Against Darwin.
He said one of his physicians asked
I'M 10 read Darwin. which he did: IT
ad preached against Darwin, but /
ever read him." said Bishop Brown.
but in that I was like many preach,
rs Most of them think they know
All when they leave the seminary"
from Darwin the bishop went
nrough Spencer and Haeckel and
ound he was all wrong"
II saw" he explained, that Oar.
'inism had drawn line in history.
'erore him was the age of the super-
atural. Since then has come the
se OF naturalistic scienceism and
mere Is no possible way of bringing
ne g,, old world into the new"
The bishop said he tried to conci1t-
tie orthodoxy with his new beiiafa
for help to churchmen in
ect o' ei-
Orthodoxy Upset.
Then I began the study of astron.
my and 1t upset my orthodoxy com
ietely,' he said. II found that the
II rmament or the Bible was but the
ef1eetion of sunlight on the dust in
ne air. I found there was no place
Or the New Jerusalem unless it was
laced 50 far away that it would
Ike millions of years to reach II.
ven ven II one travelled through space
nd: Neither could I figure how
ould carry my natural body on this
cry long journey through a tenn
erature OF 240 degrees below freez- II
lg: So ! had to give up.
One Of the bishops Of the church
eproved me at this stage for NOT
moving the Einstein theory SO
ouId go somewhere without getting
nywhere."
When the world war broke out
nd every bishop in the church in
lvor of It. This brought him to his
.udy of socialism. Objection was
ade, but Mr.. Sharts explained that
lie book Communism and Chris
anfsm," on which the case is based.
as devoted partly to Darwinism and
artly to Marxism.
Bishop Brown said Marx further
)nyinced him that there was no
,onn for the supernatural anywhere
the scheme of things. Still he
,ught means whereby he might
.main in the church.
Then suddenly it came over me-"
> said. 81 found that every time I 4
I'd preached about a miracle 1 had
ade a parable out of it, and that
as the answer. There being neither
/ above for heaven nor q below
n he'll, ] made them states on
nth.
$50 I wrote Communism and Chris
anism,' to tell the truth as saw
and to show that In the world
oerty to think, teach and live is the
'eatest of blessings."
DO you believe in the Bible?"
ked Mr.. STARTS.
Every word" said the bishop.
And the Book Of Common Prayer?
From cover to cover"
And did you purpoAe to attack
NO. cir. NY purpose stas to bring I
lioton TO = basis where belief Wea =
xI3f1k ~ 80 !.