The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-27
CHURCH AND STATE.
Duke of Newcastle Thinks the ALI
ance Must End.

NEW YORK, March 1S.-The Duke OF
Newcastle has returned to this city from
Florida, where he has been enjoying an
extended vacation. The question of the
publication in this country of his paper,
the Church Review, has not been def
nitely settled. Since his return he has
met the Rev. George NJ Christian, rec
tor of the Church of st. Mary the Vir-
gin. and the Rev. Arthur Richie, rector
of ST. Ignatius Church. His Grace will
be a leading participant in several in
formal conferences to be held during
the week with high church leaders
among the Protestant Episcopalians of
this city. He will go to Boston next
week, and later to Philadelphia The
Duke of Newcastle in an interview ex-
ritualism In England. He said:
Protestant Episcopal churches are not
so extremely low in America as they
are in England. Here they are divided
into high churches and broad churches
broad in the sense of laxity of doc
trine. There Is no brawling, however,
in the EpiScopalian churches here. Ken
sit has been going about in the high
churches of England and actually
Drawing at the services. That would
not be tolerated in this country.
Owing to these disturbances the
Bishops of the English church have ia
ken fright at ritualism. They are
therefore trying to suppress ritualism-
We are not aggressive. but we only
want to be left to ourselves. Ritualism
signifies doctrine. 1t Is an attack on our
doctrine by the Bishops themselves.
That is why we are fighting for it. II
it were only an attack on the outward
forms it would not be so serious.
II think 1t will lead eventually to dis
establishment in England. There will
be severance of the church from the
State. The extreme low section of the
church will probably leave us. It may
come at any time within twenty years.
We have a strong fighting body. A radi-
cal government would probably discs
tablish us. whether we wished II or not.
But what we really want Is disestab-
lishment under a conservative govern
ment.
az do not know what the King would
have to profess after disestablishment.
I suppose he would have to call himself
a Protestant. IT Is not our idea to get
high churchmen here entangled with our
troubles in England. We simply wish
to have them better informed of each
other. There is no movement on foot to
again promote a union between the An
glican church and the Church of Rome.
"The possibility of union of the
Western and Eastern churches is nearer
accomplishment There are not so
many antagonistic laws in the Russian
and Greek church as in the Roman
church. I think that eventually the diff
ficulties that exist between the Eastern
and Western churches may be over
come. Steps have already been taken
to that end. There are political difficult
ties between England and Russia to be
dealt with.
''The church of Russia is wrapped up
in the State. Personally, I shall be
very much interested in the movement
to unite them with the Anglican church
But the movement needs for a leader a
man who knows Russia WE'LL
AS a result OF conferences the Duke
of Newcastle has held with prominent
ritualists in this country His Grace has
formed a definite plan to bring into clo-
ser union the ritualists of England and
the United States.