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consult Us . ....3175 ......8150 riceO‘2.00 3.25, our . . 32.75 [I :00 32.95. . . 81.75 inery so R Wood 1 for the pnsively IO 83' Iowovot, ling our V0 have anion.“ t Son. t. lower. )m'selves Shoes y’re not :3 our than is The phrase “vulgar tongue” seems to sting him badly. I fear it will mntinue to sting him and interrupt his devotions when his eye accident- ally falls upon it in his beloved preY' er book. It would he better for him to use free prayer. as Presbyterians do. unri: he has forgotten the naugh- ty A. B. and his "dipinto the vulgar tongue.” He transiated it himself at first as “ English tongue.” now he seems to think it vulgar. I hope his change in this regard is not an indie- ation of a. lessened regard for the prayer book that uses it. That would be a. great pity. It will not L€19 him out of his great dilemma to say 1 used the prayer book as a joke- book. I did not and he knows it. It is simply one of his little devices to divert attention from the weakness of his argument and as such it can he Pardonetl. Though I have a very hii‘zh regard for the prayer book as the ('Oping Stone of that " Compromo ise " upon which the Reformed church of England is built yet I sup- pose I have not the same reverence for it that he has. I am however Perfectly satisfied with it and do not desire any alterations therein. But since Reader has more than once re- ferred to it as so perfect I. thingl may he pardoned if I say that it by no mean satisfies a large number of hi! 0W1) vhurch people. This I now pro- ceed to prove. My authorities are givel. hence every quotuion may 50 Veriticdzaâ€"U) Many living will re- member the stir in England in 1873 by a pemion presented to Convoca- tion by 483 priests of the church of England asking among other thin!!! f0: changes in the payer book. " i'L.- BuOk 0! Common Prayer,” says this gvtiUOH, .. is manifestly incom- plete. through the absence in many parlitl‘ilars of such services and rub- rics as would give ndeqnnte exprPB- Sion to this claim of the church of England to be Catholic in her doc. Vines. usage and ceremonial.” This " Want of completeness ” :3 coneider- ed by the petitioners no a "distinct grievam‘:e."â€"(The ChGI’Ch mm... 59m. N's). (2) The Archbishop of Wk at. a meeting of the Synod of Licbfivld in 1864 used than worth. ”.18 there not in the 0‘0. 0:1 “'9 2:230an authority 9“ '9 91m 8! ' â€"u -t'tuvl [5’ VII“. UV '5. “‘4‘. ;‘ Parliament to frame and auction °' the use of the 0101'” «trim for Religious Cong. “m }11.1'n)i‘.,-â€"In this letter Bead- :m- has scarcely abated though . H. and temper have both im- ‘ k_ His assumed irony and‘ ,; assurance only reveal_ the .’ his despair or may it rather .. : t0 the secret rancour of the i . : ig~punant;undesignedly betrayl soreness of fee-ling that waits; , «ausciousnels of defe.t? It .r the schoolboy whistling to 35.; courage up. It will hardly wmiblo people nowadays are groom-l by any such pantomimic .drher in the physical or sphere Of action. Whtt 1' 1.. eds is not banter but res- : when he furnishes the lntter . which has been rather source I,“ «)f his previous letters, I 1.: once give him credit for it t 'u".')\ ledge his arguments in ’ vhf, of day 1 19m r opens with a. chiidish r iii-s having inflicted s castig- l; mu his critic which may en- . his admirers or nmuse his Replies t0 Reader's Letter of Augmt 21$. ”her but, trust me, is en- rnwn away upon A. B. His handling” ? neitbed disturbs in , We venture to say, heresy has been gpracticelly triumphant for three hundred years together through the iPrayer Book. It was designed to be 180. and it has been so. ” (5) Again 'on p. 626. " We cannot and we will lnot tamely accept the illOgical and incompetent system which the Re- ,formers have left us in the Prayer 'Book as it is. It has been tried for three hundred years and found want- ing.” (6) Some years earlier than these, a petition was presented to the House of Lords signed by thirty lclergymen and about as many lay lmembers of the establishment in which among others the following clauses appear :â€"“That in various other parts of our prayer-boot, espec- ially in the services for baptism, for ‘~ordination, and for burial. some jgwords and phrases are of doubtful signification and otherwise liable to lmisconstruction ”etc. Again, “That Athanasius’ Creed is not generally understood by the people. while each of the damaatory clauses in itself, is such as to require an explanation in- consistent with the words, when tak en in their ,plain sense and common force.” (Athenaeum, Aug. 1840 p. 681.) (7} King James speaking to the General Assembly held in Edin- burgh in 1590 uses this language with respect to it: “As for our neighbor .Kirk of England, their service is an ill-said Massin English.” (Calderwood’s Ch. Hist. 19. 