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DURHAM CHRONICLE ; But is it} Hume. the great histori- ‘ an, and quite as good an authority on 1 good English as A. 8.. uses the expl-gs- I ion. "and at this present moment 1» religious feeling runs high." A ' thoughtful writer in The (‘onteinpor- . ary Review Oct. 1901?“ .303 uses these i words. “That feeling has its place in religion no one can deny. The man " " 'ho feels no shame for sin (annot re- 'Fnt; the man \\ ho is wholly without ‘ feeling of reverence cannot wor- ; But we are nev e1- tired of insist- , as! men are to take God at His “ ' nod not to wait for the glow of ‘ " ' motions.” 0n the next page A. B. tries to he amusing, (but it is .too sickly a joke to make any one , laugh). over the Prayer Book expres- [d011, “Vulgar tongue,” which means no be well knows the English tongue. ! Be. evidently knoWs more about this ,tongue than any other. He tries to cover over his mistake by an unjusti- fiable insinuation at the diction of the :Prayer-Book which. his friend Lord Hacaulay says: "has directly or in- 'directly contributed to form the die- tion of almost every great writer. and -hs extorted the admiration of the fut aeromplished infldels. and the f-oat accomplished non-eouformists, of !wclrmen as David Hume and Robert "' if he humbly desire it." A. B. makes an exceedingly mild confession when she says: " I must. confess I have only A PAIR acquaintance with theological terms.” Surely with an extensive knowledge of Philosophy and his Lex- icons to assist him, he might have found a more suitable. word than “fair 2" However. he promises to make 011]) by Philosophy for his want of ’knowledge in Theology!! But when Hue proves by Philosophy, or his Lexi- 'cons. or by both, that a doctrine which :is not revealed in the Scriptures is a . Christian doctrine I willadmit that he inlay attempt the hitherto unaccom- ,plished feat of lifting himself by his -own belt. In the meantime let us be- ware of his attempts to spoil our faith through philosophy (see Col. 2â€"78.) though he may call it baptized phil- aophy. , - Kodaks had in Daylight Hall." is A. B. that " betrays the strange ignoramfr," llis svlfâ€"trunl’essed ONLY FAIR m'qlmintanve with theological terms will not save him from the force 30! his own charge. Is the Bishop’s objt't'tiun only " it quibble unworthy d anv person Wllu lllltlt rtukes to write onan) theological sulrjw‘tt’ ’ Does the Bishop "hetruv the 15th century ec- clesiastit from \\ lmsept'n flowed rivers .0! 1 untrm L-rsv sti is ing about words to .no profit?” I can supply A. B. with a respectable list uf theological writers to sustain Bishop Baldwin's statement. He mrts. but assertion is not proof -â€"he asserts that the phrase “religious heling is also a dip in the vulgn m e.” Dun 813,â€"] propose in this letter to consider briefly some of the leading atatements in A. B's. letters. As to If: phrase “ change of heart” let me ure him that my objection is not “a quibble unworthy of any person who undertakes to write on any theo- logical subject.” It does not “betray the 15th century ecclesiastic from whose pen flowed rivers of controversy otriving about Words to no profit.” Dr. Baldwin Bishop of Huron on “the necessity of the new birth " uses these words, '° [ wish to draw your attention to an expression very common among people, but at the selllle time, ONE mwnoumLY l'xsum'rl'RAL, I refer to the oft used phrase “a change of heart.” Now such an expression as this does not oeeur in the whole range .0! Seripture. " Does the Bishop “ be- :‘tray a strange iguurnm'e 1‘" I fear it .ia A. B. that ” betrays the strange ignorance," llis self-confessed “SLY Emma: REPLIES AGAIN To A. n. :MacFarlane Co. DURHAM, JULY 10TH, 1902. W. IRWIN. Editor and Fraprictor. Dwooma no Booxumns. ocket . . hotography no duh room required as with plan Cameras. Come gird see our stock. We have them kind: on hand. won only mode pouible by m Kodnh Film Cuttidge. Not only does the Kodak go inside the pocket. but inside the Ko- dnk goes the film, all become: one compact, convenient cue. I ran unfeignedly assure A. B. that I am not'sutfe ring from “ the heresy-hunt craze “â€"others that he knows of have reduced it, to “a Sciencc"â€"â€"-if I were under its spell, I could point to Pres- byterians in thelands where