The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-18

grown holder and holder in the intro
duction OF practices which, according
to our correspondent, are limitations OF
purely Roman Catholic doctrine ana
ritual-incense, the confessional, prayers
for the dead the Real Presence, calling
on the Virgin and the like. This alleged
imitation, as many Of our Roman Cath
Ollie correspondents have testified, ls as
Objectionable to them as 1t Is to the stout
est Professionals. They contend that AZ
there is no validity in the Anglican orders
of the ministry, according to the decision
Of the Pope, there are no priests WIN
authority to offer a sacrifice, ana there-
fore the central ceremony OF the hitua'-
lists is sacrlegious and idolatrous. on
the other hand, an English clergyman,
the Rev. Mr.. FILLINGHAM, vicar OF
Hexton, has written to us to express the
Protestant sentiment in the Anglican
Church that the ceremony is idolatrous
because it is the worship Of little CAKE
Of -four and water, whereas the protest.
ants worship Almighty GOD To put it
in a way not so fagrantly offensive to
Roman Catholics, belief in the Real Pres
ence and denial of it are main cause OF
distinction between Roman Catholicism
and Professionalism.
Meantime the Catholic position is
carried further, and. perh APPS, not illog-
ically, to demand for resubmission
to Rome by the Rev. SPENCER JONES OF
England, the Rev. ARTHUR LLOYD OF
Japan, and Frar PAUL. an Episcopal
monk at Garrisons on the Hudson, all
clergymen OF the Anglican or Episco-
pal Church. These three resubmission-
lists cannot be called representatives OF
any considerable party in their Church,
for their propaganda is repudated even
by clergymen Of the most pronounced
Ritualstic or Catholic principles,
though Lord HALIFAX, distinguished
lay representative of the Catholic
party in Anglicanism, seems to be in
clined to sympathy with their purpose.
1t is noteworthy that as this Catholic
tendency has increased and has been re-
vealed more Enthusiastically, the Protest.
ant sentiment in the Anglican Church,
expressed 80 hotly by the Rev. Mr.. Fill
LINGHAM, becomes the more intense,
and the revolt against the Romaniz-
ing movement of the Ritualists grows
the more determined. Tuesdays cleo
ton of Bishop Of the diocese Of Newark
in succession to the late Bishop STARKEY,
in the face Of unappeasable Ritualistic
opposition. may be regarded, perhaps, as
1fpv, &c tb 10 vor,Dlf
The Catholic party, then, 80 far
from obtaining control Of the Episcopal
Church, seems rather to have stimulated
the distinctively Protestant sentiment in
it, and brought out demonstration that
that sentiment is preponderant and is
resolute in the purpose to keep the Angli-
can Church strictly within the ranks Of
Professionalism. In England this Prot
estant revival seems to be more violent
than it is here, but that it is working in
this country also has been made obvious.
No attack on the principles Of the
Reformation and no attempt to put the
Episcopal Church In opposition to them
can be made without stirring up Prot
estant sentiment 30 intense and appar-
emily so powerful that it will tend to give
a new impulse to those principles and
may result in bringing into general dis
repute the limitations OF Catholic ritual,
of which our Roman Catholic correspond
ent ironically complains. That is, in
stead of coming together, Professionalism
and Catholicism may get further apart
private judgment assert itself more reso-
lutely than ever against dogmatic Ca
tholicism.