The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-18

David the words OF the text The Bishop remarked
how like those circumstances and accusations
were to those in which the Reformed Episcopal
Church finds itself to-day. When we we're in the
church, the Bishop said. and protested against the
asked why we did not get out. Now, when we are
out we are asked why we have lett those few sheep
have we done Is there not . cause This brought
the reverend preacher to notice the 0inerence be.
tween the Reformed and the Protestant Episco-
pal churches. He remarked that there may be
no difference outwardy and yet there be great
difference inwaroy. Your faces, he said, are not
utterly unlike as not to have resemblances one to
another, but your minds and Characters are un.
like. II Is not SO much In outward form as In In
ternal structure that our two Churches diner.
And We look not for the cause OF our reform so
much In outward ceremonials as In In ward spirit.
When see vessel on the water my 1rst question
low pressure but whether she Is 3 sale ssiier Ia
the clrcult0us waters where want 70 travel
want to know whether she aoats IKE duck or
cipe to the Protestant Episcopal Church, aud now
does It work. What are the bishops ana presby-
zen OF one OF our Western States who was lately
raised to be Chief Justice of the United States
Supreme Court. Did ne cease 70 be lawyer Or a .
But Is that the relation OF bishop in the Prot.
estant Episcopal Church to his presbytersf You
can see II In their books and hear 1t from all their
pulptts that they are . superior class altogether
This Ia the kind OF fOOd which some OF Us, like
myseli. have been fed nom our boyhood. until 1t
DON'T HUNGER FOR ANY MORE or IT.
The position they take Is that they are the sue
Of hands they can convey the apostolic succession,
II not power, TO others. And all ministers who
out OF the pale OF the Church and the covenant Of
grace, and, indeed. out OF heaven ITSELF In word
nnd sneVS aneg Christ ed rom enssrGa neo the
fulness OF His love. IL ts monstrouS assumption.
No angel ever dared to climb such mount as this.
No angels wing has ever scared SO high. And -
It any wonder, then, that people come to look
upon the bishop az one lar removed rom his TEL
bring q bishop 10 trial for any cause. He deposes
presOyter, elder or deacon not only without, but
against any and al forms o. law ana IN the face OF
Reformed Episcopal church declares that the
over the Church. and is nothing more than o
presoyter. We therefore differ In this regard with
them gave an Illustration Of the necessity for more
than one ecclesiastical cable by reference to the
ease with which errors could be disseminated
through the one Atlantic cable. But now when
there are three the truth or als!ty Of any state
ment can at once be tested. The high Church
Protestant Episcopalians have the one cable OF
apostolca succession. and they declare all Others
to be false. l respect the consistency OF High
Church Episcopahans ana sae'r manly an lndepen1
could not without violation OF the canOnS, ex-
change pupits with ministers OF other denomtna-
tlOns nor receive the sacramento at their hands,
however much faith might have had in their
CHRISTIAN CHARACTER, PURITY OF LIFE
ana usefulness In Inc MdStcTb vineyard. we
might privately express our love TO those brethren
out publicly we were compelled to ostracize them.
Just here the Reformed Episcopal Church has
raised the banner OF Christian love, and We are
ready to receive ministers from other denomina-
tons into our Church without any reordination
and to exchange pulPlts with them.
The Bishop continued TO point out the difYer-
ences that exist between the two episc0pacies in
the matter OF worship. The Protestant Episcopal
Church has its "priests," and chat necessitates
the altar and the sacrifice; and they place their
affairs and their sacrdce at the chanceI end Of the
church, SO that the sinner coming to Christ
must come through the church and by the
way OF the priest. When God placed tile altar or
sacrifice in HIS temple OF old it was not put
IN the holy OF holes but IN the outer court where
the people could come to 1t without going through
the church. The Bishop also gave statement OF
the difference on the question OF bapttsmal re-
generation and quoted from the article OF religion
and from the baptismal service to show the dat
that existed between the two. The
preaching OF the Protestant Episcopal Church, too
has not been according to the Prayer Book. They
tell us about the church and the priest and the
altar, while the people are crying out "Sir, we
would see Jesus" Inc Bishop closed with o STIR
ring appeal to the uncovered to seek Jesus.
Creeds and affairs and priests he said, nothing
IeSu6 only must be all and In all.