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 SOME ¥ ACTS ABOUT 
 
 C|)e C|)un|) of <^nslan)i 
 
 IN NE IV BR UNSWICK 
 
 A PAPER WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST AND 
 
 PUBLISHED UliDER THE AUSPICES OF 
 
 THE RURI-DECANAL CHAPTER 
 
 OF FREDERICTON BY THE 
 
 SECRETARY : 
 
 Rev. H. MONTGOMERY, M.A. 
 
 RECTOR OF KINGSCLEAR. 
 
 ANaiGAN CHURCH OF CANADA 
 GENERAL SYNOD, ARCHIVES 
 
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 I have been (uked to write a word of appraXHXtion 
 of thU tractate^ by way of ^ imprimatur,^'* It i$ 
 carefully written and temperately aryuedf and if 
 the author here doe* tervice by hie pen to a» many 
 as he has served elsewhere by his word tf motOh U 
 will be of great value. Many may be helped^ some 
 misunde: ianding may be removed^ and some may 
 be strengthened in their views, 
 I hope that a blessing may attend its pubHeation, 
 
 H, T. FBEDEBICTON. 
 
 May 6, 1901. 
 
Some Facts about the Church of England 
 IN New Brunswick. 
 
 What do we mean by the word CHUSOHt 
 
 The Church it the Body of Christ (see L Oor. ziL : 27 ; 
 and E^h. L : 23). The CL. ~^h is Hor because it is the 
 Body Mid Bride of Christ and not beca- « of the holiness 
 of any of its members. 
 
 It is also called Cathouo, r<^tfih means nniTorsal to 
 distinguish it from the »' v -jgh Chu'-eh whidi was confined 
 to ono latbn. Christ founded a Church, or Elingdom as 
 it is called in the Kew Testament, for the whde wwid. 
 He opened "The Kingdom of Heaven to all beUevers." 
 
 This is the reason why the Church is named in the 
 Apostles' Creed "The Holy Catholic Chnich." 
 
 The great test by whidi the Church ci Christ was to be 
 known to all the world, was that her teaching was to be 
 "the hath which was once fc " all deUvered unto the 
 Saints" (St Jude iii). That is the same faith or doctrine 
 to be believed by all, for all time and in all j^Uuses, as 
 expressed in the rule of St. Vincent of Lerius : " Quod 
 ubique^ quod temper, quod ab omniiue ereditum e^" 
 Which literally put into our own language means: That 
 is to be bdieved, which has been held everywhere, at all 
 times and by all people. This statraient, so far as it 
 applies to the Christian religion, i& called tl^ rule or test 
 of the Catholic Faith. 
 
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 The Church of Christy or m it is oaned in the Holy 
 Soriptnros the Kingdom of Heaven^ wm to be planted in 
 all nations, and in whatsoever nation or important eity it 
 was foanded it took the name of that naticm or city to 
 distinguish it from the o^er portions of the Church found- 
 ed elsewhere. The Church of Christ was founded in 
 Britain in the Apoetolio age, aiki was known at first as 
 the Church of, or in Britain. Long ycMS aftwward when 
 the Saxon? were the dominant race in Britain, and as a 
 preparatory step towards the uni<m of the sqpMrated King- 
 doms in Britain into one Eongdom of England, the Church 
 under the guidance of the Archbishqp of Canterbury, 
 Theodore of Tarsus, in the year 668 A. D., took Um name 
 Church of England. And from that time down to the 
 present has always been known by that name. 
 
 The New Testament and early Church History bear 
 witness to the fact that no portion of the Church of Christ 
 in the Apostolic age was ever called after the name of a 
 man, or of a ceremony or doctrine as in modem times. 
 
 How is it then that in New Brunswick there came to be 
 a body of Christians or portion of Christ's Church called 
 the Church of SnglMid T 
 
 It is a well known historical fact that New Brunswick 
 as a province was founded by the United Empire Loyalists, 
 who^ with very few exceptions, were members oi tiie 
 
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 Ohnroh of En^^d. M«n like Chipmftn, HaMn, Lee^ 
 Tilley, Bliu, Window, Dibblee, CSarman, Bobinsoii, BUm, 
 Wetmore, Hubbard, Baymond, Clemeiitfl, Gilbert, Cooke^ 
 Sayre, Bissett, Byles, Jarvis, Gray, Beardsley, Allen, Odell, 
 Andrews, Clarke^ Arnold, Botdord and many others that 
 might be named, rather than swmpv allogianoe against Um 
 Eling left their possessions in the United States — tlwn 
 known as the thirteen colonies which were in rebellion 
 against England — and came here to this province when it 
 was a vast wilderness, to settle and nu^e homes for them- 
 sdves and their children, where they might dwell in peace 
 and loyalty to their Church, their Sovereign and country. 
 
 Politically, Uieir one great principle and aim was to 
 maintain British connection in t^is country. And later 
 history proves that these men were the real originators of 
 what is now known as Imperial Federation, no longer an 
 idle dream, but becoming year by year a great reality. 
 These men sowed the seed and we are now semng the 
 harvest ripen. 
 
