Show FIGHTS TO HOLD PUCE PLEADS FOR REVERSAL OF JUDG MENT WHICH WOULD TAKE HIM FROM CHURCH in lengthy address before episcopal board of review accused bishop vindicates hims alf cleveland ohio pleading in his own behalf for it a reversal of the verdict which found him guilty of heresy bishop william montgomery oniL ry drown brown addressed the board of review of the protestant episcopal church ilia his prepared address follows in part brethren of the review co court urt I 1 thank ithane you for allowing me to speak t in my own I 1 shall refer to just one episode of my appearance before the trial court in ili the hope I 1 of t securing for it the influence it should have upon tile the issue of your deliberations 1 I w was as asked it if I 1 believed the creeds and I 1 said I 1 did then I 1 repeated the apostles creed subscribed to it with uplifted hand as each in symbol renewed my faith in life and light feeling that you would be lacking in patience and I 1 in the strength necessary to extended remarks on oil this occasion I 1 made a lengthy appeal to your court in a printed memorial and believing that you will do me tho the justice of carefully weighing its representations I 1 can at this time content myself with repenting repeating that confession of my falth f I 1 1 I believe in hi not to be sure in ili a god with arms and logs legs and with thit that human attribute that we call personality but in the all in all in who we live and move and have our being and to whose laws law we must all con conform forin if we are arc to attain th the e most abundant life 1 1 41 I believe in god the father almighty not to bo be sure in a literal biological sense is my god cod a father not a being with masculinity as 13 every father must literally be I 1 use the word symbolically a precious symbol of the infinite reality which has brought us all things into being as parts of itself 11 maker of heaven arid and earth not to bo be sure a manufacturer or tor is as the minds which first codified this creed conceived their god to bo be because of the rt revelations ve lations of science which were denied to them my heaven and my earth are arc infinitely more complex than theirs and tho the symbol I 1 maker laker A must be applied to those universal laws which govern 0 infinite circles of changes of which their great hut but ignorant minds were wholly unaware 1 k 1 I 1 believe in jusis christ ili his only son our lord once agai agapij not literally in ili matters of history 1 I must be guided by the researches of historians who aro are necessarily ruthless in their criticisms criticism of ecclesiastical lore nevertheless regardless of what conclusions historians shall reach I 1 accept and re verance the symbol of tile the son of god goethe the human of all that is true anti and beautiful and good |