New-York tribune., 1901-02-10
The RTTTALIST PROP4GAND4.

of abating and il is said that the Rev. Dr.
John Fulton. the accomplished Editor OF "Ihe
Church Standard" and an acknowledged au-
thority on canon law, may bring the matter De-
fore the next General Convention. which meets
in San Francisco in October. The question in
volved is not merely whether certain cere-
monies and vestments employed in that con-
secration were allowable in the Episcopal
Church. but whether the AngloCatholic party
shall come TO be recognized the only law
full school of thought in the Church. In the
early days of the Oxford Movement the ritual
lists were content TO fight for bare liberation.
but during the last few years their leaders in
England and this country have been demand
ing more than liberation. They declare that
their conception of the Church and their in
depreciation of It's teachings ought TO be official
ly recognized by the Church as true. and they
have shown an increasing disposition to antag-
onize and drive out of the Church the Low
Churchmen and Broad Churchmen more espe-
cially the latter, as heretics and infdels. In
taking this stand they are entirely logical,
whatever may be said of their attitude from
the point of view of party expediency. For a
sincere belief in their fundamental principles
is certainly incompatible with the Low or Broad
Church conception of Christianity. They them
selves have no doubt that they are right, and
as they are the cleverest tacticians in the
Church il Is conceivable that they may ulti-
mately capture its legislative machinery, in
which case they would not hesitate to pro-
scribe all other schools of thought and make
the Church really nOn-Protestant
In view of this possibility IL is interesting to
inquire what sort of body they would make
OF the communion now known the Protest
ant Episcopal Church. What its attitude TO
Professionalism would be is indicated in cate
chism recently put forth by an Episcopal
clergyman, from which make the following
extract:
What else dissenters called?
Dissenters are called sectarians. denomination
alists. non-Conformists heretics, schismatics or.
untruthfully, churches"
Why is there salvation for an American
Catholic who perVerts To the dissenterS?
There is no salvation for an American Catholic
who perverts 10 the dissenters. because God
founded the Holy Catholic Church. with its un
broken apostolic succession OF bishops. priests
and deaCOrs as the one ark of salvation;
whereas dissenters with their man made sects
and endless denominational contradictions and
sinful divisions. are the work of the devil. and
ne cannot
Are not Methodist ministers merely unor-
dained laymen who nave no authority from God
10 administer SaCramentS?
must either be a layman else
bishop priest or deacon Of Gods one Holy Cath
Ollie and Apostolic Church bishop, priest
deacon can only he made by bishop In the un-
broken apostolic succession from Christ and the
original twelve Apostles John and Charles
Wesley were only priests, and so did not and
could not ordain any one. All Methodist preach
ers are unordained laymen falsely assuming the
title Of Reverend" their so-caled bishops being
only superintendents. with no power 10 ordain
What should a disSenter. heather or Iapsed
churC Enan do
He should go without a single hours delay TO
the nearest Anglo Catholic priest. put himself
absolutely under his direction, and be recOnciled
20 the Church at once.
Can one be saved a dssenter or Romanist?
We must be Catholics TO be in the one ark OF
salvation.
Should the Episcopal Church ever be formal
~ committed to this teaching IL would have 70
blot ont great part of its history and put
The seal of lis di>approval on n large number
OF ts clergy and laity who are doing much 10
make II great and respected. OF course. if the
question of truth Is involved. If the Church
ought really TO take thar attitude. no consider
alton OF expediency should stand in the way
But before taking So radical a step, involving
such great consequences it would seem at least
worth while for Episcopalians 10 ask them
selves If Professionalism Is so utterly wrong. Is
ii their duty To revert TO conception of the
Church that would put IL out of step with the
Christian consciousness of the age? Every
church has the inherent right 10 say what are
its beliefs. But when il exercises such right
it must face the consequences OF its act; and
in this case the consequences might involve the
very existence OF the Church.
That we do not overstate the AnglOCathOlic
attitude toward others in the Episcopal Church
Is proved by one of its organs in this city. THE
Catholic Champion" Let us not he afraid
of new reformed Episcopal schlsm." IL says
in an article demanding the expulsion of the
sO-called Episcopal Unitarians of Boston. 1T
may be the best thing that could happen
especially if it should be upon the issue of
"our Lords Divinity" short shrift for all
who do not accept the teachings and prac-
tlces of the ritualists is its programme for the
party. The same journal praises the recent
declaration of the Duke OF Norfolk I'm favor of
the temporal power OF the Pope. and joins In
his protest against the fOrcible snatching from
''the hands OF the venerable POntiff of his
ecclesiastical patrlmOny." 1t also rebukes the
Pope for having sustained the Free Mason
abominatOn called the French republic" but
is glad To that at last he realizes the error
of his course and has addressed n protest
against the French Governments proposed
treatment of the Catholic religious orders Are
these reactiOnary teachings and IDEAS to pre-
vail I'm the Episcopal Church? Recent events
indicate that this question may soon have to
be answered by the Church. and what that an
swer shall be Is matter of great interest not
only TO Episcopalians, but 10 Christians of
every name