The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-15

Rev. j. ]. Lawler. of the cathedral
parish. devoted a part of the address
delivered last night in the series Of Lenten
sermons to replying to statements made
by Bishop Gilbert in his address at tho
Peoples church Sunday night on "Why
L Am an Episcopalian." Father LAWYER
said in part:
when the bishop says: 4 am an Epis-
copalian because of our liturgy, our
prayer book. This prayer book we hold
precious legacy next to the Bible he
forgets to tell his hearers that the most
beautiful portions Of his much-lauded
book are derived from Roman Catholic
sources. 1t may go against the grain
to admit 1t, but candid Protestant his
torians have conceded it. If the multilat-
ed fragments of the Roman Catholic
sources be beautiful. what must be the
works themselves2
"a bishop Of the Church Of England,
DR.. Short. writes: In giving an account
OF the common prayer book, 1t will be
more correct to describe 1t as work
compiled from the services of the Church
OF Rome. or rather as translation Of
such portions Of them as were free from
all objection. than as an original COM
position. = 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-
pendix E to chap xvi, p. TAI.
DIR. Lingard. chap L.. Ed. VI. says:
Taking the Latin missal and breyiaries
for the groundwork, they Ghe compilers)
omitted such parts as they deemed su-
per1uous, ETC.
Then l am an Epfscopalian because
believe that God founded church. Is
another reason given for adhering to the
Protestant Episcopal church That
Christ, the Goldman, founded a 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 it's origin under Henry VIII,
Edward VI, and Elizabeth.
Whence does the Protestant EPISCOPAL
church Of the United States derive it's
mission and its Jurisdiction? Not from
the sovereign of England, not from the
president of the United States Its au-
thority has no origin outside of itself,
and Is such as it's members may 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 ques-
ton that is asked: Do you believe all
the articles of the Christian faith as con-
tanned in the Apostles creed? 1t is not
Identical even with its own parent, the
Church of England. Among other diff
ferences it rejects the Athanasian creed,
which, according to the eighth Of the thir-
ty-nine articles Of the mother church,
ought thoroughly to be received and be-
lieved.
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.
''It does not present Holy Writ to the
people in its entirety. The boast Of
simple gospel must sound strange to
those who remember that the Bible con-
tains supernatural mysteries