Show CHARGE 0 BISHOP J UNDER M l Episcopal Pre- Pre Will Appeal to F FelIo Fel- Fel Io low Bish Bishops ps for I el-I j of Conviction in iii May r c VELA D 0 O Jan 14 Bv Dy t A t. t P Contentions that lliam ll M M. Brown retired prelate i. i t e Protestant Episcopal church j i A Xi convicted o of or heresy last May full accord with canon and civil i. i w were re presented today toda to the irh's r hs h's court of or review by Charles 1 of Kalamazoo Mich lurch advocate h 9 proceedings It w was s ext ex- ex x- x t JI f. f 1 w would uld wind up the open rings in the case as the next to wHich it may so go O is the theus theof theof us of ot bishops all of ot whose whoso sesE ses- ses E US ps aro are executive After Arter Mi Il b t and his his his' associate J John hn II n. n art Tt rt of ot Cleveland Cleveand have con con- con con- their arguments on the ap- ap e Joseph Joseoh W V chief coun- coun el for the accused bishop will wills lose s the formal arguments Bishop Brown Drown it was announced wind up his own case with a amal arson mal l I appeal to his fellow shops for a n. reversal of or the trial ourt Pi BO BOOK K MADE BASIS BASIS Dibbles Dibble's argument wa was in 4 ply to assertions yesterday v Ir that his client had eJ misrepresented In the n p y T V reason of the tho fact that nty- nty detached selections selection m i his book Communism and had been selected elected as the basis for the thees thees es eCI Mr Dibble pointed out the be whole book had bad lle ben been n ted ceil e In evidence at the trial ving be ben n introduced by he def de- de f J itself I i t Mr as asserted further that 1 t rIal court ourt h had d erred in no not I i on o church ij 4 trine taken ken from all bishops of tt church as requested bv hv the theand QS nse and also in taking ta i judicial dil ial of or the church s trine dor-trine t defining what constitutes To ij th it doctrine 1 Dih Dibble le d that doctrine as hed bv by the t of nC the cHurch that ea h bishno o IIIi-o have iven civen only his hll in ll- ll jr Si 1 91 o opinion n j and Tn 1 that 11 t such coin coin- ions lons would have been incompetent I and immaterial as the trial court ruled He reaffirmed his position that d doctrine of the church was found in in the book of common prayer particularly in the Apostles' Apostles and NIcene creeds I This ThIa was In opposition to the idea advanced ance by Mr that the creeds were confessions of ot faith placed In the prayer book as part pait of the order of ot worship and that they amounted oni only to symbols sym- sym bo bols of t the churchs church's doctrine TRINITY THEORY ATTACKED Speaking of ot the he doctrine of the trinity l counsel for Bishop Brown had branded as a mathematical mathematical mathematical mathe absurdity Dibble denied it implied that God is three connected connected connected con con- con con- persons or personalities but rather an indivisible beingMan beingMan being Man Ian has always alwa's Instinctively thought of ot God in three aspects Dibble explained We think of or Him as acting transcendently as being above or ot- beyond nature as creating or 01 rulin ruling luling it We think of Him as acting immanently as being bein- beinin in nature and most of ot all in the heart of ot m man n if It man mal will but seek Him there We think of Hi Him n also a as humanistic in a spiritual sense That is to say we we think of the Divine Mind 1 as c comparable to the human human- min mind Mr rr Dibble denounced Bishop Browns Biown's oft repeated assertion that Christ i is a version of th the sun myth nith and had no histOrIcal existence exist exist- ence He said early German scientists scientists sd- sd had advanced the theor theory only tc to be be- refuted conclusively by other German scientists a 11 hundred years ears ago NOT JURORS Mr Dibble aT the contention contention contention con con- that the trial court should have submitted to examination as asto asto asto to its possible prejudged opinions asserted that the ecclesiastical judges judg's were no more jurors than thim are the judges of ot courts or of equity of equity Each sort of court he sa said d was charged with making findings of the fact lIe He maintained that disqualification disqualification dis dig qualification for prejudice should be established by affidavit Such affidavits were not filed in the trial court simply because use there was no no prejudice there against ag Bishop Brown said Mr Mr- Dibble Bishops Bishops Bishops' of the American church I are amenable to trial on questions I of doctrine despite absence of or specific provisions to to that effect in m the church constitution Mr 11 Dibble Dibble- 4 JIe He pointed out that c canonical n or statutory ry provisions provisions pro pro- visions cover cover the tile point and pro pro-I said that canons and constitution are are 1 on the fhe he s same me plane Both proceed from the action churchs church's of the general convention he said said and that convention is iss s sovereign He ridiculed the cont contention that Bishop Dishop Brown should not have llave been tried because he was retired and not canonically r resident in any state The canons specifically state that in all things a retired bishop shall be bo subject to the control control control con con- of at the general convention he I said |