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IN THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO.

TORONTO :
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TORONTO.

The Hon. Chief Justice W. H. Draper, C.B.

The Vebt Rev. H. J. Grasett, B.D., Dean of Toronto.
The Hon. Vice Chancellor Blake.
Prof. Daniel Wilson, LL.D.

Archibald H. Campbell, Esq., Peterborongh.

Bev. Bural Dean H. C. Cooper, B.A., Islington.

Lieut.-Golomel G. H. Grierson, Oshawa.

Lie VT. -Colonel C. S. Gzowski.

J. George Hodoinb, Esq., LL.D. ,

William Magrath, Esq., Credit.

Bev. F. a. O'Meara, LL.D., Port Hope.

Hon. James Patton, Q.C.

William Powis, Esq., Hamilton.

Bev. a. Samson.

Biv. Bural Dean A. Stewart, M.A., Orillia.

ErvAS TuLLT, Esq., C.E.

Honorary Secretary and Treasurer^ B. Homer Dixon, K.N.L.
Honorary Secretary^ John Gillespie, Esq.

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To THE Meh
I>BAB BbeTH

As me
and earnestJj
progress cott
we seriously i
the duties req

, The Arci
J-eply to the
Church of Eni
the danger yc
clergy and lait
the Beformati(
great peril to ^
laity to take ai
that "the dea
Church must b
the hearty am

interests are m<
assert their coi

wanting in the <
in maintaining
accordingly calj
whether the vei,
perilled by flueh

mt 4lnt# psocmtion of the mem of loronto.

To THE MeMBEBS of THE GhUBCH OF EMaLA2a>| IN THE PlOOESE

of tobonto.

Dbab Bbethben,

As members with you of our loved Church of England ;
and earnestly desiring her prosperity, and her growth and
progress commensurate with that of our young Dominion;
we seriously invite your attention to her present state, and to
the duties required of us on her behalf.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York in their recent
reply to the memorial signed by over 60,000 members of the
Church of England, say explicitly ; " there can be no doubt that
the danger you apprehend of a considerable minority both of
clergy and laity among us desiring to subvert the principles of
the Reformation, is real. " Having thus clearly recognized the
great peril to which the Church is exposed, they appeal to the
laity to take an active part in averting this deadly evil, stating
that " the desire of the Bishops to maintain the purity of the
Church must be greatly impeded wherA they cannot reckon upon
the hearty and efifectual co-operation of those laymen whose
interests are most intimately involved ; "and the two Archbishops
assert their conviction, that " the Bishops will never be found
wanting in the desire to act with the attached laity of our Church
in maintaining the real principles of the Beformation. " They
accordingly cs^ on our fellow*charohmen at home to consider
whether the very existence of (h« national church is not im-
perilled by svLoh danger ; and expr^"ff ftfl yjab \\\f* ♦'^^^ ^^«i^ °^

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*' a readiness everywhere manifested on the part of the laity to
use all the legitimate authority which is Tested in them, through
the election of Church-wardens ; and all their personal influence
to check the growth of Bomanising tendencies."

