The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-09 00:00:00

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LONDON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 9.

Am unusual literary activity among the more
eminent divines and prelates of the Roman com-
munion in England has been remarkable during
the hid few months, and the rapid nine of a m-
ansion of volumes and pamphlets is making
Maws. Lomomxxs' the great Catholic publishing
house of England. These writings are chiefly the
works of converts, and, while not formally
contreversie, are supposed to be called for by
sowething peculiar in the present relations of the
Church of England to that of Rome, on which
authoritative explanations are required. Following
_ _

the fascinating -"Apologia" of Dr. Nzwxszt, we
have had replies to Dr. Pussy by the same author
and by the Rev. F. OAKLEY ; Dr. MAYwura's
work on "Reason and Revelation ;" and Mr. Lucia's

" Essay on the Church and Civilization ;" and
now we have a treatise on the " Reunion of
" Christendom," the author of which is described
on the title page as HENRY Eowszn Archbishop
of WESTMINSTER. Readers who have lingered

with admiration over the subtle wit, the tiondei
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grace, the touching human sympathies of Dr. Nsw-
lux, fused by a fine imagination, and changing
their forms and blending their hues in his
pages like the clouds after a storm on a sum-
mer's evening, will think it an ill exchange to
pus from them to Dr. 3ismtruo's hard and
pitiless logic. But as a compensation we know
that Dr. hi.txxxxo speaks with authority, and not
as the Scribes.

It seems that 198 Clergy of the Church of
England," Deans, Canons, Parish Priests, and other
" Priests," have been in correspondence with the
Cardinal Secretary of the Holy Office at Rome,
other wise known 'Atha Inquisition. These gentlemen
belong to an association established to promote the
reunion of England with the Roman CatholicChurcb,
and in the fact of their addressing the Holy Office
with such an object, Archbishop MANNING sees
" not a merely natural or intellectual event, but an
" influence and an impulse of supernatural grace."
No one will dispute the Most Rev. Prelate's title
to pronounce judgment upon so high a matter.
When, however, he proceeds to describe the event
under those aspects which lie open to natural obser-
vation, he is less felicitous. For whereas we are
assured in one sentence that it is a wonderful evi-
dence of the flow in the tide which is carrying men
towards Rome, we are told in the next that it is a
movement against the wind and tide of English
tradition and English prejudice, so that we have
thus two tides running one against the other.
Navigators of the Ind;an Ocean are familiar with
some such conflict of the waters at the mouth of
the Ganges, and style it a "groat bore "; it is for
the Archbishop to choose • suitable name for the
singular opposition of tides which he has described.
Lest, however, the 198 should be puffed up, he is
careful to tell them, first, that their grace, although

supernatural, is not saving ; and next, that they
are not entitled to speak for the Church of Eng-
land. They are simply an advanced column—two

hundred out of seventeen thousand—hardly an ap-

preciable quantity upon the Church of England,
and an inappreciable quantity upon the English
people. His mission is to the whole mass of the
linglish people, whereas the Church of England
only represents one-half of the English people. A
disproportionate amount of time and sympathy
must not be wasted on those who stand nearest to
Rome. To the millions of English people who lie
on the other side of the Anglican establishment the
Roman Catholic Church must speak calmly and
nncontroversially, face to face, for if they are its
adversaries, they are generous and candid adver-
saries, devoted to duty, faithful to conviction, and
all the less culpable because born to a diminished
inheritance of truth,with the great difficulty of reco-
veringtheirlostestate. Certainly the yearningmem-
bare of the Union Association cannot hereafter com-
plain that they have been beguiled by flattery. Bat
Dr. Mumma further instructs the world on the
principles of his Church. The 198 are reminded
that the Church of England is no more de facto than
&jars &Catholic Church equal with that of Rome.
To teach otherwise would be like putting out the
lighthouses along a dangerous coast—the act of
an enemy of the human race. No one can give to
any other body than the Roman Church the name
of Catholic without incurring manifest heresy ; and
whosoever is separated from it, " howsoever well
" he may believe himself to live, by this one sin
" of separation is in the state of wrath." Whence
it follows that for Catholics to pray for the union
of Christendom, at the invitation of those who are
in heresy and in union with an intention infected
* heresy, can in no way be tolerated. Communion
with each persons even in prayer is to be refused.
We do not think that we shall be mistaken if
we assume that the Archbishop's Treatise Iris
written with reference to a more important mani-
festation than that of the 198 clergymen. There
are ports of it which are evidently pointed against
passages in Dr. Pusav's receat "Eirenikon." The
. Orford divine had drawn a line between the sp-
leen of the Roman Catholic Church and its Head.
Be had even written es U he believed that
the later developments of flornanism—imeis as the
oneeeeive devotion to the Virgin, the definition of
• lbe dogma of the Immo/inlets Conception, and
other consequences of the infallibility ascribed to
the Popes—might be pared away and got rid of by