The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-13

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rnH-AxD DEAa Sin. l was very much
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yous papef the noble speech of the Rev. j.
Geo1go AssaA Ahoau1oaanniia
Of the Evlaeelic Knovlsdes BociSzy d NS6
York, on the rituAlistic tsoden61oee na 6bop6
nations which have become % alarming il
sheQ auGUh pf 4a9oaa1, u&~ AeoQiuR0 ue
8 boldly, end With such evident combination
u plan md effort In our church Of the Uni
ted States Lhave used the word abomins.
tons. I might have said puerilities, iollies,
n, With enklfQ Justice, b6e abomiuf3 1UnS ID.
clndes all Ind means mnch mor6. sz0pms
ritsalism ~ QAsistiaae lam amone ,Nkom
there is any rits. We have had ritualism IN
our sacramento and con6fmstion, and in Ill
IL simple ceremonial vhick, from the cor.
ganixation Of our American Church, has
marked THAR observance, and We want NO
more. Bat the ritualism now rising before
us, and claiming free scope to do what it iists
and deforming increase Of ceremonial upon
what We have been accustomed to. II 10 not
msrsly that the one bowling to the name OF
Jssps in the creed, (which, BY tho way,
10 ne part OF tho eppointed ceremonial
of our worship, A. many If our people seem
not TO knovl has grown to divefs bouings TO
this and that, BY minister and people, and BY
some Il have heard) where the Virgin Ma.
ry" comas in the creed. 1t Is not merely
that in the one instance which the officiating
minister 10 directed IN our rub.ics, while
standing, TO "turn the Lords table," has
budded end blossomed into divers turnings,
which are now seen in some Of our advanced
churches, BY choristers Is we'll a "cele-
brants,n to use word which rtnalism has
chosen from Romish phraseology. It's not
merely that the single instance Of the sign of
fAe crcss in baptism, provided for by our
church directions, has sfervesced, and ID
multiplying into various other signs and mys-
tic Specification, such a. crosses ON the
Lords table, of wood, or stone, crosses on
crosses everywhers-candles on the table
and in the chancel burning in broad day
light, &c. II we look at al these things
simply as An increased ceremonial, | should
be content to speak Of them as puerilifies.
But in The intention Of those who are zeal
GUS for the ritualism which now aspires to
place itself high and lifted up, in our church,
es, no such comparatively innocent thing
limits their view And he who 10 so limos
cent ~ 70 suppose these men so innocent il
to be pitied.
Of course it all means doctrne-advanced
doctriue-such ~ the simple ritualism of our
Church hitherto has not taught. 1t means what
leader in the American movement meant
when he said recently in . Published dis.
course, and from one Of the highest places
in the diocese of New York, that the refor-
NATION brought on s'the dark ages II
means return to the reformation cast out with
indignation. 1t means the reassertion OF
what, as Protestant Church, we have pro-
tested against ever since the reformation. 1t
means the turning our backs upon all our
great Protestant diyines and the reputation
Of our chief Protestant articles of religion.
II means Romanism, in all its strength and
substance, and antagonism to the true gospel
| of Christ. Ii means transubstantiatiou--th the
| sacrifices Of The mass-auricular confession,
the subsection Of the minds and consciences
of men to the dictum Of the priest the clos
ing up Of all access TO Christ and His saliva
ton to the narrow gate OF the ministratiou OF
. priest; justification by efficacy of sacra-
| ments, theoagh . righkeousness IN ourselves
by works, instead Of the righteousness of
Christ by faith. 1t means penances, prayers
| for the dead, and purgstory, the necessity Of
| a priests absolution IL the remission of sins.
Ii means the full priest!y character Of the
Christian minister, the full sacritcial and
lpropitidtory character, for the living and the
dead, of the Lords Supper. Il means Rom.
ish bondage for Christian liberty, sensaous,
sentimental, deceitful formAlim for the wor-
ship Of God lin spirit and in truth
1t means, in one word, til identihcatione,
in effect, of inward and spiritual religion with
the outward and visible form. and that a
form, for the most part, of mans contri-
vance. 1t means, | say again, RomaHism,
say ''abominatioush ~ we'll As follies. II
the movement has not yet grown 70 al the
Developments given above, il is fast attaining
that far. Let it alone and the rebellion viii
| soon show its genuine coiors At high mast,
and high mas will not be far behind
But it 10 no new movement. 1t is simply
that very out>cropping of the tractarian move
| ment which, since its FIRST appearance, in
1884, has never ceased its Vaccinations or
| advances. Many good men for years sup
posed It essentially dead. never did
constantly maintained the reverse. l, has
simply waited to prepare the way, to get the
minds and eyes OF our people accustomed TO
certain Introductory ideas and pretensions
and phrases aud furniture and manipuations
| and pastures and symbols, before il should
| venture to come out in its new books Of de-
votion, with the censor and the incense and
all the bold impudence which, in some in.
stances, has so transformed the aspect Of
our simple liturgical worship that we have
| all to learn our public worship over again be-
fore the prayer-book, thus present, can Justly
be called j" The Book OF Common Prayer. /"
Yours, DC,
CHAs. P. McILvAIEx,