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" disboliets " expressed in very plain terms in my last communica-
tion ; I take it to be so on two grounds, firstly, as the " Head of tho
Cliarch " iiero, to bring the erring brethren, as you believe ns to be,
back into the fold ; and secondly, to prevent others from going
astray, for yon may rest assured, my Lord, there are thousands no\v
attendants and even communicants in this diocese and throughout
the Dominion who think exactly as we do, and who sooner or later
will join us just as circumstances admit.

We know my Lord, that a certain class are very apt to attach
opprobrium to anj^one leaving the church they have been bom and
brought up in, and the dread of this may for a time dotor many
iVom ioining us at the moment. When I say thousands of
Churchmen think as we do. I include many of the Clergy also, and
your Lordship is candid enough to admit " that there are Bishops,
Priests and Deacons who hold these disbeliefs and their livings
also." This is a melancholy admission coming from a Bishop of the
Church, and one cannot otherwise than believe that it is only their
<< livings " that keep them in the Church — hence it must be admit-
ted that Bishop Cummins and his confreres certainly deserve the
highest credit and the sympathy of real Churchmen, or I should
say real Christians, for having preferred the faith to the " Flesh
Pots." We do not admit having left the Church, but tho Church
has left us.

The difference of opinion, however, among the Clergy has long
been well understood. For anyone who has attended any of the
Diocesan Synods must have heard various clergymen, in addressing
the Sjnod, refer to the party with whom they general 1}'' acted.
This speaks badly for the unity of the Church and clearly demon-
strated that some change is required. It may be said, why do not
the laity try to reform matters through the Synod ? I am not
aware, my Lord, how the laity are treated at the Synod of this dio-
cese, but my own experience as a delegate to the diocese of Toronto,
fully convinces me that the lay delegates as a rule are the nominees
of the clergymen or their f^nends, and I recollect distinctly on the
occasion of a lay delegate standing up in the Synod to speak on some
objectionable doctrine said to be taught at Trinity College, Toronto,
that he was fairly hissed down by the " educated Clergy." Again,
a rule existed there that anyone addressing the Synod should do so
from the platform where the Bishop presided. Now, as a rule,
laymen are diffident, and not public speakers, and it really did
appear as if this rule was made to deter them from expressing their
opinions.

You refer my Lord, to Bishop Cummins having at one time been
a Methodist Minister, and you are generous enough to aay, " I sup-
pose that he would have said that it was ' tl\e Lord who put it into
his heart* " I will not accuse your Lordship for a moment of en-
tertaining the idea that the ministrations of a «< Methodist Minister "
are not as acceptable to Almighty God as those of a Clergyman of
the Church of England. I could not possibly imagine your Lord-
ship so wanting in Christian charity, although 4he remarks might

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bear that infei-ence. I believe there is in this diooese, and oloee to
this City, one of your Lorduhip's Clergy, who was also a " Methodist
Minister " a gentleman highly esteomod in thin Community, and de-
servedly 80, and whose theology would not, I am sure, coincide with
the <* Priest of St. Albans."

You say, my Lord, that it has taken Bishop Cummins twenty-
eight years to find out that the Prayer fiook is f\ill of Poper}'.
Not necessarily so. Thousands of Churchmep have seen that from
their boyhood, but it was looked upon in a great measure as a dead
letter, and it is only lately that it it has ueen attempted to bo
brought into practice, and wo all seo the evil effects of it, and the
Roman Catholic body rejoice in the fact that bringing these object-
ionable matters into practice in the church has brought thousands of
converts to their fhith, and there is little doubt the " fteformed
Church " is not looked upon with favor by that body. It spoils the
harvest.

You give as a reason for Bishop Cummins' secession, « Because
the spirit of bigotry which is akin to that of persecution actuates
him. Pardon me for calling this a most unfortunate and damaging
reason on your Lordship's part. Bigotry, my Loi*d ! Will your
Loi^hip, or any consideraole number of your clerg}', consent to
meet on common grounds with the clergy of the other Protestant
denominations for any good Christian purpose? Certainly not;
'tis only some two months back when a large temperance demonstra-
tion took place in this city, and every Christian denomination in this
city was represented on the platform by its clergy, even to those of the
Boman Catholic clergy (much to their c?'^kl), but not one Church qf
England clergyman voas tftere / Is this bigotry, my Lord, or what is it ?

Then, as to persecution, in what category are we to class the late
excommunications by your Lordship's oi*ders ? Surely not clerical or
paternal solicitude— but " curses like chickens some home to roost."

The " Priest of St. Alban's " and your lordship also seem anxious
and almost express a doubt as to whether or no the members of the
Beformed Church are not " Drunkards and Infidels." 'Tis to bo
regretted that the " Priest of St. Alban's " had not visited the Court
Houso yesterday either at morning or evening service, and I fancy
his mind at all events would have been quite at ease on that score.

I feel that I ought to apologize to your Lordship for addressing
you anonymously. Ky only reason for so doing is, that I do not
desire or court public notoriety, and I feel that the matter under
discussion is of vital importance, and ought to be settled one way or
another.

I do not expect that your Lordship will notice my lettera
through the press, but perhaps you will be so kind on some evening,
at an early date; at the Bishop's Chapel, to endeavour to explain
away our «* disbeliefs," as stated in my prevous communication, and
rest assni'ed, my Lord, you would have a large and anxious audience.

I have the |ionor to be,

Your Loi-dship's obd't Servant,

SENEX.
Ottawa, 16th Mai-ch, 1874,

THE BEFORMED CUUROH.
To the Editor of The CUixen :

Dear Sir, — I obMrve a communication in the Free PreeeotlMi
ovenini^, aigned ''W. R. B.," calling on us "Schismatica" to purchase
u book atDurie's, called "Church Doctrine — Bible Truth," andstudv
it for our edification, believing that our knowledge of the Church
of England Prayer BoqJc is very limited. No doubt "W. R. B." has
studied this book and feels perfectly convinced that the Book of,
Common Prayer is far before the Bible as a guide, although the one
is the innpiration of Almighty God, and the other is in a great
measure concocted by designing '^Priests" to give them priestly or
sacerdotal power over the laity.

Wo are told in the New Testament to " search the Scriptures ;
for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which
testify of me," and Icannot find anywhere in the Bible that we are
referred to any Prayer Book or any other book the work of men's
hands, on which to ground our faith. We Schismatics are vain
enough to think that we are endowed with about as fair a share of
common sense as Chose who malign us, and we ieel that we are
quite competent to judge ibr ourselves, with the help of Almighty
God, as to what we have to do in this world to ensure our eternal
happiness in the world to come.

We don't want to be « logically shown" that black means
white or any other color.

We know there are many good parts in the Book of Common
i?rayer which we will retain and addf others as we deem fit.

We want no Pi-ayor Book with tables of "Saints* Days."
" Moveable and Immoveable Feasts/' " Vigils, Fasts, and Days of
Abstinence.*' We don*t believe that we shall be called to account in
another world as to whether we have eat fish or flesh on certain
days. We don't believe that ^ny clergyman, be he arch-
bishop, hishop, priest, or deacon, has the power either to forgive or
retain our sins, or empower others to do so. We don't believe that
those who do not believe in the Athananian Creed ** cannot be saved,"
and we do not believe that regeneration is inseparably connected
with baptism. We do not believe in auricular confession of our sins
to a priest and his absolution, and we do not believe that in partaking
of the Holy Sacrament we are " verily and indeed *' eating and
drinking the ** body and blood of Christ," nor do we believe in the
commination ordered to be used on the first day of Lent. All these
things iii*e clearly enioinod in very plain language in the Book of
Common Prayer, and if the words do not mean what they so clearly
express, let them be expunged, and then no book on "Church
Doctrine " w ill be required to explain them away. As Hia Lordship
Bishop Lswts kindly states we are more anxious to tell what we
disbeheve than what we believe, I wouki respectfully state for His
Lordship's information, as well as others, that we believe everything
expressed in the Apostles* Creed. We believe " no one can forgive
sins but €Nki." We look for salvation through Jesus Christ, the

sole Modintor betwoon God and man. We Iwlievo fhith without
works i» of no avail. Wo boliove we Mliould load ^odly, rij^hteous.
and sober lives, and in all things act an becomoH (ihristian men and
women, and to do our duty in that state of lifo unto which it hath
ploiwed God to call us.

Have you any fault to find, Mr. W. R B., with this synopsis of
our creed? Wo don't believe the author of "Church J>octrine"
could in any way improve it; at ail events we are satisfied with it,
and if we only live up to it — which we will with God's help endeavor
to do — wo believe we shall on the great day, when we must all give
account of the deeds done in the dody, stand quite as well in the
eyes of Almighty God as those who believe more than we do and
are apparently so anxious about our future welfare.

Many betiovo that the Koman Catholio faith is, that « out of
the Church of Kome" there is no salvation. I -don't think Catholios
believe any such thing; but the arbitrary iv,tiitiun now assumed by
one portion of the Church of England v u'li lead me to believe that
their faith was that out of the present Charch of England there was
no salvation.

