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

draws It's revenues from the State they must be content
to allow the secular authority that feeds and clothes them
TO tcci ie what doctrines they shan preach and what
ceremonies they shall practice There Ia no possbity
IN our day of spiritual independence In church that
draws ts suStenanee as an official body from the
State. and tho,e Of the clergy who insist
upon their hight to share In the State rev
enues' while "isregardng the mandates Of State
Courts must expect to suffer persecution"
One would suppose from such language aS this
that the English clergy. went regularly to the
Monthly salaries from the state Treasury One would
suppose that the tthes OF England State property
and were handed by the State from year TO year
Suppose that one OF my ancestors 1000 or 1900
the sun Of $4,000: that 1T that sum had. descended
through ten twelve and fifteen centuries to you. and
et the ponds In which the principal was invested,
night and rob you Of 6 e amount maya But sSoud BE- s
talking sheer nonsense If should claim that that money
was mine, because thousand years ago my ancestor
fairy and squarey gave II to yours. / should
be pratfng nonsense II should claim that feeding
and clothing you The Church 10 living on her own
money ana the secular authority Is neither feeding nor
clothing her.
THE ISSUES AT STAKE.
Briefly TO up and conclude the issues at stake are
follows;
l. Whether the Magma Charta that has stood for 700
years as the buwark OF the Englishmans rghts shall
now be violated and permanently altered in very
fundamental respect whether 1t shall still stand
sacred aud intact1
2 Whether the English Judiciary has any right to
exercise legislative functions. at the call Of policy
Tor other reason by al,erug laws In tead OF merely
interpreting themf
g. Whlie by ancient prescription. the English Church
has no r1ght 10 enac ruDI1c without the
currence OI Parliament, 50 equally inc English Parma
ment cannot egs.ate for tbs church without her
currence as expressed through her legs bodies,
the COnvooatiOns OF York and Canterbury whether
therefore radical cha ge shall! nov be mace IN the
British Constitution Itself whereby the Church OF Eng
and shall the first time IN history be- In ecclesiastical
matters, subordinate to the STATE 7
d. Whether Presbyterians CongreSatonasts, Bap-
tlsJs MetnOdsts, Uuit3ri aud mn els alter
SUIT themselves tue Churcns doctrines expressed In
g. Whether the bishops sitting in Parliament TO watch
the Interests u the Church have beraJ ed those inter
ests by eonsprlns to rob her OF her constitutional
g. Whether a bishop Is to be obeyed, not when he
uiers gOdy admontion as a Right Reverend ither In
when he acts merely as state Official, executing me
T. Whether tue principles tina, governed the Dixie OF
Ava and the spanish luqusiuOn shall be rtasserted
and carried out practically far tney can be, III tile
year 1850
g. Whlir raonalists and Cromwelran Protestants are
hlIl succee ling 10 making willing world believe that
ritual is Uny childish iryOy, utterly beneath tue
consideration OF grave men, and while they are
nj the same time staDbing nj II themselves witn
verance, because they know and we know, they
mus trying 10 STAB tue hearJ the distinctive pr
system and the power and authority OF h+r
there any sacramento whether call
empty outward forins; whether there is any
priesthood. or whether, rs they clam, we are
To TAI BACK preachers; in snort whether or not
there is any An clean Church that l. worm Keeping ~
Lastly whether priests saal be able. wale disObeJlg
bishOp acting merely state officials, to save eyentu-
ally To- the Anglican Church from Protestant cOLUcas-
tie hands episcopal hrUnes themselves OF tnoseycry
bishops
the attire friends, and friends ana loving
cnlden who are forced to WAX Ieafuy III the garo Of