The True Issue for the Churchman; A Statement of Facts in Relation to the Recent Ordination in St. Stephen's Church, New-York

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843. Excerpt: ... DRS. SMITH AND ANTHON'S STATEMENT OF FACTS. In fulfilment of our promise, Ave submit the following statement of facts, touching the ordination of Mr. Arthur Carey to the office of a Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the protests against that ordination. In order clearly to understand the merits of the case, Dr. Smith would call attention to the following particulars--his own personal statement: Mr. Carey had been connected with the parish of St. Peter's, of which Iam rector, for the greater part, if not the whole, of his seminary course. He graduated from the Seminary, and publicly received the usual testimonial granted by the trustees, in June, 1842. Not being then of age, he remained at the Seminary for another year, that he might spend the time necessary to elapse before his ordination in still farther augmenting his stores of information. Either at the time of his graduating, or at the commencement of the next term in Oetober, Mr. Carey expressed to me his wish to sever his connexion with St Peter's, and unite himself with the parish of St. John's. This fact is here noted with a double object in view, both as bearing upon, because increasing the great reluctance with which I was afterward constrained to decline the signing of his testimonials, and to oppose his ordination--a point to which Mr. Carey himself, on doubt being expressed, called my attention, as strengthening his claim to testimonials at my hand--and also, as evidencing bis connexion with St. Peter's, understood that he em ray confidence in him. He wae merely a resident, and in no way connected with the Faculty and wise of instruction. braced the doctrines of the Oxford school; but such was my conviction of the purity and excellence of his Christian character, of his quiet an...