Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-04
Anglicus to Anxious.

most curious piece of reasoning
that has lately been my lot to read
1t might, perhaps, have been bette
if you had kept your implied reso-
luton, not to write again. There il
an amount of clerical coarseness in it
which well BELTS the preposterous
pretensions you put forth Our read
ers are in their sober senses if yon
are not, and will know we'll how to
judge, as to "who ought to be asham-
ed for their ignorance, and perver.
sion of known fact. Rest assured
sir, that your own community will
conclude in view of the poverty of
proof you have furnished for your
pretensions and the insolent bearing
towards such men as Judson, Carey
and Wesley, and the evident bitter
ness ofspirit which has only too often
been manifested in your articles
that whether your claims are true or
spurious, you are not the man to de-
fend them. Sir, were it not, that /
hoped to elicit from you the great
| testimonies and facts of history,
beginning with broad, solid, unmis~
takeable New Testament basis, / had
not written at az. I have seen many
things, that | have not cared to no.
tiee, in your papers, and which are
nnworthy..the character of a scholarly
clergyman. Some ofthem in your last,
are the mere ventings of exaspesated
resentment. because of conscious in
competence to rebut the terrible facts
| have laid before our readers.
now turn again to briefly notice two
or three points in your last, promis.
ing that if the apology you have
made touching John Wesley, is sat
isfactory to our Methodist friends,
so be it, but | apprehend they will
not be satisfied with it, The charge
of apostacy against the Anglican
Communion was neither wild or
thoughtless, as you intimate, but
on my part, thoughtfully and delib>
erately made, and very amply sus>
tanned by the facts / have laid before
you again and again. But when you
imagine that because of this charge
of apostacy against your commun-
ion, | therefore deny salvation to
those who compose it, | supposed
in pity you SO judged, partly from
the influence of your own narrow
creed, which declares of all who do
not subscribe to its dogmas, that
"Without doubt be shall perish ever
lastingly"-and partly from desire
to make me appear as uncharitable
as yourself. | doubt not, / rejoice
indeed in believing it, that there are
multitudes esen in your apostate
church, who have not detiled their
garments, and who shall walk in
white with Him who redeemed them;
and nlultitudes in other communions
also, who shall shine as the stars, but
all of whom your Athanasian creed
consigns to everlasting punishment.
God hath people in all communions,
however corrupt these communions
may be, and He acknowledges them
also. / fear it is frightfully true,
that as you say, the Anglican Cons
munion had in it $50 years ago, far
more evils than it has now. Ii is
no,c "a sepulchre, beautiful indeed on
the outside, but within, full Of all I'M
cleanness.' have said that the An
glcan bishops are politically appoints
ed, and that on this account amongst
others your Apostolic Succession is
q worthless Pigment and your reply
is beautifully accordant with con>
scious inability to disprove my ale
/ fn M
to be ashamed either because of your
ignorance, or willful perversion OF
known fact-that being an English
man | ought to know, &c" Well
sir, am an Englishman, and rejoice
in the fact, but am ashamed that in
my country such astounding wicked
nesses are perpetrated by law. | am
ashamed also, as a christian man,
that these iniquities are done openly
and in the light of the sun, by that
organization which claims to be the
Church Of my country, the only
hope of the world. And | am asham-
ed also, that any American can be
found, SO reckless as to hold up such
den of thieves as is that church
as the Lords house OF prayer Sir, j
repeat the charge. the bishops are
politically appointed, that is, by the
State and l tell you, also, that it is
only ignorance or willful perversion
of fact that will deny it. No matter
ifthe presbyter is ordained by 80 bish-
ops be is none the less, politically
appointed. / gave you facts will
you dare deny enc of them ? Does
not the Ordination Service demand
the Kings Mandate for the conse-
Grafton, before it takes place F? You
know it does. What, sir, does the
''Suspensory BiIl'' of the Right Hon.
VIM. Gladstone ( just rejected by the
House of Lords) mean ? It's object,
as you ought to know, was, that the
Queen should place in the hands of
the House of Commons, her power of
Ecclesiastical patronage, until the
great question of the Irish Church
was settled. Concerning this Bill,
Earl Russell, on the goth of last June,
stated as follsws ''The object OF the
Bill was simply to provide that, pres
liminary to the decision of Paria,
ment upon the disestablishment of
the Irish Church-the vacancies
whichImight arise in the appoint
ments connected with that church,
might not be filled up. Not single
bishop voted for this Bill, but three
archbishops and eighteen bishops
voted against it. The enormous sal
aries wrung from our oppressed peo>
pie, are too passionately loved by
this proud and Iordly hierarchy, for
them to vote forsa single measure of
justice. Will you please say, if these
gentlemen are not politically appoint
ed, why in their conservation, is the
Kings Mandate demanded and why
the appointments to vacancies occur
ing in the church should become the
subject of a special Bill, in a House
of Commons, composed of Christians,
Jews and Infdels ? Will uou please