their new government saw the. light of day and get all that I could desire. A. B. will, of course, rememlxr that the. historic Episcopate was first ahondoned in Germany and Switzerland 05' THE sous (morn) or NECESSITY. I shall give proof of this later on when We. come to this point in the discussion. And what have been the results of that change in those countries? Facts are. stubborn things. \Vhat great and glorious advantages have resulted to the inhabitants of those countries so distinguished in the annals of the Faith? What fruits have the new system produced? A. B. is "'3’ pos- ifivenboutthehhne- Iii, _, . a an. an. mum _ fl . ~ \Vill A. B. be good enough to givC us a full list of “phrases, directions, Eetc” for which there is not even a i semblance of authority in the phrase- : ology of Scripture” and then we will 1 know just exactly what he means-In another letter at his request I will en- deayor to enlighten him on our auth- ority for The Prayer Book, Litany, Reading Prayers, ('ollect, God-father, Hod-mother, etc., etc! ! \Vhen I get through with the task he has set me, he will have a considerable store of useful knowledge, and, if he does not reject the light given him, will he able to appreciate better some of the dis- tinguishing features of our system to which all well instructed Church peo- ple attach so much importance. I presume he is really sincere when he makes so many inquiries. Or is he only preparing himself for the next development in the Presbyterian Church to he made public in the near future. A committee of the General Assembly are preparing at the present time a Prayer-Book for the Presby- terian Church of Canada. They have been engaged on this important work for many years. A few years ago they presented the Prayer Book which they had compiled for approbation to the General Assembly at Halifax, but the Assembly asked them to reconsider their work and amend it in two respects â€"First, it bore too stronga resemb- lance to the Book of Common Prayer. \Vill A. B. please note this point! And secondly it was too ritualistic. Can it be that the Oxford Movement was one of the causes of this” I am informed by a member of the Comittee' to whom the work is now entrusted that the Presbyterians are also prepar- ing a “ Manual for Family Worship.” ‘ I suppose we may call this “a family Prayer Book.” I rejoice over these; two facts and hope A. B. will not spoil? my rejoicing, by disproving both of the above statements made in good faithâ€"one on the authority of the: Montreal Daily Star,-the other on! the word of the minister referred to. t l I am aware that “Essays and Re- | views” caused some excitement in re- l ligious circles at the time of their pub- ! lication, but I am not aware that the I Church suffered seriously by . them. i " The religious feeling” that they call- ed forth showed that the heart of the Church of England was sound. A. B’s fling at the Archbishop of Canterbury deserves no replyâ€"This is his way of showing his respect for the Anglican Church ! ! The Oxford Movement gives him a great deal of anxiety. I mAy not he. ablevto give him all the satis- faction he would like to get out of this question. If he has not read the very earnest and able papers and sermons of those gifted Oxford stars (and I sup- pose he has not) I would recommend him to do so athis earliest convenience and then his opinion of them will be worth considering. With such authorities on my side, I need not heed A. B’s objection to the phrase. His objection is not well tak- en. Perhaps he will change his mind about the expression not being found in Scripture when he carefully reads Eph. Iv. 19 v. The phrase “ past feel- ing ” means a total want of emotion on morals or religious subjects,â€"--in other words a want of “religious feeling.” 