The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-25
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dueed into the Episcopal Church
Character and Origin of the Forms
Tendency to UnprOJesIantIze the Sect
Views of an Eminent Roman Catholic,
Etc. Etc,
The Catholic World, in a review of Mrs.
Goddard's translation of the eloquent work of
DOnOso COrtes on Catholicism, Liberalism,
and Socialism," discusses the problem of
Church and State, " maintaining that the
American solution, according to which the
State does not tolerate the Church nor the
Church either enslave or tolerate the State,
because the State recognizes freedom of con-
science, and its independence of all secular
CONTROL is the best, certainly at least under a
republican form of government. A paper on
"Ritualism" gives life-lille description of the
Roman Catholic features in the celebration of
public worship a, some of the American
Episcopal churches, of which the service at
st. Adams, New York city, affords remark
able example. "Any one who should enter
st. Adams not knowing to what denomina-
tion it belonged, and should look towards the
sanctuary, would be very apt to fancy for a
moment that he had got into Catholic church.
Let us imagine ourselves among the crowd of
curious spectators who fill the ediiice of Sun
day morning. In place of the reading-desk
conspicuous in most Protestant meeting
houses, there is a very proper-loOking altar
mented with colOred and embroidered ante
pendulum. Behind it, instead of a painting,
there is an illuminated screen work, with in
scriptions in old English ecclesiastical text, not
much easier to be read than if they were in
Latin. Where the tabernacle ought to
be stands large gilt cross; on each side
of it are vases and ornaments. On
shelf which runs along the wall back
of the altar there are candesticks, three tall
ones at each side, and two others just over the
altar itself. We see altar-cards, such as are
used at mass burse for holding the corpo-
raj and chalice covered with a veil, the
color of which varies with the season of the
ecclesiastical year. To-day not being fes
tival, the hue is green. At one end of the
! altar is big book on a movable stand. At
the epistle side is a credence table with silver
| patten, on which is the wafer-bread for COM
munion, and with vessels of wine and water
that might be called cruets if they were only
little smaller. The pulpit stands just out
side the railing on the left. There is little
raised desk on it for the preachers book or
manuscript, and this desk is covered with
green vail. Opposite the pulpit on the
right hand side is ecten with a Bible on it.
| The lectem likewise has green hangings. On
one side of the sanctuary is a row of stalls,
| precisely like those we see in some OF our
cathedrals and seminary chapels. On the
! other are benches for the choristers The
organ is in recess just behind them, and the
Organist sits in the chancel, in full view OF the
! people, with his back to the instrument. lie
wears white surplice, and presents altogether
! a very respectable ecclesiastical appearance.
/ The appointments of st. Adams being so very
much like those of a real church, We shall not
| be surprised to find the service almost equally
i like real mass At the appointed hour an
acolyte in cassock and surplice lights the two
candles on the altar. Then we hear chorus OF
male voices-principally boys intoning
chant, and presently procession issues trom
the vestry door andfles into the chancel. First
comes a lad wearing a black cassock and
short surplce, and carrying cross ON a tall
staff. Then follow the chanters, men and boys
similarly attired; then one or two clergymen;
or perhaps theological students, also in cas-
sock and surplice; next two little boys in red
cassocks: and finally two officiating ministers,
wearing long abs. The priest has green
stole. crossed on his breast, and confined at
the sides by cinoture; the 'deacon's stole is
worn over the left shoulder. The clerks take
their places in the stalls; the singers proceed
10 their benches. The bearer kneels at
one eide of the altar; the priest kneels at the
foot of the steps, with the deacon behind him
and the acolytes at his side. The service about
to be performed is not the 'Order of Morning
Prayer prescribed by the prayer-book, but
simply the communion service. The oficiat-
ing minister (for the sake of convenience lei
I MS call him what he calls himself-the priest;
though, without, of course, admitting his sa-
cerdotal character) chants short prayer very
!, much in the style of. the chanting we hear al
mass and the choir respond 'Amen.' Then the
litany is chanted antiphOnally, by one of the
clergy and the chOristers, alternately; it is in
l the main q translation OF that part OF Oul