2:36 ) “ Vulgar tongue ” in its literal sense if you pleaseâ€"as distinguished from the theological, for the immediate and simultaneous result of Regener- ation or the being born again of Scriptureâ€"God by the act of Repen- eration produces instantaneously so to speak the change indicated. I have no quarrel with the Scripture language. There was no “ confound- ing ” about it and Reader’s attempts to “ destroy” my arguments remind one of a flight of fire-flies attempting to destroy the Chinese wall. If twisting the meanings of words, using irrelevant illustrations. and substituting words for others would destroy my argument, I admit he has made a fairly good attempt to accom- plish his purpose. Since therefore my positions have not been success- fully assailed I leave this long series of quibbles to the good sense of his readers. I am not disappointed. for his reply is about what his letters would lead me to expect. Ex NIBILO 2mm. ‘r‘rr. I established the position that. the phrase “ change of heart ” was one of the ordinary English espressionsâ€" Two digressions howe ver from the general subject of this dissertation deserve short notice. First is Read- er’s pathetic confidence in the staunchness of the " old Boat!” It is true the craft has come through some 300 years of troubled storms and “wintry seas ” but it is also true that most of the troubles and storms have come from within, not from without. from the verv defects of construction and constitution which Reader appears to think so beautiful and so permanent. They have come from the spirit of compromise alreadv referred to, or perhaps, it is because the crew has been rebellious and will not be at peace. “ Every kingdom divided against itself.” etc. When however one thinks of the rigidity of the laws which govern the Establish- ed Church of England. one cannot wonder that liberty-lovinz souls within would like to break down the barricades that hem them in, or like Richard . Baxter and many others. leap over them to get afull breath of real freedom. I shall advert to thie later but here I desire to call in ae witness to the» preeeut" “ rotten- neee” of the old Beet. a man who ought te-‘know what he ieepeekina of. I "It“! ehall nofgiheieby'dev Prayer.”-(Crisis in the Church. p. 11). He, evidently. is not satisfied with the prayer book as it is. (3) Again, the Archbishon of Canterbury has declared that he is prepared, con. trary to the express Words of the (Act of 1872 (Mark that !) to sanction additional services which “do not form part of the Bible or Prayer Book,” etc. ibid p. 8. The Archbish- {op is evidently not satisfied with the [Bible or the Prayer Book. (4) In ;the Union Review, an Anglican ’church paper, for 1865, p. 621, is the ffollowing remarkable sentence :â€" Reader’s two-column dissertation on “ change of heaxjt ” does not in- crease his reputation for clearness of illustration or [acidity of eXposition. And so, .1 might continue to quote pages if space would allow. Enough has been said to show that some high in authority in Reader’s own churcn are far from being so satisfied as he is with the Prayer Book as it is. But in this, I heartily commend him. Let him Stand by the old book if he is to have one at all. As the final expression of the Spirit of Comprom- ise I really think it can never be sur- passed and those who demand radical changes in it are not the best friends of the establishment though they are members of her communion and enjoy her em oluments. The following paragraph from Pas- tor W.T. Sabine of the First Re- formed Episcopal Church, New York puts this aspect of the Prayer-Book so neatly that I copy it entire:â€" "The English Prayer-Book, being thus the off-spring of Compromise, contains within itself antagonistic elements; its ritual (which constitu- tes its educating power) looking to- ward Rome; its articles of faith, to- wards Geneva. As a consequence of this the Church of England has al- ways contained within itself two manner of peoples, two schools or parties.--one asserting its Protest- antism, the other claiming its affinity with Rome .” various purposes in addition to those gontainad in the Book of Common 3.4"“?! ~ “I; not there eXpress an Opinion on the question, nor did 1 give the teaching of the Presbyterian church upon the pn'llllb. I need not do so now. That isnot under discussion. I merely point out that from Reader’s own Wtrds. it is evident he "confounds two things which are essentially difo ferent,” viz . Conversion and Regen- eration. “ Regeneration is an act of (ied. originating, by a new creation, anew Spiritual life in the heart of the subject.” The Holy Spirit, in the act of effectual calling (Rom. 8:3”) causes the souls to become regener- ate by implanting a new governing principle or habit of spiritual