Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-11-21
Tie Episcopal Church Congress

In ths Episocra! Congress in Washington
yesterday diocesan missions vas discussed.
Roy. Mr.. 81. P. Nichols, of New Haven,
urged his hearers Fever to give up the ccun-
try parishes, for his characterized the wlok.
ednesa of The country ss vastly worse
than the wickednesJ o. tho city, aud if the
food that p5urs into the cities i5 10 be g foul
one, then TIA result will indeed Ia SD
cpa.
Rev. s. Gibbons, OF Nava scois. q full
blooded Eskimo, apoka briefly on missions.
He believed that the missionaries should be
adaptable men-mep 0ho can put up With
plain expressions OF opinion from the people
With whom be has TO work. Ia proof OF
this latter opinion he recounted number Of
interesting incidents @! bis missionary work
amcng the Esk;mos.
Right Rev o. ". Whitaker, OF Ph;ladel-
phis, res6 the only p0per as tho afternoon
session, bis theme hsipg PaIsonal Rallg-
ion."
Brief addresses we're nedo on The same
subject By Es7. D. Parks. Morgan, OF New
YORK, Rag. i. W. Baker. OF Clncinnsti, Dad
Rev. Henry Notifies, of Nav YORK..
Bishop Dudley. In closing the lss. day's
session. referred 10 tie SUCCESS CT he con-
g,ea5 and the good york accomplished, after
which tho body finally adjourned.
ct Thursday EVENINGS session Rev. Prof.
Carl Grammer, ofthe Theological Seminary,
near this city, read paper on "Csthclic
and Protestant Tendencies In the Life of the
Church." He claimed that Catholic and
Protestant, ss terma, are interchangeable.
His address dealt largely With the prospects
of on American Church rs the elimination
of this oountry's Cstholioity. There Ia no
body, he claimed, which uors deplores the
division OK the church all over the world
than the Episcopal Church. The tendency
toward church union has followed church
rather than national lines. In forming the
American Charoh the Episcopal Church
would sooept no psn that should separate
as from the mothor church or alter our ar
ticles from the Anglican form. When the
union does come, ha said, 1t will come Or
Protestant lines. Ho enlarged on the way
II which the church is f;eeing itself from
prf 1dics sgalast various schools Of theol0-
~. One OF the obstacles to the advance OF
the church ie its IegeiIan. There Ia 70 pro.
g.esg possible where the Bible ;s made o
lumber ysrd of nrknown or uasless fscts e
positive tendency OF fsith is the only true
road to Cetholicity. A true theology must
De WofKsc out py prayer az vel! as OF phi
loscphy.
Rev. Hall Harrison. who wss voluntary
speaker, made an attack on the orders that
had arison in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, In which nen vowed themselves to
lives OF celibacy, poverty, and lifelong obe-
dience TO the chosen head OF the order. He
questioned Whether they we're consistent
with the church. The church calls for but
four voWs-bapliap, confirmation, matrimo-
ny, ard ordination. He wanted to know
what Eight members OF the Episcopal church
he'd to take otter VOWS. He urged them to
display the Common sense Roman Catholics
display when psinces adopt ths methods Of
Protestant churches, gather lssmsn together
es in Baltimore, for discussion, declare that
the Roman Catholic Church was misrepre.
geuted, declaring 1t to be staunch support
er OF religious and social liberty, urging
Catholics to rsad The Bible, and stndy 1t. He
said Episcopalians had better not try to hs
more catholic than Catholics themselves,