W'ly L I B RARY OF THE UN IVER5ITY Of ILLI NOIS ilil WHAT IS THE ANGLO-CONTINENTAL SOCIETY? [SECOND EDITION.] RIVINGTONS WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON Ptast(alen ^tmt, (©)ifortl; Crimtp street, (JTambntise MDCCCLXXIX [c. 24] ANGLO-CONTINENTAL SOCIETY. President. The Lord Bishop of Winchester. Vice-Presidents. The Four Archbishops, Fifty Bishops, and Four Lay Peers. Committee. Eighty Clergymen and Laymen. Secretaries. Prebendary Meyrick, Lord Charles Hervey, Archdeacon Huxtable, Key. Dr. Nevin, Rev. M. Powley, W. Talmadge, Esq., Rev. G. E. Broade, C. H. E. Carmichael, Esq., Rev. F. S. May, Rev. Dr. Hale. Corresponding Secretaries. Twenty-five British Chaplains, Local Secretaries. Twenty Clergymen and Laymen. Treasurers. Thomas Copeman, Esq., Upper Clapton, London ; Messrs. Coutts & Co. ; Messrs. Hoare ; Messrs. Rivington. Booksellers. Rivinqtons, London ; Sandoz et Fischbacher, Paris; Neusser, Bonn. OBJECT. 1. To make the principles of the English Church known in the different countries of Europe and throughout the world. 2. To help forward the Internal Eeformation of National Churches and other religious communities, by spreading information within them, rather than by proselytising from them. 3. To save men, whose religious convictions are already B 2 4 ANGLO-CONTINENTAL SOCIETY. unsettled, from drifting into infidelity, by exhibiting to tliem a purified Christianity which they may be able to embrace. MEANS. 1. The publication, in different languages, of books and tracts illustrative of the doctrine, discipline, statics, and re- ligious spirit of the English Church, and of the character of her Eeformation. 2. The dissemination of these books and tracts, together with the S. P. C. K. versions of the Bible and Prayer Book — (1) By the voluntary agency of travellers, of British and American Chaplains, and other residents ; (2) By the agency of foreign booksellers and depot- keepers ; (3) By making them known through the agency of foreign journals. 3. The employment of native agents where it is thought desirable. 4. The employment of one or more Travelling Secretaries, or Agents, charged with the duty of explaining by word of mouth, and by any other means they can usefully adopt, the nature of the English Eeformation, and the example that it offers to other National Churches and religious bodies. 5. Correspondence. PEESENT SPECIAL OPEEATIONS. Encouraging, developing, and helping to shape the Old Catholic movement throughout the world. PEAYEE. Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy Holy Catholic Church ; fill it with all truth, and in all truth with all peace ; where it is corrupt, purge it ; where it is in error, direct it ; where it is dark, enlighten it ; where it is superstitious, rectify it ; where anything is amiss, reform it ; where it is right, strengthen and confirm it ; where it is in want, furnish it ; where it is divided and rent asunder, heal the breaches thereof, Thou Holy One of Israel, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. ^i^%^ u,uc PROSPECTUS. PEOSPECTUS. " The purpose of this Society is to make the principles of the Church of England, her doctrine, discipline, and status, better known upon the Continent of Europe, and throughout the world, than is at present the case. " That there exist the greatest misrepresentation and mis- conception of her true character, both amongst Eoman Catholics and Protestants in the West, and an almost total ignorance respecting her in a great part of the East, cannot, unhappily, be doubted. " Can her children be justified in sitting down without an effort to do away with this misconception and this ignorance ? Is such a course compatible with a true and loyal love for their spiritual Mother, or with a quick-eyed zeal for God's Truth ? If we really love the Church of England, ought we not to defend her from misrepresentation ? If we have an assured confidence that what she teaches is the Truth of God in its purity, ought we not to lift up the beacon-light of her example to others, Eomanists, Protestants, and Orientals ? " The Anglo-Continental Society consists of English, Irish, Scottish, Colonial, and American Churchmen. It wiU not willingly go one step beyond, or fall short by one step of, the teaching of the Church of England. Whatever effect it may hope to have upon