The New York herald., 1874-11-08

I OF adultery, unless 1t be the remarriage OF d.
yorced persons. The Convention also expressed
Its emphatic disapprova OF our modern style OF
church singing, in which the devil receives greater
! homage than the Lord nimse. subject which
! is supremely dear to the Episcopal heart espe-
cialiy OF that heart whose ideas are exalted,
or tending that way-namely, the unity OF
the Anglican communion into one Ecumenical
Council or something akin thereto-alsO received
attention. And joint Commission was appointed
| TO perfect such union between "The American
! Church" and the English Church In Canada. Pro-
| vision was made also for the mutual exchange and
transfer OF ministers from one country and Church
TO the other. And In like manner deposition or
suspension from the ministry by Bishop in one
country Is made obligatory upon bishops in the
other country. or O kindred nature TO this action
was also that which provided for representation in
the next English Church Congress at Stoke, and a
second Lambeth Council and the efforts TO get all
English speaking EpiscopalIans throughout the
world to unite in kind OF universal patriarchate,
with the Archbishop OF Canterbury as supreme
pontif. One OF
THE GREAT DELUsIoSs OF THE AGE.
not only in the Episcopal Church but in other
Churches, 49, that the pretensions and assumptions
or the Church OF Rome can be met only by visible
union OF Protesrantsm under some sort OF apos-
toc succession. What care the masses whether
the preacher claims descent from an apostle or
nol9 That which makes any man good and true
Is oftener acquired than inherited, while the evil
and weakness in every man Is both inherited and
| acquired. In the same general line also was the
attemp to have the Nicene creed altered so as to
conform to the orthodox Eastern Church's version
Oft and the continuance OF commission on union
or fraternal relations with the Greek Church. The
Convention decided IN this case that no such
alteration was needed, since the phrase which
<hA unIx tf,o
Father and Son (the Fllioque) can be explained
and understood In an orthOrdOx sense. The Con-
Tor a court OF appeals, to when all questions in.
volving doctrine, discipline and worship should be
referred for adjudcaton, THIS would necessarily
which the Bishops are extremely jealous.
| In view OF the condition OF affairs IN the South
since the war closed, and especially IN louisiana
| South Carolina and Tennessee, the change IN the
Prayer Book asked for by Mr.. Cornwall, OF Ken.
tucky, will be fully appreciated. He wanted The
substitution OF prayer for the President and oil
IN au minority 1.-THE same that was used IN colonial
times with the insertion merely OF the President
for the royal family, prepared In 1881, i0r that
I now IN use rhe chief difference between the two
is that the one proposed has petition lot grace,
that they may execute justice and MAINTAIN truth,
and that the people may lead quiet ana peaceaole
lives in gOdllness and honesty. There Is an impi-
cation IN this proposed substitution that rulers
lack the qualities OF heart and intellect PRAYED for
aud tnat. therefore, all our troubles have come
upon US ana continued with US. The Convention
and elected bishops thereto, namely:-Two in
Texas, one In California, enc In New Mexico and
Arizona, one ID Japan and one in Hayt, w. I. The
more bishop the more Church and no bishop no
Church. Hence the denominations that are not
favored with such high ecclesiastical dignitaIieS
merely sects, while tnat which has bishops,
but not OF apostolic descent, is no better. but
perhaps little worse, for It sets up
Roman Catholic Church, with 4.5Oo,ooo ad-
i've archSisnops ana I bishops tn the Menodists
with 100000 adherents manage their
eScleslastcal anairs So with nineteen etc bishops
following and the Episcopalians have iorty-eight
regular besides the missionary bishops referred to
and the Convention has also taken the necessary
action to add another diocese and bishop to New
Jersey, OHIO, Michigan and Wisconsin. SO that
filled the eco 900 Protestant Eplscopalians in the
United States will be governed and supervised by
nearly sixty apostolic shepherds.
The secret discussions which took place one
OF the candidates for episcopal h0nors were not
very creditanle 70 e.neT parry IN sne controversy
words and acts II not OF downright alsehood and
lying Indeed among vulgar person, the contra
would be called barefaced lies, bur OF course min
listers and bishops or the Churcn would not stoop
TO such weapons 70 accomplish their ends. Had
DR.. seymour taken the manly course OF DR.. Orrtck
and Withdrawn hts name as soon as the secret op-
have slood 100 per cent higher to-day among
churchmen and others than he does. He could
also have given the Convention reouke on that
line OF business, which one else had so good a
chance to administer to it. But he preferred to
take the chances, and both he and The Convention
have IaIlen thereby in the estimation Of right
thinking, sensible persons That
THE REJECTION OF DIR. SEYMOUR
was proper act cannot be questioned; but the
methods by which that result was obtained may be
questioned. One Of the charges pressed against
some OF his defenders claim IS the motive power
OF q man the steam which drives the locomotive
and draws the train along. correspondent OF the
HERALD gives an outline OF the Kind OF man that is
needed for the episcopacy no matter IN what
man Of humanity just and fair dealing toward his
clergy; not insolent because he has power, not
q minister Or stirrer up OF strlie-one who s
exhibit double dealing that would be considered
mean and despicab1e IN secular vocations Of any
sort and under any guise. bishop should be- as
much as possible, o non partisan In Church quar-.
rels II he would not drive scores and hundreds
away from the communion OF the Church. Hun
dreds II not thousands Of people are shut out OF
the Church from this cause-a want OF WISDOM
decision OF character defniteness and justice on
the part OF men who in all things should be
examples to the flock. Bishops should be men OF
principle who VIII execute justice though the
heavens fall, but who at the same tune Will
not grind the faces OF their clergy by oppression
and cruelty thinking thereby to establish them
selves IN the confidence and affection OF the laity.
This trouble sometimes arises by making men
bishops before they nave formed a character or
decision and OF manness. With rare exceptions,
no man ought to be consecrated to the ofce OF a
Bishop In the Church before he Is forty years old.
And then 1t ought to be Well established tnat he Is
not only good man, but man OF sufncient moral
force to deal honestly and justly toward all men.
But such
APOSTOLIC TIMBER DOES NOT GROW
very abundantly in any Church our correspon-
dent indicates should be put into the Episcopal
bench. And, perhaps, DR.. Seymour would meet
some Of the requirements named quite as well as
any successor to the late Bishop Wnitehouse
The vote by which the Doctor was defeated was
in itself remarkable one. His views and prac-
tices were not actually condemned by TINS vote.
Indeed they received larger Endorsement than
the public would suppose alter eight days secret
discussion over them. He and his principles
merely lacked constitutional majority to make
them the expressions not only OF one diocese in
the Church, but OF score OF dioceses. And In the
subsequent votes, direct and indirect, on ritual
ism II was apparent that the majority OF deputies
In the Convention really sympathized witn though
they would not openly avOw, the extreme views OF
the supposed minority.
The Low Cnurchmen sought to gain relief in
three ways:-First, by a canon on ritual, condemn
Ing 1t, OF course But they we're as well OF before
the adoption OF the canon last month as they are
now. II does nothing that bishop could not have
done without 1t. ltuaism does not grow very