 The Loyalists brought with them their religion, it was 
 that of their fathers and forefothers. And they established 
 here in the very beginning of the history and formatioa 
 oi this province, the Ohuroh of Engluid. It was the 
 Church of England which in no small measure had trained 
 them to be loyal to King and country, and had inspired 
 them to nu^e heroic Munriflces ratlwr than renounce their 
 allegiance to the throne of England. 
 
 
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 With tlw sanction ci the King and his advisers, Uiej 
 created New Brunswick into a province, they formed a 
 Parliament for its government, and established for the 
 religion of its people the old historic Chnreh of England, 
 the Chareh of their fathers. The first framed building 
 erected by them in thfiJ'City of the Loyalists," St John, 
 was a Chareh of Engbmd building. It was situated <m 
 the east side of Germain Street, on lot one hundred and 
 twenty-one, between Duke and Queen Streets. And in all 
 the settlements which the Loyalists founded in various 
 parts of the province, such as Kingston, Fredericttm, 
 Woodstock, St Andrews and other important communities, 
 the y!ra< rdigiaut building eneted was that of the Churoh 
 oi England. 
 
 These Loyalists were the heart, the brain, the backbone 
 and sinew of the infant province. Men of intelligence, 
 culture and ability. Their character, their loyalty and 
 stability was formed and developed by their religious faith 
 and principles, as set forth in the Catechism of the Churoh 
 of England, and taught them by their fathers. Nor will 
 any pen ever be able to justly describe, nor tongue ever 
 be able to accurately tell of the sacrifices made, or the 
 hacdshipa and su£ferings endured by the brave and noUe 
 founders of our province. Better men, truer men or more 
 GkKl-fearing men this province has never known, than these 
 sturdy, self-sacrificing loyi^ Churohmen. 
 
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 It is not^ however, <m tiiis account alone, or because the 
 founders of this province were members of the ChwrA ci 
 England and planted the Church in this province^ that we 
 iqypeal to yen dear reader, whoever you may be^ to read 
 this pamphlet and gain, if possible^ a better, tmnr and 
 fuller knowtedge of ih» Church of the Loyidnti. We 
 i^peal to you on higher grounds. 
 
 The Church of England, at to put it more plainly the 
 Church of Christ am<»g the English speaking peqple^ was 
 {Wanted in Britain more Uian eighteen hundred years ago^ 
 in the Apostolic age. Indeed there is veiy good authority 
 for bdieving that the Qospel ci tiie Kii^fdom of Christ 
 was first preached in Britain by Bt. Paul himsell 
 
 Gildas, the first Britidi historian whose writings are 
 extant^ says : "That Christianity first downed on Britain 
 as early as A. D. 61." The aiMsient Christian U^tkun and 
 historians id the Church, St Jerome, St. Omnent the 
 fellow labourer oi St. Paul, Ensebius, Origen, Justin 
 Martyr, and Twtullian, who either lived in or immediately 
 after Apostcdio times, all refer in their writings to the 
 eurly introdnoticm and growth of the Church in Britain. 
 ]fy whomsoever the Church was {Wanted in the mothmiaiMl 
 we know fr<Mn the writings ci andent historiun ci Htm 
 Church of Christ that it grew and flourished in the eariiest 
 ages of ChristiMiity. AimI among otiier portions of the 
 Kingdom of CSirist tiie Church in Britain furnished its 
 
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 qnota of the "noble army of martjTS," both in the earlier 
 and later persecutions against <iie Church of Christ. 
 
 One of the early martyrs of the Church in Britain, an 
 account of whose martyrdom is recorded in the history of 
 the motherland, was Alban, a soldier, who was slain by 
 the sword in the year 304, A. D., rather than deny his 
 Lord and Master. 
 
 History also records the fact that three British Bishops; 
 viz., Restitutus, Bishop of London; Eborius, Bishop of 
 York ; and Adelphius, Bishop of Caerleon-on-Usk, attend- 
 ed by Priests and Deacons, were present at a Council of 
 the Church of Christ held in Aries, France, in the year 
 314, A. D. British BishcDS were also present at Church 
 Councils held at Sardica in 347, A. D., and at Ariminum 
 
 369, A. D. 
 
 A further proof of the early founding of the Church in 
 Britain is seen in the age of some r^ the old Parish 
 Churches. It is a fact (though not generally known) that 
 what is considered to be, by competent authorities on the 
 subject, the oldett Church building in the world, still in 
 use, is the Church of St. Mary le Castro, situate within the 
 grounds of Dover Castle; built certainly not later than 
 the fourth century and it rests on the foundation laid 
 about sixteen hundred years aga Another old and fam- 
 ous Church is that of St. Martin at Canterbury, which was 
 standing when Augustine came to England in the year 
 596, A.D., on his mission from Rome to the Anglo-^^ons. 
 In this Church, Bertha, wife of jiithelbert the Saxon King, 
 
