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"We account the Thirty-Nine Articles of religion as a doenment of secondary importance concerned with local contro- versies of the sixteenth century, and to At the morning service at Westminster be interpreted in accordance with the Abbey, on June 18th, the Bishop effaith of the universal Church of which Durham, the Rev. Hensley Henson, de the English Church is but a part." livered an important serman
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Bathrooms, pleasing Restaurent aud Lonages, Luggage stored for any period, also room for right that he should avail himself of that preacher, to encourage clergymen and "En Pension" term from 22/6, Double rooms without food from 23. Pulpit, a national pulpit, in order to ordination candidates to interpret the
direct public attention to a categorical assent to the, Thirty-Nine which had been wade by an important recrive from them, as meaning no more KNIGHTBRIDGE STATION is in the building from which any part of London is reached in mediation of the Thirty-Nine Articles, which we are required Articles, section of English Churchmen, and to than this? Do the statutory declara- demand in the name of religions sincerity tion that the clergyman believes the does thust that famous Confession of the doctrine of the Articles to be agreeable ro trial standard of the Church of England, the Word of God imply no measure of should be reconsidered, and if necessary personal endorsement! If so, what value revised, without further delay.
do the Articles posses? What security to Preaching from the text, Romans xii. the congregations, do they provide? What 9 Let love be without hypocrisy," the indication of the present belief of the bishop said the parasite of Christian love Church of England do they disclose The was hypocrisy, acting u part, prefending None Creed itself was concernd with a more than really was. professing more local controversy of the fourth century. than was meant. It was so in the ageIs it therefore of secondary importance of the Apostles; it had ever been so in Wanld anyone seriously maintain that the the Church. Whenever Christian senti-matters in debate between the Church of SHANGHAI LINE - approximately every three days between Centern # ment was more than" commonly effusive, Rome and the Church of England were then they might he sure that hypocrisy was then in the 18th century or now in the near at hand: Could it be the case that with so to be described. Les any con- their own Church was at this momentidering English churchman be at the MANILA rather specially in need of the Apostle's pains to read through the Articles, and warning. Let love be without hypo-to strike out with his pencil everything HAIPHONG crisy Within the last month, con-which he thinks properly superfluous or tinued the preacher two documents anachronistic or really untenable; taking BORNEO have been published. The one is the realways into his reckoning the actual port of a conference held at Lambeth be-situation of Christendom at the present tween Anglicans and Nonconformists, time, and I think he will find that there under the presidency of the Archbishop is quite enough left to justify here and
that historic charngter as
the TIENTSIN of York: the other is a Declaration of now Faith addressed to the Patriarch and authoritative statement of the Anglican the Holy Synod of the great church of position in a divided Christendom. It is BANGKOK Constantinople, and subscribed by worth pointing out that the claim of in- number of Anglican clergymen, headed by dividual clergymen to 'interpret the Through Bills of Lading issued to Rangoon, Madras, Fort Swetten Bishop Gore. These two documents, Articles in accordance with the faith of both claiming a high degree of repre- that universal Church of which the Eng ham and Dutch East Indies.
sentativa character and proceeding from lish Church is but a part,? ignores that members of the same Church, conflict so necessary function, which is precisely sharply in spirit. substance, and outlook that of stating authoritatively how the that they must needs move the wondering Church of England itself understands curiosity of the public and the anxious that faith of the universal Church in thought of considering English Church those matters respecting which there, men. Bus the confict of parties within controversy and obscurity in Christen- the National Church reached the point of dom. What the claim really means is to Actual divergence 1.
substitute for the Church of England some other interpreter, who may, if he TIME TO EXAMINE CHURCH'S PLATFORM,
will, interpret the universal faith other- May circumstances unite to indicate wise than the Church of England in its that the time bas arrived for a thorough Articles has interpreted it.