Here, therefore, is an appeal from the chief Pastors and
Bishops of the Church of England, calling for a united and
hearty co-operation, alike of Clergy and Laity, in the mainten-
ance of principles of vital importance, which they declare to us
are not only at stake, but are being deliberately attempted to be
subverted by unfaithful men professing to be ministers and
members of the Church. The dangers thus earnestly pressed
on every faithful member of the Church of England are no
novel or sudden innovations ; nor is it to be doubted that an
organised system has been pursued, which, though traced in its
inception, forty years ago, to the zeal of a group of devout men
at Oxford, some of whom were actuated by an honest desire for
a return to what they regarded as primitive principles, based on
tradition, or taught by certain fathers of the Church ; yet has
un'iuestionably ended in a deliberate conspiracy to undo the
great work of the Protestant Beformation. Nor must it be
overlooked that neither earnestness nor devoted zeal, is any evi-
dence of spiritual truth. If the advocates of ante-reformation
doctrines, rites and ceremonies, which have already led hun-
dreds of clergy and laity to renounce their allegiance to the
Protestant Church of England, are zealous ; the agents of the
Church of Bome are not less so. Doubtless many of their
fathers, when kindling the martyr fires at Smithfield, Hereford,
and Oxford, believed they were doing God service. Nor does
the Church of Bome any longer disguise her rejoicings
at the results. ^*The Catholic Register" a Boman Catholic
organ, in a recent issue, triumphantly sets forth the fact that
the number of converts to Bomanism in London alone, during
the past year, has been upwards of 2000 ; and it adds : "the num-
ber of converts " during the last few weeks increased very much.
Many, as we are informed, have joined us who are all but
Catholics ; and who had little need of instruction before they
made up their minds to take the final, the long defcn'cd, but the

all-needful

don there i

The writer

Church, of

Anglican Si

pliatic testii

the (Bomar

been prepar

from the Bii

accustomed

The rec
noble one.
free English
bishops, cler
science whicJ
open bible, ai
noblest and I
Beformation.
to maintain
that "our Be
no place in o
laity of our
principles of
Hqfoitnation h
Protestant Ch
like terms sug
Church of B(
organ of the I
Latimer, Hoo
the devoted se
lives, is spoke
testantism ;"
decencies of o]
work so great!
another orgax
formers by^^w
"onredeemed

the

all-needful step. From every Eitualistio congregation in Lon-
don there is a continual stream of converts drifting towards us.*'
The writer than goes on to enumerate the acquisitions by the
Church, of country clergymen, " ladies connected with the
Anghcan Sisterhood/' and others ; and then he adds this em-
pliatic testimony : " out of every twenty Anglicans who joined
the (Roman) Catholic Church, not less than seventeen have
been prepared for the step by the preaching they have heard
from the Ritualistic pulpits, and by the practices they have got
accustomed to in the Ritualistic Churches.*'

The record of the Reformed Church of England is a very
noble one. To one of her martyred bishops the nd.tion owes a
free English Bible ; to others of her martyrs and confessors,
bishops, clergy, and laity, are no less due the liberty of con-
science which followed in the wake of this precious boon of an
open bible, and all the blessings traceable thereto. Much that is
noblest and best in the history of England is traceable to the
Reformation. Yet while we find the two Archbishops uniting
to maintain " the principles of the Reformation," declaring
that " our Reformers acted wisely in allowing the confessional
no place in our Reformed Church," and urging "the attached
laity of our Church " to persevere " in maintaining * h^ real
principles of the Reformation :" the very words ProtestmU and
Rq/omtation have become hateful to perverted ears; and the
Protestant Church of England, is styled Anglo-Catholic, or by
like terms suggestive of some affinity to the so-called ** Catholic"
Church of Rome. In **The Church News'' — an acknowledged
organ of the Ritualists, — ^the work for which Cranmer, Ridley,
Latimer, Hooper, and others of the noblest and best among
the devoted servants of Christ and his Church, laid down their
lives, is spoken of as *' protestant heresy," and the "pest of pro-
testantism;" while, heedless even of the proprieties and
decencies of ordinary language, in their unholy zeal against a
work so greatly blessed of God, we find the " Church Times,** —
another organ of the same party, — ^anathematising the Re-
formers by^^whose labours Romish error was uprooted, as
« unredeemed villains," and " unmitigated sco undrels/

