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

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We do not think that our correspondent Ang-
is fair to himself or to us when he inten-
tonally or not, omts very important item from
his letter 1t has long ago been understood and
acted upon by educated and impartial writers, that
IN all controverted issues the attack and defense
when citing written authorities in support of their
positions shall give the chapter and the page of
the book quoted This is not alone law of con
troversal 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
tations, in ten volumes 1t would be manfestly I'M
fair in amicable 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. A citation unverified we may re-
mind Anglicanus, has no 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 decline to discuss in detail the historic
truth of the assertions so boldly, yet courteouslv
proclaimed in his letter.
"Anglicanus" disclams the word Protestant
which we applied to the Church of England. and
challenges us to produce single instance in the
Book of Common Prayer" where it may be found
Surely our 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,
hglon IN the presence of all the Bishops of the
"Anglo-C 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 on being appointed to his bishopric ~ the
government of England. Does not Bishop Potter
OF western New York always sign himself official
~ Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York.? |
30 that If Anglicanus objects to the "epithet"
Protestant when applied to his church. his quarrel
lays with his own people, not with us. Would our
correspondent state what part of England was
Chrstlanlzed before Rome invaded her shores and
now long those British bishops remained separate
organization after St Augustine landed? Also
how many cathedras were built before the LANDING
u the Benedictine monks, who gave England the
christian religion of the land brought order out of
'haos, changed paganism into Christianity. and
baptized the King Also, how many cathedra1s
colleges and universities were built in England from
oo a. ID. until 1549 A. D. by any other church than
he Church of Rome; if one can rely on the we'll
nown fact that every Archbishop and Bishop. from
Augustlne's time to the day when Warham died
we're IN direct communion with Rome offered I'm
ne mass in their cathedrals venerated the mother
i God, prayed to the saints heard the confessions
penltents set up monasteries and converts and
rought what they knew to be the Body of Christ
0 the DYING
1t IS very certain that the Church of Rome was
ne and the same as the Church of England I'M
il the day when Henry VIII created an archbishop
Tho divorced him from his lawful wife and on
bed him to marry his paramount, Then he found
y appealing to the cupdity of his impecunious no.
les and the anglo Catholic" party he could snoiI
and converts to the value of $4,000 :
DO and burn those who denied that he was the head
the church Gingard, Hist. Eng. vol. 4. D 93l