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It is our present purpose to consider one these ty].os, and to (U-fino as well as we v:m tlie conditions which ^'o to niaUe up the ' mere Anglican; This ^,>ncs is ubiquitous hi our communion, but arnves, ^ve arc bold to say, at its gfeatest perfection in Canada; ar-d its special features are more readily traced among the clergy than among the laity, J5y a ' mere Anglican' wo moan a man who is una()le to recognize the Catholicity of any orthodox body outside of his own; and who scrupulously venerates the Jlubi-ics of the Prayerbook, always excepting that I?ubric on Ornaments, which is meant to be read concurrently with them all. In his eyes, the English Church, as she exists at any particular tiiae, is spotless and incapable of improvement ; while all other com- munities are either grovelling in hopeless superstition, or blindly following sectarian guides in quest of uncertain pasture. In a word, he is ready to say in good earnest what Lord Evron v,rote in satire: — "I know Me are crammed U itli the hestdoctrincH till we quite overllow • A ill'T!, ^^'^\ ""^ '^^'^ K"gland'8 Churcli have Hlian.med, Aiu tlmt tlie other twice two hundred churches And Synagogues have made a sorry purchase." The 'more Anglican' usually acknowledges Ai)ostolic Succession, because it fences him otf from the swarm of hetero- geneous sects by which he sees himself surrounded ; and he preaches Baptismal Eegencration, because he finds that doctrine indelibly stamped on the offices of the Church, and he is too honest to deny a principle to which he is thus formally pledged. Further than this he rarely goes, though he is believed to h<^ld higher doctrinb than he delivers, and has even been known, in a strange pulpit, to reveal a thenrv of the Eeal Presence, albeit modified by many reservations."^ Defect is his chief error. Seeing so much of good in what there is of him, we naturally wish for more. As he stands, he belongs I *tty.*.UMs »oitl,cr to tho purtj- -.Tf :Vctivo advance, nor to tint of acli™ ao,ng „„ i„ a mordy pa,»iv„ ,„a„,L. Al r v„l„I„.frv zi: ,::;""V"™"i'^- ■•^'"-"" "na,;:,;™::^ i>„ 1 X. . . wouia make a Cumininsito wivok of f hn Jioolv ot Common Pi-ivm. a* *i . ^^^"-"^ "^ tno ^1 , , . "" -ii'Vyoi. At tlio same t mo Jio consiVloPu y,.,-y^^"' ''f,™ f '"^"'-'y ™M tl-nt the last thing of ,vhieh an I. .8h.*man ,h,„k» on retiring to re^t is what te sh 1 eom prom,>o ,„ the n,„n,i„gi „,k1 this love oU univers, nodZ Wdl partly aocount for the very common wil o ttr™ t U .hough a safe an,, middle course in matters of rel " „ b .t should be noted that Iruth does not neccssaril^He i„ the .rf the Chnrel """' ""'' °™' ™-"' '*' "''°'" 'l'° "attic! Of the Chm-eh are «o„. St. John "l-"« Catholic cusronll S'-O'-d.-WHo^ to many othoi- Is the English CJun-oh Faith is feebly hinted at, one fold under One Shepherd immaculate, that ivhen the Catholic e are always warned against " the errors of Jlonu'" ? Are llioro not enough scliisinalics mikI Associiilioni.-.l>. wlio delugo the land with niisfliievoiis pain- phlots, and pour a daily torrent of miHi'oprcsentations tlirongh the public prcHN ? Wo emphatically deny that our Bishops and rrie^.ts are in a position to carp at what they consider Koman abuses, while our own vineyard is in its ])resent state of s(pialor and neglect; and wo pre the Canadian Cliiu'ch in that prosperity to which the Venus and Simeons i if ihc past failed to raise the Chiirrh at home. What then, it will bo asked, i.-< the blot at present upon tlie Church of i'ugland '! Only aihiding liy the way (o minor matters, such as the denial of Contirmalion to chilthon, the defective character ol' our oflfices. the geniral doadness in our congregations, we come to the main [)()int, and that is the alienation of dissenting bodies j rem tlie English fold. When we have g.athered in the Noncontoi'mists and Wesleyans, Ibr whose schism f>ur own riders have been largely responsible, and when \\v have olfered to other sects readmi^sioii by proper moans, and when wo have purged our articles and fornmlaries fi'om tlu^ very taint of Geneva: then wo may sit down with clean h:inds, ;uid discuss the point, where the Ileal Presence shades oil' into transub- stantiation, and inquire whether she '•' Who sucii nobility To liuiiian natnrt' ^fave, that its Croiitor Did nut ili.sdiiiii to inalce himsoK a ereatnic," was, or was not, ^niraculously [(reserved from ;d[ stain of sin. In the meantime, we woidd " labour and wait,'' lioping that thoughtful inrpiiry may lead many, who are now mere Anrlicans. to a more widespread view of the great miv-'iou oi' tho'Catholic Churcit. Tliis tract is inscribed lo the constituenl- of the i'ural Deanery of Collingwood. rubUtihpd (lad r'nxuhited hij the CathoI-IC I.WMEn's (iiriLD, and for mh' h>/ Mkssrs. .Ioiin I)i:kie k Son, Ottawa. — ,f'i.^'> pn,' hundreJ, or ,.' cents nocJi., Tracts 1, 2 and 3, on "The Dark Ages," "Frotestant Simplicit7/' and "Catholic Unity" still in print; also "VOX DEI AUT VOS POPULI," by a i J^^,xi;. — T/ic fnicf on lite. " Oniaminia litibric," u-liiih .shinild have ap2)cared an Xn. t, has been nnavoidablij dd'um'l for u, future number.