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But it id urged by some that here at least, in Canada, no
•noh danger is apparent ; or at any rate that it has not reached
such a height as to justify any action which may possibly cause
divisions. Exhortations to unity and peace are every where
pressed on us in reply to any appeal for action against insidious
Bomanising tendencies. To such we would reply, not Ughtly,
but in earnest sincerity, in the words of the Apostle James,
"the wisdom that is from above is ^i'<^ puref then peaceable,
gentle, and easy to be intreated." Let us remember, ere it be
too late, what the history of this movement in England has
been; how gradual have been the innovations, how specious
the pretexts for introducing what the two Archbishops designate
"improper changes in ritual and extravagance in doctrine."
An early morning communion paves the way for partaking of the
Lord's Supper fasting, next follow an unaccustomed vestment, a
novel adornment of the communion table, a turning of the back
upon the congregation, an elevation of the bread and wine, the
use of incense, and at length a hint of some "ineffable mystery"
in the symbols selected by our blessed Lord to typify his broken
body and shed blood, "once for all" sacrificed for us. Or again
with all the charms of music a novel doctrine is inserted in a
hynm, and the members of the Protestant Church of England
areinvited to sing: —

" Shall we not love thee. Mother dear,

Whom Jesus loves so well?
And in His temple, year by year, .,

Thy joy and glory tell ?"*

By such means, the beautiful, yet simple service of our Church
is transformed at length into a cumbrously elaborated imitation
of the mass. The "table" of the Lord is changed into an
"altar," at which the priest becomes the supposed offerer of the
victim; and the accessories suited to this ideal altar, which
our reformers wisely rejected, as they hoped forever, have been
reintroduced into the services of the English Church, and so
have helped to revive old superstitions, and lead many back to
the errors of the church of Borne.

* Hymns Ancient and Modern.

SucJi

gradually
stitions, I
sence undi
trme of tra
Bomish co]
the Bishop
commonly
first a little
amount of ^
they get uf
either li]dn<
to defend tl
or aggressic
by step, tiU
and scriptui
Bennet and
Church Unic
tise, and the
able from th
of the fathei
has been prei
four hundi-e(
they designa
thought a suf
compared to
indignant pre
in answering
confession" a
and (as all hi
sequences to
The Bishop o
George's, Hai
teaching in th
sober, cheerfu
to God throng
Father; and c
^t, for pardor

so
to

Such ara the means by which a new generation has been
gradually familiarised with ritualistic novelties and popidh super*
stitions, prepared for accepting a doctrine of the real pre-
sence undistingitishable to simple minds from a full-blown doc-
trine of transubstantiation, and finally for the restoration of the
Bomish confessional. " The real history of these cases," says
the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol in a recent address, *'is
commonly as follows. The general congregation, though at
first a little startled, excuse the excess in consideration of the
amount of work, and of the obvious earnestness that is shown,
they get used to the excesses and novelties, and they end in
either liking them, or so far tolerating them as to be prepared
to defend their minister against what they deem interference
or aggression." In this way the Church has been led on step
by step, till we see the faithless perverters of its simple services
and scriptural doctrines, such as Maconochie and Littledale,
Bennet and Purchas, sustained and defended by the "English
Church Union," while the rites and ceremonies which they prac-
tise, and the doctrines which they teach, are scarcely distinguish-
able from those of Bome. Nay, so wholly is the honest zeal
of the fathers of the Beformation forgotten, that a petition
has been presented to the convocation of Canterbury signed by
four bundled and eighty three clergymen, in favour of what^
they designate *' Sacramental Confession," and it has been
thought a suifioieut answer to show how small is this number
compared to the whole body of the clergy. Yet faithful and
indignant protests are not wanting. The Bishop of Manchester
in answering a memorial on the subject, speaks of " auricular
confession" as "most demoralising to the individual conscience,
and (as all history proves,) fruitful of the most mischievous con-
sequences to both priest and penitent, and to society at large."
The Bishop of London in replying to a similar appeal from St.
George's, Hanover Square, urges above all on the laity, "the
teaching in their families, and exemplifying in their lives, that
sober, cheerful piety, which springing from a heart reconciled
to God through Christ, lives in filial relation to our Heavenly
Father; and can go at once to Him through the one only Media-
tor, for pardon for every sin, and for grace to help in every time

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of need. There is no room for a confessor in a child-like re-
ligion like this."

