New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-24
JOINT COMMUNION.
ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION BY VARIOUS PENS
A VALID MINISTRY NECESSARY TO ADMINISrER The
SACRAMENTS.

that the Episcopal Church regarded one ministry
valid another and Presbyterian diyines were
received England and admitted 10 parishes without
| coordination" Now mis- wouldbe defender "W. A. NJ"
comes forward aud asserts that Tho validity OF the
ministry OF any church question nothing to tho pur
nose since the Lords Supper OF necessity requires no
ministry At all" In his view the Holy Sacrament IL
merely a social aot" Perhaps. with another. no would
call it only club supper" He says Bishop COmmins
and Dr. Hall simply In their Christian character united
| in the Holy Communion" Docs Bishop Cummins then
say TO Dr. Hall: regarded you that ordinance only
| as ayman e. This ia hedging with a vengeance In
order TO screen the Bishop No ministry necessary TO
| celebrate tho Holy Sacrament DIR. Hall might have
been regarded by the prisoner as only ayman III tno
Doctor can stand the soft impeachment nothing more
need be said.
| Whatever may DO Bishop Cummnss views. Bishop
Easburn. the late Bishop Of Massachusetts, pro-
nounced Low Churchman aud sterny consistent once,
am informed rebukod OF his clergy for inviting
Methodist preacher into bis chanco 10 assist him at the
administration OF tho Holy Communion. and gave the
unruY Clergyman the privilege TO resign the minkty OF
the Church or else submit to discipline. The clergy
man resigned and was deposed
The act OF Bishop Cummins was certainly q grave
breach of ecclesiastical order believe IL "a the gen
era sentiment of tho Church that 1t Irregular and
openly hostile TO the Church.
Now what do men generally think Of such conductf
One OF public journals has well sald' IN the"e oays
OF deporable disposition to disorder aud iawle7snes
ccrgymen all Others IA the leaders OF their hock
ought the example OF conformity to Establishes
regulations"
What is tho result OF Bishop CummiDss exercise OF MS
private Judgment In this matter APresbyterian or
Methodist preacher returns home from the Alliance and
contrasts the Episcopal rector with the Droau, hoera
evangelical Bishop CummiDs. The Episcopal clergyman
| ia invited to join ia joint communion. PreSby'
terrain laynan says to the dsmayed rector.
Well now your bigotry and exclusYencss
| will DO tramplod down, Bishop Cummins has
| thrown bombshe into your Episcopal camp
We will invite him to come into the midst OF us the
Evangelical Alliance will pay hm,a salary 70 go into dif
fereat and parishes to put his foot upon tho
bigotry Of your church. and no will show that you and
your people bound down by jewish excluSlVeneSa
! and intolerance"
No doubt Bishop Cummns will gain great popularity
with the Inassos there sober dynes IN tho
different denominations who will not countenance hiS
venture aud who realize the value OF Episcopal ordina
ton az bass OF organic unity venerable Presbyte.
rian divine ia speaking OF the efforts to bring aboni
Christian unity has written am glad the-SpsoOpai
Cb1Gn IA moving IN that direction That church mas
| better government than any Protestant church Ino
Episcopal Church can do much TO harmonic Frotsttns
| ChrlsondOm. Though l am not a believer IA hposIo-
zeal still, for the sake OF union WIN EpsOo
paans, wish we had. In their estimatlon, oaln As
| good their that IL 70 say, wish we anu bho
Baptist aud the MethOdists had rec lVed Orulhls,o
Though the Episcopal Church, OF some other channel
| esteemed by them valid as their own. @lsh the
the rsasou tat have stated-ttat OF uaion. aud that
qualified candidates for the ministry were ordained h
tbem or by Episcopal Bishops VITA the exception ina.
