Daily globe., 1878-03-18
NUMBER 63.

nor barbarians were permitted to share. His
name was Janus. He was two faced. He bore
stan and key, and sat on beaming throne.
IN ni solemn ceremonies he figured ~ chief,
ana at all great festivals the first acts of adora-
ton were offered to him and his name was in
VoKed, even before that of Jupiter, the god of
al GODS He was charged with the care and
ylcegerency OF the world, and was reported to
pe mas5es OF heaven and earth and sea. He
was called the father of his people. the guide of
souls, and the mediator between God and man.
Query. Have we modern Janus?
! 1t IS said that 'The Protestant Episcopal
| cnurcn Is well known for its skill in changing
| Its position according to the direction of the
attack. The Episcopal tactics Change at once
with a 3, rapidity and self-possession that
amaze"
Our study of the campaigns of controversy
mas always made US hold In high esteem the
sklll and prowess of the guards, TO which We
6eiong. As the Iron Duke said once of his SOL
diers, SO have We felt that it might be said of
Anglican churchmen, ''They are ready to go
anywhere and do anything" That others feel
whom Anglcans have often measured strength
and skill, makes me bold even at the risk of
| seeming boastful, to plead guilty to the charge
| and will add the hope and assurance that this
amazing rapidity of tactics and self possession
will grow none the less in readiness for the inn
! pending Waterloo which shall decide once and
for all the fate of the would be Universal EN-
| pire.
1t is said that when brought to face other
branches of Professionalism which it contemptu.
ously spurns from its side as sects, schisms,
dissenting conventicles, the Protestant Episco-
pal church leaps upon loftyf3athoiic around
and would fain spread dismay amidst their
ranks by the echoes of the old-time trumpets
of church authority. Should the Catholic
church, however, appear in the front, the Epis-
copal church becomes most Protestant among
| Protestants."
1t is decidedly refreshing to hear from
quarter, where Jesuitism rules, sneer at the
faculty of changing front. We are very far,
however, from referring to Jesuit practices as
justification of any acts of the Protestant Epis-
copal church. We have good warrant for occu-
pying different positions under different cir
cumstanccs. st. Paul was Pharisee before
tus at Casarea, and yet surely Christian all
the while. He was, beyond question: thoroughly
Catholic, and yet, when Peter 'sdid that which
was to be blamed, " he an emphatic Pro-
is Catholic in His love, His truth, His holiness,
but the most Protestant of all Proaestants
against error and sin.
We plead guilty, then, to being both Catho-
lie and Protestant. Yes, we will acknowledge
even more, that we are Catholic Reformed,
Protestant and Free. We are Catholic because
we believe in the holy Catholic church." be-
: cause we agree in faith and discipline with tho
church of the first eight centuries, and stand
: by the true Catholic rule of always, every
departed hence being at one in Christ, are tho
. true Catholic church, and are much more uu-
q merous than they who are upon earth, and
them We believe to be on our side, that
2 they that be with us are more than they that
g be against We are Protestant because
there is SO much that goes under the name of
. Catholic to protest against. We are Reformed,
:. because the form into which the Anglican
y y church has been forced by long years of OPP
preston, was not according to ''the faith once
delivered to the saints" We are Free, be-
cause God in His good provide nee, Through
70 the agency of the valient Henry and the Virgin
~ Queen Elizabeth, some three centuries ago,
&c wrested forever England and her fortunate de-
"a pendencies' from the tyranny of a despotic
j power, which every nation in the world has
- - since shaken off. May God speed the time
- . when neither for Himself nor for His servants,
- shall there be any more need of protest, or any
's more room for tyranny, but all shall be of one
y heart and one mind in Christ Jesus, and God
- shall be 'sall in ALL.
20 And now we respectfully challenge proof that
"a the Protestant Episcopal church contemptuous-
~ - ly spurns any of the branches of Protestantism.
} If Belgium spurns Holland by refusing to allow
Hollanders the privileges of citizenship except
y upon compliance with her laws; if England
~ spurns the United States, when she refuses to
- call its people Englishmen, though they once
II = belonged to her; if Minnesota spurns Wiscon-
70 sin, when she insists upon managing her own
~ affairs wit thout interference; if Free Masons
- % spurn Odd Fellows, when they will not give
4 their masters entrance into their lodges; if
,s Baptists spurn Methodists, because they will
y not acknowledge their baptism, and Methodists
! ! spurn Presbyterians when they will not admit
their ministers to the privileges of their confer
:. - ences, then the Protestant Episcopal church
- spurns her neighbors, She simply accepts
facts as they are, and does not attempt to make
= them less hideous, by shutting her eyes. She
~ ~ will neither cry Peace peace" when there is
~ y no peace, nor defy and curse those whom the
- :. Lord hath blessed. She docs not believe
= in platform hand shaking, to be followed
= by pulpit fist-shaking. She will not enter into
u alliances, because she is content with nothing
- short of unity, and a broken alliance creates
- more estrangement than armed truce faith
=. ~ fully preserved. She passes no judgment, but
W y, leaves the judgment and the issue in the hands
10 has reason for the hope that is in her. and is
- always ready to give it, and that with trum-
pet of such certain sound that half her mem.
L bership has been won thereby.
But o! how ardently she does long for the
,f fulfllment of her Lords prayer, that all may
~ ~ be one." 1t were easy to show from debates
u and sermons and books that 80 far from
-, - being hardened against other Chris
:, - tian people, the stoutest defenders
~ OF the principles of the Protestant Episcopal
., the superior spirituality and zeal of many Of
y. ~ those who walk not with us, and who even
10 10 imagine that we despise and avoid them. Nay
NC we almost envy the wealth of mind and learn
lHS the pIOu121es OF elOQuenCc ana earneStnet6
!" the treasures of sanity deeds and tempers tha,
adorn the Protestant churches. 20, that
~ Christian men would see that their best friends
.. ~ are not those who force an unnatural intimacy
% but those who, although too honest to Law aside
w w conviction for courtesy, recognize with
lo W manly frankness and fraternal love, all the
.s te good that God hath wrought in them, and BY
W w them" Before God we confess it, that very
- - large share of the blame of thes;
y divisions belongs to US. There have been time.
49, when the 'spirit of bitterness outran thu
:, VI spirit of love and meekness. But everywher.
y. y. now in the Church is there the gentl.
ls lss movement of considerate charity-not th.
eu spurious counterfeit which teaches the indffer
lts ence Of modes of faith, but the manlier prac,
y, which rejoices not in error, and yet has long
ea ing for the gathering together of those in sep
cs aration, and blessing for all them that low
GU GU the Lord Jesus CHEST in sincerity
NJ NJ 1t is said that in the Protestant Episcopa
A lA church tradition and council are tried b,
10 - scripture, and scripture by reason
-. -. This statement is not correct for it implie
that IN the Protestant Episcopal church reaso,
u Is made superior to scripture, which is not tn
case. In these United States, ~
"a "a, have constitution, which is supreme owe
:. y ala Congress which makes laws tina
~ ~ must be In accordance with the constitution
:.s us and supreme court, which is bound by tn
w constitution and acts of Congress, and yet in
70; i terprets the constitution and the laws. Tha
is to say, the acts of Congress are tried by tn
n constitution, and the constitution is interpret
~ ed by the supreme court. In like manner tn
10, Protestant Episcopal church has the scripture
- for her constitution-supreme and absolute
tradition and acts of councils for her laws, an
~ reason for her supreme court. Reason is aut
s ject both TO tradition and council, and all thre
Ae are subject to scripture, and yet reason intel
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