The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-03-01

Nelt, Gaul. Roman. NOTscInan
Dane, Saxon, Spanish, Italian and
many other minor strains. The un-
designed SO far a. man Is concern
ED and yet Provideutial outcome
I of il is that the Church of England
came through The purifying fires OF
the Reformation as many sided a.
her people: and because Of that
very fact, having within her. un-
. consciously. the norm. the basis OF
a true Catholicitv. She was not un-
like her great founder 81. Paul, as
he was Jewish by blood, Greek 10y
birth and education, Roman by
citizenship, and worldwide in his
sympathies, interests and labors.
Thus She is rightly, by all the laws
OF spiritual heredity, the Church Of
the Living God for the Anglo
Saxon race. the distinctly typical
Church of that nation and people
that is increasingly dominating the
world, and Of that wonderful COM
posite language that is heard around
the world and destined to become
universal.
And we hold that within this
Church lies the basis of true Ca
tholicitv. She has been the first 10
recognize and restate the principle,
once a note OF the Church and then
50 long forgotten, that differences
in the discipline and ritual of Ma
tional Churces, if not unscriptural
and contrary to the faith, should
not be counted as bars TO the inter
communion between Churches. And
50 il is TO her that the true Catholic
of whatever land and name, weary
of the division of the Church, of
the wounds and schisms in the
Body of Christ, is already looking
as the one possible solvent to bring
the discordant elements together
and reunite them again. And it is
to her that the ultra protestant,
wearied at last with the negations
and disintegrations of his system,
is turning, as bearing aloft the only
possible standard Chat of evan
gelical truth and Apostolic order)
around which all might rally for
more effective, because united, eff
fort against urgodliness and world
" lust; against unbelief and sin.
l have been speaking thus far of
and the English Church,
out we are her offspring. We are
Of that Greater Britain which is
carrying forward in gigantic scale |
he work which she began a
thousand years ago of kneading, |
moulding and forming
hat coming race, and perfecting
hat tongue. that, in the Prov
dence of God SHALL some day |
-cverse the dispersion, and undo I
he confusion of Babel. Our Lord |
prayed an earnest prayer that we
nay all be one, as He and the /
'ather are one; AMI the supreme
motive of it, that the world may
,elieve that Thou has Sent me.
And we believe that that Church /
which is the outward expression of
hat truth and faith, as it was once
hough scattered among widely diff
erent peoples, shall be one again
Il all those essential particulars,
hough not in every outward form.
II which il WAS first constituted to
,e, as the Apostles called it, The
,hurch of the Living God. the
Pillar and Ground of the Truth"
In the strange Providence of God
/ is ous to help or hinder in the
.lorious work. Shall we not labor,
IS we'll as pray, Thy kingdom
.ome, Thy will be done on earth
IS it is in Heaven? Compromise
will not do il. discrimination will
rot do il. Abuse will no do IT.
rhe one sole panacea is speaking /
he truth in love-, and suiting the
iction ever to the word, Holding
he faith in unity of spirit, in the
,ond of peace. and in righteousness