Pertinent to the question just quoted from the Western Recorder, is the following from the New York Times, which was written last spring, when Heber Newton, who has been on the rationalistic track for some years, announced his disbelief of the resurrection of Christ:

      Dr. Newton, in his sermon last Sunday, took pains to affirm that the doctrine he was preaching on this subject (Christ's [110] resurrection), from the pulpit of a Protestant Episcopal church, was not only not the doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, but was diametrically opposed to that doctrine. He said that he, for his part, did not believe what "the church undoubtedly believes." This raises a question, not in the least of theological controversy, but of personal good faith and morality. Theologians and moralists and gentlemen may differ to the end of time about what constitutes "the resurrection of the body," but theologians and moralists and gentlemen will agree that when a man finds that he not only disbelieves the doctrine of the church of which he is a minister, but finds it imposed upon him to attack that doctrine in public, his clear duty is to leave the ministry of that church. If he remains in its ministry and attacks its doctrines from its own pulpit, it is not "heresy" that he is guilty of, so much as a far more substantial offense that will be recognized as an offense by people whose personal respect for him would not be affected in the least by any views whatever which be might hold, and in his individual capacity promulgate about the resurrection of the body, or about any other theological dogma.

[SEBC 110-111]