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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m6thode. 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 u CA My recen press] ^rill n a%n of the therea they T, JV the de feature Church ceeding daymen going t] church offer coi present [among J Native o: iJeoted in As [the Exec of which rour Lor( [eft open permit us only nn elves, th Dio [•nciliator throw less your tl LETTER PROM THE r axt ,' OOMMITTMB O^THB '^ '^^ BXEJOUTIVB W. faclafa of He icBe «f rm* — TO THE — As members /^f fi, T^• .0" teaden^e. .0, the rS^^^^Z^t ^^^iT^ M'lW Hi ^: I 1 m , I i-il! •b I ' i I 1: I i :i I 2 I I ! : k'l I u h P< ta: CI cleirgymtn, leads you to a course which we nevertheless believe la calculated to sacrifice the rights of the people, and the true welfare of the Church. Trusting that you will give us credit for the sincerity of the convictions, in obedience to which we now act, with all def- erence, and respect to your high office; wo proceed to review the points objected to in your charge. I. In referring to Trinity College we deal with it solely as a Theo- logical Institution for training candidates for Holy Orders ; and as such we cannot hesitate to pronounce it unworthy of its pretensions. Your Lordship is pleased to refer to the subject of Apostolic Succession; and to add : " Nor is there any difficulty in exhibiting *'to the world the fact of this succession — to take two important " instances, — in the Sees of Canterbury and Armagh;" and you fur- ther characterize it as "a leading and essential principle of the " Church." If your Lordship means that an unbroken tactual suc- cession of Episcopal Consecration can be traced from the hands of Christ's Apostles, through such impure channels as the Cardinals Beaufort and Wolsey ; or Gardiner, Tunstal, Bonner, and the like, to the Bishops of our Church at the present day ; we must reply that the evidence is such as would fail to satisfy any strict requirements ^ of legal or historical succession ; while the encouragement of thelv|''*^ ^ belief seems to lead to no other result than that of begetting a narrowl ^^®^, minded exclusiveness, and stimulating a sacerdotal spirit among| ^^^1 our deigy, the revival of which has largely contributed to the evillj^ , 7^*. which we deplore. iTrin > As laymen, we can attach little value to an idea which woulif^jj^* deny the characteristics of a true Church of Christ to the martyr """ coniessors of the Waldensian and Albigensian Churches, while accredits their bloody persecutors with the exclusive heritage of thi assumed requisite of the one Catholic and Apostolic Church. Wi out slighting whatever historical continuity can be traced between t first Christian Church in England and that of the Eeformation, are well content to believe that our Bishops derive their orders thro^ holy men of God, among whom we can reckon such faithful coj fessors as Cranmer, liidley, Latimer and Hooper ; men who in renorganization of the Church of England, and the preparation of Liturgy, freely corresponded with the Divines ol the sister Prote? Churches of the Continent in which no Episcopal Government iited. Bil 2. . geti Pro: Proi intl clusi years there trainij freque gather to the apart fj ?nerate ction tabJis Tvhich inown tm by ^ristian •rdship khy the Po \gioii8 the wd "Th II But, if the pretensions of Apostolic Succession can be ^mrinn' , - tained '* as a logical sequence ; " this at least is certain, that neitpj^g ^^ } the gift of tongues, nor other special gifts and graces of ApostA « j,^^^ timeSi have accompanied the transmission of holy orders ; and 'Vfajj. -^ Buch special assumptions, it is all the more incumbent on our Chip ^ '^ 3 ess balievo is e true welfare r the sincerity with all def- to review the jlelyaaaTheo- >rdera ; and as ts pretensions. it of Apostolic r in exhibiting to 800 that she h 1 Church of Canada .„H A, ™'»"'8 ministers for th. p v^"" *»■ Biblical CriH^^'P?' ?»<• J^^sor oft/f ^'IS P«>vfeioM^ getics, or Thri^r- ^''nS"* ThooW- 3 /d 9"*'^'^''"P'nre«. a the hands of 1 2 ''^ find „„e ProfeZ „„Sf "^ ?« own Thn^i, an^ the CardinaU|f^'"»8; and, unless we are mwi'^^S ">« whole TheoInJf ? and tl^elike. t» &"i^y r^'eting thereSriK'!'' JM"^''"^ ttt mtt8tteplythatl»™Yif three years. Givins th«,^ "** ^''^'logioal courTfJr ct ie(iukement.r *« K«v. Provost of TriS*^^'-^''^ '=«'*' fosehoSt .tea'- '^'4deSi,ro^,t^t£he -p:;^^^^^^^ "^ » «Mch wout^CoUege. Tk^ZttZ^^^^'^^t^ ^'^^^^^^t to the martyreff"?'^ , 5'*°? »f H«on pre3 fh!!: ^ *' *"' t™e. T& IS. heritage "fthiwhieh's a Itf^^?' I''««t»tion7„ his ol""!