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was baptized by Aagnstine. Other old CShnrobes or their 
 ruins might be mentioned as bearing witness to the mi- 
 tiquity of the Faith of the Qoepel in Brita. Another 
 event which occurred in England a few years ago also 
 bears witness to the antiquity of the Churdb of En^^and. 
 A case was brought before the highest court in the realm 
 regarding the ownership of a piece of land, which had been 
 leased in the reign of Alfred the Great for a period of 999 
 years. The land had been leased by the Church and the 
 term expired about twenty-five years ago, but inawnnch m 
 there were several so-called Churches in England when the 
 lease ezpirrd, it was thought well to have Uie question 
 decided in the highest court of the realm as to the propw 
 ownership of the leased property ; and it was dedded that 
 as the land was the property of the Church of England in 
 Alf rrjd's reign, when the lease was made, it must revert to 
 the jame owner, the Church of England; in Yiotoiia'w 
 reign. And just here it may be well to remind you thmt 
 there has been in some minds an erroneous impression, a 
 lingering taint of which still remains in these so-called 
 enlightened days, that all Church property in England, 
 previous to the time of Henry the VIU . belonged to the 
 Chnrch of Rome, Mid that the Eang and Pvrliament un- 
 lawiuUy and wilfully robbed that Church of its property 
 and handed it over to ttie Church of England, which, we 
 are told in SMne histories and by some teachers even in 
 our pul^c schools^ was founded by Hairy the VIII. 
 and J Parliament i^eedless to say such teaching is 
 
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 vtierly Mid entirely falser as spbeeqnent events in English 
 history prove. In a dedaration issued in England in 
 1826 by Um Roman Catholio Bishops, there is an atter 
 repudiation of the daim on any pn^rty held by the 
 Chnreh of England, as seen in the following words reler^ 
 ring to the legal ownership ol the Cathedrals, Fkrish 
 Chnrdies and the property attached thereto: **We regard 
 aU the revenuM and temporaHHea of ihe Chwrtk EttMithr 
 merU a» the property of tho$e on iiohomtkejfar$$etUedhjftk» 
 laum qf the land. We disclaim amy right, tiOe, or preten- 
 eion toith regard to the tame," 
 
 Taming htubx. again to the ewly history of the Church 
 of Eng^*^ we find that owing to the persecutions against 
 Christianity on the put of the Romans, the Saxons uid 
 the Danes, the Church was crippled and scattered and 
 many of the old Churoh bnildii^ destroyed. But through 
 the protecti<Hi of ihe great Head ci tlw Church, there was 
 a remnant left to proclaim the faith of His Kingdom, 
 which in Uter ages became the most important factor in 
 framing and developing the character of the nation and its 
 people. 
 
 IV. 
 
 At the time of the Norman Conquest serious changes 
 were brought about in the religious history of Enf^d. 
 V M William (the Conqueror) set out to invade England 
 he secured the sanction <rf tiie Pope to this enterprise and 
 brought with him the Pftpal blessing on his Norman ban^ 
 
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 nen; ocmieqaeDtly hit yiotory at HMtlnga l»oa{^t BnglMid 
 into new oonneotioD with, and her Church into tabn^Hioo 
 to, the Pftpaoy. He brought with him iraeign Bidiope 
 and Prieste who bad bera oonaecnted and ordained onotor 
 Pi^ jarkdietion. And theee^ after taming ont the 
 Bngliah Ksbop* tro«ia their Sees (with one eacoep^n ; vis. 
 that of Wnlfstan, Bishop of Worcester) he plaoed in diarge 
 in order to bring the English Church nnder the ininoieG 
 of and in subjection to tlM Bishop of R<mie. By she intoo- 
 dacti<m of these foreign Clergy, Rmnaa emws in matters 
 of faith and discipline were forced upon the CSinreh pec^ 
 of England until in Qod's own good time relief came !uider 
 what is known as the Reformation Period, whidi i«aUy 
 began in the reign of King John, when he was oompdlkl 
 by the Barons of £bg7and, who formed theoisdyes into 
 what they called the '* Army of God and Holy Chuicli,'' 
 to sign that famous c^. ament of English hiatcKry known as 
 the Magna Charta, the foundation, as it is called, of Britiirti 
 liberty and the British Constitution. The first article of 
 this great Charter reads thus : " I%« Ckur<^ of England 
 thaU be fn» and have her rigkU and Hberties wwiotate.** 
 This Charter was signed in the year 1216, and was the 
 actual banning of the Reformation, which reached its 
 dinuu^ tiiree hundred years afterwwds, in tiie reign of 
 Henry the YIII. 
 
 It was in the reign of thn latter King tiiat tiie Church 
 of England in solemn convocation declwwd, before eve? 
 any Act was passed by Fkrliament on the matter, "that 
 
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 the Bishop of Rome hath no greater jurisdiction, in this 
 realm, conferred on him hy God, than any other foreign 
 Bishop." This declaration was made by the Church of 
 England in the year 1684, and was agreed to ^7 tne 
 Bishops and Cleify ol the niUion. Afterwards, in the 
 year 15S7, the Pfcrliament of England passed an Act con- 
 firming the declaraticn of the Bishops and Clergy of the 
 
 Church. 
 
