The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-03-01
SYNOPSIS OF SERMON
Delivered by Rev. Dean Richardson, Of
San Antonio. at Missionary Confer
ence Recently Held in Browns.
vile.
LConcludcl from Yc.lcrlay

edge the Pope's supremacy proved
two things, first, that it was TO them
a new doctrine, and secondly, that
they had been independent of the
Pope up 10 that time. Note this
carefully, that the British Church
a Church as truly Apostolic in is
origin as that Of Rome, that had
received the gospel from or through
St. Paul himself and had participant
cd in several of the Great Councils
of the Church, was entirely ignor-
ant of any claim to supremacy in
St. Peter, and still less in the Bish-
ops or Popes of Rome as his sue
cessors.
Had Augustine been really wise
and tactful he could easily have
won the older British Church, aud
they could have worked together
hand n hand As il was, the
British Church, working from Iona
and Lindisfarne, actually convert
ed three-fourths of Saxon England,
and that of Augustine One-fourth.
The reunion of the two Churches
was brought about by Archbishop
Theodore, nearly 500 years later.
Then followed another 500 years of
seeming peace outwardly, but real
ly of growing, increasing corrup-
ton within; confessed, lamented,
deplored by the whole Church. II
was during this period that the at
tempt of King John to sell the
Church and Kingdom of England
wholly to the power and authority
of the Pope.led the Barons of Eng
land to force the King to sign the
Magma Charta, the great charter of
English liberty, the first clause of
which is Ecclesia Anglicana liberia
SIT, 4" THE Church of England
shall be free. This was in the year
l2l5.
After this period came the Re-
formation, that great catacysm 10y
which the moral and spiritual world
was shaken and seemingly for a !
time turned upside down.
In that great religious upheaval |
the line of demarcation and scpara-
ton was, curiously, almost purely |
an ethnic one, with the Latin races |
on one side and the Anglo-SaNon
and kindred Germanic races OH the
other. The great underlying cause
of that movement had been the
gradual suppression in and by the
Church of national and race char
as well as of feeling and
which, as | have said,
were recognized and respected by
the primitive and Apostolic Church.
And 50 came the separation,
since which the Church of the Latin
races, as if a balance wheel had /
been removed, has developed more |
into excuses of sentiment
and sensuousness of ritual, and has
found il necessary to adopt lately |
the new doctrine OF Develop |
ment, invented by Cardinal New
man, in justification of such new
additions TO the faith as the I'm
Conception, in 1884,
and the Infallibility of the Pope,
in 1870.
While thus, as we have seen, the /
drift of the Latin or Roman Chyfch
has gone with accelerated speed
the one direction; on the other sid
of that chronological line (the (Sert
manic) they have gone 60 extrsmes
in the other direction of an ulty6
professionalism, casting aside in thar
zeal of fanaticism much that W rs
truly Catholic, old and pure ED.
true. But while religion has thus
gone rapidly to extremes along race
lines in opposite directions on the
continent, we find a totally differ.
ent condition in England. Instead
of there being one preponderating
race, there does not exist on the
face of the earth a more composite