Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
SEES REVIVAL IN
ANGLICAN CHURCH
BISHOP GRAFTON DISCUSSES PRES
ENT UNREST" AMONG EPIS-
COPALIANS.
NO HARM IN THE SECESSIONS.
End of Controversy Will Be Recovery
OF Catholic Heritage, He
Declares.
ROME HAS REJECTED ADVANCES.

FOND DU LAC, Wis, May O.
Especial. despite the statements of
Canon Howard &. st. George of Nasho-
tab that a pro-Roman movement was
naugurated six months before the pas
sage of the much-talked-about canon 10,
Bishop Grafton clings to his first con-
Ientlon and declares that not only is
the canon causing all of the unrest but
that it is unconstitutional and will be
repealed or changed.
Bishop Grafton was asked for a
statement relative to the charges made
by Canon st. George that Father 81
courtney Fay, a former worker in the
diocese of Fond du Lac and Il particu-
larly close friend of the bishop, while
IN the west organized a movement on
Rome to make terms" which later, for
some reason, fell through. The bishop
made no direct reply, but authorized the
following:
The secession from our church to
Rome will do our church no harm. In
crossing the ocean waves sometimes
break over the sides of the ship. but its
progress is not retarded and the water
soon runs out through the scupper holes.
There is now unrest in both parts of
the Catholic church-Roman and our
own. a party called the Modernists,
with their able leaders, like George Ty-
rell and Able Loisy, have left, and we
read that three Roman Catholic bishops
in Europe have resigned their sees. Very
likely the departure of men i'll the Ro-
man and i'll our own communion will be
eventually to the advantage of both
churches.
1T is well known that there are two
extreme groups of men i'll our church.
Little knots, maybe, which are now be-
ing eliminated.
There are the extreme 'broads,' who
are not unlike the Moderuists in Rome,
who agree with Dr. Crapsey, Rev. Cox
and others, deny the Scriptures to be
the word of God, the virgin birth of
Christ and the resurrection of his cruel
fed body. Some of these have been
tried and deposed and others are quietly
leaving the ministry.
One Logical Outcome.
"The other extreme is composed of
those who believe in the divine right of
the present monarchial papPcy and that
the end of the great movement in the
Anglecina church is reunion with Rome.
As the later is an impOssibility, the logic
al outcome of such beliefs is to put one
self under the Roman jurisdiction.
1T will be better for the Anglican
communion if they go thither, for 1t
will help to make clear her true posi-
ton. The Anglican church along with
the great eastern churches with their
bishops and their $50 or more million
followers, have held, that as witnessed
by the counsel of Nice, a primacy of
dignity and precedence was conferred
on Rome.
by the Roman church claiming Il di-
vine right to a supremacy these portions
of Christendom hold that the original
grant of primaCy is now in allegiance,
just as if President Roosevelt assuming
to be a monarch, would thereby forfeit
this claim upon our allegiance as Presi-
dent.
THE end Of the great revival in the
Anglican church is not reunion with
Rome, but the recovery of it's Catholic
heritage as found in its prayer book.
advances for union have been made
on all sides to Rome and to sectarians,
but nought has come Of them. Rome not
only rejected them, but denied the valid
ity of the Anglican church orders. 1t
was Il most providential action as it
demonstrated to us, who knew we were
possessed of valid orders, that the Pope
was not infallible, just as if he had said,
the sun does not give warmth when
we know it does.
May Revoke Canon 10.
''The amendment to Canon 10 passed
at Richmond, and which has been the
proximate cause of disturbance is most
likely to be changed or Repealed as it is
clearly not constitutional.
Our church is becoming more united
than ever and its true position as an
Apostolic church, possessed of the sacra-
ments and holding the faith of undivided
ChristendOm is being better known and
understood - 5l~-s"
I'VE can truly say with all love to
our Christian brother, Come thou with
md d