 It was, then, the old national Church of England, which, 
 in the year 1634, repudiated the ^laim of the Bishop of 
 Rome to have jurisdiction over her, and cleansing herself 
 from all foreign and superstitious corruptions she continued 
 to hold all those doctrines founded on "the faith once for 
 all delivered to the saints," as found in the Word of God, 
 and as she had held them in the days before the intrusion 
 of error by the Normani. 
 
 The Church of England rejected at the Reformation 
 only what had been added to the primitive faith and dis- 
 cipline by man's authority, and that too of iureign origin. 
 She did not cease on this account to be the historical 
 Church of the nation j her insisting upon the service and 
 the Scriptures being read in the English tongue -ather 
 than the Latin made her, if possible, still more the Church 
 of the English people, and such she has continued to be 
 through all the vicissitudes and political changes of English 
 history down to the present time. 
 
 True, in the Cromwellian period her visible life wa% 
 nearly extinct, but God, who overrules all things tor the 
 
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 good of His people, brovgfat ber uMy through the dangen 
 and trials of this period, and so ordained it that she should 
 live and be a power for good in the nation and onpire. 
 And the nation itself has decreed that the Sovereign who 
 roles over the British Empire must be a member of the 
 Church of England, and must sware, before receiving the 
 crown to maintain the rights and liberties of the Church 
 as laid down in the Magna Charta of John's reign. This 
 is the old Church of England, dear reader, which has come 
 down tiirongh the centuries past, surviving the critical 
 struggles of the Reformation, tiM Puritan and the 
 Cromwellian periods, bravely facing and overcoming every 
 danger, whether frtmi within or without Surely in her 
 history of eighteen centuries th ^ romise of the great Head 
 of the Church has not failed : " The gates of hell shall not 
 prevail agunst it." 
 
 V. 
 
 Continuing "steadfastly in the Apostles teaching and 
 fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and the prayers" 
 (Acts ii : 42, rev. version). This portion of the Church of 
 Christ came down to us in New Brunswick throuoch the 
 faith and self-sacrifice of the Loyalists. To-day she 
 reads the same Bible, uses the same prayers, teaches the 
 same faith and administers the same sacraments as in 
 their day. They were indeed glad to honour her as the 
 spiritual mother who had moulded and developed their 
 
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 coble ohftTMter and loyal prindplei. We ^017 in the 
 ooonge^ the heroism and •eU'iacrifloe ol thew Iware men. 
 And may we not reaeonaMy aak, why ihoold not their 
 •ona, oTeiy one of them in this hmd, be as f^ to hononr 
 and love ihe same spiritoal mother as did their faihers and 
 forefathers. 
 
 Alas, we fear throogfa mironderstandingw, throagh mil- 
 representation, or it may be throagh forgetfolness of the 
 ftdth of their hJ^n some have vuidMed w been led 
 away from the fold of the old mother Chnroh. Bat we 
 humbly hope and pray that in God's own good time the 
 descendants of the Loyalists will "serioosly lay to heart 
 the great dangers we are in by oar unhappy divisions." 
 And will eamestiy pray God to "take away all hatred and 
 prejudice and whatsoever else may hinder us from Godly 
 union and concord." Time alone, under God's guiding 
 hand, can remove the prejudice, the bitterness and the mis* 
 teken ideas that prevail in some parts of our province 
 concerning the Church of Eugland in Canada. This done 
 may we not hope to see all the children of the loyalists 
 walking in the "old paths" and learning more and mora 
 to love, and pray, and work for the old Churoh of their 
 fethers. 
 
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 VI. 
 
 Let us now ooadder wHiie of ihe olqeotion* toe .<miinoa- 
 ly made agMiist the Chnnh of Engfauid : 
 
 L — Baftum ov Injum 
 There «re some good, irdl4neening people no doubt, who 
 object Teiy strongly to the Baptism of Infants. Well, oar 
 answer is that we beiieTe that Christ intends onr children 
 should receive His blessing now, just as much' as those 
 little children whom He took up in His arms and blessed 
 Then He lired on this earth, nineteen hundred years ago. 
 Those little children knew nothing of Him, nor could they 
 understand what *HiB blessing meant for them any more 
 than do our children now, but this was no hindrance to His 
 blessing them, and commanding them to be brought to 
 
 Him. 
 
 God Himself commanded infants to be brought into 
 covenant relationship with Himself in His ancient Church. 
 (Qenesis xvii : 10). 
 
