, 1875-10-03
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Bishop Gilbert Haven On the
Union Of Methodists
and Episcopal
ians.
The Difficulties of Ordination and
ltiner.ancy Which Hin
der Il.
How the Union Will Be Accom-
piShed, if It Is Ever
4 Talk With the People Of Faith" "
--.;No Butter, and Warm
Water 10 Drink.
Electing an English Vicar by Popu~
lar SuArage--Robert Collyer
on Honest Church.
manship.
Cath. b.o1ic Priests for the In
dians---Churches as So
cial Institutions.
Notes and Per: mails at Homo and
|, Abroad---& hurch Services
1so-D"y.
| UNION OF METH0DlSTs AND EPISco.
I
Notes and Per- mails at Homo and
Abroad--<' hurch Services
Io-I>"y.
UNION OF METHODEfS AND EPISc0.
PAL (ANS.

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moet elaborate OF tne5e papers III your gestef-
days issue is excellent in temper and full OF
pood will. Yet
Not for ali t,a filth can zee
Can we his cowIed churchmen b.
The roots OF the Methodist and Protestant
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1pteeopaA c1o1euo@ 40 -oo @t7e!0A0' no "A
donbtedly the same- botn spfang 1fom CON-
mon stock,--the Established Church OF England
Both contain the essentials OF that Church in
doctrinea in aarr,ma,ta in o,d;n.tion, anil
ss1a .,,s1,-..;a11. - ~ .;te, ~. .-s.;., ~
uo'o s,o e@'.o ..11 ~. .ts:
cas4ons- botn looh pocA W tao" 4oon'aa "A'o
equal reverence The Methodist Ep1acopallao u
as proud of Oxford rs the Protestant Episcopal
ian. r,,ohah,v nronder. File visits its halls and
s r.' ~;.., .ta k "Sa.t,at -.xa~anos Th.r. h.
s0Aoo'@9 "4"a %1o sAe~*oo' Ao'~. 49,
traces the steps OF A1s great 1oonde1, unaez
God. and notes his influence from md On hia
university With all these points OF resemblsacs,
w1,1 ~, +hav M rn;ta7
For these reasons. The Methodist Episcopal
chnrch will mt concede the ingalidity OF her
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het py ner a1stet coutcn III prerequisite ~ ao1
union. She might even claim superior ortina~
lions. Il ia evident from this, as it is from al
tbo .rto ~ that cbnrch rootino in 4ha direction
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OF unlon WIN otne1 cnu1caes' 'nat LUG ftosestaa$
Episcop4Gaus wnl always demand that the unlon
shall be- to them, and not by them that every
church must accept them as their leader and
mother. the source Of ecclesiastical being This
is the tone throughout, though carefully guard
ed, Of this communication. It ia the keystone
OF this church, its central and motive power. It
would not be probable, might always say posi-
BILE, Tor the sister church to accept that passing
under the Caudine Forks. as . preordination 10
this marriage. The union might be with hat
but not to her.
lou will note tho weight OF this difficulty. il
you consider q remark in this letter. that "the
severance Of the Mothodist8 from the Church
mark the phraseology; there is no recognition
Of the present chnrchliness OF the Methodats-
''was m unusual thing, never contemplated by
the founder Of the brotherhood" Marx, also.
that last word; for in these slight points arc
found the strong grounds against any such union
as is in the mind OF our brother 1.-The Method.
lsts" were never severed "fron the church
nor Was John Wesley the founder OF broth
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