St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-18

say that the very stoutest opponents have
been high church men.
1T is too soon. we are too near The men
and the commencement of the Tractarian
move ment TO write its history or the merits
OF its aDlest men. The smoke of battle on
many fields has not yet cleared away. Hap
ply Tor us. we can justly admire courage,
praise fabnegation, extol profound crudi-
ton and hold in great reverence men whose
lives are given to works OF mercy without in
the least accepting the faith as they
hold 1t in many very important re-
spects; for there is hardly form
of faith or a philosophy of any kind
which cannot, with justice, point with pride
ana gratitude to noble lives of men who have
held 1t tenets. bowed at its shrine. The Zuin-
CLAN, who believes that the holy commun-
ion is only memorial, nothingmore, can
appeal to the testimony of heroic holy men
in support of his belief. We may be satisfied
of this: not in the age in which we live,
under all the seeming differences and devia-
tons. there will be found amongst men who
reverence God and who have His word, this
difference which distinguished them-one
believes in authority corporate; the other be-
lieves in the right of private opinion in mat
ters of faith
To me it appears impossible that either OF
these two should, in universal usage, cast
out the other. Both have advantages; each
has disadvantages. We too often forget that
il is largely true in religion as in art or in
any mental Or material thing. The eye sees
whatit brings power To see. All men can
not behold in q wonderful picture what
Turner. Reynolds or RuSkin clearly at one
glance realizes. All Catholics cannot see in
their faith what Newman saw. Many
learned men outside their church declare
positively il is not there for any one to see,
and that it is purely subjective truth While
no Catholic however learned in secular ed
ucation, can ever see in Professionalism what
we see in it, or know The Joy ana comfort its
loyal sons and daughters fEd ever precious,
ever new. More than this, those very things
which give a charm TO one cast of mind.
to men with one sort of training, are TO other
men as nitre 10 eyes, or poison 10 an epicure.
From this il will appear that the hope of an
organic unity in the religious world is uto-
plan. ! have no idea that the union prayed
for by the Savior ever meant The obliteratlon
of individual judgments, tastes or DISPOSE
lions, or that The men OF the holy Roman
church or of the Anglo Catholic movement
can make regnant The idea that it is. The
supremacy III this respect appears to be for
ever broken. The genius of the age is against
its general acceptance. Not that knowledge
will make all men Protestanis; for no more
foolish talk ever has been spoken by the chill.
dren of men than that which is often heard
on this subject Many of The most learned
men in the world are Romanists and Anglo
Catholics. It is in the constitution of man, l
conceive, in which the reason for difference
is to be found.
1t is very remark able that the leaders of re-
vival of high views of the sacraments should
have lived TO such length of days. Not less so
tnan tney snOuIQ nave Sucn success IN q
propaganda in which all things appeared
against them, SO far as the public was con-
cerned. That their work is felt in village,
hamlet, town and village in England. and i'll
many other lands, is most true. To read the
lives of the men who laid wisely, from the
view OF policy and strategy, plans to win the
English church TO what they held TO be the
true faith of the church of their fathers, no
man doubts who knows the facts 1t is
singular that the leaders of nonconformity
In Britain assert that they are right in
their Interpretation of the creeds, rubrics and
general teaching of the, church. while men
just as able. holy. learned and i'll many ways
popular the churcbmen have with one
voice acclaimed against their views. Rob
ertSou. Maurice. Stanley, Frazer and. later.
Farrar and mighty host OF other men, all
refused to accept the views held by the men
of oxford, whom all the reading religious
world knows Ii is comfort TO feel sure
that at last they and we may meet in the
haven of rest which re mains for all the peo-
Die of Co..