The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-03

AZ Attack on Edward ahs s:xtb's Prs,.,
Rook nnA Other Intsrrsfinr Natter.

! A. Attack on Edward ahs s:xtb's Prsr.r
Hook sad Other Iutsres;tnE Matters.
! To THE EDtroe OF THE sUS-Sir: Several
| gentlemen who have written TO TIE Sry ls-
Tending the right OF the Rectors Of ST. May
the Virgin and ST. Ignatius to celebrate a
esrblsd and mutilatsd form Of the Anglican
Office Of Holy Communion and call It "masS,
slludo to the antiquity OF the Anglican mass.
which they assert. Is found 10 the prayer bonk
OF King Edward the Sixth That PRAYER boot
was never cepted by the Church OF England
and simply Is preserved as a literary curiosity
OF a time when men fought like devils for con.
ciltation and hated one another for the love oi
God Of n daJ when tho bloody headsman
| chased the mother OF Cardinal Pole around IN.
block until he ieei her like an OK In tn,
shambles; OF time long gone by tthanx
Heaven when hurdles carrying men to thu
stake who refused to ack nowledgH the suprem.
acy Of the English crown in affairs spiritual
we're passed by other men bound to death he-
cause OF q refusal to accept the doctrine OF tn.
Real Presence.
The King Edward book was hated by Catho-
lies and Professionals. and was work prcpatsd
by mon who thought a reasonable CO m promIs.
better than continual religious unrest over
church services II is twisting ropes Of SAM
to base any authority for the Episcopal mass
maintain that any ordained clergyman NJ
the Protestant Episcopal Church. who stand,
before his altar and proclniinR that massis
celebrated In hIs church vt appointed hours,
is Deliberate and unqualified slater ~ what
FURTHER than that riergymen II that Church
have no right to exclude communicates from
the Holy Communion az the last ceiehration
mase read the rubric in the comm union Office
which states that the priest shall ieceiyetns
proceed to deliver the same to the Bishops
priests, and descons in like ranner ~ any be
order. into their hands, all devoutly kneelinc.
And sufficient OPPORTUNITY smaIi bs rg gwen to
o. Common Prayer. page 2JL!
How can the restors Q. TIE Eriscop,!
Keep their ordination vows when III. HoS
communicents from the communion
the Protestant Episcopal Church In the United
States Is that the Church IL really a Congrecs-
bic men eailed Bishops Who OO% are snS WITHOUT
authority to send clergymen to churches or to
so%sn e esS DFsns sf B TN right N
EpiscopsI Bishop spends his time wnirng
sorts and conditions Of men pitchforke ed into
HeishboISSods buiibsitsi or Worried some
well with them In some scheme to build now
church or bg9m ths church as centre n,.,. Of
fhshlOns MetnOdift fusnop mas euInCleDt
send laborers into the harvest. but an Episoo.
pal Bishop cannot do an ything about engaging
laborers for the harvest; that business IL at
tended to by the parish churches, which call
such laborers as are worthy Of their hire by
church at the charge OF their private fortunes.
II the laborer has no fortune or social intiu-
snGs ne Will be relegatsdd to the backwoods;
and KS ps ss sd G%
That state Of affairs has existed for years. aud
the Bishops are powcriess to protect the clsr-
gymen from the facilitating whlms OF the lalty.
who are like the Methodist. Baptist. Presby-
churches ind their highest form OF delight in
worrying ministers to death, making religion
such q grewsomo and heartless thing that
nine-tsnths Of the citizens OF New York no
take precious good care to get the averag,
church mem bet's name signed aud with sssed
to- = contract or horse trade. 1t Il the low
trickery and fragrant dishonesty o. hypocrites
in the mud OF selishnsss that makes mon and
women seek for truth. moral teachings, and
the vertties OF religion In n Root newspaper
rather than In alleged churches that are sim
nonsense about masses and Catholic tradition
and reconciliation Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church with the Roman and Greek churches
cease among the corporal's guard OF emotional
dozen OF Anglican clergymsn who are irving
to get to heaven by the aid OF the punctursd
balloons OF Dolln gerism aud -Ptrs hyacln-
theism, Honesty Is the best policy Tor Ex-
thurized cersm onies let them all Join the Ioiiy
order Of the Mystic shrine, and my word ior Il.
a celebration Of q " Pilgrimage to Mecca" In
st Ignatiuas Church will draw a bigger hou-s
than the alleged bensdieti9n service i, on sun
MARCH III