 No order certainly of > ar Son can be found fbi^ 
 
 bidding this command t<. j observed, in His day. He 
 changed the outward sign <^ the covenant and oraunanded 
 oK to be admitted into it by Baptism into th^ "Name of 
 the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Qhost" 
 (St Matthew xxviii. : 19). For in the world-wide Church, 
 which He evolved out of tiie national Jewish Church, Uiere 
 was to be no distinction between male and fnnale in 
 
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 admitting them to oovnuuit reUtionship nnder the wm 
 dispensation. All were to be made one in Him. St Fkul 
 says in his Epistle to the Qalations (iiL: 29) : "If ye be 
 Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according 
 'o the prmnise." That is the pr(»nise referred to in the 
 seTcnteenth chapter of CJeneais. I^ as some teachers main- 
 tain, it is nnscriptural to Baptise Infimts, may we not 
 reasonably ask in what way are our childrm to be bronght 
 into that covenant rekttionship which God established with 
 Abraham and his seed after him as an " everlasting coven- 
 ant," nniess it be by Baptism f And have those who 
 object to Infimt Baptism provided Miy other means for 
 receiving children into covenant with Qod t 
 
 Out of a total number of about 500,000,000 of so-called 
 Christians, 475,000,000 believe in bringing little children 
 to Christ that he may bless them in Baptism and receive 
 them into covenant relationship, while less than 20,000,000, 
 including the Mormons, condemn the practice of Infant 
 Baptism. 
 
 Numbers may not always be safely quoted in support of 
 a religions doc^ *ine or practice, but in this case the majors 
 ity is so overwhelmingly great that it seems utterly un- 
 reasonable to believe that the Holy Spirit, the guide " into 
 all truth," should allow almost the whole of the Chureh of 
 Christ to have fallen into such an error — as the objeoters 
 to Infant Baptism claim it to be — and to retain such an 
 erroneous practice for eighteen centuries. It is simply 
 preposterous, with such evidence before us, for anyone to 
 
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 objeefc to lofMit Biq|>tism, mod my that it !• not in aeoord- 
 •noe with the oommuida of Almighty God. 
 
 n we call vp the witneMes to the teMshing and practice 
 of the Ohuroh of Ohmt, in -t« earlieet and pureet yean, we 
 find Um following teatimony : 
 
 I.— Iir THi Dat» 01' TH» Apoctlib. 
 
 It is recoided in the account giver in the New Teeta- 
 ment of their ministrations that ftve households were 
 Baptized. Is it unreasonable to believe that there were 
 children in «me one of these households t Pick out at 
 random the first five households you can think of, dear 
 reader, and answer the question yourself. 
 
 n. In the Days Iuikdiatklt Suookioiho tbosb 
 
 or THK Apostlks. 
 
 JvmH Mabttb, one of the earliest writers of Christian 
 history, who was bom near the close of the first century, 
 in speaking of Christians contemporary with himself, about 
 the year 148, A. D., says that "there were among Chris- 
 tians in his time many persons of both sexes, some sixty, 
 some seventy years old, who had been made disciples to 
 Christ yrom their in/aney." In what way could infante be 
 made disciples of Christ, except by Baptism t 
 
 Ibknakus, another early writer and Bishop of the Church, 
 the pupil of Polycarp who had been tau^t by St John, 
 writing about the year 176, A- D., saye : "That children 
 
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 M well as others were then actoally bi^daed to dbtain 
 remiflsion of nna." No art can explain away mr elude thk 
 paeeage, which folly confirms the fact that Infant Bi^itism 
 was the practice of the Church in the second century. 
 
 Tkbtulliak, another writer in the latter end of the 
 second century and the beginning of the third, who^ though 
 he had peculiar ideas about Infant Baptism, yet beiurs 
 witness to the fact that the Church in his day baptized 
 infants. This writer is sometimes quoted by those who 
 object to Infant Baptism as supporting their belief. Let 
 us see, however, how he witnesses to the custom of his day. 
 
 Tertullian believed, as his writings show, that sin after 
 baptism ^^as unpardonable. Ccmsequently he endeavored 
 to have the practice of the Church about Infant Baptism 
 changed and the sacrament delayed until death was at 
 hand or upon some assurance that the candidate would not 
 commit any wilful sin after baptism. To show conclusively 
 that he was trying to get the custom of the Church 
 changed, he says: "What need is there that the God- 
 fathers should be brought into danger t Because they may 
 either fail of their promises by death, or they may be 
 deceived by a child's proving of wicked disposition." It was 
 evidenUy the custom then in his day to have Godparents, 
 anf* -> baptize children, otherwise why should he refer to 
 these facts. His manner of arguing plainly shews that he 
 was seeking to introduce a new practice into the Church of 
 his time. We dwell more particularly on this writer be- 
 cause he has been so frequently put forth as a sub-Apostolto 
 
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champion agaiiut the practice of Infant Baptism. Bat 
 certainly not a diampion for the same reasons as put forth 
 by those of this century. TertuUiaEi did imiai vpon 
 if^ania being haptiaed if they were in danger fff death and 
 not likeiy to recover. 
 
 OuoiN, who lived in the beginning of the third oentary, 
 also bears testimony, without a shadow of a doubt^ as to 
 the practice of the Church in his day about Infant Baptism. 
 He says in his writings that "none is free from pollution 
 though his life be but the length of one day upon the 
 earth. And for that reason ii^famU aire haptimdt because 
 by the sacrament of baptism the pollution of our birth is 
 taken away; and 'except one be bwn of water and the 
 spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.' " Origen 
 not only refers to Infant Baptism as the practice of the 
 Church, but also refers to it as of Divine institution. 
 