^- ^''^'faotion, h. Church. WIU t„„" ^ '.f"* "ember of the Chn^V * ." '^'ocese, the hearf ^dbetween tl Cb^reln'^^f ' '«"' ^e 'hSuSt tTt^ ?»' '^» '^ Keformation, n hristiL'r^J ^ ^ * work not unknot,, 7 ™e qnestion in brief , h'A i 1 in !;i i : said to be 'eaten/ but also to be ' given,' viz., in the hand of the minister; * taken/ viz., from his hand, by' the receiver. Hence the LoviXs body is fhere, independently of the faith or conduct of the receiver." p. 19. At p. 21. The reader is warned against the " most erroneous view " of the Holy Sacrament " wherein no Body and Blood of Christ was lioJd to be really present in any strict sense ; that in fact, there were really present only the * symbols ' of his Body and Blood ; or, to ex])re8s it in a grosser fonii, the Body and Blood of Christ were really absent',' and this he is -warned against as an opinion "leading to the error condemned by the Apostle, of unworthy receiving, bo- cause * not discerning the Lord's body.' " At p. 94, the young Communicant is thus instructed " at the celebration :" " Concentrate, as far as possible, all your thoughts upon the service You will find it engrossing enough to folloAv the priest closely in the service. Be especially direful to do this during the * Prayer of Consecration,* for it is then particularly that the Eucharistic Sacrifice is being made, and the Sacrifice of the Cross pleaded for our sins." Then follow two brief prayers, and then an " ADORATioN OF Christ " elaborately aiTanged, as in other works of this class. At p. 98. is this instruction : — " When you receive the Holy Bread — the Body of your Saviour — receive it not in your fingers, but into your hand. It is a very ancient and most becoming custom to cross the hands one upon the other, and receive the Sacrament into the open palm of the right hand. This is done in order that no part of the Holy Thing may fall to the ground, as will happen if you take it between the thumb and finger. When you receive the Body of the Lord say : — Be this, Saviour, unto me death to sin," &c. This, and much else of the like kind, though expressed in more vague and mystical language — along with hymns of the most pro- nounced character, such as we have already repeatedly quoted, — appear to us to involve the very same unscriptural, Romanising teach- ing which is more openly promulgated in " the Path of Holiness ;" i " the Manual of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament," an(.l,|"a Jojiffj the like pernicious works. Ition of \ This we believe to be the teaching of Trinity College ; as itito cieal is the teaching of Port Hope Chiu-ch Scliool ; and we do not " in-fcrehend) sinuate," but say plainly and expressly that any college where suchi'grieva/ theology is taught " is an unsafe institution for the religious trainfjotorfouj ing of young men, and specially of aspirants to the ministry." frAfch c] We may presume that your Lordship is no longer prepared tJponsible affirm, as you did on a former occasion, that there are no ritualistifc poss£_ excesses in your Diocese, seeing that the Synod declared at its meetlbout $4] mmmmmm ing last June, by deliberate resolution, in which your Lordship concurred, that " the dissensions and difterenccs in the (Jhurch . . . . are caused by the unfortunate introduction of innovations and " novelties in the ritual." The whole tendency of these innovations is to revert to medieval superstitions. Wo find in " The Christian's Manual " already referred to, tliis direction for the Friday bcf(»re (^ommunion : — " On this day you ought to make your self examination, (jolnr/, " if possible y tu the Church to (Jo no. There you will not only he in "■ the more immediate j^resence of God, but yoti will also bo able to do " it with more solemnity." p. 71). Are we really to understand that this is a kind of teaching which has your Lordship's approval 1 Wc can see in it nothing but a miserablo'Ccho of the Eomish superstition, based on the doctrine of Transubstantiation, and the assumed perpetual presence of ^Christ bodily, in the elements on the Altar. It is at anyrate diametrically opposed to the teaching of Christ : — MatthcAv vi. 6. ** Thou, when " thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy "door, pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father which "seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." IL Your Lordship next refers to the objections felt to the pre- sent use of the Mission Fund . We may say, in briefest terms, that wherever that fund is employed in promoting the diffusion of such Doctrines as are described above, no language can too strongly ex- l)res8 our conviction of its misappropriation. Nor can wo here v oii causeless introduction of language like tliis ; at this resuscitation of lof tio ^^ g^Yjtl,!"^ long buried grievance," viz., the mismanagement and misappropria- -„«>«n . . .