Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1924, Page 3

BISHOP RETRACTS "HERESY ADMISSION Rt. Rev. William Brown Completes Testimony Before Episcopal Trial Board. ACCEPTS CREED AND BIBLE But Deniés Acceptance Is Retrac- tion of His Book. By the Axs CLEV op Wil his adm ted Press, AND. Ohio, May am M. Brown tods on of yesterday Was a heretic when he stand before the trial board Protestant Episcopal Church “In my own estimation 1 am not a heretic,” hé explzined muintain that I have had the privilege of in- terpréting the Holy Scriptures and by doctrinal stand. according to what is Iy called the spiritual interpre- tation, 1 call it ‘symbolic “Testifying vesterday, | should have said ‘my alleged her On S5 Bibbl 1.—Bish- withdrew that he sumed the of the Charles asked L, this examination tes and confessing r faith you intend the « traction of vou and Christianism’ “Oh, no: not at all, Ends Textin This finished testimony The court settled upon thr argument, giving cach sid minut Joseph W the ac given membe tending our This was hook. ‘Communism wits the reply Cane, ninety arts. chief counsel of asked “the privilege s of Congress of ex- remarks in the record. overruled and John H. Smart, assistant to the church adv. cate, opened the fi ument. He analyzed the language of the present- ment. pointing out ticulars in which the accuser Bishop Brown's book con -hurch doetri and collects mmon Prayer.” ReafMrms Beliefs. Bishop William M. Brown ing in his own defense lat reaffirmed his belief in the Book of Co er to cover and ea of the Apost in the “Book test ¥ word in non Prayer and Nicene Brown acknowledged au- thorship of the book on which he Was presented to the court and ad- mitted himself u heretic Symbolic interpretation of the Whole Christian religion was given #s the reconciliation of his attitude, Bishon Brown took the stand after three other witnesses called on his behalf failed. under court ruling. oualife as oxpert This Joseph W. s chief couns, : the _ SPECIAL NOTICES. S HERERY GIVEN TiAT Tl Transit Com THE ANNUAL M holders of lots entitled to vote office on_ Monday. p.m.. for the pn mandgers (o serce Rousehold farnitre. - Ans knd of & fixing. Send a descrin: of what yon will eati, prep, {5 i I and add. have. 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As reported yesterday from confer- ence, the bill appropriates $452,540. {as proposed by the Senate, for en- | forcement of the packers and stock- | vards act, instead of $226,770 as first written in by the Hou The con- ferees agreed on a proviso_replacing one iwserted by the House and | stricken out in the Senate, stipulat- ing that the Secretary of Agriculture may require reasonable bonds from registrants to secure the performance of their obligations, under the pack- ers and stockyards act. | It also provides that after due no- tice and hearing any registrant found insolvent or violating any provision of the act may be suspended within | five days for a reasonable, definite riod. This suspension, however, may be modified or: set aside by the Sec- | retary of Agriculture or ourt of competent jurisdiction. 1 |RIVER-HARBOR BILL LOSES | Rules Committee Declines Privi- leged Status for Measure. Possibility of House action at this session on the $30,000,000 rivers and | harha uthorization’ bill has gone | slimmering with the refusal of the rules committee to give the measure privileged status on the calendar. Ii covers a score or more projects including the pr intercoastal canal hitween the Mississippi River and Corpus Christi, Tex ! Rebuffed in their efforts to have the bill ‘caHed up during the coming week, members of the rivers and harbors + amittee said today they would r= & their fizht to get action at the i/eCember sessi | voluminous 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 hi client is found guilty of uttering doc trines 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 and that the “only possible uni- formity 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 its ministers | should believe, but only what they | should hold in faith. On this point citations were d to show that from | the time of Origen, about A. D, 230 | to the pres some leaders of church had epted doctrines in a | symbolic or figurative sense and others in a literal or objective sen The third point sought to prove that Christianity is but an outgrowth of ancient pagan religions, their forms, ceremonies’ and facts having been carried bodily forward and applied mbolically to Jesus of azareth. Wix Bishop Bro the | ¥ ¥ took the stand amid a stir of interest in the crowded hall of Trinity Cathedral, He led up gradually to his declara- tion of faith, starting with his ordi- nation to the ministry in 188 . and making frequent sailies at his brother hishop p Brown testified that he was ned in Old Trinity Cathedral, the predecessor of the gothic structure in whose annex the trial has held. He told of service as mission- ary about Gallio: Obio; his succe: sive oflices of archdeacon