 At a council of the Church held at Carthage, A. D., 253, 
 where sixty-six Bishops were assembled, an account of 
 whose proceedings is given by St. Cyprian, Bishop of 
 Carthage, no one had the audacity to ask whether it was 
 right to baptize infants or not. There was, however, at 
 this council a discussion about Infant Baptism, but it was 
 on a question submitted by Fidus, an African Bishop, who 
 asked " whether infants ought to be baptised before they 
 were eight days old t " Since this was the age for ciroum- 
 dsion in the Jewish Church. But the council decided 
 imanimomly tiiat there was no occasion for delay, even for 
 eight days, but that it^onte might be baptised at any time. 
 
There are many other early writers and historians who 
 might be quoted to show that Infant Baptism was uni- 
 versally practiced in the Apostolic and Primitive Ohuroh 
 of Christ There is but one result in the appeal to history 
 on this question, and it is this : I%at during the jvnt 
 1100 yean of the exittenoe of the Chrietian Chureh there w 
 no record of amy aociety or body of men toho denied the 
 latq/tUneee tflr^ant Baptiem. 
 
 II. — As TO THK MODK OF BAPTISM. 
 
 The Chureh of England, following Scriptural and ancient 
 custom, directs her ministers to either dip (not immerse) 
 the candidate in water, or to pour (not sprinkle) water on 
 the head of the candidate. About twenty years ago a 
 remarkable manuscript was discovered. It caused great 
 interest and deep reeearoh as to its authenticity and genu- 
 ineness among the learned theologians of the day. It was 
 first published by the learned Greek Arohbishop Bryennius 
 in 1883, under its title, "The Teaching of the Twelve 
 Apostles," and was claimed by its critical and learned 
 examiners to be not only genuine but the earliest Christian 
 treatise known next to the (Gospels and other portions of 
 the New Testament. The date assigned to it by competent 
 judges was sometime between A. D. 80 and 110. Proba- 
 bly about the year 100 A. D. would be a fair assumption 
 as to its date. This would mean that it was written a 
 
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 ▼ery short time after St John wrote his book on the 
 revelation made to him on the Isle of Patmos. 
 
 One of the giants in theology of the nineteenth century, 
 the late Bishop lightfoot, of Durham, whom the Christian 
 world acknowledges to be one of the greatest Biblical 
 scholars and critics of his day, gave it as his opinion, 
 after carefully examining "The Teaching of the Twelve 
 Apostles " that ** of the genuineness of this document there 
 can be no shadow of doubt." 
 
 In this treatise on the teaching of (he Apostles we find 
 the following directions given concerning the mode of 
 baptism : " Baptize into the nwne of the Father, and of 
 the Son and of the Holy Ghost in flowing >.ater. But if 
 you have not got flowing water baptize in other water, and 
 if you cannot in cold then in wwrm. But if you have not 
 (enough of) either, potw water three timee upon the Keadt 
 into the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the 
 Holy Ghost." This reference is made solely as to the 
 quantity of water that suffices for baptism, and not to the 
 state or condition of the candidate. And when we con- 
 sider that this document was written and these directions 
 given, shortly after the last book of the New Testament 
 was completed, by those who were no doubt instructed by 
 some of the Apostles themsdves, it ought to have the 
 greatest possible weight and influence on the minds of 
 those who really desire to learn what the custom and 
 practice of the Apostolic Church was as regards the mode 
 of administering the sacrament oi baptism. 
 
Surdy the aathw of this important traatiae and his 
 fellow laborers would be familiar with the practice <rf the 
 Apostles in this matter, much mon o than persons living 
 centuries afterward. The Church at England also teaches 
 that it is Qod^ through the agency ci His Holy Spirit who 
 gives us grace in baptism, and not the toalor. It is used as 
 a nuoHSj and it seems, to say the least, irreveront to imply 
 that God must have a certain quanti^ of water to make 
 baptism valid. Ood is Almighty and can do His work as 
 well with a drop as with an ocean in His <mlinanoe of 
 baptism. 
 
 m. — CORVKBSIOir. 
 
 Another objeotaon often heard against the Churoh of 
 England is that she does not teach the neoessi^ of Con- 
 versi<m. 
 
 This objection can best be answered by looking, not at 
 the practice or opinions of some who claim to be her diil- 
 dren, but at what the Church herself teaches in her 
 authorized formulas oi faith and doctrine. An examina- 
 ti<m of her Book of Comm<m Prayer will clearly show us 
 what her teaching is on this subject. 
 
