New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-17
FPI>COPAL BEOAD CHrECHuEN.
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PARTY as MoNoroLlZE THAT NAME
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PARTY cAN MoVoroLzE THAT NAME.
T. the Ei.t1r Il Tho Tribune.
Sr: ~ y.ur editorial columns This morning
You intimate surprlre That 10" Broad Chur-h
Party" IN me Episcopal Chur~h should have
tak.n ~ u,'!-o - at'a ks publicly made upon II
from various quarters. and more e-pc.i tally ht
tw1 BISHOPS. wa.sr names !nu give. The r"a-
ION s. not .,r g. s,ck. 1t j. the I'D story 4
the Danish historians napier upon the snakes
~ Iceland There arc 300 snakes IN Iceland
Neither IN the Church - England. nor yet in
The Protestant Fps opal ChIrch In The United
state. does thcr" exist. ~ has there ever cx-
ist.I SUN party as ihc Broad Church Parts
Upon this point. wh.cn am well aware VIII be
disputed. but which cannot be croctually gain
said ~ one IS better entitled t. a hearing than
the lac Bishop OF St DavlG's perhaps The most
luminous intellect that the English Episc1pate
og this century can show Writing in reply u
the aspersions oi certain Or. Littlcdalc aspcr-
sions similar To- those which haVe recently been
snowcred on clergymcn Of the purost integrity
and kcencst sense IL honor. simply because of
their unwilingncss to see tie church which they
have sworn to serve commit Itself TO theological
and ecclesiastical Bourbon!sm, Connop Thrill
wall said:
ShOIIQ D" well content 10 accept ihlS u'Slehh-
ton Of myself CB. Iad tnu:c0 ad'tD undo"
protest; TO do So ab2olutcly. must first know
what it means When consider that the
Church OF Jesus Christ was broad Church in
comparison with the Jewish Church, that the
sermon on the Mount wts distinguished 10y the
breadth Of It's teaching from all that the dis
cIples had before heard, that II was the ministry
OF Church too broad even for some Christians
Of that day. for which II. Paul exchanged the
most strlitcst sect Of the religion in which hc
had been brought uIt-remcmDerlng all this,
c4I
as a term of rcproach Let others interpret IL
as they WILL 10 IN" ii does not appear an appro-
pirate description Of any existing school party
body. held together by "A common set 81 iheo-
logical tcnets. | understand IL as sgnfyng "A
certain stamp Of individual character which
would describe as a disposition 10 recognize and
appreciate that which ~ true and good under
all varieties Of forms. and in persons separated
from another by the most conflicting opin-
ions. There is an opposition which all educated
men more or less clearly understand between
High Church and Low Gnu ch. but there Is none
between Broad Church and either. The proper
ant.thcsis to Broad" is not High" or 'Low'
but "NarrOw." II would be monstrOus prcSump-
ton. and utterly inconsistent with Broad Church
principles according to my views for any school
or party to pretend 10 the monopoly ~ this title,
as if there were n Broad Churchmen to be found
out OF It's own little circle. | hope and believe
that there numbers who have a rightful
claim to 1t, among those VINO only profess to be-
long 10 other Of the TWO great sections
of the Church.-CThir'walTs kNnains; VOL ILL.,
D. 48l)
Four-and-twenty years have made sub
stantial difference in the situation here
sketched. Now, as then there are In both Of the
great historical divisions of Anglicanism men
who claim the liberty Of thinking for them
selves. with Limitation" other than those
which the Catholic creeds impose. When these
limits clearly seen Ia have been overpassed.
whether in. the direction Of Papalism Liberal
ism no man Of honor. whatever his theological
label may happen to be. will wait for the de-
cisions of a Church Court 10 point out 10 him
his proper path.
WILLIAM X. HUNTINGTON
Grace Church Rectory. New-York. October iG.