The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-01-13
The Anglican Church Formula.

| 'sn, heSSiHS OCCH uttpOISc(
in rectory of sudburg, Norfolk coun
= ty, England, by the Reverend Grevill,
Smallplace, incumbent thereof; anG
have endeavored, through green you'll
and mature age, to relieve my Spon.
sors i'll baptism from the responsibility
which they accepted at the font; and
it is we'll that did so for, in my recol.
lection, my noble Sponsors never ap-
preached me in the discharge of the
solemn duty which they assumed of
instructing me in the mysteries of the
christian religion, as taught and en-
joined by the Anglican then called,
but now called Reformed Catholick
Church. I recollect asking, at the ear
ly age of fourteen years, one of my
Sponsors, the Lady Katherine Slye,
my noble relative, why, in the formula
OF the benediction, the learned and
pious fathers of the Anglican Church
Catholick Church, place the name of
the Son before the name of the Father
and why, in the recital of the Credo,
obeisance is made to the name of Je-
sus Christ, and not to the name of God
and to that of the Holy Ghost? The
only reply from the Lady katherine
was: 81 do not know, but suppose
that Henry the holy Head of the
Church, and Elizabeth the Queen and
Saint, had so directed the Liturgy to
be formed" l asked her if she did
think the Litany and the whole church
service, too much filed with "vain
repetitions," and that being cleared of
them, the worship would be offered in
a more acceptable form to God, and
become less tedious in the recital to
the worshippers, and especially to
Gods little children worshippers
whom Jesus SO much loved, and invi-
ted in such sweet and beautiful words
to come unto Him: sSuffer little chill
1ren to come unto me, and forbid them
not for of such is the Kingdom of Heav-
sn." She answered mildly: "I never
neddle with these questions, and you
must go, my dear god-child, for an an ,
'wer, to your other sponsors Miss :
;amelia Cameo, and the Earl of I
)xyde."
met the Earl a few days after at r
ipsom races, with his betting book in il
ne hand, and his riding whip in the t
ther. said: "My Lord what do !,
ou think of the Roman dogma of the c
immaculate Conception Don't you "
hink the Queen ought to cause it to d
e added to the thirty-nine articles of a
he Anglican Church 7" III am deci- b
edly in favor of it"-said his Lord n
hip and I'll bet sovereign "-sha- o. !,
ing his betting book in my face t.
that we shall have forty articles of re- al
glon as soon as Doctor Pussy is crea- "
ID Arch Legate of all England. At ..
lat moment Miss Cameo the third of It
y three sponsors, drove up in her B
fine phaeton, drawn by a I'll
lir of dashing bay stations. The OF Of
ri introduced ME to her. We had ci.
yer met since she stood, and was Sit
Id up before the font in Sudburg ev
'ctory. The Earl took his leave, and All
IS Cameo asked me to take a seat pu
her side; sprirging into the car tic
ge and obeying her commands, 1 s ca'
Sed her how old she was with a to
lie and tap of her fan on my cheek, nes
said: ~ was sixteen years old de'
len you We're born, and am there ne lv
g now, little over thirty" (she kni
s very charming indeed, and mi ane
We passed for much younger per- nao
l)-"but do not ask me any more will
ii questions, you forget that 1t is not the
lite" begged her pardon and pro- the
sad +o 10 -. ~, saw
Wv 40 QUO ueslrea, except agil
ere it concerned me to inquire, and
vas her duty as one of my sponsors =
reply. "Dont You think, my dear Tol
d-mother, that our form of MORNING. low
yer in the Church, embraces all the U
ssings and protection desired, and O M,
resses all the thankfulness for those whe
eived, without those repetitions and
ch the Litany contains 7 and would t
OF be decent to leave out the spe- NJ .
ity of "all women in the perils of ted
d birth I" "Indeed think so, nv will
Granville" replied Miss Cameo, , Mon
eyes sparkling, and her beautiful lons
ures rouging with tint rivalling rapi
of the Damascus rose-"I have rush
n tboprht t,,o+ .r,,. .,:.. spec
many lessons taken from the Old casie
'ameut and some few from the New, suit
ut we'll be dispensed with, or, at Iee q
others might be substituted for thew
1. am q constant attendant at Wes
rch, and possess a humble and un- $2O,(
led faith in the miraculous mystic TINS
of the christian religion as Get mean
IN the Anglican Articles of Faith, the I
rs expounded by incarnate coun- place
svnois o,l o.;,.. ,.,,e, feet
hnon in cpiroI IN o,.o1.:. W" -