'their own words.” The feeling they experienced was, of course, “religious feeling.” The Rev. Dr. Smith, Canon of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, in a Donellan Lecture delivered before the Univer- sity of Dublin, 1884, uses these words: y “ It is notorious that the feelings are ' largely concerned in religion.” "Feel- ‘ mg and conscience are proper helps to the intellect in apprehending religious truth.” "But when we compare re- ligious truths with earthly, the con- viction is forced upon us that feeling and conscience are more than mere helps to logic, in feeling trut .” “They are themselves organs for the discovery of truth.” “Wiping out " ' ' THE RELIGIOUS names which have been confirmed by the experience of ages ”â€"Lord Macaulay in a speech delivered' in the House of Commons m 1844 "On the state of Ireland” uses these words: “You have wounded RELIGIOUS FEELING.” Notice that he used the words in exactly the same sense that I did. were not harps or lutes: THEY FELT, THEY FELT, the power and strength of - ‘6 prophets Passing from the continent to Eng- "5““ ""3“" “0"”“3 0' and repeated cliallen land, the scene ‘8 not materially FORCE me to refer tot changed. The persecutlon Of Mary In the light of history. drove many of the retorniers abroad. ‘ . I now recognize what we For the most part they took up their! blessing to the Presbyl abode at Geneva, and Zurich, and; It has bec‘lme won. 1 ' )" . On the death of Mar amongacertaiii .0138“ F! inkfild . y! the idea of ministerfa they came flocking back to England, Christian Church 3 g \ a large number of them. thoroughly we weretreattecli lastlw _ ,. . . . . magaznie at. iceiii w u enanioiu ed w ith the .balwanistic sy s-I “wt inimagiuatiuu was tem of doctrine, dismpline and wor- i face Olti a subject ttli whic ‘ . .;. , o. - ~ rea t Gill-[ltâ€" . Tara ship. Tht .i zeal for their new Opinions ! on himselfâ€"His own fa knew no bounds. Their object at first; assembly of divines, i] I does not Seem to have been to set up a‘ ""der the" umpires en ‘ . . E right of the ministry of new sect, but rather to (/alvanize and l diets all the frothy conj i Presbyterianize the Church of Eng-3 in these words: "The ‘ . . _ ' dination from Cl 'st land. '10 accompllSh this end they: the primitive allure?l laboured with amazing energy, and- throngh tlieapostate (:1 .. . . w . . , ifar freni nullif'iiig 01 zeal dining the reigns of Elizabeth, . paragiiig of it.t atitis James 1, Charles I, and the Loninion- ing of it. when it shal ”c ' . r ' : “Their f. - “0'“. that our ministi .w L alth. Mosley say 3 .anat from tht‘ and His AD ical preachers overran the land like 10- Mg ministry, Continue custs, and Spread their doctrines with ' It‘ll) 3'88”. and that we“ . , , simi’from tl e A ’ the zeal and license of preaching fI‘laIS- deeply. as ytii willfigfh They abouiided and sprang up with ”'6 Veryzreat importa - - . THEY ASSERT luxurious and prolific growth all over SUCCESSION ogflgrng; the Church, many became preachers run 1600 YEARS-4‘80] -‘ - - . 'l‘n -- , Wijhout any ordination or authority ; TugTJS g ,8“; 1162le 'h they were a frenzied, froward and un- €“"‘°‘It" in the preface t disciplined mass, and full of angry en- '1: elvfd?“ “"0 all men .thusiasm.” They preached against : f _ the Church, “ out of envy and strife ” , it”? Orders of Ministers with. a vengeance. Hume says of I fl" ODS' Pnew’ ""3 ‘ them: "They afiected a furious zeal 3|; {clciwufitny one who . . » , r :flwammmggffisgfixt Church. mam? . "9“" “Nuke: think *fit. while the people were infected an: thon in "ache with a dismal fanaticism. Macaulay 'fmzmmfiV3: , i ' if» :‘l g .‘X. -"‘-’.' i If this testimony were not abundant- ! ly corroberated by exceptionable evid- i ence I would not be guilty of copying I it into this page But unhappily we T have abundant cm'roberation. l haVe space for only one testimony. It is a testimony which A. B. will not ques- tion. I refer to that of the disting- uished Dr. Raffles, a very eminent dis- senting minister of England, who some years ago visited Geneva. Speaking of this city he says: “the shortness of our stay did not allow us, indeed, to see any of its society; and the infor- mation I had previously obtained of the state of religion was not such as to excite in my mind very exalted ex- pectationsof pleasure from that source. FEW or THE noc'rRINEs, AND LITTLE or THE SPIRIT, WHICH ONCE HENDER- ED IT THE GLoRY OF THE PROTESTANT I would), NOW REMAIN, and that truth, which was asserted and maintained by Calvin, a name to which the city of Geneva is more indebted for its celeb- rity, than to the grandeur of its scen- ery, the beauties of its lake, or the stern character of its independence has scarcely an asylum within its walls. The pastors of the Churches are, AL- MOST To A MAN, Arians, or Socinians. A