Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-02-14 | Page 1 | Noted Minister Succumbs in East

I I 9 Minister I I Succumbs in East rV V FV V V PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Operation Is Fatal to Rev Percy S. S Grant F Forni orm r Ascension Ascensi n Church Jec r Noted for His l lI lat at Age lof 6 66 i MT l KISCO N. N Y Feb 14 AP The Rev Dr Percy Stickney Grant liberal Protestant Episcopal minister whose views on the divinIty divinity divin- divin Ity of cf Christ divorce and many other other oth oth- er questions frequently caused con con- sies died In a hospital yes yes- V He was 66 Last Tuesday he was operated on for appendicitis He rallied but was poisonIng Ill III health had brought about his retirement In June 1924 as rector r of the ChU Church Ch of f the As- As cension n 1 V i Dr Grant was unmarried His engagement to Mrs l Rita de Acosta Lydig twice divorced was an an- In August but was broken in May 1924 when Bishop I Manning l of the New York diocese forbade any minister in his territory terri tern tory to marry the couple The Episcopalian Episcopalian Epis- Epis laws forbid of divorced persons except in special cases cases V Dr DI Grant gained prominent nolice notice no- no lice tice by attacking these church laws lawsin In 1901 In 1915 he criticized Dr Manning then r or of Trinity for i Continued on Page 5 I I C Is Fatal to Rev Percy S. S Grant Continued from page 1 Or ng g stricter or of re- re rr age ge ot of divorced persons Dr Grant clashed hop Manning on the o ot divinity ot of Christ Dr Grant Grants s said ld that he did not believe Is t possessed equal powers with r nd that he thought few tew Un educated educated clergymen men did beHe be- be He also said he felt that se ration ot of churches was a cus- cus passed down from wit 8 and and that the clergy was a ap apr p pr chained profession s members speak t their mInds t i i's the pulpit and not in it Manning demanded Dr m recant hil hh apparent t in the divinity ot of Jesus Uell i or face trial for tor heresy Dr 1 restated his views Bishop did not find in the restate restate- for lor tn tri I and the matr mat mat- r was dropped r Grant born i 11 Boston and ed- ed ted at Harvard came to the Jf ch h ot of the Ascension from Fall 1011 FallT te T Mass thirty one years ago soon won a reputation Slits ts liberal discussions ot of social c questions rs r Hoyt was one ol of a rj group that surrounded Dr lap lap- t ln his church She was 45 the time her engagement to r Was was announced He l volume ot of poems to her with An ambitious and Intelligence gifted wIth knowledge ot of the beautiful a aSai Sai a figure come to life lite a cap cap- companion tri Lydig had been divorced w. W E. E D. D Stokes and Major I Vip Ip