in Ohio, co- adjutor bishop of rkansas, and finally his fourteen ars’ service in the full episcopate. Mr. Sharts brought out that when Bishop Brown went to Arkansas there were only a dozen parishes in the 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 a very hard dlocese. It involved a deal of traveling and the climate was bad. I contracted nervous dyspepsia and was ordered to rest for two years.” It was during this two years, he sald, that he became prey to the | doubts which finally led him to his | present mode of thought. Bishop Brown said he next evolved his “Level Plan for Church Union.” In it he suggested that while he con- sidered the Episcopal Church the best he thought that as there was onl one Christianity, no one church could |claim ‘a greater measure of divine origin than others. . “I thought we ought to get to- gether and let the leaven of Chris- tianity leaven the whole lump, thus giving us a truly universal church,” he said. * But bishops and other churchmen began writine me and condemning me. That disturbed me, but I am Scotch-Trish and wouldn't give up, s0 I began studying.” Preached Against Darwin. _He said one of his physiclans asked him to read Darwin, which he did: T had preached against Darwin, but ever read him,” said Bishop Brown, but in that T was like many preach- ers. Most of them think they know it all when they leave the seminary.” From Darwin the bishop went through Spencer and Haeckel and found he “was all wrong." “I saw,” he explained, “that Dar- winism had drawn a line in history. Before him was the age of the super- natural. Since then has come the age of naturalistic sciencelsm and there is no possible way of bringing the old world into the new.” The bishop said he tried to concill- orthodoxy with his new beliefs, appealing for help to churchmen in many denominations, but without ef- ect. been | Orthodoxy Upset. hen I began the study of astron- it upset my orthodoxy com- Pletely,” he said. “I found that the ‘firmament’ of the Bible was but the refleetion of sunlight on the dust in the air. T found there was no place for the New Jerusalem unless it was The Fun Shop| onducted by Maxson Foxhall Judell Our Inquisitive Reporter. 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In the courss of his dictation he told the college pres- ident that he expected to be in the university town within a few days, and added: “I should like very much to_visit vour domicile.” The typist, reading her hierogly: phics as she transcribed, was not the sort to heckle a man over a syllable or two. When the letter was pre- sented for signing, the boss. found himself telling the college president: “I should like very much to visit your dumb asylum.” —ARTHUR McKEOGH. . Tips on Table Manners. A watermelon calls for art And eaters ought to dress the part; A rubber apron for the lap And for the head a bathing cap. ° —GEORGE 8. CHAPPELL. impombh. placed S0 far away that it would take millions of years to reach if, even if one traveled through space with the light at 187,000 miles a sec- ond. Neither could I figure how I could carry my natural body on this very long journey through a tem- perature of 240 degrees below freez- ing. So I had to give up, me of the bishops of the church reproved me at this stage for not knowing the Einstein theory so I could go somewhere without getting anywhere.” When the world war broke out, Bishop Brown sald, he was grieved to find every bishop'in the church in favor of it. This brought him to his study’ of soclalism, Objection was made, but Mr. Sharts explained that the book “Communism and Chris- tianism,” on which the case is based, was devoted partly to Darwinism and partly to Marxism. Bishop Brown said Marx further convinced him that there was no room for the supernatural anywhere in the scheme of things. Still he sought a means whereby he might remain in the church. “Then suddenly it came over me,” he sald. “I found that every time I had preached about a miracie I had made -a parable out of it, and that ‘was the answer. There being neither an ‘above’ for heaven nor a ‘below’ for hell, I made them states on rth. “So I wrote ‘Communism and Chri; tianism,’ to tell the truth as I saw it and to show that in the world liberty to think, teach and live is the greatest of blessings.” “Do _you believe in the Bible?” asked Mr. Sharts, Andrew Temus Jackson, meetng his friend on the street, noticed that he looked rather forlorn and dejected. ‘You're & sick man, you is. Why doan’ you gee a doctah? He'll give WHEN YOU THINK ot Zaiating, Pupe and Decorat. ST Estimates made on request, HARRY W. TAYLOR CO. PAPERNANGING AND PAINTING 2338 18th Bt. N.W. Tel. Cel. 1077 @ McClure Newspaper Syndicate Yo' some good advice that'll make vo' Well e a doctah,” replied An- drew Temus, “but Ah Kaint take his advice. He tol' me t take chick'n broth three times a day and 'keep out ©’ the night air. Now how am a man Eoin’ ter do dut?’ —Otto Zoubek. It's a great life if you don’t waken Wild Willies. By George S. Chappell. 