Wo may not, in our branch of the present Church of Christ,
have quite as many fashionable people, attired in broadcloth, and
silks and satins, as the Church of England may boast of, but I am
sure we shall have quite as good and earnest Christians; and wo
shall endeavor to have clergymen who will find time to visit the poor
and humble as well as their richer brethren.

The considerate " Priest of St. Albans" has on more than one
occasion referred to our present pastor in terms anything but
becoming a Christian minister, and a serious charge seems to bo
that Dr. Gal^ighor is an American. I presume he had not tiio
choice as to where he would be born ; but perhaps the " Priest of
8t. Albans" believes that when our Saviour said to the Ai)ostlos,
" Go ye forth into all the world and preach the Gospel unto every
creature," ho only meant that their successors should bo the clergy
of the Church of England, or Americans specially excluded ; and
the poor American Presbyterian missionary, who has just been
chopi)ed to pieces by a set of savages in Mexico, was perhaps served
right, as — according to the " Priest of St. Albans — he had
business there.

I remain, youre, truly,

LUTHEiill
Ottawa, March 18, 1874.

THE EEFOEMED CHUKCU. ,

2'o the Rt. Ekv. Db. Lewis, Bishop of Ontario :

My Lord, — In my last I respectfully laid boforo you how-
desirable it would be for your Lordship at your early convouionoe,
at your own chapel, to explain away the "disbeliefs" of those who
have joined the " Reformed Episcopal Church" assuring your Lord-
«hip of a " large and anxious audience."

I Fe^rret your Lordeihip has not condescended to accede to tlie
suggestion, especially at this particular season of the year, the
approach of Easter, when so many ere supposed to be preparing
themselves to carry out the command of our Saviour: " I>o this in
remembrance of me," and it would have been well to satisfy their
nvinds on so important a matter, and possibly bring some of the
sti'ay sheep back into the fold. That is your duty, my Lord.

But it would almost appear, i'rom your Lordship's letter to the
Bev. Dr. Coixlner, a Unitarian clergyman, publitibed in the Mon-
treal OaaeUe, that you are more desirous of his good opinion and
those around him, than the people of your Lordship's Diocese.

You are pleased to say, niy Lord, that "no clergyman of this
city has, to my knowledge, 'repelled' anyone from Holy Commu-
nion,' while you at tde same time state that you instructed your
curate to see a certain j3er«<wi, one of your congregation, which he did
and " expressed the hope that as he had left the Church he would
not come to holy communion next liord's day." If this is not
" repelling," my Loixl, I should really like to know what it is.
This/>er8<m, it would appear, was a communicant, and had he pre-
sented himself at the altar railing to receive communion, 'tis b/oyond
a doubt he would have been " repelled," and why ? Simply, because
he had stated that in receiving the holy communion, he did not
believe he was " verily and indeed receiving the hwly and blood qf^
Chritit," and this in a Protestant Episcopal Church. Except as
regards " notorious evil livers," the impression has been that the
communion of the Church of England was open to all who «* truly
and earnestly repent of their sins, are in love and charity with their
neighbors, and intend to lead a new life, following the command-
ments of God, &c.," but it would appear it is not the intending com-
municant who is to judge between himself and his Maker as to his
being in a fit state of mind to approach the holy table — the Priest
or Bishop is to be the judge. If so, why not adopt the confessional
&ii once ?

But, my Lord, rumour hath it, that a letter ie in existence or
was said to have emanated from your Lordship, to your Curate,
oflScially notifying the person that he was excommunicated. 1 do
«ot vouch for the correctness of this myself, but the authority I have
it from is good.

But, my Lord, if there has been no act of excommunication in
the city, how is it in Hazeldean, in your Lordship's Diocese, v/here
the Kev. Mr. Mulvaney, under his own hand published a letter ip
the effect that he had excommunicated Messrs. J no. Clarke and J no.
Hodgins with your Lordship's orders, given Mr. Mulvaney in the
presence of a churchwarden.

Has a " Priest " the power to excommunicate while it does not
form a part of a Bishop's duty. There is certainly something wrong
in this matter one way or the other.

Eeferring, my Lord, to the Rev. Dr. Cordner'a reply to your
Lordship, it would appear, it is not " churchmen " alone, who have
noticed the innovations in the Church during the past thirty yeurs^

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for Dr. Cordner in very plain tei-ms, states or implies that from the
changes that have taken place during that period, it woald not
surprise him if excommunication wui put in practice.

In fact, my Lord, the feeling among a very large portion of
the laity, is that the Clergy have been and are working to get the
people in their power, so that they may lead them in things tem-
poral as well as spiritual, and in this advanced age they most cei-
tainly will not succeed, but mo^t signally fail.

Your Lordship's most obedient servent,

SENEX.
Ottawa, 23rd March, 1874.

[We must admit we were surprised to see a letter from His
Lordship in the Montreal Gazette, under the heading, '< The Alleged
Ottawa Excommunication," and giving the public of that city to
understand that no excommunication had taken place in Ottawa.
He says — " I do not wonder at your being deceived by the false and
sensational telegrams sent to the press from this city, and perhai^
you do not know that to issue excommunications is no part of a
bishop's duty." As all these telegrams which His Loi'dship charac-
terizes as ''false and injurious," give the Citizen as their authority,
we must, in justice to ourselves, assure our readers that the infor-
mation was furnished us by a leading member of Rev. Dr. Jones'
congregation. It was brought to us with a request that we would
publish it, and we had no doubt at the time that the information
was supplied us with the sanction, if iiot at the instance of Bishop
Lewis. Coming, as it did, from such a respectable source, we must,
with all the respect due to the position of His Loi'dship, adhere to
the belief that Mr. J. B. Steacy was formally excommunicated from
the Anglican Church. If Bishop Lewis wishes to publicly deny the
correctness of onr information, we are authorized to give the name
of our informant, with whom we will then leave His Lordship to
settle the matter.

While on this subject, we may also refer to a statement which
has been extensively circulated to the etlect that our report of the
>ermon delivered in the Chapel of Ease by Bishop Lewis was inac-
curate, especially in that part of it in which His Lordship was
reported as saying of the English Church — " It was the church of
the educated wherever established." For confirmation of the cor-
rectness of our rejwrt we refer any of our readers who may he
interested in the matter to His Lordship, Bishop Lewis, who saw
the report before it was published, and said that it was substantially
correct, though not absolutely verbatim. — ^Ed. Citizen.]

"FATHER IGNATIUS."

■To tite Editor of the Citizen.

Dear Sir, — I have been looking forwai-d with some anxiety
for this "learned Pundit's" authority which he promised in hte
wonderful and pompons communication of 19th instant, to prove
that the faith ot the Church of England consisted in the belief •*

the " Apostles, Nicene and Athanasian creeds — the Divine authority
" of the Apostolic succession — regeneration in baptism — real pre-
" senco— auricular confession — the seven sacraments — prayers for
'< the dead — invocation of saints and angels, and observance of the
« fasts and festivals of the Church."

I imagine His Lordship Bishop Lewis or even the " Priest of
St Albany " will scarcely endorse the faith of this learned disciple
of Ignatius Loyala, of whom he is no doubt a lineal descendant.

I ab«erve' " Ignatius " saj^s he will "endeavor" to give his
authority, and perhaps his endeavours have not yet met with suc-
cess. VVill he permit me to suggest to him Den's Theology or a
" Eioman Catholic Missal " as perhaps the best authority he can find
on the subject.

As Ignatius suggests, we are perfectly aware that the book of
Common Prayer unfortunately contains many of these points of hia
faith, but they have until lately been attempted to be taught in the
Church of England, and we boldly assort that no clergyman of that
Church, even in this deo:enerate ago, dare, from the pulpit, attempt
to promulgate or defend any such doctrine.

Notwithstanding that we are accused by Bishop Lewis, the
"Priest of St. Albans," and by the learned " Ignatius," of being of
" doubtful education," we feel that the Almighty has ,^iven us a fair
share of common sense— at all events quite sufficienl to know Pro-
testant teaching from Eoman Catholic — and we ha^ e moral courage
enough' to stand forward and defend those principles which King
William fought for at the Boyno, and to show an arrogant and de-
<$igning priesthood that we will not imperceptibly be di'awn into
Jloman Catholic practices, or allow our children to be taught Eoman
Catholic doctrine, to suit their selfish ends.

We may not all have had the advantages of a high education
as " Ignatius " and his friends assume to have, and it's God's bless-
ing that we have not, if we were not able to turn it to better account
than they seem to do.

We were never in our eary days taught the doctrine now
attempted to be lorced upon us. Many of the churches called Pro-
teetant and Episcopal we can scarcely recognize as such. The
whole sjBtem is repugnant to our feelings, and although we love and
revere the church of our fathers, we do not and cannot recognize the
present Church of England as that church, and all the old Prayer
Hooks or books on "Church Discipline" or ancient authorities,
'' Ignatius " or any one else can produce, will never make us believe
in priestly absolution and all the other absurdities attempted to be
forced down our throats.

