Semi Weekly North Carolina Standard

BISHOP IVES.

Bishop Ives, in attaching himself to the Roman Catholic Church, has parted voluntarily with a good living and a dignified position, and become a plain lay member. It cannot, therefore, be charged that he has been actuated in his course by mercenary motives. His sincerity no one can doubt, whatever may be thought or said as to the correctness of his judgment.

The ex-Bishop cannot become a priest in the Catholic Church, unless Mrs. Ives shall consent to enter a Convent: and even then he will be required to go through a regular course of Theological studies. Probably a Professorship in some Catholic College may be tendered him. We have no doubt he will be provided for by the Church to which he has attached himself.

If he should ever become a priest, his labors will be heavy and his salary quite small.

The course of the ex-Bishop has excited much feeling in this State. The members of his former Church are—as might reasonably have been expected—indignant and mortified, while the subject has elicited much talk among other Churches and among men of the world generally.

But the gale will "die along the shore," and be forgotten. In a few months we shall have a calm. The bubble will disappear from the surface, and the waters will be smooth again. Those who are indignant will learn to be more charitable and merciful; and those who are mortified will forget the past in respect and regard for the new Bishop, his successor.