The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-03-18
EPISCOPAL PRAYER BOOK,
Is Compiled from Catholic Sources, Saws
Father LaWler.

In his I.entcn discourse at the St. Paul
Cathedral last Tuesday night, Rev. ]. l.
Lawlcr replied to some statements made
by Bishop Gilbert the Sunday evening be-
fore at the Peoples church when he gave
his reasons for being an Epscopalian.
FIR. LAWYER said in part:
When the bishop says: 4 am an Epis-
copalan because OF our liturgy. our pray
CT book, this prayer book we hold a
precious legacy next TO the Bible he for
gets to tell his hearers that the most
beautiful portions OF his much-laudcd
book are derived from Roman Catholic
sources. II may go against the grain to
admit it, but candid Protestant historians
have conceded it, II the mutilatcd frag-
mcnts OF the Roman Catholic sources be
beautiful, what must be the works them
selves?
"A bishop of the Church of England.
DIR. Short, writes: In giving an account
more correct to describe it as a work
compiled from the services of the Church
OF Rome. or rather as a translation of
such portions of them as were free from
all objection, than as an original compo-
sition. Almost the whole OF it
was taken from different Roman Catholic
services, particularly those after the use
OF Salisbury which were then generally
adopted in the South OF England-Ap
pcndix !: to chap xvi, p 741.
pr. Lngard, chap: l.. Ed VI, says:
Taking the Latin missal and brcviarics
for the groundwork, they Ohc compilcrs)
omitted such parts as they deemed SUI
pcrlluous. etc
"'Thcn am an Episcopalian because
believe that God founded church, is
another reason given for adhcring to the
Protestant Episcopal church. That
Christ. the God-man founded church
is beyond question, but the Protestant
Episcopal church came into existence
more than seventeen centuries too late
to be the church established by Christ
Was Protestant Episcopalianism ever
heard OF before the sixteenth century? All
antiquity answers no. The Protestant
Episcopal church is descendant of the
Church OF England, by law established,
which had its origin under Henry VIII,
Edward W.. and Elizabeth.
"Whcncc does the Protestant Episcopal
church Of the United States derive its
mission and its jurisdiction? Not from
the sorcvcign OF England, not from the
president OF the United States Its att
thority has no origin outside of itself,
anu - SuliI d5 hS llltHlDClS llldy create
and accept. In view Of its origin it must
be difficult for the believers to identify
the Protestant Episcopal church with the
holy Catholic church OF the Apostles
creed, when he answers the only qucs-
ton that is asked: DO you believe all
the articles OF the Christian faith as con-
tanned in the Apostles crccd?' 1t is not
identical even with its own parent, the
Church Of England. Among other diff
fcrcnccs it rejects the Atl,anasian creed.
which, according to the eighth of the
thirty articles OF the mother church,
ought thoroughly to be received and be-
licvcd.
Its theory OF continuity with the
Church Of Christ for the past 1900 years
must be regarded as an historical joke,
to say the least
at does not present Holy Writ TO the
people i'll its entirety. The boast OF
simple gospel must sound strange to
those who remember that the Bible CON
tains supernatural mysteries"