The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-13

mel and the deepening of personal piety.
We should be thankful for the large
number of splendid men of this COM
munion now engaged in lay-reading. How
should we thank God and take courage
when we call to mind the wonderful work
now going ON in every Diocese of the
American Church by the Woman's Auxil-
iary, both in the original organization a
mong the grown women of Her commun-
ion and in the Junior Branch, as well as
the work among the Babes and the
Daughters of the King. What ample
cause have we to hope that this very re
markahle movement is, rs yet in its
swaddling clothes. and that we will not
have gone beyond the first decade of the
twentieth century before such Will have
been their growth both in numbers and in
ouickened conservation. that it may APP
propriately be said of thousands and tens
of thousands of American church women,
they have done what they could. See
what marvellous results the Lord has
wrought by frail feeble woman found
by the lowly NaZarene newer of wood
and drawer of water for man, in a strong
and vigorous church. And then we can
point with grateful pride to the corrella-
ton of the Woman's Auxiliary among the
men in the Brotherhood of st. Andrew.
How often, in the remarkable aid render
cd both Diocesan and par0chlal work.
have both Bishops and priests of the
church thanked God and taken cour-
age" when remembering what the men
of prominence and the brother of low de-
gree are doing to advance the true inter
ests of Christ's Kingdom Surely, the
time seems to be near at hand when the
Episcopal church can point with PRIDE
and 10y at what the men and women,
prominent for social position, are DONG
for Christ in her ranks; and when also
the great work Of claiming the kingdoms
of earth for the King is being rapidly
pushed by n a Judgment of her great saw
ing truths of the gospel i'll the hearts of
a broad-chested, brawny yeomanry, how
thankful we should be- No church or
State without a yeomanry can be strong.
Heretofore it has been said Of the
Episcopal church that she had no hold on
the great toiing masses. To-day there
is very much truth i'll this statement We
do not get hold of the great body of the
people. Out of the centers of our large
cities and towns there are counties upon
counties-are there not whole congress
sional districts ?-wheIe this church has no
altar. Why is this? Presently we will
inquire into the causes of this state of
things. and seek for the remedy
IT may encourage us all to note the
fact that there are signs of a better state
of things now to be discerned Again, we
have occasion to rejoice over the facts
that this church in her broad and
broadening Catholicity, in her freedom
from narrowness growing out of her free
dom from specialties, for in Law, in
Medicine, in Science, in Theology special
tics are the producers of narrowness and
lop-sidedness and antagnoize the full
orbed. enlightened view of the round
ness Of the Truth-as freed from petted
1re,s.h>4--, s-----;.o dna-a.nS, AMI dan vprOus
augularities Will any one dispute the
fact that God is ushering i'll the time
when influential men are beginning. TO
maximiZe the points of agreement while
they are burying self and pride of mere
opinion (Which may have been mistaken
for conviction heretofore) in minimizing
the points of disa greement? None of us
here to-day may live to see this state of
things now happily augured, but very far
! from being as yet developed. But Time is
on the wing, and is bringing it ON. Hap
PLY, not in the triumphs of any Broad
! Churchism, with its malleable creed, so
: hammered out, it is true, as to give broad
ness but no thickness and like gold leaf
! too thin to last, but still gold. Nor yet
will it come to us in any trlumphs of the
! Low Churchman, with those noble, glOri-
| Gus views which he is beginning to see
do not cover the whole field, much less
the greater part of God-given and God
protected Evangelicalism, so blessedly pro-
yided in the fullness of the Atonement,
1 and its wise administration The High
church member of the family, rich in
reasonable and Prayer-book ritual, and
deep in his devotion to all the grand
truths, which, healthfully maintained, ac-
count for the continuity of the church as
an Apostolic Body, in Herself as pure as
gold and as understandable as asbestos,
will not rejoice over the such grand
result as coming from his views. But all
| three of these children of our dear old
mother, broad, high and low, will then
have recognized the salutary view of the
Divine dspenSation, as too catholic to be
exclusively protestant, and far too loyal
| to truth, lineage and origin, far too prot
estant to be ROman-aye, far too catho-
lie to be Roman-fOr to be Roman is 10
be both schismatic and heretical as well.
Those there are, far too saturnine ever
to be hopeful, and who will classify these
thoughts among the distempered products
of heated enthusiasm. To such we would
say, it is our prefogative to hope for the
best, and in the almost entire disappear
ance of such terms as High Churchman,
Low Churchman, Broad Churchman-
terms so rife, so rank and so rancorous
a quarter of a century ago, this Church
is gathering all her children around her
ON the quadrilateral platform of the
J House Of Bishops:
(A) The Holy Scriptures Of the Old and
New Testaments, as "containing all
things necessary to salvation" and as
being the rule and ultimate standard
of faith.
. OBJ The Apostles Greed, as the Baptis-
! NAL Symbol; and the Nicene Greed, as
the sufficient statement of the Chris
; tan faith.
(C) The two Sacraments ordained by
Christ Himself-RantiSm and tha Sun