1901
Salina, Kan., June 11. — Professor Frank D. Tubbs, recently removed from the chair of natural sciences in the Wesleyan university for alleged heresy, said of his case:
"I knew nothing of the movement to oust me until the thing was actually done. I am not a heretic. I challenge any member of the board of trustees, any preacher in the northwest Kansas conference or any one else to point out a single utterance of mine that he has heard that is in opposition to the doctrine of the Methodist church. I am a consistent believer in evolution as the method which God has employed to bring things about in this world."
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Hope Crapsey Will See Error of Ways
1906
If He Doesn't His Jurors Decide That Church Shall Suspend Him
Rochester, N. Y., May 15. — The verdict in the heresy trial of Rev. Dr. Algernon S. Crapsey was today delivered to the accused minister. The four jurors state in their opinion sentence should be passed as follows:
"That the respondent should be suspended from exercising functions of the church until such time as he shall satisfy the ecclesiastical authorities of the diocese that his belief and teaching conform to the doctrines of the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed as this church has received the same. However, we express the earnest hope and desire that the respondent may see his way clearly during the thirty days that under the canons of the church must intervene before sentence can be pronounced to fully satisfy the ecclesiastical authorities of such conformity on his part."
The charges against Crapsey grew out of a series of sermons, delivered by him while he was rector of St. Andrew's church at Rochester, and which he subsequently published in book form under the title of "Religion and Politics." In brief the charges declare Crapsey in these writings denies the doctrines of the divinity of Christ, his virgin birth, his resurrection and the doctrine of the Trinity as contained in the Apostles' and Nicene creeds and the Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States.
Dr. Francis S. Dunham filed a minority report in which he says:
"I find from Crapsey's own statements and evidence submitted for his defense that his defense is that his error consists rather in presuming to define what God has not been pleased to reveal, and to interpret those doctrines in a manner not generally received by the church, rather than in denial and rejection of their truth and authority."
If He Doesn't His Jurors Decide That Church Shall Suspend Him
Rochester, N. Y., May 15. — The verdict in the heresy trial of Rev. Dr. Algernon S. Crapsey was today delivered to the accused minister. The four jurors state in their opinion sentence should be passed as follows:
"That the respondent should be suspended from exercising functions of the church until such time as he shall satisfy the ecclesiastical authorities of the diocese that his belief and teaching conform to the doctrines of the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed as this church has received the same. However, we express the earnest hope and desire that the respondent may see his way clearly during the thirty days that under the canons of the church must intervene before sentence can be pronounced to fully satisfy the ecclesiastical authorities of such conformity on his part."
The charges against Crapsey grew out of a series of sermons, delivered by him while he was rector of St. Andrew's church at Rochester, and which he subsequently published in book form under the title of "Religion and Politics." In brief the charges declare Crapsey in these writings denies the doctrines of the divinity of Christ, his virgin birth, his resurrection and the doctrine of the Trinity as contained in the Apostles' and Nicene creeds and the Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States.
Dr. Francis S. Dunham filed a minority report in which he says:
"I find from Crapsey's own statements and evidence submitted for his defense that his defense is that his error consists rather in presuming to define what God has not been pleased to reveal, and to interpret those doctrines in a manner not generally received by the church, rather than in denial and rejection of their truth and authority."
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Episcopal Bishops May Try Writer on Heresy Charge
1922
Episcopal Bishops May Try Dr. Brown on Heresy Charge
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The Episcopal House of Bishops is reported to be considering a heresy trial for the Right Rev. William Montgomery Brown of Galion, Ohio. Dr. Brown is a former Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas. His book, "Communism and Christianism," proclaims, "Banish the Gods from the skies and capitalists from the earth and make the world safe for industrial communism."
Episcopal Bishops May Try Dr. Brown on Heresy Charge
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The Episcopal House of Bishops is reported to be considering a heresy trial for the Right Rev. William Montgomery Brown of Galion, Ohio. Dr. Brown is a former Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas. His book, "Communism and Christianism," proclaims, "Banish the Gods from the skies and capitalists from the earth and make the world safe for industrial communism."
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Pastor Tried for Heresy; Presbyterian or Unitarian?
1911
BLAMED EVE FOR GARDEN EPISODE
Pastor Grant, Who Denied Serpent Theory, on Trial for Heresy
Atlantic City, N. J., May 23. — That Moses suffered from the "blues" when writing certain Biblical poems; that Ananias and Sapphira expired from apoplexy or heart failure; that Eve suffered from evil in her own heart and was not tempted by a serpent; that there is no devil; that Christ met death in a perfectly natural course of events at the hands of a mob of frantic Jews and the crucifixion was not planned by Christ; that there is no mediator between God and men and that Jonah never existed, were statements included in the writings of the Rev. William Grant of North Cumberland, Pa., according to the testimony of members of his congregation, read from the records of his trial in his own presbytery at his heresy trial before the judicial commission of the Presbyterian general assembly here.
—The Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, New York, May 23, 1911, page 2.