^^ ^j ^^^ funds of the Church. We must bo permitted, in reply . . j^Q it|to deal very plainly with this subject, for wo are at a loss to com- ^ ot " in-fcrelicnd in what possiple sense this can be styled " a long buried ^ Viere sucli|' grievance." It has on the contrary been for years, and still is a '°^v^^* us trai^ff'^^^^®^^^ scandal, bringing on our Church an amount of discredit • -^t V " Ivhich can scarcely be overestimated. One who long held the re- inisi'^j • ^^^^ tlponsible position of Trustee of the Church's funds, is at this present |ger V^ .u^alistiW^ possession ' of a portion of that fund admitted by himself as ^ ^ t its meel^^^^ $47,000, and claimed as amounting to a much larger siim, of the ace the of the Toneous ,1 Christ ct, there ood ; or, trist vere "leading iving, he- i " at the iRhts upon ^ to follow to do this •ularly that of the Cross ,nd then an t^er ^v'orlcs ot ve the llohj YOurfti^geTS' l^ing custom Sacrament, [order that no 111 happen U ieive the Body to sin," &c. isedinmore the most pro loted, Hi n /( of which not even the interest has been paid for yean. We can assure your Lordship that it excited not a little suiprise and pain, when, at the meeting of the Synod in June last; we heard you nom- inate this gentleman as one selected by you to act on the Executive Committee, which among other duties, had to nominate the very Committee which was to deal with his own indebtedness. Nor can we, after so pointed a rebuke from your Lordship, leave unnoticed the fact, that this same gentleman, retained in the office of Chancellor of the Diocese, actually conducted the proceed- ings at the late Visitation, after every other layman had been ex- cluded; and guided the proceedings against eleven esteemed and blameless clergymen, for, amongst other things, advancing this most righteous charge against himself. We repeat, my Lord, that there has been, and still is a wide-spread feeling of dissatisfaction at this state of things ; the result of which has already been most injurious to our Church ; and is little calculated to stimulate tho^ liberality of its members. IV. In conclusion, we beg leave, very respectfully but earnestly to press on your Lordship the connexion between even seemingly tri- fling innovations in ceremonial, and the excesses and errors which have now reached so lamentable a height in England. We are sustained by the Synod of the Diocese, in pressing on your notice " the unfor- tunate introduction of innovations and novelties in the Kitual," as the notorious source of strife and dissensions. The Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto has long been noted for the zeal of its clergy in the introduction of a high ritual. These proceedings have ex- cited n^uch comment, and given offence to members of the Church within its own parish. But it is to be presumed that, in your Lord- ship's opinion, they have been restrained within legitimate limits. Nevertheless it is in this parish that the first attempt at the organi- zation of a Protestant Nunnery has been made; and while, as in many Bomish sisterhoods, this " Sisterhood of S. John the Baptist" aims at works of piety and charity, we read in its report for the past year ihat " The Altar linen used in the Church of the Holy Trinity is " washed and ironed at the House ; the bread for the celebration of " the Holy Communion provided, and Sister Sarah has the care of the " Altar which occupies one afternoon each week." Such " Altar" services ; providing the communion-bread spe- cially by the hands of a Sisterhood; and the " Altar" of a protestant Church prepared for its novel rites under " the care of Sister Sarah :" i it seems to us, can end here in no other results than those which have followed from the like imitations of the Monastic Institutions and I Sisterhoods of Borne in England. IStill more, it was one of the Clergy of the same Church of the] TOBC , "We can ) and pain, i you nom- Executive be the very ness. : Lordahip, ined in the he proceed- d been ex- ieemed and g this most that there at this state injurious to rality of its ut earnestly semingly tri- 8 which have .re sustained " the unfor- j Kitual," as lurch of the of its clergy gs have ex- the Church n. your Lord- iimate limits, it the organi- e, as in many Baptist" aims the past year ►ly Trinity is jelehration of ihe care of the on-bread spe- f a protestant Sister Sarah :" >se which have gtitutions and Church of the anothS Lslv ' "f 'V« «»mo parish th^T^rp*?"' thj Bloaaed «h«of the cLZmL^ft^^ S.r./scrSi5^„'^" /<""«' ganeies of the otilT^ l\ 5" P*™"* "ho has sJy^4 \, " " ">o- ^ e We the honour to be % Lord Bishop, ' • S.H. BLAKE, Dan. WlLS02f ^' S' i^AM^BELL G. H. GRIEBSOS; ' C. S, GZOWSKT ^ J. G. HODGms' w. magrath' Jas. PATTOJT, ' William POWIS KiVAs TULLY ' i ?• H- DIX0J< ^ J. GILLESPIE Toronto, 6th January, 1875 . > W ill: m ' e i I