The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-06-25
rbe Reformed Church Of Cummlns.
From the Re,O York Herald.

From the Rew York Herald
The debate which is nov going or si1ong
the seceders from the Protestant Episco-
pal Church of the United States over the
Iubrics and ritual 10 be accepted by the
organization which they are attempting to
form, suggests good deal more than seems
10 lie clearly in the mines Of the debaters.
il inevitably RENTS attentive Observers to
tie the original question Of the authority
~ witch these rubrics and this ritual are
to be enforced and maintained after they
enall once have been adopted, There are
gooo many points Of difference between
the discipline Of the Anglican Church and
tae discipline OF the Protestant Episcopal
Church Of the United States, but the one
j. substantially founded upon the traiitlous
and body of the ether, and therefore
IN the last resort Of the establishment
Of the Anglican Church by the Fog
hsh state. The followers, or as is would
be more accurate 30 call them, the COM
rades, Of Bishop Cummins no doubt imag-
u lat al ssebts they seem to us to imagine
thatby hoidir e. .as we presume they mean
70 ho'd, as the original Wesleyans certain.
~ held, to the dogma of the Apostolic sue
cession, they will be able 20 give to their
new eoclesia.tical enterprise the form and
consistency of persisting and continuing
church. We feer they viii find themselves
mistaken, AM we are very sure that that il,
= net ~ virtue Of this DOGMA, but rather
BY virtue Of it's legalized and historical
status that the Angl can Church bas
preserved 30 far ito Conference and it's char
actcr, and transmitted tor the Protestant
Episcopal Church OF the United States
whatever that body still possesses of ceher-
ence and Of character.
In a long discussion which took place
on EFidaY 10 the council of the +" Reformed
Episcopal Church" one of the members
objected to certain change proposed to
litany, on the ground that if it ere made
other changes would have to be pIade etc
make the whole harmonize," and this, Re
bought, would give place to tie inter-
inction of heresy." II would be interest
INC to know by what process in sucn an or
ggnization as the reformed Episcopa |
church definition Of "heresy' can be
come ut, and still more BY what nr3cess it
is proposed hat "neresy," if defined,
snail be effeetually disc iplined.' For
we presume that tue members Of the new
arganizat. on do not Intend. to confound
hcresy with heatleuism or infdelity,- and
yet We find them, Immediately after this
gentleman had. carried his point, adopting
. rubrioc for the most solemn sacrament of
Tie church vhich requires the minister Of
floating at the belly conmsnicn to utter
Il sns of other branches OF Christs Church,
and all who love our diyi O d sd S vi
or Jesus Christ in sincerity" to partake of
ehe sacred elements. The penalty of ex-
communication, which is absolutely essen
sial to anv,hing like an ineligible aGmin-
istration Of church discipline as against
" heresy,' is thus Mt once and completely
sbo ished. We do not say that it ought
not TO be. We are not considering the
matter a, all from the point of view Of the
elder and established churches. We mere
y seek to roist out what must strike all
aopelessness Of any attempt to organize
and administer what Bishop Cummlns and
MS comrades Insist upon calling church
rnon tic principles on which they are pro
ceeding. So far rs they succeeded only in
ftrn,ing kind Of ecclesiastical Caucus
which my be a very good thing, perhaps,
ut does not much resemble church.
Some of the eide issues raised in this eau
Gus on Friday last we're more calculated, i:
strikes US, to excite the amusement than
- awaken the admiration or kitsdle the
sympathy of merely worldly observers. II
can hardly tend to ediicaticn, for example,
TO lind the Hon. Mr.. Stewart L. Woodford
)ncosely urgirg the Importance of so nodi-
tying the regular order Of divine service as
70 insure steady force of prayer il behalf
IF himself and his brother congressman,
both in session and out of session. No
doubt Mr.. Woodford is right, and if it ever
aan do the Average congressman any good
st all to pray for him, he must need il.
quite as much when lie is humhugging his
constitute nts at home as when be is con.
spring against the public purse ut Wash
iaston But the fathers surely deal. with
taese matter ia another spirit, did they
motif Still more Enthusiastically was q motion
made, and very seriously urged, to strike
cut of the prayer for "all those II. civil
authority" the words in health aud pros
perity long TO Ike Phis was deus on the
extroainsry ground that there 10 no" SCRIP
tural authority to pray for those in
authority after they have left their
Office One of the supporters of this
riotion held that christians could not
conscientiouly pray for the long life Of those
~ho were always acquiring wealth, some1
times not by the NEST honest means sure
", if there be anything in this it is better
to pray for such people when they are out
Of Office than when they are in Office, thcir
rover of dishonest acquisition ceasin2 and
determining in most cases when the doors
Of the treasury are shut on them And
bid as the politicians are, are they the an
ly people who are always acquiring wealth
sometimes not by the most honest means9 :
The poet tells us in the noble death-speecn
of King Arthur that
-Authorit. foryets dying King"
bn, Is il not ratt r a new thing for Chris
fans 10 limit their interest in their frllow.
nor;uls by "tenur.. of Office" bl!lf
LANGUAGE OF TEE CLosrs.- The co'ors
OF the sky at particular times afford won
derfully good evidence. Nc: only does rosy
sunset presage isir weather and rudy sun