The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-12-01

! The might have said four -sevenths or two
| uhirdsl of the nominal Christian world |;
but he derides, very properly, "the q u
merous divergent and discordant bodie
and eects (havine) apparently no end t.
this process of division aud subdivieion.'
He admits, quite truly,
THAT THE CHURCH OF ROME STANDS COM
PACT.
we'll organized, aud with serried phaianx
yet evidently implores her to break ranks
and with all the sects, come to the heavenly
pastures of oneness in uncertainty, of the
Anglican establishment, at whose breasts
he has just now drawn new draughts o
charity for his brethren! 1t is ineffabiy
more absurd than that Delaware should
seek to,rule the universe, or that part land
email portion at that is greater than, OF
controls the whole.
Bishop Leo is au old man, presumably
sincere ia his views, rs l do not doubt
many others are, but, like the ant in the
fable, mounted upon his pebble and hav-
bly, thinks that he has seen all that was
worth seeing. and that the world was
attentively awaiting his report of the pro.
ceedings Of the gathering at Lambeth. We
are not unaware OF what were the bounda-
ries set by the Qaeen as Head of the
establishment; what the Court Of Arches
is: and we know very we'll that the re-
Spoctaoie oouy ol pensioners upon uer
bounty, gathered together with others, bad
simpiy no right, and claimed no Inherent
right to teach, or define authoritatively
anything whatever. How strikipgly diff
ferent from the words of Christ: "Go ye
into the whole world aad teach all nations
mot the Anglo Saxops aloneI teaching
them to observe all things whatsoever l
ing the admission made by the speaker
when he says "his Church knows NO leg
islation in which the laity and clergy have
not an equal voice with her Bishops"
What, then, is the use of the Bishopsf If
all are teachers, who are the taught 1t ia
simply absurd to say that the obligation
and daty of teaching does not place q cor
relative obligation of being taught.
Lest, however, any one might by possi
oility bave imagined that the Pan Anglican
Convocation had some other end in view
worthy of a council, and differing from a
social gathering as large clerical tea
party and lest some one might think it,
at least deeirable, that body of men rep
resenting every shade of opinion from the
denial of our Lords Divinity to the style
and form of a surpliee {every thing inter
mediate being Included in their diverse
doubts) might really, after all, have some
thing definite to do,
THE ARcRBIsHoP OF CANrERBURY, BY THE
QUEENS GRACE,
took great pains. to inform them in simple,
straightforward way what they could not
10. read from the New York Sun, of
July 3, 1878: "Upon taking the chair his
Grace said: That although the Synod
could not assume to exercise any legiaia-
i've authority. or to define dogma, or to
rule, or even to denounce an
,rror, it's assembling might not be without
most wholesome results for the Anglican
Church throughout the world. "$ .
unity they did not possess, nor
was it perbaps desirable to seek for it, but
spiritual union they enjoyed and it could
% promoted by such meetings as these"
ETC.
That has decidedly the merit of being clesr
md definite. and it in forms the gentlemen that |
hey have simply no Legislative power, and |
.aey well kGex thnt they ha1 no authority !
oeyond what an act Of ParliaDeut gave them, |
or they a's creature Of the State. True to |
5heir origin es mere clients OF, aud subservt- |
ant to the state ia the capacity of police fiji |
GERS, they dare not, and dare not now tascn |
thing nutaOritatively without the permis !
.ion of the temporal government which, under |
Henry VIII and his daughter Bsss worthy of |
hin, gave the Anglicass their existence. They |
are himpiy national police officers under orders |
20 obey. On the contrary, look st the faithful |
sarnestuess with which Ireland has held t. |
1er creed more than fturteea hHndred years, |
tespite all the aliuremsnts, Aklfdlly held uu5 |
% her By those who had the temporal pover, |
oy which they were proffsred any and every !
ndncement to accept tho rule # the stranger. |
Whilst the refusal teld the lash over her aud |
her children through long centuries of parse !
,utior. The unity which pervaded them was |
'hus Consolidated, I'D probsbly WAS iuAt the !
best means Of keeping them faithfully attach
ID, under divine grace, to the Caurch which
showed to t1em
MOTHERS USDYING LOVE
IN ell their needs, and proved heraelf to be the |
,oother of their sotrow, when burdened by the |
tithes which the stranger demanded for no
serv;ces rendered. There tcds real despotisns.
chioh tooa'd haze crushed the life as it did striye TO
blight the conscience Of the faithful until meroiful
Proride"ce disessd6'tshed tho establishment forever
in the land.
But Bishop Lee asserts that "the Church of
Rome has substituted sp1rious and pnctris. |
tiau faith," etc We would not willingly pain
the feelings of apy sincere man, but we char
0oterize the above as q falsehood, When could
such go bstitution have taken placeH Has
Bishop Lee ever read the Councils of Trent
and the VRticau1 1 have every reason to
snpPose that he has never read either Of them.
What does he mean by the phrase faith of
the Lord Jesus CHRISTI It is rather late in