The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-06

| Edltor Morning News: In discuss
ing the question of marriage and di-
vorce in our church on the morning
of Oct. 20, 1904, 1 spoke of the Church
of England as being an example where
extremes meet. A church now that
Is a champion of no divorce, that
would not have had an existence had
it not been for a divorce.
Then 1 spoke of Henry VIII and
his break with the Roman Catholic
Church. I did not mean to reflect
even on the Church of England, much
less on any church in the United
States. 1 had no church in the states
in my mind when I spoke. 1 had no
person in the states in my mind when
spoke. I spoke of an institution,
and mentioned the person and circum-
stances of its founding. I meant no
personal refiection-not even to Henry
VIII.
l am called to task by a brother
minister In our city. He holds me up
before his congregation on a fair
Lords Day morning as a flip making
''hippant remarks" Thus he becomes
personal in an uncomplimentary way
in a place where I am not allowed to
stand to make a defense. 1t is a pity
that charity" had not been healthy
plant" that fair Lords Day.
81 Meant What 1 Said"
Had the brothers sermon been with
out reference to me personally as mine
was without reference to him person
ally, or to his church. 1 should have
been spared the necessity of this re-
ply, which is painful to me in the ex-
| IRENE. / shall treat my brother more
seriously than he treated me. L shall
accord to him the honor of being sin
| cere, both in his position and in his
| remarks, in trying to support his posi-
ton. l believe him sincere, but mis-
taken. That his sincere remarks dc
not support his unfortunate position is
clear to others.
l would not have my brother make q
waste of charity by calling my state
| ment "flippant remarks" 1t was not.
was serious. I meant what 1 said.
am sorry to grieve or anger anybody
but made the statement aftel
thought. In so doing l simply stated
well authenticated and generally &C
cepted historical fact. The best au
thorities speak thus of the Church o.
England. Its history begins with thu
reign of Henry VIII, when, breaking
with the Pope. he was declared heaC
| of the church in his dominion" II
was a political necessity to which Hen
| ry VIII resorted in order to accom-
plish and justify his divorce from Cath
crime, and marriage with Anne Bo
leYn."
GLANDS Washed in Blood"
I did not make the history, neither
| did l write it. / am sorry that it was
ever made, but when l speak of his
torical facts 1 must, of necessity, re-
late them as they occurred and are
recorded.
l cannot see why any American cit,
izen should become an apologist iol
the Church of England, or any Other
established church. who in her stately
steps has crushed the bones of the
innocents under her feet and washed
her hands in the blood of saints.
1.-THE True History Of the Church o.
England" will show her to have IA
vored an educated ministry. but nC
more so than dissenters. She taxed
the dissenters to educate her minis
ters and, where her power enabled hei
to do so. she prohibited the dissenter'
from educating their own ministers
Since more Optimistic days" have
come and the dissenters are free e
have schools of their own, their min
listers have become the educationa
peers of the ministers Of the Church
of England.
Boasts of the Church.
The Church of England has made he
boasts of an apostolic succession, which
she denied in others. All Christian
churches are in apostolic succession
since they succeed and do not precedI
| A In
works and love is more desirable thar
in office. Henry VIII seems to hav'
believed in and practiced apostolica
secession, rather than succession.
That he died in the Roman Catholi
! Church weighs little as an argumen
that Henry VIII did not found tn,
Church OF England, when we remem
Der that John Wesley, the founder o
the Methodist church. died in th'
Church OF England. Wesley was
great and good man and the Metho
dists are a great and good people, whit
are proud Of their founder.
Dissentors have always had dis
position 10 Ego out and see the goo,
things Of other peoples" and havl
never had cause 10 deny themselves
the feeling which they accord TO 9th
ers. when l am worshiping I an
worshiping," IN "a true branch OF thl
apostolic church OF Cod"
Tyranny and Blood"
'-Tho True History OF the Church o
England" IL one OF much tyranny AM
blood. She has ever denied soul III
erty and freedom 81 conscience 30 IN
people. In 1860 the Act or Uniform
ity," compelling Baptists, Quakors, In
dependents, FTeHbytorinna and an 9th
err 10 attend The National Church, wa
] revived. Desiring 10 obey Cod rattle