Show DR HEBER NEWTON I He I Prepared to Meet the Charges of Heresy HE ACCEPTS THE JSICENE CREED Verbal Inspiration of the Bible Doctrino of the BesurrectSonGrowth of legend in Early Church Times Special to Tire HERAED Examiner Dlspatch7 NEW YORK July 2The case of Rev Heber Newton rector of All Souls church who is charged with heresy is in the hands of a committee of five 1ve acting as a grand jury and resentment possibly an indictment indict-ment may soon bo expected The charges based upon rumors are his alleged denials of the virgin birth of Christ of the bodily resurrection of tho Savior and of the ver bal inspiration of the Bible There are other points of doctrine and of forms of worship but they are of minor interest Dr Newton said today ho would appear before the committee because its sessions were secret and their report to the bishop would bo secret If a trial were ordered j ho declared he would appear in the proper manner and with the proper spirit to makat his defense Dr Newton further saul thaw there was no muzzle on his lips that he could not remain in the church a day under such conditions what he believed he must teach what ho believed he thought was in accordance with the church In fact the legitimate interpretation of these creeds Ho then referred to the occasion eight years ago when charges of heresy were made against him Dr Newton then explained ex-plained the utterances on account of which for a third time charges of heresy had been made against him Ho declared Ian acceptance of the creeds that were the standard of his church and he erpressed his intention to make his teaching and his preaching at all times conform thereto These standards were the Nicene creed Upon this creed the Protestant church In England and America broadly rested 1 Tuere are no other confessions or rules of j faith mane after this creed to which he as an Episcopal preacher must subscribe Aa > to the birth of Christ Dr Newton explained ex-plained that the spiritual sense of the early Christians perceived mysteries of s new order of life human and divine ia Jesus They could not conceive of It as arising in a merely natural manner That reason and imagination of the first Christ ions were set to work and the belief in a virgin birth took shape as an interpretation of the mystery in the Christian conscience It is only the working of the mythical ten dency or through this tendency a looking of the spiritual sense seeking to indicate as best it might the action of anew creative force Thus the church has seen and held to the belief in the virgin birth of Christ The belief in the resurrection of Christ Dr Newton explains as having been developed in a similar manner |