foreign minds, it will endeavour to produce by a straightforward exhibition of the principles of the Anglican Church, not by ignoring the differences which exist between ourselves and other bodies of Christians. " It is the belief of the Society that, if unity is ever to be restored to the whole body of divided Christians, it will be on the basis of the faith of the Primitive Church, which is like- wise the faith of the Anglican Church. "There is a Primitive School in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Scandinavia, and Mexico; and there are in Spain and South America many who have learnt to disbelieve in the Papal theory of Unity. With the former the Society is anxious to co-operate, and is co-operating ; to the 6 ANGLO-CONTINENTAL SOCIETY. latter it desires to point out what it believes" to be the more excellent way. At the same time it wishes it to be understood that its object is not to proselytise individuals, but to help towards the reformation and revivification of Churches and communities. " Its primary aim, as has been said, is to procure an intel- ligent appreciation of the principles of the Church of England by those who are now ignorant of them. Such an apprecia- tion can be fraught with no evil result to the English Church ; it may have considerable effect for good on other JSTational Churches and religious bodies. Let it bear its legitimate fruit. " The ground thus occupied is covered by no other Society. The place thus filled is left vacant both by the Foreign and Home Societies which serve as the organ of the Church. "The Committee invite a much larger support, in order that they may carry out the object of the Society far more perfectly and extensively than they have yet been able to do." Instructions to Agents in Italy. "You would have to visit the chief cities and towns in different parts of the country, in order to make yourself acquainted with such priests and intelligent laymen as may be disposed to a Eeformation, and in turn impart to them accurate information respecting the constitution and character of the Eeformed Episcopal Church. This you would do both by conversation and by introducing to their notice suitable books, which would be supplied to you for that purpose. You would also endeavour to promote the sale of such books, through respectable booksellers, whenever practicable; and you would have to give accurate accounts of the distribution and sale of these books, as well as to keep a journal of your proceedings. Whilst explaining that much interest is felt by members of the Church of England in the efforts made by those of your countrymen who are anxious to reform the Church tvithotU destroying it, you would also carefully guard against any idea that the Church of England wishes to ^ro- RESOLUTIONS EESPECTINQ THE OLD CATHOLIC MOVEMENT. 7 selytise in Italy. You would clearly explain that we simply desire to manifest friendly sympathy, and to render such aid as may be in our power, by accurate information and other- wise, to those who are endeavouring to promote a return to the original constitution and purity of the Primitive Catholic Church, as the best and surest means of freeing the Church from the despotic claims of the Papacy, as well as purifying it from the corruptions and superstitions which have gra- dually crept into it in the lapse of ages, and thus paving the way, under God's blessing, for some eventual reunion of Christendom on the basis of pure primitive Catholicism. You would also endeavour to promote friendly communication between those disposed for Eeformation in different parts of the country, who hitherto have too often been unaware of each other's existence. The great aim should be so to draw together the sympathies and forces of all who are disposed for Pteformation, as that some genuine Italian national effort may be made for its promotion." — May, 1865. Eesolutions eespecting the Old Catholic Movement. " 1. That the declaration of Papal Infallibility, foUowed by the faU of the Temporal Power of the Popes, presents an occasion of offering an earnest and affectionate appeal to members of the Eoman Catholic Communion throughout the world, beseeching them to return from the novelties of modern doctrine and mediseval discipline to the Scriptural Faith and Apostolic Order of the Primitive Church. "2. That