, 1874-02-01

recent act Of i Consecration by single Bishop,'
and our mouths are closed against the plea o1
that irregnlaEity. --,
This Church would not give the .'6race o1
stolan She hnd .seuough and to spare,
and she boarded. She was rich aud
ehe vas not willing that anybody else
should bo rich, except as her dependent and vas
sal. It is not too much to say that tMs CAulcn
might have teoonciled the American Methodlsts
after she got her Episcopate, if she could have
conceded to them any independence. But no
They must make their unqualified submission,
and they could not be trusted, and go the neSo-
tation was broken of, and the sch1sm contin"
her Ministry, as ehe has habit Of doing. for
she likes to be complimented by s. distinguished
conversions" /" it is one Of l,or toibIes, and now
he has made OF with her jewels-aud who is to
b1ame?
The Methodists "took away our cloak" when
they revised p" the doctrines Of grace, IN the
midst Of the dreary religious apathy OF the eight
eenth century. We ourselves, ought to hnFe
beed "clnd with zeal, ns cloak" And now that
"a Methodist" has " taken away our coat aiso,
think this Church had better be silent. and wals
to see what the Lord will do with Hia own scam
less garment, though men may 'east lots for it,
whose it shall be-" .-..
4. And. vet, one more thought, that presses
upon me so strongly, that must mention y !
do not 1ax your patience to elaborate 1t. Chf1ss
come q
He seemed to come out of Ga'ilee. Salvation waa
..of the Jews, though the best OF them were Phar!-
Secs And everything, the Church
that is-*' Of the house and Aiease OF the
Apostles by record. is the Church that shall
show forth Christ to the Wise Men Of tho Cen
tiles and to the simple ones OF Judah.
Another Methodist Crexas) newspaper Won
dera why soue Churchmeu arc go an1ious to
reconcile the Methodists to the Church, saying
tnQt the Methodists would swallow us up at 8
mouthtul, and We should lose our identity III
their yast corporation. So they could avalon
us np?" but We should bo as indigestiblo
as Jonah was to the whale and, while such
q sudden increase OF our size would be
perilons, and bring ing great confusion
and disorder to the Church, there is no
more doubt as to the result OF such an " in
gathering Of the Gonriles than thoro was Of
The vitality OF the 1ittle IS Church OF the Cir
cuncision-" "The little one would become
thousand, and the small one q strong nation" !"
And tout Of Bethlehem ehoulu He come forth to
rule that people, Israel" though Galilee should
Nazareth should ba the refuge OF His childhood.
Error is never dangerous when truth is left
fres to combat it." WAS she maxim Of one OF our
s1lrewdest statesmen in worldly. affairs. And
this church has nothing to fear from Ephraim,
though Eph1ain have become ia mixed multi
tude," as Ephralm ought to have no quarrel with
Judah,--a if q ten parts III David decided tue
bi1thright, or truth were governed "by uaajori-
ties"
Il tho "Apostolic Succession be a gift OF
God, it is gift in trust, and not in fee, and We
must behave with it as trustees and not IS own,
ers. II any man. of blaneless life and sound
learning and approved plety, wants this ''Gfaco
OF Orders" to use for the glory Of God and the
salvation OF souls, we must ind some way to
give it to him, regularly; hecanse it ia his, as
much as it ia OURS.
II any sect, which does not deny 1.-THE
*ri+1 IN trip INIT
upholds and aflrms the Apostles and the
Nicene Creeds. is willing to take this Grace "
from our hands, and to amend its ministerial
order and discipline By Some Catholic rule. We
must share our trust with thst sect, and not be
80 tenacious, as We have been. Of our superior
ity, rs il ne owned the Church aud all her priv
leges. ....
