The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-07

spoken of freely, openly, and repeatedly by
those who practise il, the young men, members
of the Guild of the Holy Cross, who have made
no effort to conceal It. Names can be given, II
necessary, of these young men making these ad-
missions and statements 10 public places and ia
private families.
These disclosures by them have been deemed
imprudent. but the facts of such private aurcu-
lar confessions and absolutions having taken
place and being part of the system at st. Gle
ment's cannot be denied. IL II be not so, let Dr.
patterson now come out plainly and boldly aud
deny it, instead of trying to dodge it aud explain
it away and cover it up by reference to the
public confession and absolution In the open
services OF the Church. He has not SAID one
word IN denial of this grave charge brought
against him, nor can he deny 1t, and u as IN
cain to say, moreover, that IL is moi comput-
soyy, but DoLe1atdTy and free" The truth is,
the Church in this country conte emplates no such
thing-she makes no provision for it-and one
who has s,oorn at the altar to conform to her
laws and usages, and administer the doctrines
and services of the Church as This CHURCH"
(he Protestant Episcopal Church in these
United States) has received the same" has no
! inherent right, in the words of the Bishop, to
! hear confession and grant absolution "oUFsIDE
| OF THE FORMS AND WAYS SPECIALLY PRO-
YIDED."
But from all this, DR.. PATTERSON says, he
''totally dissents." That is, he will not allow
| the Church to legslate for him, and soIhem him
! in. HIS opinion is superior to the judgment of
! the Bishop, and he will be the judge if the
| Bishops counsel is to be respected and obeyed
| or not He is above the Bishop, and his solemn
ordination vows are not Uery binding after ALL
| He is an "Anglicdn churchman's" he has re-
| ceived his VOWS from the English Church, and
! in has ordination vows he solemnly promised
| conformity to the usages and forms of the "AH-
| gIicGn Church" and not the Protestant Epsco-
| pal Church in these United States How alb
| surd How wilful and insubordinate For
| it is nothing more nor less than an effort
| fn cIIhi aH nd hlisha
astical authority to high-banded insubordination
and defiant misrule. The great difficulty with
| DR.. Patterson and others like him, holding and
| proclaiming and defending aud practising
| these extreme views of what are termed the
| school of advanced ritualists, is this, that they
| swear before God and men and angels to con-
| form to the doctrines and usages of this Church,
| and minister them ''as this Church has received
| the same,' at their ordinatioA--a VOW more
| solemn than which none can be made on earth;
! and Hen from whatever cause or by whatever
influence, are induced to take another set of
| oaths directly at variance with the first, in be-
| coming members of o secret association called
the Gould of the Holy Cross" having its rami-
| ications more or less over the land, the direct
| tionize the Church, since she has in
| their opinion reformed too much to
unprotestantize her, to bring her back
| to state which these gentlemen consider the
beau ideal of more perfect Church than the
one to which they have sworn conformity and
allegiance. They having been admitted by or
| dination into the Church regarded as the great
| bulwark of the Reformation in this country, turn
Bappers and miners, and rather than not succeed
! will blow the whole up, and themselves with It.
! They get aboard the ship in subordinate capa-
city, and then try to turn her into piratical
craft and if the officers protest against it, and
try to get the ship out of their hands, and the
| high handed crew that are helping them, they
show fight and try to cover up their nefarious
designs by the cry of persecution and protesta-
tions OF innocence, etc.
Rnt in raferenpe tn this IC,ui1d nf 10 Ho
| Cross:"-It is the ''hot-bed of all this trouble;
the place" where all these foreign exotics are
forced and obtain their luXuriaut growth-the
| natives of an Italian cline. The constitution
and bylaws and regulations of the order show
it. 1t is as thorough jesuitical organization as
ever was gotten up, and edueates men, neces-
sariy, to dishonesty and deception, as the whole
of its history and operations will show, and
especially the clergy connected with it, necessi-
tating, as it does, the violation of their solemn
ordination vows, for no man can be an honest
| clergyman, that is, true to his vows, and be
associated with, and aid and abet, fits objects
and aims and designs.
It's object, in the printed preface to its consti-
tuition, is, "the development of the ritual AND
DEVOTIONAL element in the Church, rather than
the simply charitable" Hence, what do we
find? Why, that in the development
of the DEVOTIONAL element in the Church,
the same "Guild of the Holy Cross"
has published and seeks to circulate,
among other most Objectionable works, one
1--WE do not care to give 1t circulation by giving
| ltS naue) LOT private ueNOtlOn, pucEed JuH OF
all the stuff here referred to. Prayers for the
souls OF the dead; private auricular confession
and absolution; the seven sacraments; the Ed
chaTistic Cffce, arranged mass fashion, in pa
rallel columns and even ertreme unotion or the
amounting with oil in ertrenis, with Office to
fit; and to cap the climax, the book has neither
the name OF the house that published ii nor the
name of the dishonest hands that compiled it.
Why ashamed of 1t Because its character and
its object are SO nefarious and dishonest and
openly at variance with the practice and teach
ings of the Protestant Episcopal Church
that no one dare ayow himself its author or
openly state from what press 1t was Issued.
Noto 1t Is just branch of this Guild that has
! its nest at st. Clements, with the clergy at its
head pledged to the teachings and practices
stated above, as part and parcel of the ad-
vanced school in question. Prayers for the
we have heard 1t proclaimed there that there are
more than two sacraments 'euen ndny') 'Tte
mass" for that is the term used by these gen.
tlemen of the Guild rather than "Eucharist') },
'auricular confession, and private absolution,
'extreme Junction." and Kind of purgatory,
which DIR. PATTERSON in his discipline calls a
third place, In which Mr. Goodwin says the
souls of those that do not go direct to heaven
are detained, to be helped by the prayers and
oblations of the living, and especially in tie
Eucharistic sacrifice, when they pray that "we
and all thy whole Church may obtain remission
OF our sins, etc.
The officers of no parish certainly can expect
to get along quietly with a secret association ol
this kind within Its bosom, pledged to such
teachingsand favoring such practices.
. AS 10 the etiieaciousness of prayers for the
{ souls OF the dead, Mr.. Norris asked whether
the rector approves and gives his assent to the
doctrine as to prayers for the dead advanced by
the Rev. Mr.. Goodwin, in his sermon delivered
at ST. Clements Church on the evening of the
, last Wednesday in Advent and whether the