the efforts made by eminent theologians and preachers of Germany and France, ardently sympathised in by many of the clergy and laity of Italy, to resist the intro- duction of corrupting novelties into the deposit of the Church's Faith, merit a warm and affectionate recognition on the part of the rulers of the Anglican Church, at a crisis which may be as eventful as the Reformation of the sixteenth century." —June, 1871. " That the Old Catholic movement, so happily inaugurated in Germany by the venerable and learned Dr. von Dollinger 8 ANGLO -CONTINENTAL SOCIETY. and other eminent theologians, is such as to encourage the liveliest hopes for the future of the Christian Church, and to call out our warmest sympathies ; and that the friendly feel- ing toward the Church of England entertained by the Old Catholics of Germany, and exhibited as well in Dr. von Bollinger's lectures as in other ways, deserves to be gladly acknowledged and cordially reciprocated by English Church- men. " That it is our earnest hope that the Old Catholic move- ment will not be confined to Germany, but will continue to gather strength, and to extend itself in France, Spain, Italy, Austria, and wherever the Latin Church has sway ; and that our respect and admiration are due to those French and other priests who have dared to face persecution and poverty in their resistance to the pretensions of the see of Eome." — April, 1872. " That the Society desires to express its cordial sympathy with the religious movement against the Papal pretensions which has sprung up so vigorously in Germany, as well as its confident hope that the line of independent inquiry on which its authors and supporters have entered, may lead them to the same principles of Scriptural Primitive Catholicity, on which the Eeformation of the Church of England proceeded, so as to produce that identity of faith and practice, which cannot but result in that union and communion between the two Churches to promote and further which has been one of the great aims of the Anglo-Continental Society." — July, 1872. " We desire to express our sympathy with the Old Catholic Church, and our earnest hope and prayer, that, under God's blessing, it may continue to grow in unity, extent, and efaciency."— J?%, 1878. " In case of a genuine Old Catholic movement in any country, the Society is at liberty to give assistance to it in such way as, after consideration, special circumstances may seem to require." — November, 1878. ( 9 ) PUBLICATIONS. In Latin, 16 ; in French, 25 ; in Italian, 51 ; in Spanish, 15 ; in Portu- guese, 2 ; in German, 16 ; in Swedish, 1 ; in Danish, 4 ; in Icelandic, 1 ; in Greek, 11 ; in Armenian, 3 ; in Russian, 3 ; in Arabic, 1 ; in English, 23 ; On Sale at Messrs. Rivingtons', under the titles and numbers given in the December No. of the Foreign Church Chronicle (Wells Gardner, London), p. 293. The Emperor Charlemagne, The Second Council of Nicaea, in Latin. Is. Latin Version of the Prayer Book. Bishop Andrewes, Private Devotions, Part I. in Latin, and in Greek. Is. each. Part II. in Latin. Is. Part III. in Latin. Qd. On the Primacy of the Roman See, in Latin. Is. On the Old Catholic Faith, in Latin. Is. Casaubon, Letter to Cardinal Perron, in Latin. Qd. Archbishops Ussher and Bramhall, etc., On the Catholic Church, in Italian. Is. %d. Bishop Hall, Columha Noce, in Latin. Is. Bishop Cosin, On the English Church, in Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Modern Greek, Russian. Is. each. On Transuhstantia- tion and the Eucharist, in Latin, French, and Armenian. Is. Qd. each. Bishop Ken, Practice of Divine Love, in Italian. Is. Bishop Pearson, Paraphrase of the Creed, in Italian. 3c?. Article on the LLoly Ghost, in German. Qd. Bishop Beveridge, On the Consent of the Church, in Latin. Qd. Archbishop Wake, On the Union of the Gallican and Anglican Churches, in French. Qd. Bishop Wilson, Sacra Privata, in Italian. Is. Bishop Jebb, On the Character of the English Church, in French and Russian. 9d each. Archbishop Longley, Letter to the Eastern Patriarchs, in Greek. Id. Bishop Wilberforce, On the Lmmaculate Conception, in French, Italian, and German. 6(i. each. On the English Beformution, in French. 