Show PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH I Disagrees with Bishop Bailey of Mexico On Monetary Matters Special to TIC HEUAID Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK May 13he Protestant Episcopal church of America is said to have resorted to what is practically boycott to discipline those of the faith who have questioned the authority of its bishops This discipline is aimed at the Church of Jesus in Mexico which is the original branch of the Episcopal church in Mexico Now it has become a reformed church and with its forty congregations is struggling along as best it can without the contributions contribu-tions which the Episcopalians in the United States used to give it every year An appeal ap-peal for aid which Bishop II Chauncey Reiley executive officer of this Mexican church has recently circulated in this country has been met by a sort of round robin signed by Bishops J Williams A N Littlejohu WC Doaneand Bishop Potter of New York These eccleciastic authorities author-ities have designated some one else besides Bishop Reiley as the proper person to receive re-ceive contributions for church work in Mexico The reason for this attitude of the Episcopal Epis-copal bishops is said to be due to Bishop Reileys refusal to own allegiance to them and the other church authorities in the United States In many respects Bishop Reiley is a remarkable man He went to Mexico in 1SGS and was one of the first Protestants to engage in missionary work thoro Some time in the seventies he was tme ordained bishop of the valley of Mexico bj the Episcopal church Among the friends whom the young mis sionnry made when he first went to Mexico was the patriot Tuarez The confiscation of the property of the Jesuit order by the government gave Juarez during his presidency presi-dency an opportunity gan to provide Bishop Reiley with a very handsome church in the capital This was a free gift Subsequently Subse-quently the bishop bought from the government govern-ment the noted convent of San Francisco which is regarded as the finest edifice in the city of Mexico next to the capitol This purchase was made with funds supplied by the late William E Dodge Morris K Tes sup Brown Brothers bankers and other prominent people of New York and Bishop Reiley is said to have spent 15030 of his own money in refitting the convent for a church Matters went on smoothly until four or five years ago when the Episcopal church of the United States shut off its allowance of S0000 a year which it had been giving to help along Bishop Reileys work Since then it has contributed nothing Bishop Reiley has spent much of his time in the United States for the past few years trying to raise money to keep hi work going Now all his work is knocked in the head by the publication in the Standard of the Cross and the Church the Philadelphia Episcopal paper of the notice signed by the bishops whose names appear above stating that Reiley i is i wholly th ito i-to receive money for the church in Mexico |