, 1874-06-14
THE BROAD-CHURCH PARTY.

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zon Of the Episcopal Church. About threa-scor.
OF its clergy met the other day at New Haven
Conn.,, and "expressed " ESQ runs the report O.
the Church and Slate) "a very strong feeling
in favor Of progressive policy, a. generous toll
Grafton and comprehensiveness, and an adapla.
ton Of the Church to its mission in this age
Bishop Clark, Of Rhode Island, lent his coun.
tenance to the occasion, ana 1t ia understood
that the occasion had the sympathy of Bishops
Huntington, Leo, and Potter, and that there are
| several other prelatcs who do not frown upon
the movement, and would pray for it if there
were any prayers in tue book suitable to the e1-
igency. Among the names Of the reverend
notewoTthies present We notice those OF Cot
ton Smith, Ozgood, c. II. Butler, Hugh Miller
Thompson. Newton, Arthur Brooks, Rylanco,
Harwood, Potter, Kirkus, Beardsley Wharton,
| Richards, aud Andrews.
| Dr.. c. II. Butler read paper, in which be op-
| posed ali legislation against the Ntualists, or
High Church party, and advocated concessions
to the Evangelical, OF Church party. Ho
would, for example, nllow the latter to attach
such meaning as they prefer to the taptismal
formula, and to define the word priest in the
Prayer-Book to mean only "presbyter." DR..
Hugh Miller Thompson read paper on s'Lib-
erty in the Use Of the Prayer Book" and main-
tMned that Is literal conformity to it WAS i'm
possible" and that !" the clergy should be at
liberty to compile special services from it for
t.
congress for the discussion OF these and kin
dred points next autumn, during the sitting Of
the Episcopal Convention.
This movement takes it's cue, Of course, from
similar one Of long standing in the English
Church, which ts divided into three distinct and
separate ecclesiastical scctions called for ehort in
England, "Tle Broads," 1.-THE II Highs" or
Ritualistg, and u The Lows" or Evansolicalg,
The last two do the biting and devouring of one
another, and would in all probability have made
an end of the Establishment if not Of them
selves, By this timo but for the presence of tho
third, or Broad party, who not only draw the
fire Of both contestants. but-nevor return |
it! This, while exasperatingto to the contestants,
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Broads assume an attitude toward tho other two |
parties somewhat similar to that which Dr.. |
Watts, in well-Enown hymn enioins upon /
Juvenile Christians as respects tile dogs, which |
God made On purpose to do the barking and Bit
ing
The Broads avoid controversy, escAew the !
dogmas, or preserve them held in poetical
solution, and acquiesce in what they cannot alter
until they can alter it. They strotch tho mantle
Of their charity over The Ritualstc performances
Of Mr. Maconechy at St. Albans, and the Evan
gelical abstinencee Of Dean Close at the Carlisle
They would humor ALI Snirts in its
candles, Father Ienatius in his diatribes against
Henry VIII as church founder, and ths Record
IN its disgust for bonediction pronounced with
.ho back Of tho head instead OF the palms of tho
hands In word, tho policy Of tho Broads is the
opposite OF that Of the dog in the mauger-ther
Til eat end let eat whether the "real presence
"a IN the elements, or only in the morbid
'1egesis Of the communicant. They will not 70
nut OF tho Church themsel7es, or allow anybody
'lse to 60 out, If they can hely it.
They are enabled to bo OF great
'elvre to the Establishment also bv
keeping up ahow of catholicity to "thcm
nat are Without" They etand between tho
and the Eyangelcals who
hsade their acrimonious zeal for God between |
opposition to disestabliahmcnt and repudiaton
II DissenteEs. In this country the word ovan-
;elical has only doctrinal application: in En-
land it is as strictly party, If not q political,
designation as Tory, Conservative, or Ub;1 .
here it is the Broads, and not the Eyanpelica,s
tho have tho dealings with non-Episcopal Chris- :
Ians. Denu Stanley has sisnided his willing ,
ess to exchange pulpits with Nonconformist
ainistcr, and he and Dean Afford. shortly before
ho death Of the LITTER, had about made up their q
ainds, OF, rather, bodies, to do so but there d
'as. If not 8 lion in the way. at least q canon, b
'hlch their lawyers advised them not to brave, =
lean Howson would not object, nor would \
ishop Temple, or Archbishop Tait, to having =
10 CANON spitod. So there ia no knowing how :,
Jon ~ may hsar Of Mhx Mullor'z lecture It ths