The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-08
Bishop Nichols Speaks.

called attention to those points of view
of the heritage OF the Episcopal church
in the United States, as follows: Age
! History and Present Worth. The
worship, he said, was old The prayer
| books and the song services had come
Every PRAYER book of the church OF
God Is like the setting of diamond Ihe
great central part of this setting IS found
in the office Of Holy Communion, the
prayer of conservation"
The speaker traced the lineage of the
LITURGY from the days of AFcholshop
Cranmer, in 1919, when ne took from the
east and gave to the west a perfect whole
down to modern time He showed now
time and again this central jewel had
been lost and restored. The Liturgy IS
only here today he asserted because OF
the unbrOken genealOgy Of the duly auth
Orized minister's bishops and other leaders
/ of the church, He showed the great.
positive power for good the heritage OF
the church had been.
After pointing out wherein the mhe-
/ teenth century was an epitome of several
preceding Centuries and referring Incl
denJally tO-the growth of the church III
that time. Bishop Nichols concluded that
EpiScOpaCy'S heritage in this country
| from point Of worth was priceless.
Faith of Church.
second address, by Rt. Rev. William
Hall MOTeland. D. D. bishop of SacTa-
mentO. Emphasis was laid on the fact
that EpiSCOpaCy is not a denomination, a
creed governed by certain dOgmas-
The definition of Episcopal said
Bishop Moreland, lis one who wants to be
a Christian. The church is not a denOm-
| nation; it has no dOgmas- 1t continues
in the old way as the one Holy Catholic
and Apostolic church We've been bap-
TIED and confirmed but we've never
Joined a denomination
/ Continuing. Bishop MOTeland said that
distinction was made within the church
of the essentials and non-essentials, the
things transitOry and nOn-tFansitOry-
You may stand with the realists. the
eVOlUuOnists, but all stand side by size
and declare that God made Heaven and
Earth. Thus the door to intellectual lib
erty Is thrown wide open The Episcopal
church is showing that it is possible to
| the nOn-eSsentials. Today the Episcopal
church has 30,0e00o0 English speaking
communicates. more than any other
church OF our tongue, not excepting the
THE Episcopal church is the great his
! toric church. As the scepteT went from
( that. it is about to go to that other
The speaker told of the founding of
denominations by those who had broken
away from the church as the AdventistS
and the UnitaTianS- 4 characteristic or
the Episcopal church. he said, was that
she had all the parts and fragments upon
which such sects were founded in one
balanced whole There existed an in
clusion of all that was good and pure.
Speaking Of the Roman church. Bishop
MOTeland said that EpiScOpaCy was the
branch which. independent of Rome"
had come down through the Angl0-SaX-
ous- having everything primitive without
later additions. such as paPal i1ifallibil-
ity-'
our faith" he concluded. lis not
mechanical. but vital We teach Christ
not Christianity. not doctrine, but a
/ person, Christ. the Savior
Bishop spaIding Speaks.
Bishop Franklin S, spaIding was the
/ last speaker Of the evening. During the
/ course of his address on the mission of
the Episcopal church, he said:
1t would seem that the mission Of the
/ church was to glory in her heritage and
/ live and teach her faith, a faith founded
/ ways to organize religion. One Is by
written statements, by collection of dog
matte theories OF a set Of books The other
( is through a body of men"
ChTists method. he said had been
through body Of men. not by written
/ laws. Bishop Spalding said that he de-
I sired 10 emphasize that EpiScopacy was
| founded on the basis Of an order Of
men.
| It was the mission Of the church to in
! sist in the present on the value of the
past. He pointed out the ability of the
church TO observe a just balance between
/ the present and the past It was her
mission to preserve certain principles,
authority and truth. conservatism and
progress. and TO do this the church must
! be founded on an organization Of living
men.
While pointing out the changes that
time had brought he stated that it was
not truth, but our appreciation of things
that had changed Continuing he said
that he doubted not visit TO the mental
hospital at Provo would disclose that the
ma jOrity of the inmates We're deranged
on the subject Of religion. He attributed
this TO the fact that religion has TO do
with the emotions. with d vast unex-
plored mental tract
The Episcopal church. in the United
States. said Bishop SDalding. has ever
stood for recognizing and providing for
the rights of the body as we'll as the
soul II takes into consideration mans
welfare on this earth well as in the
/ beyond. He told Of the founding Of the
| first church hospital. St Luke's, in 1886
J Another mission was to clearly define
the principle Of worship This the
church which emphasized the purpose Of
| worship as giving something to God and
| the Savior.
the church's mission. he said in con-
cludinG- IS to preserve just balance be
| tween the past and the present. to pro-
vide for mans body as well as his soul
and TO help man by teaching him the
purpose Of Worship 70 give himself to the
| service Of Almighty Cod"