The members of the Church in Canada are not wholly with-
out need of such an exhortation, for the confessional is not un-
kno>vD among ourselves ; and ministers of our church are more and
more asserting the character, and assuming the functions of
confessing and sacrificing priests. A clergyman of the Diocese of
Toronto has appeared as a delegate to the Provincial Synod in a
soutane, hitherto the characteristic garb of a Bomish Priest. Two
others of our clergy, one of them only recently ordained, presented
themselves at last Diocesan Synod in similar garbs, and one of
them with a large cross hanging at his breast, by what resembled,
if it was not, a rosary. Yet, such significant assumptions pass un-
rebuked. The members of Synod at the same meeting had put
into their hands a leaflet bearing an engraved figure of St. Law-
rence, with his gridiron in his hand, inviting them to attend a
meeting of the Guild of S. Laurence, the Martyr, at the Chapel
** of the Holy Cross," to hear ** a paper on guild work-" Proces-
sions and processional hymns are now of common occurence.
The offertory is converted into an offering. Not only is the
turning of the back to the people by the officiating minister, and
his bowing to the communion table on which the elements
are placed, not unknown in Canada; but also the more recent
novelty has been practised of placing the bread on the recipi-
ent's tongue, and pouring the wine into his mouth, without his
being permitted to touch the bread and cup. Surely, with the
example of England's recent experiences before us and with
such indications as our own warning, we may apply to ourselves
the remonstrance of our blessed Lord, ''Ye can discern the fiaoe
of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?"

It may be that we have not to feai' all the evils that the
parent church has already experienced. It is more likely — and
enough has already transpired to confirm its probability, — ^that the
GanacUan Church willlose a much larger number of members such
as sh^can ill spare, by their deserting her for other Protestant
oommnuions, than by their returning to the errors and supersti-
tions from which onr ohureh was delivered at the Reformation.

But if we

oommis8i(

army of tJ

articles hf

grow with

this young

the times.'

laity to CO-

the tide oi

says: "Ai

the xemedy

of the lait

matters of i

law than bj

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a time for tJ

doctrines of

thefoundatii

vestments, I

tables with ^

crosses; ele

pahn, or d

preached. C

seemingly i

"altar-clothi
genuflexion (
of the surpli
^ a decline!
must not los
services of o\
mation, for
even innocei
tious uses,
ceremonies *
" devised, an
"some enterei
** « eeal as
"were winkeo
"and more

But if we would have our Church prove herself faithful to the
oommission of her Divine Founder, and worthy of the nohle
army of the martyrs by wh^m her pure scriptural doctrines and
articles have been established and maintained, bo that she shall
grow with the progress and meet the ever-increasing wants of
this young Dominion, we must, indeed, '* discern the signs of
the times." The Archbishops of our Mother Church exhort the
laity to co-operate with their bishops and clergy in stemmin*;
the tide of error. The Bishop of London, in like manner,
says: "After all, grave as is the responsibility of the olergy,
the remedy of the evil complained of lies greatly in the handH
of the laity. In the present day developments of ritual and
matters of church discipline and practice are governed less by
law than by public opinion."

Shall we remain idle, or heedless of such appeals? Is this
a time for the cry of "peace! peace?" when the sacramentarian
doctrines of a thinly-disguised transubstantiation, — which lie at
the foundation of all the recent revival of medieval ceremonies and
vestments, bowings to the "altar," decorating the communion
tables with varying coloured coverings, with flowers, candles, and
crosses; elevating the cup ; receiving the bread on the crossed
palm, or directly into mouth, &o., are openly avowed and
preached. Can action be delayed any longer with safety ? Things
seemingly innocent in themselves such as floral decorations,
"altar-cloths," alms basins deposited with formal reverence and
genuflexion on the communion table, novelties in the fashioning
of the surplice, &c., become replete with danger as the first steps
in a decline from the practices of the church of our fathers. We
must not lose sight of the fact that the simple, yet becoming,
services of our church were purposely substituted, at the Befor-
mation, for the elaborate ceremonial of a worship in which
even innocent rites and devices had been turned to supersti-
tious uses. For, as the preface to our prayer-book says : some
ceremonies "at the first were of Godly intent and purpose
" devised, and yet at length turned to vanity, and superstition ;
**som£ entered into the Church by undiscreet devotion^ and such

they

zeal as was without-* knowledge; and for because
were winked at in the beginning^ they grew daily to
"and more abuses." Thette, therefore, were reiegted

