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Show ! BSOAD CHURCHMEN j i AND LAW CHURCHMEN . I Mac cf Demarcation Hardly Discernible ? Both Entirely Changed Old Teachings ! "of Anglicanism. ! : (W'riihii fur IntormounTain Catholic) ; j - 'ii-lion often discussed and nut always un- ! ' ;; schism. What is schism? As applied 1,. : lijri.'ii, it moans the separation of a'meimW , : particular churcli from llie church in her ,-,,ri i;aic capacity to which the member or par-I par-I vM- r church w;.s, ;t one time, connected. The C.i'cU founded by Ciirisr was a single corporate I""'.1'- s"('h it mul exist and act in its eor- , ; capacity, and. like all corporations, must ho ,; ;t: : !e of expressing its will through corporate , ;' - Otherwise the command "to hear the : ( iii'- h" w..iild he meaningless. I T!i" Kitualists admit liiat the Church is a eor- r ". !i"n. Hence their effort to maintain logical -"!i-itoiicy in striving to maintain that Kitualism v-ived from Anglicanism exists and acts in its "!";'"' capacity. But as to the expression of i- vill. ihrough corporate organs, iliey deny, and -im-iituto give an invisible corporation with an j i'ii-iblo heal coming down from pro-Kef ormation day-, when the Calholie Church lost her charter, i 1 was revived by lhe Oxford Movement, and j ii;oeriaiized in Ritualism. J ; In a legal sene a corporation, as such, must ; j,-m-v eorporate unity and have certain organs; example, a president, etc., through which it tuny act. It is only through organs it does act. and its actions are responsible. When there is n'-iilier unity nor individuality, there can.be no ; crporalioii, whilst a corporation without organs express its will is defunct and in no sense real. A territory applying through all its citizens for I admission to statehood is no state till it receives 1 , :t- charter from the government; nor can it, after receiving its charter, act as a stale, i. p.. discharge 'I ' tli" duties of a stale, till its. consumed authorities are elected. The same applies to individuals com- ! (poHng a croration who act in their own respon- j N sibility, and not through the officials appointed to : legally for i!ie orporate body. Their actions I :r,, not legally binding, nor is the corporation, re- M ,Mble for iheir actions. ' Applying this princi-. : j ; 1 ' ' !" Ritualism, it does not exist as an v-rganic ' j , nor has it any visible organs through which ; v ii:.y express or execul? its will as the Church of i ; (.,.(. s : of Ritualism, in the Established Church. : r' 1u" "ihcr eonteiidiiiff church parties, viz.: the !:".!-( 'hurclmien and lhe Low-Churchmen. Roth , s v" entirely chatiged lhe obi teachings of Angli- 'mo. 'I be former has made a truce with skepi i-i. i-i. vhich it regards as an evil that must' be con-';"! con-';"! ! r.itlu-r llian avoided. The latter has cx-' cx-' v! d its boundary fence o far that it can re-.;'.. re-.;'.. the ni.-t liberal views within its broad ex-- ex-- 't beiwcen both thr line of demarkation " tino -" 1" bo scarcely discernible. Rroad-' Rroad-' n-.-liineti. wishing to keep pace with the progress ' age. have reduced Christianity to a code of .. without any dogmatic teaching. A free :: "'.'io-r. who was willing to adojit ihose morals. v '' he eligible 1o tnemborshiii in the Rroad- ' ''ii'-.-ii. Jim ihi i a logicil outgrowth of the ! -:., pi;. i,( private judgment which should leave j I 1 1 l! ''' 1" f'dh.w his own views of what ho may : .' i-i or accept. I ii" development of error is always, if not eon- "i"y. at least in-onsisient . Time has not ; -y :i' I i-i hrir.g tortli these inconsistencii-s. The ot i,o ';)rly Reformers was 1 hat they had ! I't :-. -n lown the usurped power of Rapal author- :; i- true they accepted secular authority as -inuie for sjdritual authority. Kut out from ' "vn ranks iniiii'S Ritualism tlemandimr spir- I : .iinii..riiy. ami entirely deprived of it. yet f ' ' : ii- a necessity for religious belief. Then ' ''. higher critics, who cast doubt upon the ;' ::'. authenticity and insjiirat ion of the Old J i i ,v I e-tamuits. Rroad-Churclimen may i i ih- vain pretensions of the Ritualists in .:ng the necessity of "spiritual authority. i;- 'he dejiial of such authoiily was the first " . n both ly "Martin Luther and Henry VI1L " '"ines the Rible. ujion which they always ' ; i implicit confidence. The higher critics e-x-1 to a crucial test. They find it has been . i.re.j. mistranslated, and, what is more intol-'l intol-'l . ' " ihat its ins)iration rests entirtdy on the " 'iiiH.uv of tlu- old Church, winch they had been ; ' ':-h; ji.,t oijv to desise and condemn, but even i " !;.,". 'lb,-, doubts of the higher critics, like a ' -!!". -om began to extend into the minds of 1 ry ;uid hiity. To meet these exigencies the ; 1 -Church had to become broader, confining - - !'oie against the Catholic Church to that of " i-- l'"ie, or sj)iritual authority. Rut in this? point aUo lake issue wiih the Ritualists. I he early Reformers snd their followers down to 1 hit quarter of lhe last century gave the nn- ion ihat the Rible was delivered, jtrinted and 1 "Hid by the Apostles and their succes.-ors to the ' :i-ii;uis of the first, second and third centuries, l:i'.as after ihat hidden away by the corrupt ' . 'iiolic Church and remained chained in some "kited spot. wh"ro Martin Luther found it. Rut ' new protest di-cards this fiction, because there i wld be no printed copy of lhe Rible for fifteen I e, unifies, i. c. before printing' was invented, and J e u.-oqucnily no keening back of the Rible. Then I light(jnment aiid rogress. which were sujijiosed ' be patented by Protestantism and working f : gainst the Catholic Chui'eh. work in a contrary ili.-eeiion. Showing the inconsistency of the for-I for-I Sner. it has changed its .altitude, and. every few ' !-ar broadens its view and oxteixis its boundary j line-, which necessitate a curtailing of the pro- The original protest meant that the Catholic rimreh was ignorant of Christian Iruths, which I ' f re permitted to lie slumbering fill resuscitated I ) the Reformers. .It also contained a hatred of ' f it I'ol'ory, and also that the BibK which it took a man's whole life to copy, and a big: fortune to pur- f rhaee. should be in the possession of every Chris- j a a u man and woman. Rut ihese charges contained I 1 DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. ; in the original protest are now eliminated. The new protest gives credit where credit is duo. i. e., instead of subverting Catholic history. . tradition and faith, it takes cognizance of these, and no longer parades superstitions as part of the Catholic Catho-lic Church's teachings. In England and (Jermany it has to co-exist with Catholics who are reckoned among the most, loyal citizens of these two powerful power-ful nations, where Protestants once held entire sway. Protestants also admit that in the list of converts, con-verts, be they clergymen or laymen, sonic of their brightest scholars and most profound and learned men made their way to Rente, accepted the Catholic Catho-lic interpretation of the Protestant Rible, whilst they, still adhering to private judgment, are becoming be-coming more involved in inconsistencies and contradictions, con-tradictions, which beget each year a number of new creeds. Each new variety, like a new fashion, has ' its adherents, but is doomed to decay or change. F. D. -A. . |
