The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-06

the Missal and Ritual are for you may this wor
Protestant be found? We belong, IKE you to wha
Origen called the Church of Christ our church
Anglo-Saxon. and those who call us Protestan
mark their epithet with a note of discourtesy.
Now sir in the interest of truth may reques
you to publish these facts of history. that you
subscribers may read something on our side of tn
subject? Very respectfully yours,
ANGLICANUS
We do not think that our correspondent Angli
canus is fair to himself or to us when he, inten
tionally or not omits very important item from
his letter. 1t has long ago been understood, anC
acted upon by educated and impartial writers. that
in all controverted issues the attack and defense
when citing written authorities in support of heil
positions, shall give the chapter and the page of
the book quoted. This is not alone law of con
troversial ethics it is courtesy due from one gen
tleman to another. Take, to illustrate our conten-
ton. Paxton's edition of Gibbons Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire" published with ammo
ations, in ten volumes. 1t would be manfestly un-
fair, in amcabe discussion, to assert that Glib
bon says this and Gibbon says that" and not to
tell where in the ten volumes this and that
may be found citation unverified, we may re-
mind Angcanus, has weight or authority with
scholars. Our correspondent, we are satisfied,
omitted through inadvertence this most important
accompaniment to his letter. Until he conforms
to this very reasonable ordinance of controversial
ethics we decline to discuss in detail the historic
truth of the assertions so boldly, yet coureously.
proclaimed in his letter.
which we applied to the Church of England. and
challenges to produce a single instance in the
Book of Common Prayer" where it may be found
Surely correspondent cannot be ignorant of the
history of the English Prayer Book which was
built on the ancient Sarum Missal completed and
officially proclaimed "The Book of Common
Prayer" in 1919. When the Book was placed in the
hands of the public the certain grave and learned
Bishops and others who conferred together" wisely
and for polite reasons omitted the word Prtestant
What does it matter whether the word Protestant
occurs in the Book of Common Prayer when the
Kings and Queens of England for more than two
hundred years have made-as head of the Church
of England-an oath to maintain the Protestant re.
lglon IN the presence of all the Bishops of the
Anglo Catholic" church. and not one of them
that we ever heard of, raised his voice to object
each one Of them in fact, is bound to take an oath
of homage to the Sovereign of Great Britain and
Ireland being appointed to his bshopric i,y the
Government of England Does not Bishop Potter
of western New York always sign himself official
ly Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York.?
30 that If Anglicanus objects to the "epitbet"
Protestant when applied to his church. his quarrel
lays with his own people, not with U.S. Would our
correspondent state what part of England was
Christianized before Rome invaded her shores and
how long those British bishops remained separate
organization after ST. Augustine landed? Also
how many cathedras were built before the Iandins.
OF the Benedlctlne monks, who gave England the
Christian religion of the land brought order ont Of
chaos, changed paganism into Chrstianitv. and
baptized the King? Also, how many cathedrals
colleges and universities were built in England from
600 A d. until 1549 A. d. by any other church than
the Church of Rome; if one can rely on the we'll
known fact that every Archbishop and Bisbop. from
Augustlnes time to the day when Warham died |
we're IN direct communion with Rome offered I'm |
The mass in their cathedrals venerated the mother
ot God. prayed to the saints heard the confessions
u penltents, set up monasteries and converts and
Drought what they knew to be the Body of Christ |
o the dyingl
1t Is very certain that the Church of Rome was
me and the same as the Church of England nm
IL the day when Henry VIII created an archb;sbon
Who divorced him from his lawful wife and ON
lbled him to marry his paramour, Then he found
y appealing to the cupidity of his mpecunious mo-
lies and the anglo Catholic" party he could spoil
and converts to the value of $4,000
No. and burn those who denied that he was the head
II the church Lingard, Hist. Eng. vol. 4, D. 98l.