 At the banning of every service of daily, morning and 
 evening prayer she orders, among the passages of Scriptures 
 to be read, the following : *< When the wicked man tum- 
 eth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and 
 doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul 
 
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 aliTe" (Enldel zyiii : 21). "Tbend jtmr hmtt and not 
 your gannents, and tarn onto the Lord yoar God" (Joel ii : 
 IS). "I will ariae and go to my father, and will say unto 
 him. Father, I have sinned against heaven Mid before 
 thee, and am no more worthy to be called th/ son" 
 (St. Lake zv. : 18-19). She orders these passages <^ Scrip- 
 tare to be read for the very parpuse ci warning Ui'. peq>le 
 assembled for worship of the necessity of being eonvt/rted or 
 " turned " as the revised version renders the Greek word, 
 which in the aathorized version is trandated "converted." 
 The prayers also of the Charch abound in appeals to 
 God that we may be ** turned " from the way of ungodli- 
 ness, and that He may be pleased " to create and make in 
 us new and contrite hcMrts." She lays the greatest stress 
 on the absolute necessity of r^aetUanee for our sins past, 
 as did our bleued Lord in order to obtain saving grace. 
 True, the word conversion itself is seldom ever heard in 
 her services. She prefers rather to use the BiHe word 
 repentance; reiterating over and over again the cry of 
 John the Baptist, and of our Saviour Himself, "r^Mnt 
 for the EliDgdom of Heaven is at hand." The word 
 version so .^omoMMily used in these days is not what 
 may be truly called a Bible word. It is not found in any 
 of the Epistles of St. Paul or the other Apostles. Neither 
 do any of the Apostles in their writings ever exhort people 
 to be converted, but they do urge them to "repent,'' which 
 is a much deeper and more suggestive word dian con- 
 version. 
 
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 Hm Chnrdi bdiovM it to be her duty to t^ men to do 
 what Ghrist and His Apoetles told them to do^ and in 
 urging men to repent she inolndes all that tiie word oon- 
 yerrion can possibly mean. 
 
 She welcomes to her Holy Table, only those who do tmly 
 and earnestly r^wnt th«n of their sins and intend to lead 
 a new (converted or tamed) life, following the command- 
 ments of God: "And widking from henceforth in His 
 holy ways." She distinctly tells her pec^Ie that without 
 repentance and without being turned to Qod, they cannot 
 receive grace in the sacrament of the Holy Communion. 
 
 VII. 
 
 There are other objections sometimes raised, such as the 
 Form ol Gk>yemment in the Church of England; vis.. 
 Episcopal, prescribed Form of Prayer, and other minor 
 objections which can easily be answered by the authorized 
 teachers of the Church, and to them we earnestly commend 
 all those who really and sincerely desire a better under- 
 standing and knowledge of the Church and her ways. 
 
 The one great need of this day and age is a fuller and 
 clearer knowledge of the " truth as it is in Jesus," and to 
 search diligently until we find it. To this end we must 
 read, and read, and read again, in the spirit of that prayer 
 of the saintly Chrysostom : " Granting us in this world 
 knowledge of Thy truth." Above all we must ever be 
 willing to learn, and that too in a meek and patient spirit 
 
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 It if nofc the opiuioiis or sentimeati of mmi, no matter 
 how cleyer or leemed, it is rather the truth conoeming 
 "the luth whioh wa$ onee for aU delirered onto the 
 Mint*" (Jade 3, rev. vernonX that we all need to know 
 tor oar souls eternal welfare. 
 
 UnlcHrtanatelj we live in an age of **anha]^7 divisions" 
 among Christians, and so many diflfereo*" opinions an set 
 fortii as "the troth" that it b very difficalt oftentimes for 
 tiie poor wayfuing man or the busy man to know as tiwy 
 ■ay "just what to bdieve;" and too often sach men oon- 
 dade that it makes no diffisrenoe what a man believes so 
 k>ng as his life is all right If sach a oonclosion were 
 trae, or even reasonable, then Ingersoll, the far-famed 
 atiieist, might have passed for a ChristiMu Bat^ dear 
 reader, U doe§ mah$ a d^^erence in OoePt tightf if not in 
 man's, what men believe, as well as what th^ da 
 
 The trath oi God is eternal and onchangeaUe^ not to be 
 added to or taken away from, nor is there any new troth 
 to be discovered. He has revealed it ail for all time. As 
 a iMmed man of old writes : "What is true is not new, 
 and what is new is not troa" An axiom which certainly 
 will always hold good as regards the religion of Christ and 
 His Choroh. 
 
 Perverted troths, half troths, are, in a great measore, 
 the oaose of misonderstanding, as well as the result of it, 
 concerning the teaching of the Chorch of England. Too 
 often have they been set fmrth by teachers and preaoht rs 
 of different denominations with great fervoor and intenuty 
 
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 of feeling and pnrpoae undw the undue prendre of relig- 
 ions exdtanent, when that portion of man caUed tine 
 ** feelings," so diangeable and often unreliable, Mre alone 
 appealed to and worked upon until they reach the state of 
 frenzy and sometimes temporary delirium. 
 
 Misrepresentation ci the truth, jealousy, selfishness and 
 blind lri£x>try have been the cause of divisions in the 
 Christian Church, but we believe that iE God's own good 
 time, the prayer of His dear Son "that they all may be 
 one " will be answered, and Christians (moe more united 
 in one Fold under one Shepherd. 
 
 There mo signs, which observing and thoughtful men 
 have not failed to note in the closing years of the century 
 just passed, which encourage all who desire the re-union of 
 Christians in the Church of Christ to be hq)eful as wdl as 
 prayerful. 
 
