The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-19
CHARLESTON CHURCH MATTER.
What a Brunswick Man Has to Say
About It.

What a Brunswick Man Has to Say
About It.
BRUNSWICK. GA, March 17.-Editor
Morning Nelos: In a recent issue of your
esteemed paper your Charleston CORES
pondent has a short but spiritual account of
what he calls a "Ritualistio Rector In
which he tells US that the Rev G. F. began
was too rich or too high for the local rulers
of the Episcopal church, AID for such Of
fenses the standing committee has retired
him to other and broader fields.
This T. my mind is the most absurd and
unchristian charge which an intelligent
body of chuTchmen could bring forward
against any clergyman of their church.
Because q Clergyman has lofty ideas of true
and spiritual worship due to Almighty
God and carries them out by combining
bodily and on ward reverence with inward
piety; because he puts the cross-Vhe
emblem Of our holy faith-on the altar; be-
cause he puts candles there also to remind
us that our blessed Lord is the light of the
world; because he chants the prayers which
has been the custom from the time Of
Moses, 10 fact because he thinks enough OF
God TO honor him outwardly as
much as the most pious claims
to do lnwardly, or as much as high IN nded
people pretend 20 honor aud love their dear
friends he is put down as "high church :"
ana very
dangerous fellow altogether.
Let US carry the same ideas into the social
world for comparison. Do the people who
object to lights on their church altar refrain
from lighting their own houses with the
most costly and elaborate fxturesa Do
they who condemn crosses and
carved and painted representations
OF our blessed Lord, frown down any at
tempt to fill their own homes with pictures
and loving mementoes OF dear departed
friends aud relativess Do those who object
70 elaborate prlestly garments, which God
commanded should be worn for glory and
for beauty" (Ex. xviii refuse to dress
themselves and families in the finest CLOTH
ing THAI their means will allow And
would not any of them who so strongly de-
nounce outward form and ceremony IN
divine service, more strongly condemn the
actions of ill-mAnnered and boorish in
diyi9uals in their own parlors3
Ma Y Professionals seem to forget the fact
THAI the beautiful and grand ritual of the
Church Of Rome can be initiated, without
initiating what they call the erroneous
teachings of Rome. Would that these serv-
ices were more initiated by the congrega-
tlons Of Protestant churches then we should
not see people sitting In prayer. sitting in
praise and sitting during the reading Of the
Holy Gospel in fact, Offering a deadly in
suit to their maker il his house, bv not
would a trial justice hearing a case of petty
larceny.
have been told by people yet living that
In their younger days some scots of Protest
ants objected TO bells, organs, staiuglass
Windo@s. crosses and every variety of beau
aful ecclesiastical architecture, their meet.
ing houses being a square, box-like build
tng, furnished with stiff back pews, and a
pulpit in one end, behind which the preacher
held forth Sundays to congregations who
came there, not for the purpose OF worship
ing God SO much as TO hear the preacher,
Ali holy days which the church observes in
remembrance OF our blessed Lord and his
apostles, the blessed Virgin and other saints.
were ruthlessly discarded and people taught
to regard all such as the rags Of poperY."
However, while uncallsd for prejudice still
exist against forms aud ceremonies by
many, it Is intere5ting to note that others
are becoming more recouciled, and
even advancing toward them Ia
many respects; for these same
unsightly. meeting houses nave In
many instances been replaced by churohly-
looking edihces, with beautiful windows and