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Church r;1ns, Of Rome Re- both IN -.
1,.uai; At the present d a. Doctrine :.
h hue a Gaurshes all over Ene'.,in man, =
oe olincuit to see any a, sd it N.Y.,
order and form OF o'lerense, !,
from what one would .snip pract.a
Calnoiic Church. 1t wo,,,s N any Rom,
eeration to say that durir. not be e,,s
.ury revolution has taass 'ae haiss
uaiism has gained an aI, place D.
triumph. 1t is clearly thn ost Conn.,.
is as clearlv e1 ~, Oh England tOda asOt is,s
of the mausn me intention Of ny sad
rne,r church no For this puroo. y ROrsas.
yh;ns secret societies, the s 49, .Aere Al.
TT IT." mas oeen now fully ma esa.sIence q
80. cree History of the oSs. Known IA
i;nr " rev Walter Walsh rOlo Moys
nns .,; pook mas opened the ey.s ms star.
th eI1sn.nen to the danger ,ha, o. nsay
ane professionalism Of the Enw a. ,area,sss
anu mas mad much to do ~ en ssa chnA
.he crisis /. Between sevan 0ringing q,
thousand clergymen are sa;d and eigAr
tEese societies. and to the Ennv " Belong i,
Chion, the leader of which nsh ChwA
TAX, a most devout and ahlo 10. Lord Hal.
fapors Tor the Romanizing =, 'symah, xhe
WIN all the zeal of Jesu,, 'sicanisn
Americans may ask W.
~, rv4heht invoke 'crisisr IL l"Vuld tbs
oI Chrlstlans wishes To io,n - any Sect
OF Rome, or to initiate tha we Church
nc man worship, why sbonla .,n.usnsn Of
aho"ed to do so? If tho NJ a'es not be
party can persuade the Enyli.ss Church
return to Mother Church . - people 10
en nms ina. ought to prevent ihsrs any,
~ ua'eI-persuasion by those wSa WIN eu
Protestant opinions2 There wo "as holi
answer 20 these questions wsr. s Dc no
that the Anglican Church is n, @
, ,anhshed the church of the nav Jaw e.
as sucn, 1t Is not an institution !. and
Only Anglicans; people of an ss .sOalhg
, opinion in the nation are concsr. SUES Q,
land is a Protestant country :, Eas
Protestant church that tho G was a;
England was established, and ,bs
ment for the continuation OF H. a'ss.
! relation to the state all alonc pesf
, that it was q great bulwark ~ n. "sa
, ahtism. Here We see the nac,li,- - wy
or the crisis. Professionalism ;s ~ Aa'ais
a noire of the Anglican priest ~ ~ Ns
nave nothing to Go either with Pro,'.s VA
ant ooctrine or ritual. He cons,sr.,.
speaks of Catholic doctrine as ts D,s'' ~
. true doctrine. He has no SWIM, ~. ' Uhy
: the other Protestant churches - va -
q land-will not acknowledge 49,, w
churches at all. or the ordinatio, ~ a..
ministers as valid. The only church ~ -.
; he will acknowledge as a trua Crbnros ia :
c Christ, besides his own, is the chr-rs '
Rome, and perhaps (sic)- the o.,
church. Ii Is unfortunate for him a.
o neither the Pope, nor the Pripata ot !.
) Greek Church, will acknowledge his n
q ders' as valid, or regard the Anglican
= true church; but all the same bs ~
!, liation Is with them, and not with !,
= fern of Professionalism. His position
anomalous in the extreme. He claim,
!. effect all the liberty of Monochrome
II and yet wishes to retain his place in ,
!. National Church. He breaks the law
q the Church of England, violates the
h OF Uniformity as much as any d!ssen
!. dSes, though in different way. and
10 The same time enjoys the honors 4
10 enoluments of the church as by law
. tablished, from which the ordinary
- senter Is excluded.
&C 1T is this anomalous position Of
9 average Anglican that accounts for
failure of thes Broad Church and Ev
= gelical parties. The one has surrende
r its Broad Churchism, and the other
Low Church doctrines, for the sake Of
j. Establishment. Both have tried In v
l. Gus ways to resist the rltualstc adval
p but the whole strength of their reslsta
"a has been nullified by the fact that I
"a were not prepared to sacrifice their p
~ tions in the National Church for the
a oe their opinions. The EstablishH
n was dearer to them than their 81
10 Church views or Evangelical docirin
m The writer believes, however,
10 eventually the questions involved in
H. ritual controversy will demand solni
o and that the result will be disestab
Is. ment. But there is, he says, de
of DIGESTION involved than appears on
no surface; the present strife Is nothing
a than a conflict between two radl
IF different conceptions OF religion, het'
ny the modern spirit and medievalism. ="
n cerdotalism-the belief that life hal
tn sanctity in itself. only what is de-
air from the church"-was, says the vi
lis doubtless adapted to the needs Of ma
Oh the middle ages. The modern idea,
a man finds the divine light ard the
he dom of heaven within-frst prea
in broadcast at the time of the Prote
Reformation-has. says Mr.. Anderso
ne irreconcilable conflict with the syste
ms Catholic dogma, whether Roman or
no glican. This idealistic conception Q
,la ligion, and the belief in the immal
to Iof God without priest or church or
nd Ilible body of doctrine as necessaT
he termediary to personal communion,
thinks the writer, eventually III
m over the various systems of Cathoh
or- Protestant belief now held in chr
in Idom