As to Bishop Lewis' threats of excommunication, and being
deprived of all the privileges and rights of the church, we attach
just that importance to them they merit. They fall very lightly on
us, and we oelieve the day will come when Uis Lordship will regret
the course he has pursued.

The New Testament tells us " Grod is no respecter of persons,
Imt in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness

is nceoptocl with hira." We piHi.fer this theology oithor to the
Bishops or that of Ignatius, or even the " Priest of St. Alban's,"
who, wo are informed, finds great consolation in kissing the Cross
on his stole when he enrobes himself.

We "few men of doubtful education" have no intention of revi»imj
the Prayer Boojc, as " Ignatius" suggests, unle>8 ho considers apply-
ing the scissors to it revising it. We wish and intend to take out
of it everything which we do not believe and which we know
nine-tenths of "churchmen" do not believe, which wo were never
taught to believe, and which we don't want to believe, for the good
and sufficient reason that we do not believe it is founded on Holy
Writ or has any foundation but priestcraft.

There are in this Dominion thousands of Orangemen members
of the Church of England. 1 would appeal to them at the pre-ient
crisis to come forward and respectfully, but firmly tell the Bishops
and Clergy of the Church that they repudiate the innovations and
''remnants of Popery" attempted to be introduced into the Church,
that they protest against the teaching such as "Ignatius" would
defend, and caution them that unless these things are put right, that
the Church of England will cease to be looked upon as a Protestant
Church.

LUTHER II.

Ottawa, 24th March, 1814.

"A VOICE FROM THE BACKWOODS."

To the Editor oj Tlie Citizen.

. Sir,— Under the above « Nom de Plume" I find « Senex" is
brought to account in your issue of yesterday, for the doctrine advo-
cated in his various letters, and which have so generally been
approved of by the Protestant community.

The writer is, without doubt, one of the fraternity who find
the ground going from under them, aAd are on the retrograde
movement. The style and argument is so apparent that it cannot
be mistaken.

This " Defender of the Faith" is candid, at all events, and
makes an admission for which I thank him, but which, I am afraid,
a large portion of the members of the Church of England will not
He says : " Can < Senex' name the time when our Prayer Book was
UsB Catholic than now, or can he show when or wliere our Church calls
itad/ Protestant?" So, according to this learned backwoodsman,
English Churchmen are not Protestants!! This will l>e news,
indeed, to thousands, and there surely will be a clearing out in the
various Orange Lodges.

Has this backwoodsman ever read the oath taken by the
Sovereigns of Great Britain and Ireland on their accession to the
throne? If he has not he had better do so, and, I fancy, he will
change his mind on this subject.

The writer also says: "Senex" makes it a gi'ievance "that
Roman Catholics worship and kneel down and cross themselves in

an Engliflh Church in Toronto," this perversion is worthy of a
'•Catholic (not Roman) Jesuit." "Senex^' stated what he had seen
in Toronto with no desire to sneer at the faith or form of worship
of the Koman Catholic, but to show that the form of worship fol-
lowed in the RitualiHtic churches so much resembled that ot the
Church of Rome, that Roman Catholics mistook these churches for
their own.

'Tis to be regretted that this backwoodsman coiild not find it
convenient to attend next Sunday at the Court House, and he would
then see whether we "good, staunch Protestants worship sitting in
high-backed pews with ducked heads during the prayere." I take
it he might derive some little benefit by his attendance, if it were
only in the shape of Christian charity, of which bo seems woefully
deficient. One thing at all events is not practised among us, we
don't sing our prayers or get men in dirty white nightgowns to
sing them for us.

Will this worthy backwoodsman, if he is a " priest," which I
more than suspect, dare to teli his congregation ih&t fie /um tfie powers
duly commissioned by our Saviour, to forgive or retain sins, or tell
them that, in receiving the Holy Communion, they are " verily and
indeed" eating and drinking the body and blood of Christ? He
knows well he dare do no such thing, but he and such as he are
trying hard to get the laity schooled to such a belief, and if they are
not stopped they will succeed in instilling such doctrine, which
certainly is tiot Protestant, into the minds of our children through
the Sunday School — but I forget, " Bockwoodsman " is not a Pro-
testant, he is a member of the "Catholic Church of England."
" O tempora, O mores."

" Senex " never wrote any such thing as " that the thirty-nine
articles were only given fci* the guidance of the clergy." What he
did say was, that they wore not taught or read in Sunday Schools
or families and were looked upon more cm a guide to the clergy t/iatt
anything else. *

As to the " Apostolic Succession," it is such an absurd hallu-
cination that I do not deem it worthy of notice, but admitting for
argument sake, that it dods exist in this so called •' Catholic Church
of England," where did it come from? Why, introduced through
the instrumentality of an Apostate priest of the Church of Rome, a
bantling worthy of the source from whence it sprung.

The next time this " voice from the back woods " favors us with
its bWeet sounds will he be pleased to stick to the truth and not mis-
quote to suit his miserable argument.

I do not know that " Senex " will thank me for taking his part
in the matter, as he has pretty well shown that he can take his
own part, but knowing he is absent from the city, I have thought
well to do so.

I observe also in last evening's issue a long water-gruel epistlo
from my friend " Ignatius " m the Apostolic Succession. It is
really not worth answering, it is perfect twtuldle worthy of a village
schoolmaster. There is one point, however, which may be noticed,

that, having reference to ordination by dissenters. " Ignatius " U
kind enough to say. " Do they not rather send for two or ihrco
pastors who have been ah'eady oi-dained t» their way to do what they
want?"

It is to be presumed from the woi-ds tw, their way being in italics,
that " Ignatius " has not much faith in it, and does not recognize
them as successore to the Apostles, still a much greater man, I take
it, than "Ignatius" does recognize them jis "Fellow laborers and
fellow servants in the Gospel," and opens his pulpit to them and
invites them in, viz: — The Archbishop of Canterbury — what, there-
fore, becomes of all your logic learned, Ignatius ?

And it must not be forgotten, " Most Lwirncd Pundit," that
Bishop Cummins is what you would call a succ* ssor to the Apostles
with all the necessary power— so our minds may be quite easy on
that score, if we had any scruples. " I will wiite thee again from
Philippi."

LUTHEB II.

Ottawa, 25th March, 18*74.

u^jt-'i.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTEEBURY.

To the Editor of Tue Citizen :

Dear Sir, — In your issue of last evening, a writer under the
signature " True " tried very hard to make it appear that the state-
ment made by Mr. Gallagher (as he is polite enough to call the
Rev. Gentleman), to the effect that the Archbishop of Canterbury
had declared himself a " fellow laborer and fellow servant in the
Gospel " with non-conformist clergymen and thrown the pulpits of
the Episcopal Church open to them, as a " hoax," and calls on us to
believe it as euch on his simple ipse dixit. As he says ho has seen
it referred to as such in an English paper he occasionally reads, but
he does not state what that paper is, no doubt the "wish is the
father of the thought " with the writer. Perhaps he has read it in
some " High Church " organ which does not approve of such good
news being promulgated for the benefit ot low churchmen or noncon-
formists.

The writer states he is a diligent reader of English newspapers
and has not come across the statement made by the Rev. Mr.
Gallagher, except in the manner he has told it — as a hoax. Well,
1 can produce half a dozen gentlemen who read it in a Scotch paper,
copied from an English one as no hoax, but a reality, and none pf
us were " startled by the statement " but looked upon it that Dr.
Tait was simply making the world aware that he was a good
Christian and no bigot.

And we must have some more substantial proof of it being a
hoax before we or the public can be ex|)e(*ted to swallow " Trucks"
wonderful discovery, and from the narrow minded style evinced in
his production, we would require proof beyond him to convince us,
at all events, that it is a hoax.

T am sure Dr. Gallagher and his friends must feel under deep
obliffation to this self-sufficient gentleman, for his impertinent advice
to be more cautious in our statements ; when we want advice, I
am sure it will not be to one of the writer's qualifications we will
apply to and it will bo time enough for him to give advice when it is

asked for.

Pray don't be alarmed, Mr. " True,' even the displeasure of the
Archbishop of Canterbury would not deter us from the course we are
pursuing; we appeal to a much higher power than even an Arch-
bishop as to the recitude of our acts— our motto is— JJew est qui

regit omnia. ,. , . ■■ j >-,

Was it a hoax, Mr. "True," our glorious and good Queen receiv-
ing the Holy Communion in the Presbyterian Church at Crathie ?
or was it a hoax that a certain high dignitary in the English Epis-
copal Church took an active part at the meeting of the Evangelical
Alliance lately held in New York, and partook of tno llul^ Com-
munion at the hands of a non-conformist minister.

