The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-03-25
ON WHICH SIDE Is MOST DANGER.


TO exchange pulpits with Baptist minister.
His Bishop (Clarke) was much opposed to it,
endeavoring by letter to prevent it. He has
since addressed Pastoral Letter to the cer-
KY and laity of his Diocese in regard to this
matter.
The Southern Churchman of last week of
fers on this subject some very judicious
remarks, from which We make few ex-
tracts. 1t is certainly not little Notifying
to all who seek the good report and welfare OF
our common Christianity, to see such an
overpowering influence in a sister church dill
gently exerted in favor OF tythe upon mint
anise, and cummin, while some of the
''weightier matters" are entirely neglected ;
sHe % 1Ssinee5 "a -sIalnin8 at snats ana
swallowing camels.
The Ch,uchman very faithfully and peril
nenty asks:
lis there any danger that such practices
will spread? Is revival of religion" so COM
mon a thing in New England or elsewhere,
that We do well to discountenance it? Is the
Episcopal Church likely to be injured by too
much fervor? Is the service OF our Church
in New England or elsewhere, conducted with
so much devotion that it is likely to degenerate
into enthusiasm? Are our ministers so gene
rally in earnest, that their zeal is likely to out
run their discretion? These are questions we
think pertinent to the occasion which has
drawn forth this Pastoral. If answered, as
they must be, in the negative, we think MIR.
Hubhard's course not such that 1t was neces-
sary % be discussed in grave, official docu
ment. And we think it would be time enough
to discuss such topics, when Mr.. Hubbard s
example was likely to be taken as precedent
If, on the other hand, we look at the real
dangers of our Church, we see no such haste
and earnestness as Bishop Clark evinces in
the present instance Our danger 1--WE beg
leave to emphasize it) does not arise from too
great enthusiasm. Our danger is from false
doctrine, and primarily false doctrine that pre-
cipitates us upon Rome. But what American
Bishop has as yet lifted up his voice to bid us
beware? We know not one. Our English
news tells us Of seven members of a Sister
hood, in England, and four clergymen who
within the past few weeks have gone over to
Church, whose Pope, our HOmilles tell us,
ought to be called Anti Christ We have cler
gymen in our Church teaching prayers for the
dead; teaching contrary to the very words of
the twenty ninth Article: "Of the wicked
which eat not the Body of Christ in the use
eat thereof; we have clergymen lifting up the
down before it and worship it. But has the
Bishop of New York issued any Pastoral
against these teachings and such tendencies
to, if not actual idolatry?
And when the Jesuit Harding tells Bishop
Jewel of this alteration of the Sacrament and
says we do not worship the substance of it, or
the shapes of it, but the body and blood of
Christ under the forms; Jewel replies thus
And this as NJ Harding tells -, = proper,
plain, familiar kind OF speech, and according
unto skill. Unless the simple people go
to the universities, and learn this new skill,
what is accidens absqae saljectO, corpus SINE
loco, locus sine cOrpOre, qadnt,tdS SINE nlodo
quaint, they cannot skilfnlly worship Christ 5
body. Or if they worship without this skill
they worship one thing for another and be
come idolaters.-l Jeloel, 525.
And yet against this idolatry, this false doc
triDe, this going over to the Roman Anti
Christ, which is our danger at present, no
Bishop has word to say But when Mr..
Hubbard exchanges pulpits. the Bishop OF
Rhode Island Is out promptly and logically
against him, though there is not the slightest
probability that any one in Rhode Island will
follow his example
And let Bishop Clark consider who are the
men who want Mr.. Hubbard tried? Men who
pray for dead people, adore the Sacrament,
and teach drop of water will change the
Devils child into child of God! The great
sin with suoh people is not violating one of the
ten commandments, but one of the rubrcs
not in breaking the moral law, but the Canon
law. These are the men who will forgive you
much. if you affirm there is no Church without
a Bishop; but who can see nothing in you
good, if you do not believe it.
We trust Bishop Clark will not, by the
scandal of another Ecclesiastical trial, give
comfort to men like these and cause those
who love the Church next to the Gospel to
mourn and weep