Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-17
EST7A BIISHED 1910.
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THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
a letter in another column from Rev.
George c. Harris, the esteemed rector OF
st. Msry's Episcopal church, does us
unintentional injustice, and therefore
calls for word OF two OF comment,
which We shah make with all Difference
to his calling, promising first that we
are in no sense the organ Of the Catholic
or any other church, and do not 60 out
of our way TO find matter distssteful to
or lrfriendsof his communion. Mr.. Harris
is not insensible of the fact that by
reason Of the zeal of what are
known ia his church as "ritualists, I"
Episcopacy has for some years been
kept prominently before the public Of
both continents. he viii remember
that as far back as the days Of Pusy those
people who are full of the vanity of
''newness,n - and are nothing if not maxi
ing fiutter in their garish tinsel and
show, have occupied an almost standing
place in the columns of the leading pa
pers Of England and America, secular
as vel as religious. Since 1865 they
have been especially aggressive within
the limits Of their church, and have
gone on step by step from one thing to
another, each one more grossly offen-
sive THAI another to their conservative
brethren, keeping quiet people as on
nettles, apprehensive for the integrity,
If not the safety, OF the church. The
progress of this work Of change, viola
tive as it is of all the simplicities Of a
besutiful ritual, has necessarily led to
newspaper nOtOriety and newspaper
controversy, most of which, in the dis
charge Of our duties as Journalists, we
have made room for in the columns of
the APPEAL. If this can be con-
strued into hostility to the Epis-
oopal church we fail to see
it. For the Episcopal church as a body,
we have the high respect to which it is
entitled by reason of the piety and ex-
alted worth Of its clergy, its beautiful
liturgy, the high position of its lay
members, and the laboss it has per-
formed in eyangelizing the world. To
be hostile to it we should have to forego
some Of our dearest memories and be
come obliviOus to The nursing care" she
has ever extended,tO the literature of our
Language. No. We are not hostile 10
that or to any church, believing, as we
do, that all have their mission, and that
all are, perhaps, necessary even in the
present advanced condition Of the
world. We have p1blished the move
ments Of those people in the Episcopal
church, whom one Of that communion
has hkened to evolves in sleeps cloth
ing" and have commented on those
movements as we thought the condition
of public feeling here would warrant.
That is all. As to the difference be-
tween "resl presence and "trans-
substantiation," it is not evena shad-
Ow. A careful reading Of Bishop Tom
Inns comments on the "articlesn in
Brownelps commentary on the prayer
book win prove this to the satisfaction
Of Mr.. Harris, who Is, perhaps, rusty,
for it is some years since he was can
didate for orders. Webster, who is au-
thority in all our schools and colleges,
giving the meaning of the words "real
presence" +" says it is ''the actual pres
enee Of the body and blood Of Christ in
the eucharist, or the conversion of the
substance Of the bread and wine into
the real body and blood of Christ" It
is the merest sophistry to contend for
any real difference between these terms.
They are convertible, and are so re-
gaTded by the ri-ualists. Those Of them
who have advanced with DR. Ever do not
hesitate to avow all the doctrines the
Protestant" Episcopal church protests
against, and with them to adopt all
the usages that characterized the medi-
eval church. There is but one drawback
to their complete harmony with the
church Of Rome for whose consistency
We have an uneeasing respect and
admirstion), and that is the /" celibacy
Of the clergy" and some Of them
who are not troubled with wives, are
disposed to waive their right to that in
cumbraRce. That is the fact, stripped
OF all subterfuge and double-dealing
When DR.. Rogers, an ardent friendship
for whom led US to justify him by con-
fraofipu his oou Hucf with fbat of his
hate bishop, went to Rome, he went
following the logic he had INDUCED in
to its legitimate conclusion. Those who
are now following in his tracks should
make haste to take the same step, and
put an end forever to the newspaper
notice Of the Episcopal church of which
Mr.. Harris complains. The way is
open.