Mr " True " must have been awi\illy "startled " on reading that
in his " English nowspapera." Still, the world goes on, and the
Archbishop of Canterbury did not excommunicate either of the delin-
(^uentH, and I don't think Bishop Lewis would undertake to "reiiell"
either of them from the Communion in his chapel.

LUTHER II.
Ottawa, 26th Mai*ch, 18T4.

THE REFORMED CHURCH.

To the RiGHt Rev. Dr. Lewis, Bishop of Ontario :

My Lord, — I find in the Church Herald of Toronto, the 26th
inst., the following : —

A NOTE FROM OTTAWA.

"The Rev. H. Pollard writes from Ottawa, March 20th, that
'absurd telegram' about excommunication had misled us in the
Church Herald of ^arch 12. 'There is not a word of truth in such
a report,' says our correspondent, which we are truly happy to pub-
lish it He continues : "I presume the report arose from my sug-
gesting to a member of the congregation the propriety of his
absenting himself from the Holy Communion, partly in conse-
ijuence of his having announced to the Bishop and myself his inten-
tion of joining the new sect unless his Loixiship would alter the
Pray&r Book to suit his particular views. I may add that of the
few that have left us, he is about the only one who has been a com-
municant.' "

It is to be regretted your curate should so far forget himself as
to publish statements which are so far from being correct. With
regard to the excommunication, will the reverend gentleman please
send to the H&rald Your Loi'dship's note relative to the "Steacy '
mattor, and then we shall see if it is excommunication or not ; but
what of the Hazeidean affair ? There can be no doubt of the

excommunication there, after what has appeared in the Press of this
city, and of which the flev. Mr. Poliaixi cannot pretend tc plead
ignorance.

With regard to the "persou'' above referred to being "about
the on\y communicant who has left," your curate must know better,
1 can without difficulty name twenty-five communicants who have
left and joined the " Koformed Church," and one of them a com-
municant in the Church of England before your Lordship or any of
the clergy now in the city were in holy orders.

If your curate would send one of his emissaries to the Beformeil
Chui-ch on Easter Sunday, I am inclined to think he will find more
communicants than he would care to report to the Church H&rald
for publication.

I observe, my Lord, that a correspondent of the Citizen has
published a statement to the eifect that the Archbichop of Canter-
bury has not opened his pulpits to Nonconformist clergymen, as
claimed by an extract published here fram an English newspaper,
but, so far, we have a statement on each side of the question — one
that it is so ; another, that it is a "hoax" — so that we must wait for
further information before any correct decision can be come to in
the matter ; but, my Lord, I am charitable enough to pray and ho|)e
that the Archbishop is the good Christian that tne extract in ques-
tion would make him. out to be.

I cannot believe, my Lord, that you feel that your ministration
or that of any of your clergy are more acceptable at the throne of
Almighty God, than that of any of the Noncomformist clergymen
of this city, or that the Almighty has commissioned you and np^t
them. The idea seems repugnant to common sense, and would
make the Almighty appear not that impartial being we, as Christ-
ians believe him to be, and no respector of persons.

I am given to understand, mj Lord, that on Sunday evening
next it is your intention to some extent to touch on the "disbeliefs
of the Reformed Church." 1 hope it is so, and that Your Lordship
will be able to shiaw that there was no breach of chui'ch discipline in
Her Majesty the Queen and the Dean of Canterbury joining with
Nonconformist clergymen in religious observances in Noncon-
formist churches, and receiving the Holy Communion at their
hands ; but that it is a great crime deserving of excommunication
for humble men in this city to be guilty of any such breach, and, as
Your Loixiship has said, "They will be inadmissable to the Cdm-
ibunion, and deprived of all the Privileges and rights of the
Church."

My Lord, when we shall one day appear before the Throne of
Almighty God to give an account of our stewardship in this world,
ns we most assuredly shall do, do j'ou, my Lord, believe that your
position will be any difterent from that of Non-conformist clergy-
men or laymen ? Bo you believe there will be any diflfei*ence
between the beggar and the Queen ? I trow not. Then why should
there be any ditterence in church discipline in this world betweou
the Queen and the humblest of her subjects.

Ifyoa are right in your church discipline; why has not the
Archbishop of Canterbury "repelled" or excommunicated Hor
Majesty and the Dean of Canterbury.

I see, my Lord, that several of our opponents refer to us as
*<men of doubtful education" — tailori^, bakers and Custom llouso
officers. We have yet to learn that pure religion, virtue and
morality belong exclusively to those who assume to tbomsolves tho
tiile of the "upper class." "We are not ashamed of our rcjcoi-ds, and
if personality' is to take the place of reason and argument, we would
rather not descend to it j but, rest assured, my Lord, we are quite
able to defend ourselves, and also to show to the public that those
who would malign and reproach us are not quite the incarnation of
morality and virtue they would have the ontsido world believe, and
that not confined to the laity. The greatest man who ever trod
this earth was a carpenter.

In your published address with reference to the contemplated
revision of the Prayei* Book in Ireland, you are pleased to say " I
hope it will not be carried out, as the result will be a disruption."
Are we to understand from this, my Lord, that you prefer a corrupt
temporal state of things in the Church to a purer faith ?

We hear in every quarter this Church matter discussed, and we
hear the clergy and others asking, who is Sonex? and who is
Luther ? ai/^ ,vho is Ignatius ? and such questions. Now these are
questions of Lot tho slightest consequence, wo are willing to admit
they are all three vei-y common place individuals; but what is
wanted is a refutation of what they have advanced if incorrect, and
it is to be hope your Lordship will go fully into it on Sunday
evening.

Your Lordship's

Obedient servant,

SENEX.
Ottawa, March 28th, 1874.

THE KEFOEMED CHUECH.

To the JEditor of the Citizen.

I did no*; intend to discuss the Church question any further, but
my two admirei'8 " A voice fi*om the Back Woods," and ", Ignatius,"
persevere in their absurdities, and I feel that I must have a parting
word with them at all events. As regards the smaller fry, they are
not worth noticing.

nents

If, however, it is any consolation or comfort to all my oppo-
8, 1 am quite willing to be considered " ignorant," " self-con-

ceited," and any other polite appellation they may choose to apply
to me;" they must feci their case a weak one, when they dpscendod
to personalities, and they should recollect the old adage "People
who live in glass houses, should not throw stones."

The two correspondents above named, have given the public to
understand the faith of the Church of England to be —

^•iSiT^

Belief in the three creeds, apostolic succession, regeneration in
baptism, real presence, the seven sacraments, prayow for the dead,
invocntion of saints and angels, the fasts and festivals of the Church,
and hist, though not least, confession and priestly absolution.

It must bring a smile to the face of a Roman Catholic to hear
any one admit his belief in the above, and call himself a Protestant.

But I must apologise, neither '< Ignatius," nor « The Voice" are
Protestants, they are meml)ors of the " Catholic Church of England,"
and "Ignatius" says "She has never been looked upon as a Protes-
tant Church by any of her true members, and she certainly never
has laid any claim to that ambiguous title."

Now, these are plain words, and If true, would, 1 am sure,
astonish not a few " Churchmen," but fortunately they are not true
— Witness the Soverign's oath on accession to the throne ; but a
case moi^ to the point, is the ♦• clergy i-eservo" question in this
Canada of ours. A certain portion of the lands of the crown were
set apart for the benefit of a « Protestant Clergy," and hard indeetl
did the Church of England fight to prove she was the on'y Pfotestant
Churchy and attempte<i to deny the right of any of the other Pro-
testant sects to participate in the distribution, and when the com-
mutation took place, she got the lion's sharo as being a part of the
« Protestant Clergy."

What saj' you to this learned "Ignatius," 'tis a weakness
among the " Apostolic Successors " to be fond of money, and they
even allow themselves to be called a " Protestant Clergy," in order
to got a share of the **■ Flesh Pots," and pretended that they were
the only "Protestant Clergy," in order to get the whole, and now,
according to this "learned pundit" "Ignatius," they are not Pro-
testants, and never were. Most learned <» Ignatius," a second
Daniel !

What a truly Christian Church "Ignatius'' would make the
"Catholic Church of England" to be, and of which he is so worthy an
ornament. In his last letter he says, with reference to the Apostolic
succession : — "It is quite plain that any community which is without-
this succession is not a rightly constituted brancli of the Church of
(Jhrist; if it is governed and taught by self-appointed ministers, it
has no sanction whatever from the Word of God. To speak in the
mildest terms possible, it is entirely doubtful whether any acts of
those self-appointed ministers are acceptable to God, and it is
entirely doubtful whether the members of that community ever can
receive the Sacrament." There is a specimen of Christian charity
for our Non-conformist brethren. — "Who art thou that judgeth
another man's servant ?" And again, this worthy and "learned
pundit" says: "From what experience 1 have had of Protestants, !•
am sorry to say that I have seen but few who w luld listen to any-
thing like reason. .

This is the style of champion the Church of England requires
at the present moment, and who is undertaking to teach the com-
munity theology and what real ChristianiW^ is ? Kumor says he is,
one of the "successors to the Apostles." If so, a woi'thy speciii^ou,
truly.