The succession, it it be ssthe gift OF God,
will not only take OF ITSELF but it will take
care Of the men that get it. Its influence will
be conservative md educational. 1t viii llfe
the sects up ont Of the sensitiyeness OF coE-
scious inferiority to the Church into the eqaan-
unity Of conscious equality. It's diffusion will
put stop to our superclliousness toward the
sects If their ministry and sacraents become as
good as ours. And it will remove tho very root
dissenting minister ehaN be as good a
" Catholic priest as the Archbishop OF CGuter-
bury or tho Pope Of Rome
And il this Church will not take warning, from
recent events, to become more liberal IN her
dispensatiou OF this gift Of God. the Apostolic
ministry, to men that hold e the Faith, We must
expect that the gift will "leak out more and
more. by suf7eptitious means. until tbs g}cry OF
this Bethlehem shall be clonded and obscurcd,
and Christ shall seem to como "out OF Naza-
reth, aud all they that speak in His Name shall
be Galiieaus.
a lsrge meeting Was hold ut Dr.. Brooks
church, ST. Louis. Jan. IS, in the interest Of the
Reformed Episcopal Church. The Rev. Mason
Gallagher, member Of the Standing Commit
tee OF the Reformed Church: explained the
reasons for the new departure to q large audi
ence. Mr.. Gallagher referred to the growth OF
Romanist ideas IN the Episcopa1iAn Church, aud
especially to tho movement IN England to re-
establish the confessional, and to the fact that
Dr.. Pusey and g hnnlreds Of others preach
openly in England the doctrine Of the Eucharist,
for wh1ch DR.. Pusey Was, in 1873, condemned
aud Suspended" as evidence Of the growth OF
Romsn IDEAS in the Church in England. So fer
rs thia country is concerned, Mr. Gallagher re-
marked that there we're three r1tuallstic lnstitu-
ti6ns in full blast in New York, viz.: those of
St. A1baps, ST. Ignatius. and st. Mary
the Virgin. Here the confessional, the 1nnss
and prayers for the dead. aud tile cultus Of the
Virgin were openly adyoc1ted. Tho services
were similar to the Romish as, 81 Prayer for
the holy dead will be said, and the Blessed
Sacrament administered tomorrow (Thursday)
morning, ut 8 o'cloca, 1T the Church OF st. Mary
the Virgin, West Forty-i fifth street, near Broad
way" The speaker also referred to DR.. De-
koyen's ritualistic practices, aud sud that Dr.
Dix, Of New York, the rector OF the richest cor
poration in this country, advocated the coa-
fessiona1 and the whole Hacerdota1 system Of tho
ritua1sts. In view Of these statements, Mr.
Gallaghe inquired il there WAS not cause for
the Reform movement. he argued tbst it was
as impossible to stay in ths Church and reform
it, as it would be to star in a sinking ship nnd
try to keep it afoat. Every effort had been
tired to save the sinking aMp before Bishop
Cummins left it. Petition after petition for
relief Ind been rafl1sed, and cas,ons had been
made more stringent aud oppressive Said Nj.
Gallagher:
Whenever ths Bishops have aoughs 10 check the
evil. they have been disappointed. Bishop EastbuTa
tried it in Boston, and lost much OF his influence
thereby. Bishop atcuyaino interfered in Ohio,
and was stgn1aized rs tytant- Bishop Stevens has
recently rebuked Father Reilly, but the offender goes
calmly on his work Of unproteatanuzing his parish.
Dis.op afcIlraine inquired OF the Archbishop OF Can
terbnry aud the Bishop Of London "Why they did
not suppress the evil" They sajd, at in too late Ii
We discipline one hundred will demand to be triedn
1t Is too late, both here and in England.
ELSEWHERE.
4 Reformed Episcopal church has been or
ganized in Monckton, New Brunswick under the
title Of st. Pa1llfs Church, and tue Rev. r. e.
Fcl1Neu has been called to its rcctorship.
It is said that 100000 have been subscribed
with great promptness in the City Of New York
in aid Of BiaAop Cumu1ips in organizing and sus-