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as we, acting in the spirit of our reforming fathers, must anew
reject such fruits of " undiscreet deyoticu. and zeal without know-
ledge." Only those, we are instructed, were retained which
although of human dcTice, it was thought good to retain "as well
for a decent order in the Church, (for the which they were first
devised), as because they pertain to edification, whereunto all
things done in the Church (as the Apostle teacheth), ought to
be referred."

In view of this we cannot lose sight of the Jesuitical
doctrines of "reserve" as now taught, which consists in the
introu action of Bitualistic novelties and Bomanising doctrinei^
by such slow degrees, that the minds of the young shall be
gradually trained to such innovations; and the whole be at
length recognized as part and parcel of the regular service of
the congregation. It is, therefore, the bounden duty of every
attached and faithful member of our church to resist even slight
and seemingly innocent innovations on its services, no matter
from what quarter they come.

The time has manifestly arrived in this country when it iB
incumbent on all who are true to the principles of the "pure and
reformed" Church of England to be up and doing. Let there be
the utmost care in the selection of faithful churchmen, alike as
churchwardens and delegates to our synods. Let there be a wicfQ
fidelity in advising with the Bishop as to the appointments to be
made when vacancies occur in our parishes. Let the Bishop be
promptly made aware of any novelties either in doctrine or
ceremony. Let us respond as a church to the exhortations of the
Archbishops of Canterbury and York, by showing such a readi-
ness to use all legitimate means to check the growth of Boman-
izing tendencies, as shall prove us worthy of the precious
inheritance which we have received from our reforming fathers^
and for which that Protestant Af ohbishop of Canterbury, who
gave the nation a free English Bible, perished at the stake.

' Let us indeed have union among all true Churchmen; not by
blindly neglecting the dangers which now beset our beloved
church, or extending a false charity to those who an imf«ithfiil
88 on which she ntteyly rejected all relation to the

iChurch of ;
[living and n
but let us ]
Jestablished a
iProtestant ti
teaching.

If such a u
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I Church of Borne, as a chnrch which ** hath erred not only in
(living and manner of ceremonies, but also in matters of faith :"
[but let us be united as one man to maintain the doctrines
■established at the Beformation, to preserve the simpUcity of our
■Protestant worship, a^d the purity of our Church's spiritual
[teaching.

If such a union is indeed to be efficacious, it must be aimed
itj as well as carried out, in no spirit of strife. We cannot
bray too earnestly that the influence of the Holy Spirit may be
(anew poured out on the Church with quickening power ; and
lay lead all her members to the acknowledgement of '* one
iord, one faith, one baptism." Above all, while each indivi-
lual must labour, as if under God, the preservation of our
)eloved Church in her purity, depended on his exertions ; let
18 ever keep in view the ApostoUc precept : " That there be no
Uvisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together
En the same mind and in the same judgment," Let us strive
ko banish all mere party spirit, and all differences that are not
[ooted in principle, and in our duty to the Church and her
livine Head. Let us, above all, pray earnestly that the Holy
Spirit may so enlighten our understanding, that we may act
I' with all lowliness and meekness, with longsufifering, forbearing
one another in love ; endeavouring to keep the unity of the
Spirit in the bond of peace."

)n behalf of the Association,

(Signed,) W. H. DRAPER, President.

B. HOMER DIXON,) „ , o , •
J mTJ.F.SPTT^^. '\Hony Secretaries.

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