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Pray, learned "Tgnatins," enlighten ns where these epistles of
your patron Haint, "St. Ignatius," are to be found —to thoTrallians —
to the Philadelphians— to the Smyrneans— to St. Polycarp ? We
<lon't find them in our Protestant Bible. What is the other little
book you are now extracting fi'om ? Is it Butler's "Lives ot the
Saints?"

'Tis sad when you find people glorying in their shame, and this
seems to be the case with reference to the parading of what they
call a contradiction of the extract relative to the Archbishop of
■ Canterbury holding out the hand of brotherly love to non-conformist
clergymen. 1 fancy the world would believe they would have more
to glory over had the extract been well founded. I gave it as I
found it in an English paper. But what of Her Majesty the Queeu
and the Dean of Canterbury's grave offence of receiving communion
}it the hands of non-conformist clergymen ? There was no " hoax "
about that, but none of the «< Defeiidors of the Faith " have said a
word on the subject : surely they ought to bo excommunicated.

We all understand that at the Keformation certain matters of
faith were left in the Church to ease or pacify the minds of the
masses ; but can you show me that they have been put in practice
in the Church of England until of late years, when they are
attempted to be clandestinely introduced ? The watchword of the
Beformers was *'Beason and Bevelation."

" Cranmer " has been quoted against us by one writer, but his
^final view8 are well understood. He says, relative to the " Eenl
Presence " : — " My belief is, that the force, the grace, the virtue,
and the benefit of Christ's body that was crucified for us, and of His
blood that was shed for us, be really and efi'ectually present with all
them that duly receive the sacrament ; but all this I understand of
the spiritual presence of which he saith : " I will be with yon unto
the world's end." Again, he says, "I say Christ is spiritually and
by grace, in His supper, as He is where two or three are gathered
together in His name — meaning that with both he is spiritually, and
with neither corporally. The wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot
err therein."

This' is the doctrine we of the Eeformed Church believe in, and
is neither " transubstanliation" nor — as the Church of England
catechism says — " the body and blood of Christ, which is verili/ and
indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper."

But, again, suppose for argument sake I admit what it is said
the belief of the Reformers was, so to have really been. They were
only men like on^elves, with the same passions, failings and weak-
nesses ; and it is not claimed that they or the church which they
founded wore inflEillible, and it is very certain that these bend's were
not practised. I was born and brought up in the Church of Eng-
land and certainly was never taught these doctrines, and there are
thousands like me. It may be said then, what have we to complain
of? We have this to complain of and object to, that they form part
of the prayer book of the church which they should not do, but
should be expunged ; and that certain of the clergy are doing there

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utmost to ititrodace these objectionable portions into practice tind
teach them to our children, and for no other puiTKwe, but to mako
themselves imjwrtant and gain power over the laity.

I thunk " Boirk woodsman " (ir his sympathy, but I would
ai»sur« him 1 am in no trotibU whatever, relative to the matter in
question, my creed now is what it always has been, nothing more or
nothing less, and we of the Reformed Church have no desire to
interfere with the creed of others, if they will only leave us alone.

A writer on the church question who signs " Vigilans " in the
Times, says, " As a churchman of the advanced school, allow me to
say in reference to recent correspondence, that 1 admire the candour
which prompts those who don't accept the plain doctrines of the
Church of England, to leave her, the people who really act a
dishonest part are those who disbelieve these doctrines and remain
in. When the non-conformists wont out in 1662 they did so bectauso
thej' were honest men who saw that the church was not Protestant,
and that they must seek Protestantism if at all, outside " — the latter
io exactly the grounds on which we have left the " Catholic Church
of England."

In fiishop Lewis* printed address, he says, " There are bishops,
priests and deacons today who hold these disbeliefs and their livings
as well. The laity in large numbers disbelieve a great deal that
they ought to believe, and no one attempts to prevent them."
Accoi-ding to "Vigilans," these parties are acting " a Jishoneat part.''
We do not believe in two faiths in one church, we can respect the
conscientious Boman Catholic, but we cannot respect those who call
themselves " Priests " of the Church of England, and preach a faith
which is not her faith and is not Protestant.

Outsiders may call us by any appellation they like, but it will
not affect us in the slightest degree. We have taken a stand and
we mean to stick to it, and we have no doubt as to our success with
the help of God. There is room and plenty of work for us, and we
"will try to assimilate our church to the one in which we have been
brought up, and the doctrine which we have been taught from our
earliest years, and which we know to be Protestant.

Any who wish to join us we will be happy to receive, and those
who desire to remain where they are we wish them God-speed.

I think the chui'ch matter has beon sufficiently discussed at
the present time, that all may understand the question who desire
to do so. 1, for one, retire from the scene, and I would respectiuUy
recommend all advocates of the Eeformed Church to do likowiss,
and lot us endeavor to put in practice what wo have perhaps been
too zealously advocating, and perhaps not with that Christian for-
bearance and charity which the rehgion we profess inculcates.

The whole matter, to my mind, resolves itself into this — that
we are standing up for a reasonable creed which we have been
taught and believe in, and our opponents are fighting for a church
with two creeds and two sets of clergy, e^ch holding a different
faith.

LUTHEK II.

Ottaw-«5 2nd April, 1874.

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THE REFOKMED CHUUCH.

To the Editor of The Citizem :—

Dear Sir, — Permit mo to draw tho attention of tlie momlxji »
of tho varions EpiscomI Vestries, which moot this evening on
church matters, to a book now in use in Suntlny Hchooi in thu
Dioceso (rf Toronto, and found in the Dcp* silory of this Diocese n^
Kingston, entitled " The Patli of Holiness," edited by the Rev. T T
Carter, Rector, Clower, Kngland. It is almost a ti-anscript of tho
Boman Catholic "Gai-den of the Soul," and contains instrnctions for

-1. The use of the Ave Maria in all devotions. -

~2. Invocation of the Virgin Mary and Saints. -

-3. Seven Sacraments.

"4. Unction of tho Sick. '

- 6. The Merit of Voluntary Poverty and Celibacy.

V 6. Prayer for the Dead.

* 7. The Confessional.
8. Ablutions in the Holy Communion.

^ 9. Transubstantitttion, or the Real Presence. .
^ 10. Making the Sign of the Gross.

I am not prepared to say that this book is in our city Sunday
Schools, but if it is in the Church Depository at Kingston, the end
of the wedge is in rmd with our ilitualistic clergy, it will soon be in
use here.

As can be proved tho book is given to the Sunday School
scholars with the strict in; .action that they are not to make their
parents aware that they have it. "What nice men to bo the instruc-
tors of our children and have the care of their souls. If parents
allow their children to be taught by books of this character, the
result must be evident to all, that -he children will be lalse to the
faith of their fathers.

I have also in my possession a notice of excommunication to a
lady in this Diocese for non-'^.ttfcodniice at Church, from which she
absented herself for good reasoiiS .Vhe notice gives tho lady one
month to retrace her steps, coniorrr to the rites and ceremonies of
the church, otherwise her namp. to £;:j so' . . to tLe Bishop as excom-
municated, and she is to be denied Oij» 'dtian bv nal should she die.
Are the members of the Chun h of E»:o'land aslt ep when they allow
such ti'ash to be taught in Sunday bchools and this mummery of
excommunication practised in their very midst.

SENEX.

Ottawa, April 6th, 18*74.

THE REFORMED F' .SCOPAL CHURCH.

To the Rt. Rev. Dr. Lewis, Bishop of Ontario.

Dear Sir, — An insignificant correspondent of the Times has
takfen exception to the title by which 1 address you, and perhaps its
too frequent repetition. I would however assure you that I have
used the title only from a feeling of respect to the position you hold,

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and personally towunls you as an oclucatcd gentleman, ami further
because it in the term by wliich all "Bishoiis of the Church " ai4
usually acUlrcsHed.

The (incstion nx'xy W riascd why T address you at all ; i v
answer is ^<imply, t'-^i i ,ii o a i^rfcct right to do »;o, so long as
i.sdono rc«i)ectrii"y, im; rri,..-h as you have not deemed it bonoati.
your dignity tol. to ^iKjak nnd write publicly of " The Reformed
Episcopal ri.iiitjii," s Bishops, Clergy, Laity and doctrine, in
not the n*'' )mpiimtntary manner.

