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Show AN AMAZING BELLEF. Until very recently even the most enlightened of English churchmen labored under the amazing belief that the Church of England was greatly benefited ben-efited by the Reformation and owed a debt of gratitude grat-itude to Henry, Edward and Elizabeth for breaking with Rome. The great majority of Anglicans are still in the grip of that extraordinary infatuation. For the first thousand years of English Church history the children in the infant grade of her parish par-ish schools knew that the Pope was the visible head of the church and that from St. Peter he had a commission to feed the universal flock of Christ, "but more than sixty years after Newman and Manning, Man-ning, while still in the bosom of the Anglican church, made the discovery afresh, the truth about the PaDacy still remains hidden from the eyes of the immense majority, of Englicans, although as a principle of revealed religion it lies imbedded in the very corner stone of the church's constitution. The Lamp (Auglo-Roman). .. 4 |