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A Statement set forth by the Standing Committee for the Missionary Juris- diction OF Ottawa, and approved by the Presiding Bisiior. January, 1877. First. These Churches differ essentially as to what constitutes the Church of Christ. The " Church of England in Canada," as repre- sented by a large majority of its ministers and members, teaclies that the Church of Christ exists only in one form or order of chm'cli government, a three-fold ministry of Bishops, Priests and Deacons, based on the divine right of Bishops, who are the successors of the Apostles in then* apostolic office, and derive their authority from them by succession in an unbroken chain. On this theory, only such bodies of Christians as possess this order and succession, as the Eomisli and Greek Churches — corrupt though they may be, in doctrine and living — are parts of Christ's Church, The Reformed Episcopal Church protests against this theory as unchristian, in that it denies the claims of the Protestant evangelical churches around us. It holds that the true church consists of all who are joined to Christ by a living faith, and which, under varying forms of organization, is yet one in Christ Jesus. The claims of the Apostolic Succession, as above cited, this Church repudiates — holding to Episcopacy not as of djvine right, but simply as a very ancient and desirable form of church polity. Hence while the " Church of England in Canada " turns away from the Protestant Churches around us ; the Beformed Episcopal Church, with an equally historic Episcopate, seeks the fellow- sUp of. all Pro'^estant Evangelical Churches, exchanges pulpits with their mmisters imd partakes with them at the Lord's Table. Second. They differ concemingthe nature of the Christian minis- try. In the " Church of England in Canada " the Pi^esbyter is called a Priest, and the Ordinal contains this formula : " Eeceive the Holy ** Ghost for the office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now '< committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands ; whose sins thou ** dost forgive, they are forgiven, and whose sins thou dost retain, they *' are retained." The Beformed. Episcopal Church abjures this dogma as unscriptural and dangerous, leading to many superstitions ; strikes the word •* Priest," as applied to the minister, from its Ordinal and Prayer Book, and knows but one Priest, Chbist Jesus. Third. They differ as to the Soul's Coit/sbsion. '♦ The Church of England in Canada," as represented by the majority of her ministers, teaches that regeneration is inseparably conniscted with water baptism, and teaches in her Prayer Book that the intant baptized is thereby ** made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Eing- " doa of Heaven." The ^ei&tm&di Episcopal Church rejects tins as a ptnrersicHit of the Go0pd, and knows of but one regeneration through the Holy Ghost^ of which biipldsois only the sacrament, a symbol divinely apptmted. » Fo^O^ The " ChnxifBlK^f England in Canada," allows " altars " to be erected in her churches, and peraiits and suffers her clergy to teach that oil these " altars " the sacrifice c^ the body and blood of Cludst is offered up by the " priest." TlraBeformedEpiscopal Church condemns this dioctriue as a dangero otts^Bomish error j duhonoring to Christ, and irepugiuiat to ie^ true Protestants, prt&ibits the tomkig of the *« flowmmion table *' into an *! ** Matt. 9, 16; Mar. 2, 21; Pro* 7, 48; 9, 16; 10, 19; 1 Cor. 1, 10; 11, 18; 12, 26. As applied to the Christian Church the word invabublt mkanb a QUABniL oB BBXACH OF THB FB4CS betwcen thosc who profcss the name of Cteit. i \ I 1 As applied to tlie Christian ChuTcli tlio word never means a separa- tion in mere organization or form of cluirch government, for, as Paul says regarding these things, "there f re diversities of operation, — differ- ences of administrations, — govern me, its." (See 1 Cor., chap. 12), There is no schism between the jleformed Episcopal Church and the other evangelical churches united to,j'ether in the bonds of peace, there are merely lawful diversities of adsiInistration and government. The * 'Church of England in CtCnada" is in a condition of schism. 1st. Because there is a breach op the peace within her borders. The Eitualists and true Protestants never can exist side by side in the same organization, in the bonds of biotherly love. 2nd. Because she cuts herself of 'from all other evangelical branches of the Church of Christ on earth. The Reformed Episcopal Chuicli has withdrawn from the old organization to avoid this lamentab e condition of coujflict and error, believing that there can be no tr.io union [between Protestant and Ritualist, and that the true and Christian course to be taken is PEACEABLE SEPARATION "TO AVOID SCHISM. "The stipulations which are made in Baptism, as well as in Ordination, do only bind a man to the Christian faith, or to theifaithful dispensing of that Gospel, and of those sacraments of which he is made a minster ; so he, who, being convinced of the errors and corruptions of a church, departs from them, and goes on in the purity of the Christian Religion, does persue the trun^ efifect of his Baptism and hia Ordination vows. "—Bishop Burnet, on Art XIX of the Church of England. Free Press Printing and Publiehirg HouBe,«_Eljjin_Street, ^Ottawa. A / ^>M