■\Vhildt wo arc looked upon by your Lordship as " Schismatics
deprived of all fho privileges and rights of the Church," and aro
t*yM that " in some mysterious manner" we still believe ourselves
*' Churchmen," it would anpoar from the reports of the various
vestry mwtings on Easter Monday in this city, that peace, love and
unity d«.K3s not altogether exist among those who remain in the
«' Old Church," and it is very evident they are not all of one faith.
We have " The Church" paraded before us on all occasions. Wo
hear and read of " the great sorrow and distress of The Church,"
at the " waywardness of her children," &c. What is the moaning
of HER sorrow and distress? Who and what is sub whose grief in
thus asserted, and whoso privileges we are deprived of? Simply an
idea, a formless vision. There is no such i)eison, and there is no
such institution apart from individual living Christian men and
women, and the Governments which authorized the uso of the
Px'uyer Book. We are admonished to be guided by " the teaching
of the Church" and its definiti9n of the Holy Bible, one might feel
inclined perhaps to accede in some degree to the latter pro])osition,
provided that it could be shown that even the Clergy of thk Church
\vere oi one mind '^•n it, but it is notorious that the very reverse i;*
'a cast' . .1 you tind the clei'gy preaching the most opposite doc-
urine from the same text Let us take for example the subject of
Confession and Absolution forming a portion of your sermon last
Sunday fortnight.

Your Lordship referre.1 to the throe Confessions in the Prayer
Book. The General Confession, the Confession for Communion, and
at the Visitation of the Sick. By the report of the Press you are
made to state that at th« General Confession individuals are sup-
jioaed to particularize their bins. This in very doubtful, indeed, but
it conveys the idea that there is necessMity tor particularizing, and
certainly the time occupied in making tli«> General Confession will
not admit of the Calendar of Sins being very long, nor will there be
much time for bemoaning over any particular sin. We believe that
the Almighty knows and sees the innermost thoughts of his crea-
tures, and no particularizing is requisite. There was no particu-
larizing when the Publican said, "God be merciful to me u sinner."

Torching the ''Communion Confession," which is special and
includes ABSOLUTION, you are made to saj', "you wished to God this
mode would come more in vogue, for many who now stay away
through ignorance, would get rid of their doubts, and learn the true
q^ualifications for j)artaking of the Sacrament." The Confession and

Absolution at the Visitation of tho Sick is of a more special and
stronger character, but in both cases we find the Clergy taking the
initiatory step. Your Lordship strongly recommends the Com-
munion Confession and Absolution, and the Prayer of Absolution in
the Visitation of the Sick is prefaced by the wonls <*Here shall the
sick m'w i>e moved to make a special confession of his sins, &c."
The difference your Lordship draws between this and the "Romish
doctrine" is that the one is voluntary and the other compulaor}'^ —
certainly a distinction without great difference when we reflect that
several hundred clergymen of the Church of England are working
on the most sensitive consciences to which they have access, telling
them they are excommunicated if they do not go to confession and
receive absolution from some Episcopally ordained Minister. Here
they are exercising a spiritual terrorism which almost amounts to
compulsion, for they wind up by impressing on the minds of -their
people that by their own acts they shut themselves out from the
Communion of Saints and are dead in their sins, though remaining
apparently living members of the one visible church.

From 3^our Lordship's remarks one cannot come to any other
conclusion but that you approve of Confession when voluntary on
the part of the penitent, and of course believe that the Clergy of the
Church of England have the power to absolve or retain sin as suc-
cessors to tho Apostles. But your Lordship's creed is of a milder
form than that of the celebrated 483 clergymen who signed an
address^to the Bi8hops,aBking them among other novelties to institute
a regular order of " Confessors " foir absolving the members of the
English Church from their sins. The Bishops did not accede lo
their memorial, but we have the fact staring us in the face that at
that period 483 Ministers of the Church entertained such extreme
views, and we have no reason to believe they are diminished, judging
from the audacity with which they put forward their views. Wit-
ness the following notice issued for the direction of persons in the
habit of confessing to the Priests of a Church in the heart of Lon-
don, and under the supervision of the Bishop of London.

"Saint Alban the Martyr, Holborn."

" A Priest will attend in tho Sacristy to hear confessions, at the
following times: —

Wednesday — 10 a.m. to 12.30 ; 2.30 to '7.45 j and after evening ser-
vice, for any who may desire it.

Friday — 2 to 6 p.m.; for women only,

Saturday — 10 a.m. to 12.30, for any one; 2.30 to 6 p.m., for men
only ; 6 to 7.45, for girls only; after evening service for any
one. ^

Such is a specimen of the practice of the Church, whose " rites
and privileges ' we ix>or " Schismatics " are to be deprived of. In
your printed address youv Lordship says, " I feel certain the basis of
the Church of England will never be narrowed. No branch of
Christ's Chm'ch interferes so little with the religious consciousness
of individuals." The basis certainly requires to be bix)ad to admit

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of such practices and notices as I have cited ; and religious con-
sciousness certainly isnot interfered with when we see sucii notices
«tuck up, under the very nose of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
And accoi-ding to your Lordship's own admission there are Bishops.
Priests and Deacons in the Church who do not believe in practisint^
any such doctrine.

We know that the Apostles were inspired men, and the power
given them to absolve from sin, &c., but we do not and cannot
believe that their mantle has fallen upon successors with any such
power. We know it is asserted that unless the Apostolic succession
bo preserved, there is no Priest, no Sacrifice, no Sacrament, indeed
no Church. Alas poor Nonconformists ! According to this doc-
trine Salvation depends upon the reception of the Sacraments ad-
ministered by a Priest who has received tue Holy Ghost from a
Bishop, who received the same Holy Spirit in direct succession from
the Apostles. Now it is to be presumed that all the Clergy of the
Church of England are not exactly Saints ; many will recollect only
some short time back the case of the^ Bev. Dr. Wai*d, a man
ot high literary endowments, who so brutally murdered his
wife and concealed her body in a closet. He was tried and
sentenced to be hanged, and would have been but for the " Cloth,"
and is now working omt his commuted sentence of penal servatude
for life, and there are many other successors to the Apostles in the
same category. Can we therefore believe that Almighty G-od con-
fers upon such men the Holy Ghost, and gives them the keys of
Heaven and Hell, empowering them to forgive and retain sins. Docs
he bind himself to ratify the acts of such men ? We have been told
that we of the *<Eeformed Church" are of "doubtful education."
Well, if a higher education would lead us to believe such blasphemy
as this, we prefer to be of the "doubtfully educated" class. Three
hundred years ago men rejected such doctrine, and were burnt at
the stake, now they advocate them and such like, and officiate as
ministers in the Protestant Episcopal Church of England. In fact,
it is nothing more or less than mortal men usurping one of the
greatest attributes of the Almighty, mercy and forgiveness, and
blasphemy is not too strong to apply to it.

Who can undertake to say that this Apostolic link has not
been broken and the sacramental virtue gone. Amidst the numerous
corruptions of doctrine and practice and gross superstitions that
crept in during the " dark ages " are found recoixied descriptibns of
the most profond ignorance and profligacy of life of many of the
clergy, and also of great irregularities in respect to discipline and
form, mere children consecrated as Bishops, and men officiating
who scarceiy knew their letters — prelates expelled, and others put
in their place by violence — illiterate and profligate laymen and
habitual drunkards admitted to holy orders, and in short, the pro-
valence of every kind of disorder and reckless disregard of the
decency which the Apostle enjoins. So says Dr. Whately, late
Archbishop ot Dublin,

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1 note your Loixlship's remarks on Transubetantialion, Con-
substuntiation, and what you state to be the belief of the Church of
England on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Your Loixlship
quotes the 28th Article of the Church of England in support of the
same, which, to a certain extent, is good, but what comes of the
teaching of children the Catechism of the Church as found in the
Book of Common Prayer, wherein it expressly states "The Body
and Blood of Christ which is verily and indeed Uhen and received
by the faithful in the Loi-d's Supper." The children are taught
this at Sunday School, if wo are to judge from the " Path of Holi-
ness" found in the Sunday School Library of Christ's Church hei'o
al Easter, and in use in the Diocese of Toronto. How did this
Homan Catholic " Garden of the Soul" find its way into the library ?
Somebody must have been instrumental in introducing it there, and
with an object ; and whoso duty is it, my Lord, to see that they
are not in many other Sunday School libraries in the Diocese,
as is confidently stated to bo the case? There must be a "Wolf

.in Sheep's clothing" somewhere. The Saviour says, *' While men
" slept, his enemy came, and sowed tares among the wheat, and

, *• went his way. But when the blade was sprung up and brought
" forth fruit, there appeared the tares also."

'Tis beyond a doubt that there are two contending systems in
the English Church, the Protestant and the Priestly. The doctrine
of Eitualism, under the Priestly system, is that " Christ is still
present in His Church, verily and indeed, in the Sacrament of the
Altar, very God, very man. That as he is both God and man — as
these two natures are for ever joined in His one person — His God-
head must be wherever His body is, and therefore He is to be wor-
shipped in His Sacrament."

This is very far from Protestant doctrine. Still it is the-
belief of hundreds of the clergy of the Church of England, and is
{spreading daily among the laity through the teaching of Kltualistic
ministers. The Church Association of the Diocese of Toronto are
doing good work, and using every endeavour to bring influence to
bear ou the Synod to stop those innovations, but I am afraid they
will not succeed, it has been tried repeatedly and without ufl:oct.

