New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-03
PARTS OF TIE SERMON.

attention TO the criticisms upon his former DISCOURSE
The brooklyn Eagle commenting on the sermon, had
made use, he said, Of the following argument:
But the obligation TO obey the rubrc is not stronger
than the ordination VOC TO obey his bishop which
every clergyman makes at bis ordination. The respon
siby for the omission OF these thng Ufthey are really
enjoned the prayer book with the bishop who
order Their omission but the responsibility OF refusing
TO submit TO the bishops rests with Mr.. Dale"
Even supposng, continued DR.. Ever that the bishops
claimed obedience TO themselves bishops, and not as
case merely the decisions OF the State courts
the obligation to obey bishop not stronger than the
obligation obey rubrc in the prayerboOk No bishop
repeal rubrc. No nOn-user eau repeal rubric
Tue prayer-bOok is higher authority than the
bishops; 1t the voice of the churnh herself to
the bishop well 10 his priests. And II bishop
command priest to break rubc that priest obeys his
bishop only penalty or disObcyIng the higher
authority OF the church. Moreover the priest has not
vowed to obey the bishops admontons IN all
things; lie has only vowed to obey the bishop
when he issues q cody adnonltiOn; and tat could
possibly be cody admOntion. which, In accordance
with the personal notion early prejudice OF tue
bishop commands priest to break law OF the church.
We're the matter not serious In s practical cOnse-
quences would smile but as it is, one can only
hold up hands OF astOnshment at the Ignorance under
which the secular English press Is perpetuay speaking
OF church. though 1t had not been founded by the
Apostles divine, visible Organlz zion, but as though
it creaied by the State though some
of Agriculture, Bureau OF Public Instruction, or the
Post ONCE Department. though II sort OF
Bureau OF Religion, with secretary III the
Cabinet. This idea is the spawn Of CO. mental
Professionalism, which has So minlmized" l. Ion Into
system OF ind vdualsm. to destroy tue idea Of
church and 10 leave authority over
Rcligion and professors except the State.
Ii is this idea that our priests are struggling
against because It is idea fatal to the very exist
the Anglo Catholic Church and her authority Let
ne quote specimen extracts the premises from the
English press: Ii obvious" Journal that
Lord Penzance exercises authority by precisely the
same power (Iamey the State) as that which
vests the bishops with the right OF Oycrseer-
ship their respective diocescs. II the
Bishop OF interrOgated TO his right,
he would reply by pointing TO (whati to tie Apostolic
mission has received from tho Church to 10 tax
aud care for q certain diOcesel No; bup the STAG
law"
These not the views OF some obscure village
editor they AMI the like reiterated again and
again by the great journals OF England, metropolitan
and provincial II Is not strange that they should dad
their echoes IN American journals. one would hardly
know where brg.n in the treatment aud cure VI such
present convusion does not prov 70 De serious eye
opener Again quote from an English paper; ,A
prc-ts Of "A State Church The STATE should govern It's
nruiy clergy by a policy lnot OF imprisonment. but
r.ihefI Of suspension and deprivation from Office" |
One would suppote, 70 say tue least thht
Thai os It ia only CHu.cn that By her superlatu
mi powers raise them to the priesthoOd,
t u only the Church. aud not the siaie' taat can |
either suspend them or strip tnem OF heir prlesty
garment-. ana degrade Them from the exercise
the state IgIofng our Holy Mother the Church. and
hsther or NOT Il isn best TO sabttute for
meut deHradalion from the pTiea'nTod; ,or Ihoso
the Ametoan mai the Enrls6 priests must be
rI9bty Imprisoned by tue because they are
hrs " Slate Church. overlook the TACT that they are
making themselves apoioeisIs also or most ~ the oun
IuVa in 10 reign or Bloody MARY IudOr
Tie victims of the nquislilon 10 Spain were pro-
Tossing members Of tue State Church OF that country
and we're tried and condemned breakers, not ony |
Of ecceeastical hut OF Tue eiya law also ina, the
principle underlying the actions OIL Tue DUKE Oh AVA OF
bonner aud OF Lorquemads should thus reappear IN
Again quote: THE difficulty arises from tue desire ~
the imprisoned a gsS. esta ,S py law and to
have the right of dlsregarding the law upon |
tinu"usy taken for granted that some time or other in
the past the State, IN the penlude oil IT'S omnp1 |
cnSs sef To- establish The Church; very
Prince would lift up some peasant g irU Tue m 6a
year month and day on which that law the
Church wa; se obssTe oey
and sensible, and led them into tangled swamp |
Of Of, eo 1Ss B,oosi Times Of Monday. December
90 Is only American Instance OF inc DHho being eu
sueh law passed aud let attempt define wna
the word " established" in the phrase !" esaDilshed
church means, and will find IL will bahle The utmost
skll In the science OF dennlton
TIE EARLY ENGLISH CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The fact 10 that centuries ago. long before Henry VIl
long before william tho Norman, long before Alfred the
Great yes even from q time when the memory OF man
rnneh not 70 the contrary the English people were all
Catho,e churchmen Under aspect therefore. they
all formed the English state; under another aspect
they slI formed the EnRsh Church. 1t was like look
ing merely Mt the two sides Of one and the
same person. that great unit regarded itself
nov ON tts religious side aud on It's civil side. IL
tales no imagination that during the subsequent
thousana years ana without design the part their
religious matters became so lne1tflcaDy inerwoVcn
WITH the thread Of their civil Affairs, mat IKE Tue
Gortan knot 1t would require the sword Of an Alex
snder 70 snnder them. People have vague notion that
N mua have somehow other IN the Hue OF Henry
VIII tnat soas aw OF No. but smpS Inc same peIre
able network OF civil and ecclesascai interests that
had up together during the previous lOOO years
Henry prohibited a foreign pOLentate Rome from
interfering IN the AFFAIRS Of his either spiritual or
cburcn and State continued in the reign, Of
Henry WILL. one great English individual,
now under its civil views And That ono reigio-cyll
individual simply said 70 the Pope with an insular IN
dependence Let me alone on both my spiritual anu
Ths a. Sst this dual state Of things reached the rock
Of a. u. 1850 The bel OF satan now struck truck
eas ChaHnel aud spread its influences from
scotland. Charles and Land were mArtyreg: Cromwell
mSde A q penal offence for an English church
man his o Even ,o IN -o The
PrIesty and George Fox and john Bunyan arose and
In bIariineSn and Tyndal and Huxley ana
Stuart sITS Mil ana Bradlaugh Thus steaoly
the Church grew less and less coe1tensive with the
a whole bound up into strong unit ., on
It's civil side, but on us rehslous s hie
AZ was tumbnnR T. pieces IN a miserable
congiomerae 30 that to-day while on the civil side
that hole people yet stands as one state on us reR
,ons aide only part now stands he one Church The
edupoise Of force between the two Is lost Ana when
al IN Parliament we're churchnen, Parliament Was sun
v tie state side the Church IN the neraeed inter
esfA OF the two great change has now taken place
Jews are In Parliament; aud inndels ana hereues'
onen foes of Church, aud those VINO are utterly m
Glsarnnt - hnr internaLa. Tine mutual nleclIOn OF