they would settle, opportunity offered III 0'le'
churches" g. 800,
Let Chri tans bold TO the Apostolic ministry, which,
according 10 the admission of ALL prevailed universally
the second century. ana TO tie primitive creeds aud
then the substantial unity OF ch1stendom IL assured
Let me Evangelical Alliance cease sneering at what one
Of its members calls Linen decenc'es anc snpei9toua
Tne Low Church party will not give up the ministry
under the lead o. Bishop Cunmins or anyone eisci ono
OF the organs VI eeCtarlansm says OF Low Cntrcn-
men We sympathize with them. TneJ belong 10
Church which, with great swelling words, cans her
meetiD ghOuscs cathedrals church well adapted 10
attract ashionabe aud worldly classe highly pecta
Die who have no experience of faith or its power.
reyiysl T5e Low Church viii not improve its spiritual
condition II tle Low Church remain. they wiz be con
oS Ib , v 6e grond otween the up1er and
neither milestone they remain IN IL and hold 70 Success
Rnt tbev little understand the value which Ohurchmen
put upon The doctrine OF Apostolic succession VINO sup
That VIII ston to the ABOVE appeal OF INVITA-
| One Of the greatest champions OF the Low Church.
speaking OF both the parties within the Church, says
! I've are entirely united. In what suffer from
the multiplied Protestant denominations around us who
renounce, and not unfrequenty reyie our Epscopacy
This outside Professionalism Will grant peace upon no
terms other than entire remuneration OF the claims
which we make 10 a scrptural ministry, and OF our
derived right thereto through an appointed sGccessOh
from the apostles THIS IS point when we can never
! with good conscience yeld; We oene'e OUT
selves contendlng the faith IN the ministry which
the Lord established And precious and desirable as
10 all CHRISTIANS, we cannot make
snip reck OF faith and good conscience 10 obtain H.
This resulting position OF necessary separation from
many Christians around, whom we highly esteem "a
uo To DO regretted But 1t appears inevitable, and 10
IA not we who sought IT, Nor can the Dlame OF u
rest upon Tie hrm aud equal devotion of all TO the
principles of the Clurch has been thoroughly proved"
conclusion let me add That the ninth canon OF the
Church shows the necessity OF Episcopal ordnauon or
"A valid ministry In order administer the Sacramenis
Il provides hat the lay reader shall be licensed 0y tho
proper authority; that he shall NOT use the aoSousiOn
nor tho DenedictOn The offices OF the Church. eK
cept those burial the dead ami for the vista
the ansSutons and benedictions." does this
port with statement That the Lords supper Of
Niagara FdLS. ". T.. oct %, 1873. OLD CATHOLIC.
TIE RECOGNITION or PRESBYTERIAN ORDINATION
THE REAL POINT Al ISSUE.
TO the EDITOR OF The Tribune.
SIR: 1t is with great surprise that | read ID
yonr issue Of this morning the two remarkable
OF "W A. NJ" and "Historcus" TO the letters which
appeared the previous day. The answers are "a
srikngly ey asve and unsatisfactory that they in
themselves very good evidence OF the weakness Of tho
defense Of Bishop Cummins. The first OF these writers
utterly msunderstands the point at ISSUE and rests hs
defense on the claimed right OF all Christians 10 partsks
OF the communion together. The question Is OF very
different nature and relates entirely 10 the right OF
Bishop Cummns TO recognize the orders OF Presby.
terrain ministers. Bishop Cummins did not partake OF
the communion individual Christian. but took
part in its celebration his official capacity -
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church" Ho
thereby gated the validity OF Presbyterian ordna
ton; for he acknowledged the right OF Dr. Hall and
others to celebrate the communion as well as himself.
a right which his own church. in common with most
| other religious bodies. sccords to the clerical
| order alone. The unfounded assertions Of
| sw A. NJ" Of the early right OF laymen to
celebrate the Holy Communion nothing to the pur-
nose Even were true, they could not Undioato
Bishop Cummins for clearly was his act intended
recognition OF Presbyterian Orders, that he himself
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