The sig of the Declaration to the and complete reconsideration of the his-naturies
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toric platform of the Church of England.Ecumenical Patriarch will certainly not It will suffice to indicate two-first, the dissent from this view, for they have definite repudiation of the old national acted on it, and set down as their view character and constitution, and the of the faith of the Church of England transformation of the National Church a long series of propositions, some of into a self-governing denomination with which contradict fatly the teaching of the a registered membership, and next the Thirty-Nine Articles, and all of which are expansion of Anglicania throughout the inspired by a spiritual temper curiously world. The Grst disallows the assump remote that which the Articles express. tions of the English Reformation: the is it not evident that the time, has last discloses the inadequacy of a national come for the Church of England to recon Because, so runs the Encyclical sider the Thirty-Nine Articles? We car system. Letter of the Lambeth Conference, our hardly invite the representatives of other Church has spread over the world, and churches to negotiate about reunion' until still more because we desire to enter into we have retched agreement as to our the world-wide fellowship of a reunited own position. I cannot think our dis universal Church, we must now begin to cussions of reunion are free from the clear ourselves of localy sectional, and tuins of hypocrisy while we ignore a temporary prepossessions, and cultivats domestic situation, which really precludes a sense of what is universal and genus from sincere or serviceable negotia uinely Catholic, in truth and in life. Ition with other churches." we assume for the sake of argument that the existing 'platform' of the Church of England, that which is formulated in the Thirty-Nine Articles, is no properly untenable, we must stop short
Could we rightly approach the Protest- ant churches with one standard of doc trine and the Eastern Churches with an- other! The problem of reunion could not be simplified into the single issue of tion to be answered, more searching and
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to justify its existence in a divided more fundamental: Can two walk Christendom." The necessity of coming together except they be agreed?" "It to an agreement on this cardinal matter bas seemed to me," concluded the bishop, was pressed on the bishops, for they are
'right to avail myself of this pulpit, entrusted with the duty, of securing from which in a petullar sense may be des the clergy whom they ordained, institut cribed as a national pulpit, in order to ed, and licensed categorical assurances, direct publie attention to the categorical that they, the commissioned officers of the repudiation of the Thirty-Nine Articles, Church of England, personally endorsed which has now been made by an import- ita present doctrine and discipline, as set ant section of English Churchmen, und to forth in its official standards the Thirty-demand in the interest of religious since- Nine Articles and the Book of Common rity that this famous confession which, Prayer. Every clergyman in England:
as recently as 1805, was deliberately ac made the following declaration, and was cepted as the doctrinal standard of the admitted to his ministry on the explicit Church of England, shall be reconsider- understanding thus confessed:
ed, and, if necessary, revised, without 11. assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles further delay. 1 must needs think that of religion, and to the Book of Common all negotiations for reunion with other Prayer, and to the ordering of bishops, churches ought to be suspended, and will priests, and deacons. I believe the doc certainly be without result, until this trine of the Church of England as there indispensable work has been carried in set forth to be agreeable to the Word through, and the Church of England is of God, and in public prayer and adminis-again able to say distinctly what pre- tration of the Sacraments. I will use the cisely it stands for in a divided. Christen form in the said. book prescribed, and dom. A policy of candour may cause im- none other, except so far as shall be mediate disappointment, but it will justify ordered by lawful authority,"
itself in the long run to all men of good-
It is the fashion now," the bishop will," continued, to belittle the Thirty-Nine Articles, as if they carried no authority which an English clergyman, need res- pect; and yet, even when due allowance has been made for the time and place of their composition a considering man will majatain that they cannot be so lightly dismissed, nor assent to have them regard ed so flippantly. We may admit with the Lambeth Committee of 1888 that the Articles are not all of equal value, that they are not, and do not profess to be, a complete etatement of Christian doe trine, and that, from the temporary and local circumstances under which they were composed, they do not always meet the requirements, of Churches founded under wholly 'different conditions... And nevertheless we shall regard them as the formal statement of the Anglican 'plat form' formulated in the 'sixteenth cen- tury, when the mighty fabric of Western Christendom was broken up, and the fragments of the once-united Church had to show cause for their independent existence" It might fairly be asked whether it was reasonable to face the modern world with the unaltered "plat form which served the Church of Eng Jaad well enough under Elizabeth and Charles-114-Could the Church of Eng land, with respect to its Articles (that was to the documens in which it bad proclaimed to: the world, and for three and a half centuries continually affirmed, the reasons for its independent exist chce), agree to accept the view clearly formulated by: Bishop Gore, and the clergy who had addressed the Eastern Patriarch
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