PASTOR SCORED BY PROSECUTION
More Unitarian Than Presbyterian, It Is Charged
HERESY CASE NEAR DECISION
One Man in Congregation Declared by the Defense to Be Responsible For Rev. Grant's Troubles at Northumberland, Pa. — Clergyman Asserts He Has No Desire to Be Called Presbyterian if Preaching is Wrong
Atlantic City, N. J., May 24 — Dissension caused by one man in the Northumberland (Pa.) Presbyterian church was responsible for the charges of heresy against Rev. William Grant, according to evidence adduced at the trial before the judicial commission.
This man is C. G. Van Allen, senior elder and superintendent of the Sunday school, who was branded as "the man who has driven five or six pastors from the church by his method of making things unpleasant by twisting passages from their sermons to give them an entirely different light from that intended."
"Had I known the church of Northumberland was a 'one man' church I would not have become its pastor," said Rev. Mr. Grant. "I have no desire to mask as a Presbyterian or any other church if my conduct and preaching is not what it should be."
In his summing up for the prosecution Judge P. M. Hinckley stirred up the judicial commission. Among other things Judge Hinckley said:
Must Believe Him a Unitarian
"This man made the statement that God had many sons but Jesus was the most conspicuous, and there fore 'The Son." When he declared that Jesus and the Bethany sisters played games and danced with Christ and Lazarus he was speaking as a worldly man and not a scholar. He took Christ out of the communion service. You can't read some of his sermons without believing him to be a Unitarian.
"The act of a Presbyterian minister calling upon a Unitarian preacher to speak at a Christmas celebration is like calling upon Jeff Davis to eulogize Abe Lincoln. He declares god would not sacrifice His son any more than an earthly father would. The cry of a woman of his congregation for the 'return of her God' is like the cry of Mary Magdalene at the tomb of Christ.
"This man has said, 'I have no more denied the divinity of Christ than I have denied the divinity of myself or you.' It is a crime for a man of the Gospel to seek to disturb the faith. He was not satisfied with driving people from his church with preaching of his doctrine, but pursued them to their homes with talk of like vein."
Attorney Reading of Williamsport, in addressing the commission on behalf of the defendant, gave a strong plea as he declared there was no ground for legal action and that the first trial, which resulted in acquittal, gave every opportunity to bring up evidence of any tangible character.
—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1911, page 4.
BLAMED EVE FOR GARDEN EPISODE
Pastor Grant, Who Denied Serpent Theory, on Trial for Heresy
Atlantic City, N. J., May 23. — That Moses suffered from the "blues" when writing certain Biblical poems; that Ananias and Sapphira expired from apoplexy or heart failure; that Eve suffered from evil in her own heart and was not tempted by a serpent; that there is no devil; that Christ met death in a perfectly natural course of events at the hands of a mob of frantic Jews and the crucifixion was not planned by Christ; that there is no mediator between God and men and that Jonah never existed, were statements included in the writings of the Rev. William Grant of North Cumberland, Pa., according to the testimony of members of his congregation, read from the records of his trial in his own presbytery at his heresy trial before the judicial commission of the Presbyterian general assembly here.
—The Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, New York, May 23, 1911, page 2.
PASTOR SCORED BY PROSECUTION
More Unitarian Than Presbyterian, It Is Charged
HERESY CASE NEAR DECISION
One Man in Congregation Declared by the Defense to Be Responsible For Rev. Grant's Troubles at Northumberland, Pa. — Clergyman Asserts He Has No Desire to Be Called Presbyterian if Preaching is Wrong
Atlantic City, N. J., May 24 — Dissension caused by one man in the Northumberland (Pa.) Presbyterian church was responsible for the charges of heresy against Rev. William Grant, according to evidence adduced at the trial before the judicial commission.
This man is C. G. Van Allen, senior elder and superintendent of the Sunday school, who was branded as "the man who has driven five or six pastors from the church by his method of making things unpleasant by twisting passages from their sermons to give them an entirely different light from that intended."
"Had I known the church of Northumberland was a 'one man' church I would not have become its pastor," said Rev. Mr. Grant. "I have no desire to mask as a Presbyterian or any other church if my conduct and preaching is not what it should be."
In his summing up for the prosecution Judge P. M. Hinckley stirred up the judicial commission. Among other things Judge Hinckley said:
Must Believe Him a Unitarian
"This man made the statement that God had many sons but Jesus was the most conspicuous, and there fore 'The Son." When he declared that Jesus and the Bethany sisters played games and danced with Christ and Lazarus he was speaking as a worldly man and not a scholar. He took Christ out of the communion service. You can't read some of his sermons without believing him to be a Unitarian.
"The act of a Presbyterian minister calling upon a Unitarian preacher to speak at a Christmas celebration is like calling upon Jeff Davis to eulogize Abe Lincoln. He declares god would not sacrifice His son any more than an earthly father would. The cry of a woman of his congregation for the 'return of her God' is like the cry of Mary Magdalene at the tomb of Christ.
"This man has said, 'I have no more denied the divinity of Christ than I have denied the divinity of myself or you.' It is a crime for a man of the Gospel to seek to disturb the faith. He was not satisfied with driving people from his church with preaching of his doctrine, but pursued them to their homes with talk of like vein."
Attorney Reading of Williamsport, in addressing the commission on behalf of the defendant, gave a strong plea as he declared there was no ground for legal action and that the first trial, which resulted in acquittal, gave every opportunity to bring up evidence of any tangible character.
—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1911, page 4.
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