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trace each step Of its progress and the
/ resistance offered by bishops and
ssrods and how this resistance was
overcome. / could give the forgeries.
| set forth in an uncritical and unlearn-
ed age, forgeries acknowledged now to
1 be so by the most learned Roman Ca
tholic historians; but these forgeries
served their purpose in assisting to
foist the papacy upon the Western
| Church. I could show how the great
| Eastern or Greek Church has always
denied these claims but was the only
| one for a time in a position to resist
! thaal. / could show bow at last it
/ reached such a point that the Pope
! claimed to be the lord and master of
the whole world. things as well as per-
/ sons, and that all rulers were only his
| delegates. And I could show how at
last this system was cast off by the
/ great Germanic Nations of Northern
/ Europe, repudiated later by England
and Scotland and held today in France,
/ Spain, Italy and South America and
I tottering in many of these.
| But If / did this I am quite well
! aware you would satisfy your own
mind by that way Of begging the ques-
ton and then making another assump-
ton. which course you persistently fol-
low.
/ In reference to Anglican Orders you
brought forward the doctrine of inten-
I ton. I will only say that if were to
/ press this you would be in bad way.
1 do not wish to rehearse the sad and
evil days. when there were two and
he,
Councils of Basel and Constance in the
! fifteenth century deposed them Zone
| by the way for heresyl. All this Is too
sad a story of sin and unbelief for me
| in any way to desire to parade 1t. But
| if were to go into the subject of in
tention I should be obliged to bring
these things up. I would simply say
that when you refer to the sins OF
Luther or of Henry VIII. you should
remember that If an antagonist wished
to do so, he might rehearse some of the
charges brought against the Popes in
the councils mentioned above. They
are too awful to contemplate. You
must know of these things.
] Father Wyman has been referred to
in the past few weeks as a convert to
Rome. You say that hewas astonished to
.
| the Pope was universally acknowledge
ed in the fifth century. Even If that
were granted, you omit to state that
| a primacy is not supremacy. The
| Archbishop of Canterbury is the Prim-
ate of England but he has no SUI
premacy in the Anglican Communion.
| The Church of England never objected
| to primacy of the Bishop of Rome In
| the western Church properly exercised.
That to which it did and does object
was the papal supremacy with its ex-
| traordinary claims which tended to de-
sfroy liberty and to make the world one
vast empire.
Speaking of Father Wyman, let me
tell you a story. Some forty years ago
there was in France a devout and
learned young priest named G. +. Mel
He was so earnest and eloquent that
after 1ecturing in France he was sent
to England to assist in the conversion
of that country to the papal CLAIMS.
An English scholar a nobleman, heard
him on one occasion and at once wrote
to young Mel a letter to this effect:
Il heard your lecture with much IN
terest and greatly admire your earnest
ness and zeal. / believe you to be an
honest and sincere man DESTROYS or
knowing the truth. I call your atten-
ton to certain quotations which yon
made from the Fathers in support OF
the papal supremacy. L wish TO say
to you that these quotations are spu-
rious. If you desire to know Whether
I am correct in what ! assert, | reIer
you to the copies of the works quoted
by you as they are in the vatican II
brary." The next few years young
Mel went through great agony OF nina
and heart. He found that the noble-
man was correct and that he, himself,
had been mfsled by forged insertions
in the books placed in his hands IN the
seminaries in France. After earnest
seeking after truth and light, he left
France for the United States and De-
gan to teach French for a living. After
a few years, he came to know a priest
of the Anglican Communion and
through him was led to the onurch
which, like the Greek Church, was
Catholic without being Roman. He was
received by the Bishop of Pennsylvania
as a priest in his diocese and given
charge of a mission in Philadelphia
This grew into a parish, with which ne
was connected until he died. He SAID,
not long before his death. that ne had
received four hundred adult roman
Catholics into his parish, eight OF
whom were priests and all of whom
desired to be Catholic without peing
Roman These people were nearly ali
French.
Now, my dear Father Beissei, II you
will only undergo a course Of reading
which / viii gladly provide for YOU
may yet see you officiating III 81. An
drew's Cathedral. But seriously we
ought all to work together for the good
of these islands without these discus
sions of differences. If you refrain
from attacking the principles winch
people hold dear, then these discussions
viii be avoided. All this began because
you made slur against the Church OF
England which you could not sustain
We should do well to emphasize agree
ments and not differences.
It has been my good fortune and my
great pleasure to have been on intl-
mate terms with several American
Roman Catholic priests and TWO Ro-