affec- tion and action. The soul itself, in Conversion, immediately acts under the guidance of this'new principle in turning from sm unto God through Christ. It. is evident that the ini- plantation of the gracious principle is difl'erent from the exercise of that principle. and that the making a man willing is different from his acting willingly. This first is the act of God solely ; the second is the conse- quent act of man,| lependent upon the continued assistance of the Holy Ghost. From this it follows that the Conversion (the turning from sin or the world) of Dr. Williamson mav‘ not be necessary for the infant but Regeneration which simultaneously and instantly accomplishes a change of the inward spiritual nature (a change of heart) is necessary to sal- vation for infant and adult alike. Reader appears to have entirely miss- ed the point. But I could expect nothing better from one who accepts the superficial teaching of the An-I. glican Church upon the question of, baptismal regeneration. The habit of accepting as Authoritative any doctrine propounded or promulgated by a church, as such, leads to super- ficial reasoning and mental slavery. It may be well to examine briefly what that teaching is in order to ar- rive at a proper understanding of Reader’s point of view. Desiring to be entirely fair. I shall quote from Anglicans only, to arrive at the teach- ing of the church 'upon the subject: I find in Tract No. 76 of “ Tracts for the Times, a source of information, which Reader will I am sure admit to be above all suSpicion, a list given of no fewer than fortyoone of the most eminent divines of the English church who all maintain the follow- ing position :â€""That infants are by and at baptism unconditionally trans- lated from a state of wrath to a state of Grace and acceptance for Christ’s sake.” In an Episcopal publication, " Essays on the Church.” issueda few years alter said Tract, the auth- or are :â€"We have seen a large sec- tion of the clergy, under the guid- ance of one. of her ablest prslates insisting that the church teaches that in all cases, even when the oficiating minister is an ungodly man, and the parents and Sponsors notorious profligates. the infant over whom the service was read is still then and thereby actually regenerated (103). Does not the church herself through her liturgy teach gross heresy in the prayers which she puts up before and after every baptism. Bofore baptism she entreats that the “infant may receive remission of his sins by spiritual re- generationf’ thus presenting an erroneous view of the cause of par- don, which all sound theology has ever ascribed. not to the sanctilying work of the spirit, but to the atoning blood of the Saviour. And after baptism she teaches the priest to say The second digression is Reader’s reference to the salvation of infantâ€"s. Hesays that ix. one of my former letters. I held, “ that the children of believing parents are born within the church.” etc. If Reader wished to be fair. he would have said that 1 gave Dr. Williamson’s interpretation of our Standards, not my‘own views. I might disagreé with the Doctor’s interpretation as much as I do with his views on Episcopacy. But I did :ltroy Bender’s peace of mind or con- science. Archbishop Thompson, in York Minster, replying toe deputa- tion presenting a memorial signed by 106 peers, 73 members of the House of Commons, and ahost of dignitaries of the “ Church,” protesting against the ritualistic practices said :â€" “Never before in history was our church in such a condition. * * * It was in a state of rottenness which might last a Week, a month, a year, or a few years according to the course of public events. but he did not hesitate to say it must end in destruction.”-â€"(Crisis in the Church p. 18.) This looks as if some of the timbers of the craft were unsound or the crew mutinous. Which is it? The following weighty words from Sir William V. Harcourt, himself an Anglican and one that desires the well-being of his Church, do not promise the same assurance of per. manency as Reader’s prophetic uto terance :â€"â€"-“ It is truly said that the National Church of England in its foundation was a compromise be- tween conflicting opinions. But in order that this compromise should be established on a firm and lasting basis it was necessary that it should rest on some national sanction. It is of course a question whether there should be a National Church at all ; but if there is to be such a Church. it must be based on a National auth- ority, and the only National author- ity we recognize is that of the Crown and of Parliament.” * * * “ The strict adhesion to established formu- laries and rites is the only protection against ecclestical strife and popular discontent.” (' .he Times, Sept. ‘22. 