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came to Nsshotah, . man in descon's orders,
seeking employment. He was given the posi-
tion of tutor, and entered upon his duties with
all eagerness and zeal. He identified himsef
with the institution, ingratiated himself into
the confidence of the students, and shared in
that man WAS ali the while . priest
of the Church of Rome, and was
discovered to have been using
constant influence to pervert the students and
ALLEVIATE them from their allegiance. Do ~
wonder that our church is sometimes sorely
perplexed by duplicity, but shall she then bear
the blame?
In the matter of the quotation from the |
bishop Of Ely, it is simply the opinion Of
private doctor, and is therefore Irrelevant. We |
authorized foundations IF the church, simply |
because the question has never come up for |
settlement. If ever layman has come to be- \
lieve in transubstantiation and immaculate |
conception, he has left the church at once be- |
cause of the utter awkardness of his position.
And now, without in any way committing |
the church. will say for myself that I agree |
with the bishop of Ely, on these grounds.
The receiving of the Lords supper is de.
clared to be generally necessary to salvation"
Nothing, therefore, but soul-destroying error,
or notorious evil living, or spirit of hatred
should bar men from its privileges. My faith
will not permit me to call anything soul-de-
stroying which the word of God hath not SO
called. Ny hope maketh me not ashamed to
give the children's bread to misguided soul.
is soul-destroying which is by SO many be-
lieved. The system of the church of Rome, l
abhor, believe it will come to nought-her
| souls love--l know that many, very many,
of them will find high place in the paradise of
God.
The understanding Of the heart are two dis
tinct provinces. Corruption of the understand
ing is full of mischief and misery, and is to be
dreaded It is corruption of the heart which
God abhors. He asks us to give Him the heart
| and not the understanding. Moreover, to add
to the truth is not the same as to deny or to
IF any man shall add unto these
things, God shall add unto him the
| plaques that are written in this book. And if
| any man shall take away from the words of the
! book of this prophecy, God shall take away his
| part out of the book of life
| We spurn, then, even with indignation, the
! charge of Communism" but we will plead
guilty to something very near akin thereto, in
/ sound, and that's ''coumonism." Our church
gives to all her people, in their own language.
and not in unknown tongue of heathen
origin, book of prayers, common to all alike,
pastors and people. She gives to her little
ones, and not to her clergy only, common
catcchism, and leaves not its framing to the
discretion of each particular bishop. The poor
| and the rich she buries with the same service,
merciful God, not to fiery prison-house,
whence money can purchase release, and where
poverty must pay all the penalty with the con-
ISOLATION, however, of being in the first apart
ment.
Our mother, the church, hath never child
+. where the heat is the least,
To honor before the rest,
But she singeth the same for mighty kings
And the veriest babe on her breast:
And the bishop goes down to his narrow bed
AS the ploughman's child is laid,
And alike she blesseth e'dark browed serf
And the chief in his robe arrayed.
She sprinkles the drops of the bright new-birth
The same on the low and high,
And christens their bodies with dust to dust,
When earth with its earth must lie.
1t is said that sin England there is yet one
bond of unity left-the civil power. The
Queens privy council learnedly decides for
Episcopalians on baptismal regeneration, and
the inspiration of the Bible. In America, we
have no Queen 8 council, no Lord Penzance, and
Episcipalianism is left civilly and logically to
its fate-cOmm unism.''
, This statement about the English church is
incorrect. The privy council simply decides
what is the law, not what are the doctrines. OF
the church, and Lord Penzance does what all
judges do, orde men to be locked up who re-
fuse to obey the law. Rome is SO welded tc
tho lnfatuation OF supremacy Of spiritual
power over the temporal, that she cannot com
prehend a state of affairs where the tempora
controls. Much less can she comprehend the
American principle Of free church in FIRE,
State. 'Tis true we have no privy council no1
t Lord Judge, but we do have q general conven
! ton which meets every three years, diocesan
, councils which meet every year, and standing
committee and ecclesiastical court in every
diocese, and we therefore 'civilly and logically
manage our own affairs, without being obliged
to resort to foreign potentate for orders, O.
/ being compelled to submit our decisions to
tribunal across the sea.
1t is said the Protestant Episcopal church il
in "a state of schism.''
'Schism" is the same secession" ant
means voluntary withdrawal from the church
/ A forcible severance is excommunication
We had always supposed that the Church of Eng
{ land was excommunicated by the Church O
) Rome. Can it be, then, that the bull of Pop
Plus V, issued in 1919, is conceded to be a mis-
$ take? The searching lighl of the last 800 year
might well make even the most prejudiced maj
, reckon it a fearful blunder to call Elizabetl
that vassal of iniquity," and to absolve he
: subjects from all fidelity and allegiance, and t.
command them to disobey her under penalt,
of being themselves excommunicated.
= would be hopeful sign indeed to see som
: reversals of Judgment produced by the logic o
l time. If only in schism, then is not the churcl
q of England excommunicated, and the huges
bar of all to peace and unity is renewed.
But did the church of England even Withdraw
+ from communion with the churches of Europ
/, controlled by the Pope? When the manager
: of society do something which som
v OF it's members regard as distinctly wrong. .ther
: are always two courses open-either protest
> or secession The choice of one necessaril
excludes the other. They who protest do no
. withdraw, as witness the act of the large mi
= notify of the Vatican council, for whom, fol
!, tunately or unfortunately, it was 1870 no
q q 1870. And SO the church of England chose tn
protest, and is therefore to-day the truest Pro
|, | testant chuch in ChristerdOm
: 1t is said that Sin spite of Christ, Anglican
- ism tells us that the church is divided, and he
: fragments scattered, shapeless and begrimmed
through space and time.
Because of Christ and His Apostles, the Ane
: : lican church believes that there must be here
e sizes and schisms.
~ When the Son of man cometh, will He fin
. the faith upon the earth? 'The Spiri
:; speaketh expressly, that in the latter times
= = some shall depart from the faith, giving heet
to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils
= forbidding to marry and commanding to abstai
s from meats That day shall not come ez
% cept there be a falling away frst and that MAJ
;. !. of sin be revealed the son Of perdition.
= Z ''There shall be false teachers among you, VIII
! privily shall bring in damnable heresies, eve
!, denying the Lord that bought them and brin
J J upon themselves swift destruction. And man,
i the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Beloved, remember We the words whic
I were spoken before Of the apostles o
= our Lord Jesus Christ. how that they told yo
. . there should be Knockers in the last times, VIII
= . should walk after their own ungodly lust
Il Il Brethren. in yonder sky, beyond the pathwa
y y of the hery Mars, there whirls a host of ittl
y worlds, fragments it is said of majestic plane
y which once perhaps We'd with Jupiter in bril-
llancy. These fragments all circle round tn
It same central sun, held to their place by th
Il same force that once held them when united