The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-30
FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH.
ITS ORIGIN NOT Connected WITH
THE CHURCH OF ROME.


Said Rev. j. L. ScuIIy-The Story
That Henry VIII Founded 1t a Fall
Iacy-HistOry shows That the
Church of England Existed Before
the Bishop of Rome Made Any In
roads on That Countrywide Con-
nectiOn Between the Two Denied
Even During the Reign of Henry
VIII.
Rev. ]. L. scully of ST PauPs Episcopal
Church preached an interesting sermon
last night on the subject of the origin and
foundation of the church, in line with a
sermon which he preached a few Sundays
ago for the purpose Of showing that the
Church of England from which came the
Protestant Episcopal Church of America
was nor founded, as many seem 20 believe
by Henry VIII.
An interesting feature of the service
and one which is observed at every SER
vice is prayer for the militiamen in the
army, and a special prayer for the Geor-
gia boys.
Preceding the sermon Rev. Mr.. Scully
said he wanted to divest the minds of
he intended to jump on somebody. Some
seemed 10 have the idea that ne was jump
ing on another church or something of
that kind, while nothing, he said was
further from his intention In the next
place, he said he wanted to say that Ma
cauley never did say, as some supposed
That the church was founded by Henry
| VIII, and, again, Macaulay is not regard
ed as an historian.
Rev. Mr.. Scully took his text from Acts
II, AZ: And they continue steadfastly in
Inc apostles doctrine and fellowship, and
in breaking of bread, and in PRAYERS"
IL was his purpose, he said, to show that
the church known in the United States
as the Protestant Episcopal Church, which
came from the Church of England, was
| derived from unbroken continuity from
the apostolic church. Christ founded a
church; no man has ever been authorized
to found one. The ministers of to-day are
priests of that church of Christ 1t was
from that church of Christ that the church
of Rome was derived and so il was with
the Church of England
Rev Mr.. Scully then took up the visit
to England of the Monk Augustine in 500.
Augustine landed there, he said with the
permission of the King. But there was a
church in England, as history shows; be-
fore Augustine landed there. ST. Alban
died a Christian Martyr in London in the
year sos. History speaks of church coun-
ellis that were held in ga and in 347, the
| last of which was attended by seven bish-
! ops and an archbishop.
| Some spoke of st. Patrick as a bishop OF
| the Church of Rome That, said Rev. Mr..
! Scully, is another pious fraud. How was
1t he, asked, that the Pope gave Henry II
the authority to go over and subdue the
Irish and make them subject to the Church
of Rome?
! St James was in truth the first bishop of
! the church, and that church began in Je-
| rusalem. The church which began In Je-
! rusalem is the same church to-day In the
! next place he said the words used in con-
| nection with the two churches were diff
ferent In England the word church was
| used while in Rome it was ecclesia- The
! Roman church had one rule for the cele-
pration while the English church had an
! other. The bishops in the Roman church
! and in the Grecian church shaved In a diff
| ferent manner from those in the Church of
! England. In fact everything in history
! goes to show that the Bishop of Rome had
/ no jurisdiction beyond his own province
! for the first 600 years Even Augustine had
| no right to land in England, though sent
| by the Bishop of Rome, until he had re-
| celved permission from the King
In $50 King Egfried imprisoned the Arch
bishop of York for appealing to the Bishop
Oh Rome. There was no papal logate from
| 59o TO 7S3. Many other Incidents along
/ the same line were mentioned.
In l2l5 the Pope nominated Stephen
| Langdon as Archbishop of Canterbury. but
| KING John refused to receive him saw
ing the Church of England is not the
church of Rome. John, when threatened
| with accumulation, made Langdon
! Archbishop of Canterbury, and 1t was
Langdon who drew up the famous magma
! charta. The first article of that famous
! document was that the Church of Eng
land should be free and not subject to the
Church of Rome.
Rev. Mr. Scuily then showed how. when
| Henry VIII desired TO rid himself of b,4
wife, Catherine of Aragon, after having
been given permission by the Pope to
marry his deceased brothers widow he
! did so, through learning from lnomas
| Cranmer, afterward Archbishop of Canter
bury, informed him that the Pope of Rome
had no authority in the first place to per-
nit The marriage, since the Church of Eng
! land was not subject TO the Church of
! Rome. Henry then asked the question or
the Bishops in England, whether the Pops
of Rome had any authority by divine right
over the Church of England more than
that possessed by any other bishop, ana
me reply OF practically all of them was
in the negative
/
mated in England, and never did originate
in Rome. The English prayer book Is
not the Roman prayer book. The English
church would not acknowledge the Pope
as its head, and during the reign of Eliza
beth the Pope sent the first missionary to
England. There were numerous instances
10 show that the Anglican orders were
absolutely valid. The King of England "a
the head of the church only with respect
to the sword and not with respect TO
the keys. The King cannot make a
bishop, and bishop cannot make a
King.
Rev. Mr. Scully said he had heard that
number of school teachers in Savannah
had said that Henry VIII had founded the
church. How any one who had read his
tory and had access to library could say
that he could not understand.
The sermon was a most interesting one
throughout, and dealt with many of the
historical facts relating to the matter.
LACKED TWO OF 100 DEGREES.
May Going Ont with Mercury Climb
ing High.