There will then be but one course left for those who have the
moral courage to do so : viz., to come out from a Church where such
nn-Protestant doctrines and practices exist, and join a Church
where" they can worship the Almighty as their fathers did, and
where no priest stands between man and his Maker.

You have been pleased, my Lord, to state that you disapprove
of the Ritualistic practices in your Diocese, and have used all means
in your power to suppress them. 1 do not pretend to know what
the power of a Bishop is in such matters, but the Reformers of old
found means to put a stop t5 similar practices, and the same way is
open to Your Lordship. But all Bishops do not think alike as to
t^eir powers, especially when it is to defend Ritualism. Of this we
have a case in point at Victoria, British Columbia, lately.

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In December, 1872, the new cathedral was consecrated, and the
Dean invited the Archdeacon of Vancouver to pr«jach on the occa-
sion. To the horror and astonishment of the Dean and many of the
congregation, the Archdeacon's sermon was in support ofBitualisra.
At its close, the Dean, taken aback by the course pursued, stood up
and denounced the Archdeacon and his doctrine, telling him he had
violated the law o|' the Church, the law of the land, and the law of
(iod in the Scriptures — and which received the approbation of a
large portion of the congregation. But it did not meet the views of
the Bishop of Columbia, who addressed the. Doan a long letter of
censure, winding up as follows : " As your Bishop, then, I censure
you for your conduct on Thursday, the 5th day of December, 1872,
and I admonish you to be more careful in future."

But not one word of censure or disapprobation of the Arch-
deacon's Ilitualistic sermon on so important an occasion as the con-
secration of a Cathedral.

Proper thinking people believe than Dean Cridgo was connect
in applying the antidote tne moment the poison was administered,
and it showed the prompting of an honest Protestant heart, but the
Bishop objected to time and place, according to some musty old rule
of ecclesiastical law.

There is one point I ought to refer to in conclusion. Your
Lordship has referred to the fact that we do not call our Church
"The Protestant Eeformed Episcopal Church." This we deem quite
unriecessary, inasmttch as none will doubt our Protestantism. We
have left the "Episcopal Church of Canada" on acoount of its
unprotestaut doctrine, teaching and practices, and its sacerdotalism
and Romanizing tendencies. We do not believe in a Church with
one portion of its clergy preaching Protestantism and another por-
tion holding up "Birmingham," ware in the shape of Bitualism, a
miserable imitation of Eoman Catholicism.

In your Lordship's printed address you state " that it is just
possible that we may be disappointed in the result of this schisma-
tical attempt * * * * and may suffer a dangerous
downfall into Eomanism or Infidelity." Don't be anxious on that
score. My Lord ; we will endeavour to avoid both, but the remark
does not come well from a Bishop of a Diocese, where one one of his
shining lights, in the shape of a Eitualistic Priest officiating in this
very city, has so lately letl the Church and been received into the
Eoman Catholic communion. It would almost appear that thei'e
was more danger in your own house than ours, and if \yo are to judge
of the action now being taken by the Orange Society, they seem to
be of that opinion also.

I have the honor to be,

Your Lordship's obd't Servant,

SBNEX.

TIIE RBFOKMED EPISCOPAL CflUBCH.

Dear Sir, — As stated in my last letter, I did not intend again
to enter the arena, but finding maligners of the Reformed Church
ure getting bold on our silence, 1 again take up my pen to lot them
know that we are both prepared and able to defend our position and
refute their infamous calumnios.

One of our opponents some short time back who stated he was
in the habit of reading the " English papers," was kind enough to
give the public an extract from an English paper to prove, as ho
vaunted, that what had been advanced by us regarding the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury's opinion of Nonconformists was nothing but a
*' hoax." Well to my mind it has uot yet been proved a " hoax "
and it the Archbishop would condoscencl to speak for himself in the '
matter, I feel satisfied he would endorse the sentiments we attributed
to him, at all events he has not denied them. They were that of a
true Christian gentleman which wo believe Dr. Tait to be, and not
that of a Ritualistic Jesuit Priest, which we are sometimes obliged
to listen to or read.

I sometimes read the " English Papers " also, and I have now
one before me, " The Church times " of the 2nd ultimo, a High
(ihurch paper published in London, an organ of the Church of Eng-
land, and a disgrace to any Church that would own it as such.

I find in it part of a communication from an " Occasional Cor-
respondent" from this city, and a beautiful production it certainly
is. Who ho is we know not, but his production would bring a Wush
to the face pf the mother who bore him. Ho is no layman, for I do
not believe there is a layman of the Church to be found in Ottawa
who would BO far forget his manliness as to endeavour to throw a
rttain on the character ot an estimable lady, Ihe wife of a clergyman,
or stigmatize his fellow laymen, a whole congregation of of our
most respectable citizens as this traducer has done, Referring to the
arrival of Dr. Gailagher in this city, this wretch says, /' By way of
" blowing the trumpet in the New Zion, the Committee invited the
* heroic ex-Bishop (coadjutor) of Kentucky to visit Canada and
rally his adhererils. Domestic circumstances prevented his acced-
" ing to this request, and he sent in his place one of the seven Schis-
" matical Priests who have flocked to his standard. Accordinglj^
^' the Rev. Mason Gallagher, D.D., of New York, accompanied hy his
" lady was met at Prescott by an Emissary of the Sect, and at the
*' Ottawa Station by the Committee, who accompanied him and her
»' to the principal hotel of the city."

Now I would appeal to any one having the smallest pretensions to
the name of a gentleman to say if the quotation I have given must not
have emanated from a black heart, and a mean, low grovelling mind.
Cannot the subject in question be discussed without descending to
\ )W personalties unworthy of a gentleman. "What had this lady in
question done that she should be dragged into the slime which this
traducer seems to wallow in. Does he know (for he is among us
to-day) that a more estimable j.nd amiable person never set her foot in
this city, and that she is connected with some of the most respoct-

able families in the city. But ho wrote under the feeling, that all
slanderers do, viz., that perhaps hia letter would never bo seen here
or noticed.

But let me give another quotation from this worthy's epistle for
the bonetit of His Lordship, Bishop L^wis, and the members of his
congregation : —

" The Bishop of Ontario, Dr. John Travers Lewis, has taken a
" firm stand against the heresy, and delivered on the 22nd February
" an address which must have startled his congregation. It may be
" explained that Dr. Lewis, himself a High Churchman, and the
'• best of our Canadian Prelates, in removing his chair to Ottawa,
" found in his Chapel a body of pronounced " Evangelists," these
" people being mostly of the • Bourgeois gentilhomme' type, ignor-
" ant, bitter, and pur.-te-proud, refuse to abandon their pew system,
" uphold a service which it is a penance to attend, and tyrannize
" over their Curate as they wish to do over their Bishop. To such
*' an audience, untrained, I regret to say, in the rudiments ot
'' Catholic orthodoxy, because refusing to listen, and constantly
" threatening defection, he has unfolded the fact that union with
" schism is incompatible with continuance in our communion."

My Lord Bishop and Curate, how do you like the picture of
your position and congregation ? And gentlemen of the '* Bishop's
Chapel," how do you like the character given you by this inaligners
of the "Eeformed Church," this attempted traducer of ladies' repu-
tation, and this defender of the faith of the Church of England ?
You seem certainly a happy family after having got rid of the
•* schismatics of doubtful reputation."

Now who is this " Occasional Correspondent ? Certainly not a
layman. La3'man do not talk of "our communion," and are not
apt 80 frequently to quote French and Latin ^s this Worthy does,
but I forget, Bishop Lewis is stated to have said the members of the
Church of England, as a rule, were " educated gentlemen," or some-
thing to that effect, perhaps this is one of the type, and a fine
specimen he truly is. But the whole stylo of the communication
plainly exhibits the " cloth " he wears; one of your sneaking, meek,
sanctyied hypocrites, who, under the garb of a Protestant minister,
would poison the Church which he is sworn to uphold, who, like :i
snake, spits out his venom on the passer-by, and at the same time
keeps himself concealed.

One more quotation, and I am done with this worthy son of
the Church. Eoferring to those who have left the " Church " and
joined the Reformed Church, he mya, " Could all of it bo drained, at
" whatever cost of temporarj' weakness, the Canadian Church, long
" smitten with the Leprosy of Protestantism, would become as she
" never yet has been 'Pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol, terribilis ut
•' castrorum acies ordinata.' "

The above scarcely needs comment — in fact the quotation itself
'l-s sufficient ground for any properthinking Protestant to come out
from a (church calling itselr Protestant, and supiwrting such infamous
blasphemy.

Ottawa, May 8th, 1874. LUTHEfi II.

To the Laity of tJte Church of England in Canada.

The foregoing letters have been jiublishetl in the press of this
city ftnd universally warmly approved of by the Protestant Com-
inunity, excepting, as a matter of course, the High Church or
Hitunlistic members of the church, to whom they are gall and worm-
wood.

They are now published in the present form for more general
circulation, under the hope that they will be read by many who
have not had the opportunity of seeing the Ottawa papers.