few, perhaps, may cherish the gen- uine principles of the reformation, and feel their influence. I know, indeed, that this is the case; but they bear no proportion to the majority, who are sunk in infidelity and skepticism, and can do but little towards the diffusion of that divine light, and the spread of that glorious Gospel, by the resuscita- ting energy of which the Church of Geneva may again awake from the philosophic dreams of infidelity, and emulate the zeal, the piety, and the simplicty of former times.” The system has failedâ€"failedâ€"em- inently in the very place in which it was first brought into existence. tries where Anglicans did not corrupt his system of doctrine, and what do weflnd? Why we find that Unitar- ianism which A. B. would denounce as a most detestable heresy has Slmost entirely supplanted Presbyterianism- There it is that the most eminent di- vines of Unitarianism have had their origin; and from thence it is that their writings have been dispersed through- out the Protestant world, for their critical acumen, and with many for their liberal theology. That is the land that gave birthtothe arguments which have been used against me in this dis- cussion, and which will be used against meâ€"to the endâ€"History demonstrates that they led to Unitarianism in the land of their birth, and they would lead to it here, if we yielded to them. I am dealing with facts. You cannot get rid of facts by sneers. I know no argument can be produced against ' these facts. As I write these words I fthink of the words of the great Mel- ancthonâ€"his sorrowful declarationâ€" “I would to God that it lay in me to restore the government of bishops. For I see what manner of Church we shall have ; the ecclesiastical polity be- ing dissolved.” \Vhere are the Pres- byterian Churches founded by Calvin at Geneva? Nearly all their branches have become. Unitarian. Scarcely one of them has escaped the infection. Long ago a brilliant writer seeing this state of things triumphantly lemarked: ‘ “ the pastors of Geneva are asked if * Jesus Christ is Godâ€"they dale not an-i swerâ€"They ale afked what mysteries they admitâ€"they dare not answer-â€" A philosopher casts upon them a haughty glanceâ€"he sees‘through them â€"â€"he discovers them to he Arians, So- ciniansâ€"he proclaims it, and thinks he does them HONOUR. Inunediately, alarmed, terrified, they assemble, they consult, they are agitated, and after manifold consultations, de- liberatimis. confermwes, the whole t<~1~111i11ates in a non plus, in which is neither said, YES NOR NON 1 an m_m'rATI()N. The Anglicaxt bhurch asserts In the prefave tu her ordinal: “ It is evident unto all me Holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the A stles’ time there have been PO . these orders 9! Ministers in Christ'; Church; 3 Bishops, Priests and Deacons.” . . 2 ghe undoubte teachinggof the Amtl' : "nu-IIL ‘ ‘ “ - in I we unmounted teaching. of the Anglican Church. Anyone who denies this state- ment cannot receive Holy Orders in the Chnir‘ch. lshall ask Chillingsworth and It has become wonderfully fashionable among a certain class of people .to ridicule the idea of ministertal. succession in. the Christian Church ! ! With inhmte derision we were treated last week to anoold musty magazine article in winch the writer’s bril- liant immagination was playing on the sur- face ofa subject to which he had not given real thoughtâ€"A. B‘s rashness will rebound on himselfâ€"His own famous Westminister assembly of divines. in.a work published under their auspices entitled. " The divine right of the ministry of England ” contra- dicts all the frothy comectures of the article in these words : “ The receiving of our or- dination from Christ and His A . the primitive Churches. and all along through the apostate Church of Rome. is so far frOm nulliffi'ing our ministry, or dis- paraging of it. t ' ' mg ofit. when it shall appear to we: ld. that our ministry is derived from Christ. and His Apostles. by su - 1 ofa ministry, continued in the Church for § woo years, and that we‘have a lineal succes- l sinn'from the Apostles.” These men felt deeply. as you vyill realize in this quotation. the very great importance of the doctrine; THEY ASSERT THAT THERE HAS BEEN A succeesxou or BISHOPS IN THE CHURCH run 1600 YEARS.