1MB.) It is said that compromises are rarely successful, that they lack the elements necessary to .perman- eucy and that therefore, sooner or later, they must be reconstructed or the natural resultant is disintegra- tion or dissolution. ’W'WW The Monkman Bros., Song Evan- gelists. will begin a series of special services in the Methodist church on Sunday, continuing during the week. The Hymn Book “ Songs of the Liv- ing Way.” will be used. Strangers especially invited. Everybody wel- come. and Edwards. why hover ye so near? Isit to call to mind the words of Father Lambert :-â€"â€"”A schoolboy that could not reason better than this ought to have his ears boxed, pro- vided.” etc. The Social Night with the members of the Epworth League of Christian Endeavor and their friends on Mon- day evening was very largely attend- ed and a great amount of interest was aroused in the debate championed on the one side by Wm. Glass and E. Watson with A. A. Catton and Wm. Irwin on the opposition. Resolved that wedded happiness is better than single blessedness. The debate was well sustained by the able advocates on both sides, but the fates were against Messrs. Catton and Irwin from the start. They did well in leading a forlorn h0pe. The judges finally decided that it is better by three points to get married than to live single. We expect the Ministers of this town will reap a rich harvest after this and that our editors will be crowded for space in which to an- nounce the wedding festit ities of the Red Ribboners when they resolve to practice what they preach. All en- joyed the evening. The solos and choruses were pleasing. the fruit re- freshing and the social good cheer was charming. There is but one other question in this letter namely. the use of a Lit- orgy. which requires further com- ment but as it will take a Eetter by itself to discuss that question I shall leave it for a future issue. I may however say here that the ” proof ?” which Reader gives to show that a "liturgical service would be a bene- fit to the Presbyterian Church.” viz , the Opinion of Sir Sanford Fleming and a Presbyterian divine “ on the eve of his entrance into the English Church ” is enough to make Diogenes himself laugh outright. The personal Opinions of two men (and one cf them a pervert) to prove such a question!!! DOWN! Shades of Aristotle, and Plato, and Whately The Rev. Wray R. Smith was the speaker in Arthur on Tuesday even- ing at a social gathering of the young people of the Methodist church. These are only samples of quota- tions that might be continued mani- fold. Is not this “monstrous heresy?" If it is true that in whom God begins a good work he will perform it to the end (Phil. I, 3.; must it not then follow that all who have been baptis- ed shall infallibly be saved? This is the legitimate and unavoidable con- sequence of the doctrine. The ex- planation of some Episcopalians to escape these consequences are always superficial and often |ludicrous. Were it not for i 3 length I should like to quote one from “ A Farewell b’ermon,” by an Episcopal Clergyman published in 1839 as a fair sample of the kind. It reads strangly like some of Reader’s explanations that do not explain. On this question like many others do we not again see the inevi- table efiects of the fatal ‘° Comprom- ise ” which is the foundation plank of the whole Anglican fabric? It is but fair to remark that light is beginning todawn even within the church on this question. The Be formed Episcopal Church of the United States, “condemns and re- jects the erroneous and strange doc- trine,-â€"~‘ that Regeneration is insep- arably connected with Baptism,’ as contrary to God’s Word.” For “ We give Theo hearty thanks, most merciful Father that it hath pleased Thee to regenerate this infant by Thy Holy Spirit ;” assuming in this as infallibly true, what Scripture and fact alike concur in contridict'n :. that regenerating grace is the insep- arable concomitant of baptism. The following questions and answers from Bishop Mant’s Catechism are still more astounding: “ Persons are said to be regenerated or born again only once.” Q. “And when do you say that is ?” A. ‘° When they are made Christians at their baptism.” Q. “ Does the church teach her members to pray for the Grace of regeneration at any other time ?” A. “ By _ no means." On this language comment is needles. As expounded by this learned preiate, the doctrine of the church is “ that infants are made Christians at their baptism,” and that on no account should her members pray to be regenerated at any other time. No matter what doubts they may entertain in after life, no matter what convictions of sin they may feel, or what fears of their Spiritual safety may arise within them, let them by no means ask of God to re- generate their souls. 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