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Davis today relinquished the oftice of chief clerk of the Department of State after eleven years' service, and will sail from New York City mnext Thursday for Havana to assume the duties of disbursing agent of the United States embassy to Cuba Mr. Davis ente service in September, War Department, and was trans- ferred to the State Department in March 13, as confidential clerk to Secretary W. J. Bryan. His successor as chief clerk of the State Departraent has not been announced, but the ap- pointment undoubtedly will be made next week. The agile A thing of dash government as a clerk in | been MAY 31, 1924 ‘'YOUR BONUS Questions That Bother You Will Be Answered in This Column. Addreas;, Room 722, News De- partment,” The E; Washington, D, ¢ TARDY FOLK PAY TAXES. [SAYS COURT STAND | MERELY REAFFIRMED | Pepper Believes President Ready to Approve Senate Action on Harding Plan. Swamp District Building in Effort to Avoid Penalties. The last-minute rush of taxpa fled the corridors of the District building today to avuid the penalty that would be added to their billx June 1. Before the building worning the line of forgetful oues b, started to form at the entrance. Be- ginning with June, & penalty of 1 per | cent. will be added for each month bills B0 unpaid. SALVADO Ratifies American Conference. SAN SALVADOR. May 31.—The Sal- | vadoran government has ratified the conveniion® and agreements signed at the Central American conference in Washington in February, 19 | wpened this | Q. My husband is entitled to the bonus. Can I compel him to name me as beneficlary of his insurance policy upon his death?—Mrs. B. B. R A. No. The veteran who rendered the servi n name any person whom he may desire to receive the pay- ments on his policy after his death. Dectay | Memorial | haa reaffirmed what he | regarding the world court in h 1& that the President in his day address at Arlington R 0. K’s PACT. Agreements merely ator Pepper believed that the Pennsylva the President tion the adopt the re of Central | would Senate olution yreign approve should t recsitly reported ant | retations « I s It Pepper, Your Q. What effect will the parsuge | at body of the bonus law have upon the fu- ture possibilities of the government paying old-age pensions ag are now paid to eivil war veterans’—W. O. A. A. The probable result of the ad- justed compensation act will be to Dostpone for at least twenty years the enactment of any general old- age pension laws, applying to vet- erans of the world war. That postponement will become a certainty provided contemplated changes are made liberalizing the bonus act. Q. of the m * if the te 1 have turn next have no doult nt would appr P continued ident had satd to Sen nator Guatemala and Nicaragua already have ratified the Central American conference agreements, but Honduras and Costa Rica thus far have fatlec 10 do so, my move; it's that the Presi- the action of the Senate if we were 1o adopt the modi- fication of the Harding pre which was reported out bi the mittee on foreign relations. meantime. 1 do not see how he be expecied 1o vagy the p which he originally tommende “It is in order to get the lective judg t the forei Royal D. Hughes. Table Grove. 1IL. | policy of the U States must, John Knowles Paine Fellowship in | der the Constitut ult from Music: Paul R. Harmel, Cleveland, | mecting of minds Presi and Charles Hartshorne, and the Sen fter the ville, Pa., Fello « ] ent does . Mo ix something ; happen Harvard Awards Made. MBRIDGE. Mass, May - Awards of fellowships and scholar- ship with leave to study abroad an- nounced. at Harvard University las night include: Many state bonus laws declared unconstitutional there any probability that the pr federal bonus act will be unconstitutional?—M. M. S. A. No. have Is sent lared I an now receiving u state bonus. Wil its receipt have any bearing upon my application for the foderal bonus’—H. K. A. No. You are entitled your state bonus and this pmpensation Q. Kindly quote the provisions in the adjusted compen:ution a garding slackers, draft evaders, rs and men who refused to wear uniform.—A. B, C The term veteran is any indi- idual who served honorably—but does not include any individual who between April 5. 1917, and before No- vember 12, 191%, did not serve hoi orably, or' who was separated from auch ‘service under other than hon- | policy at maturity, but leaves it to orable conditions, and any objector | young dependent, the governme who performed no military duty or|may be paying out money until t who refused to wear the uniform, or year 2024 Edward R Howard K. 2 rnton Kirk Wilson not apprek —_— |5 4 lien who accepted a d ccount of his all 5 1o both adjusted - i that | nd committes's r STUDEBAKER Just Drive It; That’s All te's move ong the port will be made g lines of the How long will the government ing out money to veterans. r ben. ries under these insur- policies’—R. 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