The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-13
EARLY BRITISH CHURCH.
SECOND LETTER.
Salt Lake City, Utah, June Z, 1908,

Dear Sir:
You ara quite right. My omission of indexes
to my questions was an nexcusable oversight on my
part and was due to my assumption that you were
familiar with the early fathers of the Christian
Church. l must not inrude too far upon your gen
crosby of space and l viii endeavor to be brief.
maintained in my letter to you sir, that before the
time of St. Augustine, for at least 800 years, the
early British Church was independent of Rome
she sent her own delegates bishops and priests
the council Of Aries, A. D. 314 and of Aluminium,
A. D. 359, to Sardica, A. D. 347, and probably to
that of Nice in A. D. 325.
The eloquent Tertullian writing. A. D. ISL, says
that districts of Britain inaccessible to Roman
arms had been subdued to Christ Essay against
Maricon, PIP. 1919. The silver-tongued Chrysos-
tenn, writing A. d. 367, speaks of the British Isles
as possessing churches and affairs.
The British Church, which was instrumental in
the conversion from pagans of the Cets of Britain
was united under Archbishop Theodore with an
independent Italian mission then doing good work
in the southeastern part of England. Ever since
then the church has been known as the Church of
England Allow me to call your attention to:
l. The bishops and clergy of the early
2. British Church refused obedience to Au-
gustine, the papal legate, and denied his
right to exercise authority over them
(Jewel, p. 30.
Il in A. d. 100 the Church of England
rejected the veneration and service of i'm
ages, though commanded by the Pope, and
in A. d. sos, she would not allow her bish-
ops to go to Rome for the palium.
Ill It was this old Church of England,
which had its beginning hundreds of years
before Augustines time that enacted in
the first clause of the Magma Charta, "The
Church Of England shall be free and retain
all her laws and ancient liberties intact"
Now, sir, how can you with these facts of his
tory in your possession maintain that until the
the time of the Reformation England was spirit
ually subject to Rome?
That Reformation was the act of the Church
Of England in her corporate capacity, not of Henry
VIII as you stated in a leading article of your
editorial page few weeks ago.
Yours very respectfully.
ANGELICANUS.
To the Editor Inter Mountain Catholic Salt Lake
City.
REPLY.
Our correspondent Angelicanus is wrong when
Of the United States and the Church of England.
BY law established in Great Britain and Ireland,
can trace their Christianity back TO Apostolic
sources independent and apart from Rome That
the Church Of England, from the days of St Au-
yustine 10 the breach with Rome in the sixteenth |
century recognized and submitted to the authority
IF the Roman pontiffs, as derived from Christ
through ST. Peter is susceptible of such strong
and overwhelming proof that the best Anglican
has ceased to deny il. This position.
taken up and held for centuries by Anglicans. has
oeen abandoned by Church Of England divines
Failing to maintain their ground here, they now
all back upon the British church before the coming
IF st. Augustine.
We are not straining the evidence, but appeal
ing to history in legitimate way when we de-
lare that if the Anglican church rests her claim for