-â€"FROM THE THAT Us THE nonvrl w THE QUOTATION. The Anglican asserts in the preface Evident unto an men diligentlv m... I would have A. B. note in Lord Macaul- ay’s speech. (I have not space to give the quotation) the friendship of the Church of England to the Presbyterians. and I would ask him also to remember the sincere ac- knowledgements, as contained in a lormer letter, of Dr. Chalmers to Anglican cham- pions, when the Unitarians were {forcing the battle to the very gates against Presby. terianism. Nothing but the exulting taunts and repeated challenges of A. B. could FORCE me to refer to these facts of history. In the light of history. perhaps. A. B. will u ow recognize what would ” prove a great blessing to the Presbyterian body,” We come down to the 19th century and what fruit do we find ? I shall tell you in the language of Lord Macaulayâ€"In a speech of his delivered in the House of Com. mons in 1844 “ On the Dissenters’ Chapel Hill ”â€"IN WHICH ms GIVES THE mars. he opposed the Presbyterians getting pos- session of a very large number of Unitarian chapels all over England on the plea that those Churches originally belonged to the Presbyterians. He claims to give the or- dinary history of the Unitarian buildings and says:â€"“ It is the same * * * every- where.” He gives us his opinion for the cause of this development of Presbyterian- ism into Unitarianism in these words: “ The principle of the English Presbyter ians was to have no confession of faith, AND NO FORM OF PRAYER. Their trust deeds contained no accurate definitions. Nonsub- scrip tion was in truth the very bond which h eld them together. What then could be more natural than thatJSunday by Sunday the sermons should become less like those of the Calvanistic divines, that the doctrine of the Trinity should have been less and less in the course of years. preachers and hear- ers should by insensible degrees have be. come first Ariana. then. perhaps, Socin- ians.’ Sacraments themselves. You have put down Saints’ days, and many make nothing of the Lord’s Day. In the Bishops’ days we had the fourth commandment taken away, and now ALL TEN are taken away by the an- tinomians. The worst of the prelates held many commendable practices, BUT MANY OF ()UR SECTARIES DENY ALL PRINCIPLEs ()F RELIGION, ARE ENEMIES ()F ALL HOLY DUTIES, ORDER, LEARNINGâ€"I)VERTHRoWING ALL.” and when the flood-gates were once Opened nothing regarded as divine or sacred did escape their malice. You shall have the results in the language of Edwards, a celebrated Presbyterian divine, when describing what trans- pired under his own observation. In his address to the existing rules he de- plores those evil fruits thus: “You have done worthily against papists, prelates, and the scandalous ministers, in casting down images and altars, throwing out ceremonies, etc.; but what have you done against heresy, schism, disorder, against seekers, ana- babtists, antinomians, brownists, lib- ertines and other sects? You have made a reformation, but with the re- formation have we not WORSE THINGS come upon us than we had before, as denying the Scriptures, and denying that there is a God? You have put down Common Prayer, and there are many among us who oppose the Trin- ity. You have cast out bishops and their officers, and we. have many that‘ cast down to the ground all ministers. You have cast out ceremonies in the dress, the nasal twine, the speech in- terspersed with quaint texts, ' ° ° The sincere Puritans were swallowed up in a multitude of the worst sort of worldly men. who talked about sweet experience, and comfortable texts of Scripture, and yet lived, many of them, in the constant practice of rapacity and secret debauchery.” Is it any wonder that masses of uninstructed Churchmen gave way before such ir- resistible torrents of abuse, and op- position to the old Church of the na- tion! But the triumph was short- lived. It lasted only 2) years, and the nation came back to what it had re- jected through excited passions and want of eonsideration. Nâ€"ow ~what fruit did Presbyterianism produce in its. short triumph in Eng- land. About 60 different sects were rapidly organized, many of them the most loose in principle and conduct, THE PEflPlE’S MILLS . . . ‘Mm WW3 X m: ‘ ‘ ‘ “A“ H“ ~. To Keep. 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