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...Norris, also distressed by the failure of his frontal attack, attempted a feint. He wrote a personal letter to Heaton, urging him, in effect, to leave the Episcopal Church and become a Baptist...
...Heaton determined to remain an Episcopalian...
...Heaton is rector of Trinity Parish in Fort Worth, Tex., the only Episcopal parish in the residential section. An element in the parish desired to get control for purposes not entirely spiritual. Failing to dominate the rector, they decided to oust him and last year seized upon his theology as a pretext and charged him with heresy. The Bishop-one Harry Moore-apparently took fright at the storm of protest from beyond the borders of Texas and "quashed" the heresy proceedings on the ground that certain Northern Bishops were as liberal as the rector. But the Bishop left the stigma...
...name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Now, under ordinary circumstances, Mr. Norris would show as much love for a High-Church Bishop as for the Pope of Rome, whom he regards as anti-Christ, but his alliance with the Bishop in the Heaton case was made necessary by a demand for more liberal lambs (or goats) to cast on the altar of his Searchlight. Out came the Searchlight (100,000 circulation) with screamer headline: HEATON, MODERNIST, CORNERED AND EXPOSED. The Bishop chuckled with glee. Frank Norris had given Heaton not more than six months...
...Rector Heaton still kept going about, preaching "love." Finances weakened, so he began canceling his salary. Most of his parish stuck with him, and more came into his fold. Big battalions were needed to finish him. Enter the Ku Klux Klan. First of all, the Klan presented to the disgruntled section of Heaton's parish a completely equipped meeting room which they were to use until a rival Episcopal Church could be built. Big men in the Klan-bossed state were lined up in the little parish fight. The Bishop, the Searchlight, the Klan -it seemed that Heaton could hold...