The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-12
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nv aEv. WILLIAM ALVIN BARrLrrT,


,sties which have sheltered in exegess and under
infallible creeds.
T"qr s% 9Weare making delightful chaosl Isn't it
for the creative days to succeed?
~ ena MtI1an heart must have something anchored
80 Aeitizen has sawed off a quarter of a mile of
10 ice and attempted to float it to St. Louis down
%11 the channel of the Mississippi river Ice makes
1lazIpoSr fat-boat. 1t is cold. You destroy it In
~ ~ attempting to warm it. 1t is unsafe, cherries,
iiir as the enterprsing ice merchant found to his
gseoet! The little incident of q canoe he took
em along prevented an ice-water bath. great
snri many platforms, credal and other, have been
e''sawed out very wisely, yet very coldly, up the
frozen stream century ago. The nearer they
come down to this period, towards the tropics
of intelligence, the more unceremoniously they
Break up; and the little escorting truth, which
tois for all times and clmes, canoes them to shore.
hns sk Gopsregntionaiist ON the Episcopal Church.
81 .RThe following extracts are from lecture
ssdeliyered ss at Elmira, N. Y, by the Rev. Thomas
X. Beecher. Congregationast minister. 1t
contrasts favoraby with the unfriendly criti-
eisms sooften made by members of one religious
body upon other bodies
oasO OF all Protestant Churches the Episcopal
best de serves the name Reformed. She pre-
serves many of the usages and eXcellencies of
a@the Roman Church, and 80 few of her errors,
s9' that 1t is quite easy to perceive that she is
asa eforned Church. All other Protestant Churches
so seem revolutionary rather than reformed.
M Thus from reign to reign the Church of England
came down, acquiring little by little her present
shape, and laying off the corruption and unreason
of the Roman Church, as then existing and adj
ministered in that rude age. The Prayer Book
may be called substantially complete we now
have 1t in the seventeenth century (166D. Thus
this reformed Church of England filled up nearly
yhthree hundred years in her work of purifying
g. and simplifying. And of all Protestant Churches
81, therefore, she best deserves the name Reformed
In this country the first parish of this Church
was probably that in jamestown, Virginia,
1606S. Down to the Revolutionary war; the
Church in this land was under the care of the
Bishops of London. Shortly after the Revo-
eiutionou an application was made to Par
k-sliament to allow an American Bishop to be con-
y secrated.o But the Puritans and Presby terians
~ =. opposed the proposition, and SO Mr.. Seabury,
Iate consecration at the hands sc Of % certain Scotch
os BishopsT But at last in 1887, Parliament al
alalowed the Archbishop OF Canterbury to conse-
sOe crate three regular frst-class Bishops for New
70 York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, respectively
M s Since then the holy uncton has not been allowed
S TO fail With pious care 1t has been propagated.
s And the Episcopal Church in these United States
Da standsto-day as truly and regularly In the line
~ OF Apostolic succession as the Church of Eng
aso Hand herself.
After this mere outline of her history it
&C., fer1ains that note some of her excellent uses
Sai i. The Episcopal Church offers for our use
o. the most venerable liturgy in the English
~ tongue. The devotional treasures of the Roman
Catholic Church are embalmed and buried in
" Latin. But in English, there are no lessons,
NJ gospels psalms, collects, confessions, thanks
DO egiyings prayers-in one word, no religious form
Te book that can stand q moment in comparison
with the Prayer Book of the Episcopal Church
in the two-fold quality of richness and age. The
proper name, because truly descriptive, for this
Church would be 3s. Church Of the Prayer
90 Churches so here, the Church. champions
,oyapd leaders have many wise things to say
~ about the Church and her prerogative. But
Ss the pious amultitudes that frequent her courts
% are drawn thither mostly by love of the prayers
and praises, the litanies and lessons of the
Prayer Book And, brethren of every name,
certify you that you rarely hear in any church a
go the Prayer Book for some of its choicest
periods. And further doubt whether life has
s9itni store for any of you an uplift so high, or
bedownfan so deep, but that you can find company
~ sntor Your soul and fitting words for your lips
Vie among the treasures of this Book of Common
snJP Prayer aigl7
lsi gIn all time of our tribuaton; in all time of
ed our prosperity in the hour of death and in the
- Day of Judgment; Good Lord, deliver u.s."
sa' AS aeonsequence of the Prayer Book and its
use ! note:-
,o2.,G ,Ghe Episcopal Church preserves q very
high grade of dignity, decency, propriety, and
permanence in all her public offices. To be
using to-day the selfsame words that have
through the centuries declared the faith or made
naa known. the prayer of that mighty multitude,
who being now delivered from the burden of
soAssh, are in joy and felicity. To be baptized in
4, early infancy, and never to know a time when
" " we were not recognized and welcome among
1.-The millions who have entered by the same door.
vtsTo, be confirmed in due time in faith that has
vi sustained noble army of confessors, approving
its worth through prosecutions and properties,
~ a Strength to the tried and Christening to the
neIwalld ysmipded. To be married, by an aqtho-
90 Hty before which kings and peasants bow alike,
O5 asking benediction upon the covenant that with
ylaout respect of persons binds, by the same words
of Htrty hn nd fha N hrin
our newborn children we were brought, tC
begin where we began, and to grow uL
to fill our places To die IL
70 thefffaith, and almost hear the Gospel words
soon to he spoken over ones own grave as oye
H''the thousand times ten thousand OF them who
psh4fve slept in Jesus In short, to be devout
steaud aconsistent Churchman brings a maj
through aises fragrant with holy association
and accompanied by a long procession of tn,
Iasood. chanting as they march a unison of pietl
and hope until they come to the holy plac
where shining saints sing the new song of thu
redeemed. And they sing with them.
Anptfcr eScellence / note-
g. The Episcopal Church furnishes (to all VIII
need such comfort) the assurance OF an organi
,(3hnn lnimokenapnity and succession from Jesu
Christ through the Apostles, by line OF ar
thcntic bishops, down to Bishop Huntington, {
this diocese leave historians an
eeclesiasts to their endless words, and assel
Sgthat tEe poor in spirit who seek comfort an