We, of the Reformed Episcopal Church, are not ashamed of our
colors, and are quite prepared to defend thom in everv respect.
They are published at this particular time, more especially for the
])erusal of the Lay Delegates to the Episcopal Synods now about to
meet, under the hope that they will carefully study them and take
i-uch a stand as will show their brother Churchmen that they are
not ashamed of being called Protestants, but proud of it, and that
they are determined to root out from the much loved church of our
fathers, all Homanizing tendencies, teaching, and practises, and hail
her as the Protestant Church of England.

As will be seen by one of the letters, a correspondent from hero
to the •' London (England) Church Times,'' (and believed to be a
clergyman of this city) writes of the Church of England here as
being afflicted with the *♦ Leprosy of Protestantism." Surely there
must bo something wrong in the church, when in the 19th century
we find a member of the Protestant Church of England using such
language and publishing it to the world.

The letters herewith speak for themselves, and cover almost
every point in dispute in the church, and refer particularly to the
<ioctrino now taught openly by many of the clergy, viz.. Auricular
Con/«8inon, absolution by tlie Priest, the real presence of the body and
hlood of Christ in the Holy Communion, regeneration by baptism, and
t/u Apostolic Succesiion, or the Clergy of the Church assuming thai
they are the divinely inspired snccessora of the Apostles in a direct
line, all of whicti we of the Reformed Episcopal Church repudiate
as unprotestant, being little short of blasphemy, and tending to lead
the laity, with railroad speed, to the Church of Rome (where one of
the clergy in this city has so lately gone), and we feel that the
clergy who advocate such doctrine as the power of absolving or
retaining sin are usurping one of the highest attributes of Almighty
<>od, viz., Mercy and forgiveness, for we believe no one can forgive
sin but God, and we do not believe He has delegated that power to
frail mortal man.

There is not one of the clergy who would dare to promulgate
such doctrine from his pulpit, but they teach it, and much worse in
our Sunday Schools, and among the weak-minded mem hoi's of the
ehurch privately, their whole aim is " Priestcraft !" or to get power
over the laity whom they desire to lead or rule, not only in things
spiritual, but temporal also.

There are one or two points not referred to in these letters
which we wish especially to draw attention to. In the first place,

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returned from, up the Ottawa Valley, accompanied by his newly-
made Vene*'.tble Archdeacon Lauder. At Pembroke, after the Con-
firmation Service, the Archdeacon preached, and, among other
things, told the congregation that beyond a doubt that by the
imposition of the Bishop'n hands the candidates liad received Tlie Holy
Ghost ; but this is not to be wondered at when we road in the Con-
firmation Service in the Prayer Book as follows : —

The Bishop. — Let us pray :

"Almighty and everlasting (lod who has vouchsafed to regenemte
these thy servants by water ami the Holy Ghost, and hast given
unto them forgiveness of all their sins."

There is no half measure here ; no prayer that they may be
regenerated and their sins iorgiven, but a clear declaration by the
Bishop that the candidates for confirmation are regenerate and all
their sins forgiven. Is this Priestcraft, or cant; or what is it? We
understand CVmfir.Tiation to bo an Ordnance of the Church, that at
a certain age persons who have been baptized shall come forward
and assume the responsibility which their Godfather's, &e.,-
took for them at their baptism, and nothing more — and
we are strongly of the opinion that the whole thing wantK
remodelling. What do our Godfathers and Godmothers do for
the children they stand sponsors for, just give them a silver
spoon or knife and fork, and there their duty and attention seems
to end — then again many men and women are not confirmed until
they have obtained mature years — surely it is not to be argued that
the Godfathers and Godmothers are responsible until such time as
their worthy Godchildren choose to relievo them> the whole of this
savours strongly of Priestly manuiacsture which it no doubt is.

It may be argued, why have we not remained in the church
and endeavour to get the abuses we complain of reformed, simply
because we are tired of trying to do so, and we find these abuses and
Eilualistic practices increasing instead of diminishing, and we find
that oven the word of Bishops are not to be depended on. Thus ex-
emplified — at the Vestry meeting at the Bishop's chapel in this city
last Easter Monday the Bishop stated that he had done all by could
to suppress Ritualism in his Diocese, and would continue to do so,
yet in the face of this declaration His Lordship has thought fit since
Easter to make Mr. Lauder his Archdeacon, and Dr. Jones Examin-
ing Qhaplain, Canon, &c., of his Cathedral, thus advancing to high
po.sitions u\ the church, two of the most notorious Ititualistic
Priests in the Diocese, this is certainly au odd way of suppressing
Ritualism, and again we hold we are perfectly correct in leaving a
body whose principles and doings we disapprove. "Come ye out
from among them and be ye separate saith the Loi-d and I will
receive you." Again St. Paul tells Timothy that he should not be
"partaker of other men's sins," and is not man a partaker of other
men's offences against Christ, who sets them forward in propogat-
ing their errors by his union with them ; and does noi ho who con-
sorts in every way with teachers of error, and gites his substance

to sustain their churches, sends delegates to their Synods, helps to
pay the expenses of such assemblies, pays to sustain Ritualistic
Bisihops, Priests: is he not a partaker of the guilt of such doings,
and necessarily offensive to the Almighty and injurious to his
iollow-man ; and, we have left the old church simply because she
has departed from the faith and gone atter another Gospel, to the
subversion of the souls of the people and to the dishonor of Iho
Saviour.

On the occasion of the absence from the City of our own
Clergyman some few wee'fs ago, we availed ourselves of the kind
services of the Rev. Mr. Hunter of the Methodist Church and the
Rev. Mr. Mooro of the Presbyterian Church, who conducted our'
Hervico morning and evening in the most satisfactory manner, wo
I'olt under deep obligation to these gentlemen for their loady
acquiescence in our request, and it was a matter of great satisfaction
to ail connected that an Episcopal Church was established which
recognized the ministrations of the Clergy of all other Protestant
denominations, and welcomed them to their pulpit. Sk> far so good,
but iu a day or two afterwards we were- favoured thrcaigh the press
with a communication from some scribbler referring to the great
satisfaction and pride it must have been to the gentlemen named in
being permitted to occupy the Pulpit in an Episcopal Church
where the " 8Uccos80i*8 to the A pestles '' officiated. Wo know
i>oth these Clergymen felt much pleasure and satisfaction in
officiating in our Church, but we are equally certain they
would not feel their reputation in any way improved by
occupying the pulpits heretofore held by some of the " sue-
ce.S8or8 of the Apostles" in the old church, but the contrary:
we have this Apostolic Succession shoved under our nosos ad
iiauamm, and for further light as to what some of them have been
let us refer to the eighteenth century, and what do wo find in the
Fleet Prison, London? Why! that not loss than fifty Church of
England clergymen, "Successors to the Apostles," and a Bishop
were confined there at one time, leading the most dissolute and dis-
graceful lives, and living by solemnizing marriages at all prices
from half a crown to a guinea. The advertisements of some of the
loading members of this fraternity speak for themselves: — "Peter
^ymson informed the public that he acted by Royal authority ; that
he had been ''educated at the University ofCambridgo,"and was "late
chaplain to a nobleman," married couples in a room furnished with
chair, cushions apd proper conveniences. In a single year he mar-
r.ed 2,200 couples. John Lundo, another, was *'a regular bred
clergyman," a gentleman who was lately Chaplain on boai*d one of
Her Majesty's ships of war, &c., who was above committing those
little mean actions that some men impose on people, everything
would be conducted with the utmost decency and regularity such as
shall always be supported by Law and Equity." Such is a sample
of the men who form a portion of the linkp in the chain of Awstolio
Succession, and who the clergy of to-day have so much reason to be
proud of as their successors, these are the divimly inynred men who-

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presume to turn up their noses nt cler/^ymon of other donominn-
tions, i-l.ese are the " oduciitetl gefitlemen" — when will the people
of the Church of England get their eyes opened ?

We have with us in union and sympathy many of the Orange
body, and we find some of the lodges have taken action as
against flitualism, but we are more than surprised they they
have not long ago had their eyes opened to the fact that many
of the leading officera of the oi*der ar-i the warmest supporters of
the ititualistic party, and the strongest opponents of the
Reformed Church. They are Political Orangemen who have
joined the order to advance their own personal interests and nothing
else, they don't believe in the rank and file thinking for themselves
or they would lotje their mfluence over them, and thus lose their
political influence. The Orange ^stitution was esUiblishtxl, as we
believe, for the defence and prote .tion of the Protestant faith, and
as it is now handled, it is used by designing leaders to forward their
political interests and support High Church liitualism.

We have our church here firmly established and increasing
daily. We have a Clergyman of our own, not a Yankee as some of
of our enemies are pleased to circulate, but a good sound Irishman.
We shall have a handsome church read}'^ for occupation in the Fall,
and we shall be able to shew Bishop Lewis that we are not the con-
temptable body he would have the ])ublic believe.

^ LUTHER IL

Ottawa, 12lh June, 1874.