 Who can tell what the new century just hegan may 
 bring forth in this direction t 
 
 For that re-union the Church of England unceasingly 
 intercedes in her daily service of prayer and praise. 
 
 Oc<>upying as she does a peculiar position, between the 
 Boman Catholic Church on the one side and the various 
 Protestant denominations on the other, she affords good 
 ground and ample opportunity for the re-union of the 
 Church of Christ. Able and learned men on both sides, 
 by their writings on the subject, confirm this claim and 
 inspire brighter hopes for unity. Among them we quote 
 the following : 
 
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 The late Dr. J. P. Newman, a Melhodist-Epiaoopa 
 "Bishop," in an addrees given abont two yean ago "On 
 the Outlook lor Christianity in the United States," said 
 ** that it irmi his firm oonviotion that not many yean henoe 
 the Christian den<Hninations of the world would nombmr 
 no more than "i^ree^ the Roman CaUiolio Chnrdi, the 
 Chnroh of England (or the Episoopal Church as he terms 
 it), and the Baptist That the Methodists, the Presbyter^ 
 itkds, and the Congr^gationalists wiU be drawn into tk» 
 Chunk of England. The Baptists being kept oat only by 
 their distinctive doctrine respecting imm«rsi<Hi." This is 
 Methodist testimony gi~9n by (me who recently ooonpied 
 the very highest position in the gift of that body in tiie 
 United States. Only let ns hope that the work of re-nnion 
 will go on still farther than Dr. Newman's convictions led 
 him to believe. 
 
 Here is also the testimony of a famous and learmd 
 Roman Catholic. The Ultramontane Joseph de Maistre^ 
 in a celelnrated work of his (cons, sur la France, c. ii), 
 q)ei^ing of the Church of England, 1m says: "If eret 
 Christians re-unite, as all things make it their interest to 
 do, it would seem that the movement must take rise in the 
 Church of England. She is most precious and may be 
 r^^rded as one of those chemical %ntermede$ which «re 
 capable of producing a union between elements in them- 
 selves dissociable." This is indeed p^-r'^ng testimony by 
 one who wrote so favorably in defence of the doctrine of 
 Papal InfalUbUity. 
 
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 Bat not stronger or more forcible tluui that of the late 
 Dr. BhielcU, a talented prolesaor in one of the Preefajterian 
 Colleges in the United States^ writing in the Oentnrj 
 Magarine some years ago <m tiie subject of Unity amongst 
 Christiansi he intimated that if ever the dirided Ohnreh of 
 Christ is united again, as in Qod's own good dme it most 
 be^ die Book of Common Prayer of the Church of Bngland 
 will form the basis, aiul the Anglican Communioa the 
 centre around which the forces for re-union will rally. 
 Quotations mi^^t be given witiiont numbw from other 
 writers of diflforent rriligious bodies, but these will surely 
 suffice to show the unique position of the Churdi of Eng- 
 land as the faithful teachw and exponent oi the " truth as 
 it is in Jesus." 
 
 She numbers amongst her Clergy vataij of the most 
 brilliant and talented scholars of the age. Among her 
 mMubers are found the most eminent Mid ablest sta^^"*- 
 men in the empire. And last^ but by no means leasts the 
 beet beloved among her members was the great and good 
 Victoria, our late lamented and never to be fcnrgotten 
 Queen. The King and Emperw, who rules over the 
 empire, acknowledges the Church of England as his spirit- 
 ual mother, and by his counsel and advice in the tempor- 
 alities of the Church, as becomes his high office as the 
 reigning Sovereign, seeks to promote the advancement and 
 glory of the ancient and historic Church of England. 
 
 There ia also the witness of her missionary leaL She is 
 the source of the oldest Missionary Society for English 
 
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 qpeaking people in all parts ci the British Empire^ the 
 ▼eoerable "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,'' 
 ocganiMd two hnndred years ago ; and in latmr years the 
 sooroe ci one of the most active and enefgetio minionaiy 
 agencies in ihb world, the great Church Miisi<Miary Society. 
 
 There is also the witness bome^ in modem as well as 
 aLSoient days, l^ her "noUe army of martyrs" lor the faith 
 of theGoqieL 
 
 The English speaking wcMid also bears witness to the 
 fMst — alas too often forgotten — that she has given to it 
 the Holy BiUe in the English tot^gne. 
 
 By her interest in tiie affiurs al state mm! her inflnence 
 in the L^iislative Halls of Westoninister, she is today, as 
 in the past, the great bulwark of the British Empire. 
 
 In all the trials and dangers^ that have beset her, 
 whether from within or from witiiout, she has continued 
 " steadfast in the Apostles teaching aiul fellowship, in tke 
 breaking of bread and in the pra .*8," and by Qod's bless- 
 ing will so continue to the end. 
 
 Blessed Jesus grant, we beseech Thee, that what has 
 }wr^ been written may aid in removing some of the barriers 
 ^liich divide Christians in our land, to the advancement 
 of Thy Kingdom, the glory of Thy name and the eternal 
 welfiue ci immortal souls, for Thy mercies sake. Amen.