The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1872-01-07
VOLUME ".
Msrning Star and Catholic Messenger.


Of the Episcopal Church in the Unitel
States, 50 That no moral change 10 wrough
in the soul by Baptism," |" brings mp to The
minds Of many the celebrated case Of Cor.
ham %. tho Bishop Of Exeter, decided BY
the Court OF Appeal Of tho Chuich Of Eng.
land, In 1850.
The Rev. Nr. Gorham was nominated by
the Lord Chancellor to . curacy in tho dio-
cese Of Exeter, the bishop OF which was a
High Churchman and believed in baptismal
regeneration as distinctive dogma of the
Church Of England. He refused to institute
MF. Gorham into the benifice for unsound.
ness of doctrine, he believing, an the
American Prelates now do, that the thirty :
nine articles do not teach baptismal re-
generation. Nr. Gorham instituted suit
against the bishop in the Court Of Arches,
which court is what is left of the ecclesi-
astical jurisdiction Of the PrimRte of all
England-it being the Prerogative Court
Of Canterbury; the sentences are delivered
in the name Of the Archbishop, although
the Judge is q simple layman, and he alone
which was in the G0rham cese in favor of
the bishop. Mr.. Gorham appealed and the
Supreme Court of Appeals for Anglicans
decided in his favor, so that, since that
decision, baptismal regeneration has ceased
to be dogma in the Church of England.
As this celebrated case was the fret of q
series of similar ones since decided, it gave
rise to great excitement amongst Episcopa--
lians, both in England and America. The
Bishop of Exeter called Diocesan Synod
to affirm that article of the Niceno Greed,
mission of SINS" There was also q protest
published against holding the Synod,
signed by fifty -four clergymen of the dio-
cese of Exeter there were also immense
meetings held at st. Martins and at Free
masons' Hall, at which petitions to her
Majesty were agreed to aud afterwards
presented by Lord Nelson, requesting her
Majesty to order the revival Of synodical
functions in the Church of England and
convening the ancient convocation of the
Church. But the most important docu-
ment put forth on the occasion was resolu-
tions, published in the ISmes of March 10,
1850, signed by ten celebrated dignitaries
of the Church of England, and some emil
nent lawyers, the first name signed being
H. E. Manning, NJ. A., Archdeacon of Chi
chester; but the only effect of all these re-
monstrances was the conversion of many
ardent souls to the true Church.
The court of last resort for Apglicans, in |
which all the celebrated cases from Gorham |
rs. the Bishop of Exeter, to that of the |
Colenso case in 1865, are heard and decided, |
is the Queen in Council, and not the House |
of Lords, as some otherwise we'll informed |
persons believe. By two statutes e and 3,
C. al y such an appeal is to be heard by the |
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,
and it's sentence is final and definite, and
not subject to further review. Its members
are all laymen, and may belong to any
creed, or be mere infidels, with
only one exception; for the Lord Chancel-
lor (who in the Gorham case could not act
as being party) must not be Catholic.
The Judgment of the Privy Council legal
izing the heresies of the Essays and Re-
views," and the unbelief of Bishop Colenso,
was the occasion of DR.. Manning (now
of Westminster) writing his
celebrated letter to DR.. Pusey on the +
SO Workings of the Holy Spirit in the
Church of England. DPS.
New Orleans, January 4, 1872.