The Portland daily press., 1900-11-26

DIR. McConnett OF brooAiSa
TtHany-Not Bound Here by canons
Sfehe English Church.
New York SUM-
Ths Episcopal Church Congress mas
come to an end with the mutual ex-.
change OF most cordial thanks and hearth
ast gooa wishes between the Rev. DIR. O.
@. Tiffany OF New York, speaking for
the Church Congress as It's General Score
tary, and Bishop Coadjutor MoVioar oil
the Diocese of Rhode Island as the presid-
ing officer OF the meeting of the oongrsss
held during the week.
.'Ihe ecclesiastical independence OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church" was the
topic OF the last mornings session. While
on the face of it rather n technical than
popular subject, 1t gave rise 20 sne ssa.e-
Inen5 of some ideas on the part OIL the
Shinking men who had been invited to
sneak. which may be considered some
what revolutionary. The feature OF the
morning was the suggestion OF the rev
DIR. Samuel ID. Mcdonnell OF Brookiyny
N, Y, that the Protestant Episcopal
church, while enthusiastically independents
of the Church OF England, 10 not lnde-
pendent of the Protestant religious Doules
of this country, among which IL ~ com
PEELED TO woE K. and that IL should give
over It's attitude OF superiority, tnGs IL
should give them the name they de serve,
rscoqnizing them as churches rather than
as merely religious organizations, anu
that It should work side by side and
shoulder to shoulder with them Tor the
cause they both uphold Dr. Mcdonnell S
address was both witty and breezy and ne
held the close ettsntion OF the audience.
Bishop Doane CT Albany, N Y, was
picturesq he figure. Among the speakers
of Uns dag another, bishop, not on the
regular morning programme, but VINO
desired to add his opinion on the ques-
tion OF Independence. was the Right heV.
A Z. A. Hall, Bishop OF Vermont.
The KEY. Ur. Charles q. Tiffany, Arch
deacon of New Y0rk, said in part:
"rhe Independence Of the individual
mem bers of the church has, 1t seems to
me, been most abundantly testified 10 at
the II lettings OF this congress thus rar.
In the days whan mems minds turn nat
uraiIy to unity, it may seem improper tn
speak OF Independence at all, yet greater
INDEPENDENCE may In time lead to closer
unity. The unity OF which we speak today
Is not essentially moral, nor Is 1t neoes-
sarily ethical, Race and nationality are
underlying characteristics, ana 1t IL
along the line of race, as expressed IN
nationality, that we look for the
natural IL dependence, The church claims
independence. 1t was established when
mother country
DIR Tiffany then recounted the history
CT the separation or the American ohurcn
from the Church OF England. He said:
1.-The new church provided itself with
the American idea OF representation In
convention. The American church was
not meant by the fathers to be ultrama-
rine aud constantly looking across the
water to lind out what 1t might and
might not do. In the prayer book proVis-
ion for the particular confession was
omitted, but this was not considered
Revolutionary departure from this mother
church, for by leaving confession optional
the mother church had made 1t not essen
tial. The rubric also Is not binding on
the American church. As 60 the thirty
nine articles, the object was only to
adopt their leading sense in the Protes-
tant Episcopal church. The spirit OF the
constitution DOES not permit the church
in this country to be bound by the
canons of the English church. MIR. Glad
stone emphatically affirmed that the
prayerbook OF 1862 was the same author
ity of the English church, As to our own
book, it and It alone constitutes the
standard.
1.-THE wider question as to what imita-
tion the canons of the church made before
the reformation, / can only slluds to
briefly. Yet the general principle Is that
in QUITTING loose from the old church, the
Church OF England refused to be bound
longer by the canons Of the old church.
Independence brings with 1t not only its
righE, but its duty SO to adhere to its
principles as TO make 1t not only the
church in this nation, but the church of
the nation "
Rt Rev. William Croswen Doane, d. ID
LII. ID, Bishop of Albany. N. Y, said:
''I suppose the word independence as
ussd here is simply relative, because since
the creation OF Eve and the fall OF Adam
there never has been any zeal independ-
ence Inc only church which has real
independence as rsgarus It's clergy is the
Roman Catholic, which has by its law OF
celibacy put itself outside of the usual
or reasonas le.
at is said the Protestant Episcopal
church bears no stamp OF England or
Italy, yet in so far as this church grew
out of the churches of those nations there
IS and must be some stamp OF the
churches of those nations L like the
words Catholic interdependence' better
than the word Independence as apple
to the church. 1t seems to me the people
Of America are afflicted with two diseases
Anglophobia and Anglomania "
bishop Doans concluded with reatfir-
nation OF his belief in the intsrdepan-
dence of the Church of England and the
Protestant Epis ,opa church.
The Rey. DIR. Samuel ID. Mcdonnell OF
Brooklyn followed, After expressing his
appreciation of the disadvantage at
which the speaker who follows the bisnop
Of Albany is placed he said:
Liberty anu freedom, the watch words
of a century, ago, have given way 60 new
words, interdependenoe and responsibility
There is today no common law In this
country either in church or state. In
certain OF the states there Is simulacrum
of commonalaw, but even then not until
action by the legislative power of the
state. 1t Is waste of time, think, for
us to consider our economical and coolest
astical Independence of the Church OF
England. The name of the DOGGY which
frightened the Bishop of Albany at Wash
ington, is not An glomania, but common
sense.
1.-The instant the independence OF
church or state is achieved 1t passes under
another law by which 1t must be gov
erned, law known as International law.
What and where are the ecclesiastical
states with which we have to dor
"Our church Tor forty or fifty years has
been looking everywhere for counsela and
comfort, everywhere except where 1t
ought to look. Our interdspendence Is
scelesiaEtiosl, and the churches With
xwhfah 10 tardapaF1 IA nf ara tha fJrofac-