2s. The Encyclic of the Lambeth Conference, 1867, in Greek (authorised), 2d.', in French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, Armenian, Arabic. Id. each. The Letter of the Lambeth Conference, 1878, in Greek and Latin (authorised), Is. ; in French and Italian. 6d. The Bishop of Winchester, Exposition of the Articles, Parts L, IT., III., IV., v., and VI., in Spanish. Is. each. 07i the Twenty-third Article, in Danish. 6d. On the Sixth Article, in French, Is. ; in Portuguese, 3c?. Speeches, in Spanish. 2d. each. Conference vAth the Archbishop of Syros, in English, and Modern Greek. 2d. On the Coiitinuity of the Church of England, in German. Qd. The Bishop of Lincoln, Theophilus, in French, 3s. ; in Italian, Is. Lnspiration of the Old Testament, in Italian. Qd. Bespo7isio Angliccma, in Latin, French, Italian, German, Modern Greek, Icelandic. 6d. each. Address on the Vatican Council, in French and Italian. 6c?. each. Tour in Ltaly {Extracts from), in Italian. Is. Hippolytus {Extracts from), in Italian. 6c?. On Concordats and Lnfallibility, in French, Italian, German. 3c?. each. Beply to the Lnvitation to the Cologne Congress, in Latin. 2c?. On the Cologne Congress, in French. Is. The Bishop of Kingston, On the Faith and Worship of the English Church, in Italian and Spanish. 6c?. each. The Bishop of Western New York, On Romanist Mistahes about the English Church, in French. 9c?. Letter to Pius IX, in German and Spanish. 6c?. The Episcopate of the West, in French. 2s. 6c?. 10 ANGLO-CONTINENTAL SOCIETY. The Bishop of Iowa, Anglo-American Sympathy with the Continent^ in English. 6(Z. Bishop 'R^mVeu^ First Pastoral Letter. 6c?. Second ditto. Q>d. Speeches on Union, in English. Is. Bingham, Oro Primitive Episcopacy, in German. 2d. Wheatly, On the Compilation of the Prayer Booh, in Italian. %d. AUix, On the Independence of the Church of North Italy, in Italian. Qd. Allix, On the Ancient Church of Piedmont, in Italian. Is. Blunt, Tlie Reformation, in German and Danish, Is. each ; French, 2s. Qd. Keble, Twelve Hymns from the Christian Year, in Italian. 9c?. King Kamehameha, Preface to the Prayer Book, in Italian. 2c?. Massingberd, History of the Eeformation, in French. 3s. Haddan, On the Validity of Anglican Orders, in German. 6c?. Oldknow, On Anglican Orders, in French and Greek. 9c?. each. Biber, Correspondence with Michelis, in English. 6d. Tiboni, On the Bible, in Italian. 3c?. Ford, On S. Matthew, in Italian. Is. On Confirmation, in Itah'an, 6c/. Bickersteth, On the Holy Procession, m Greek. Qd. Paper at Plymouth Congress on Old Catholics. Is. Kay, On the Unity of the Church, in Italian. 2c?. Mayor, Professor, Congress of Constance, in English. 6c/. Meyrick, On Papal Supremacy and Schism, in French, Italian, Spanish, German, Modern Greek, Armenian, Russian. Is. each. On the History of S. Mary, in Italian. 3c?. On the Church, in Italian. 3c?. On the Old Catholics and the Anglo-Continental Society, in English. 6c/. On the Second Conference of Bonn and the Cowtcil of Florence, in English. %d. On the Succession of Bishops in the English Church, in German. 6c/. Beport of the Conference of Bonn of 1875, in English. Id. Paper at Plymouth Congress on Old Catholics, in Englisli. Is. On the Division of East and West and the Seventh Council, in French. Is. Hogg, Memoir of Count Tasca, in English. 6c/. Tibbs, On the Life of S. Mary, in Italian and Portuguese. 3c?. each. May, On Order in the Church, in Italian. 2c/. Mereweather, On Religious Union, in Italian and German. 2c?. each. Kitchin, On the Prayer Booh, in German. Is. Ffoulkes, On Concordats, in German. 3c/. Swete, Comparison of the Churches of England and Borne, in Italian. Is. Langdon, Catholic Reform Movement in Italy, in Englisli. 2s. Deramey, On the Bernese Jura Religious Movement, in French. 3c/. Messmer, On Spiritual Religion, in English. 6c?. From the Prayer Book, The Order of Administration of the Sacraments^ in Italian. 9c?. Tlie Order of Confirmation and Forms of Ordination, in Italian. 9c/. On the Sacraments, in French. Ic?. Extracts from the Articles and Canons, in French. 3c?. Ten Letters to a Statesman, in Italian. Is. The Two Creeds, in Italian. Ic?. Hymns, in Italian. Is. Roman Catechism, with Catholic Reply, in Italian, ^d. Answers from East and West to the Papal Invitation, in Italian. Gd. The Vatican Council, in Italian. Gd. How the Church of England came to he ivhat she is, in French. Gd. The Brief of Clement XIV. suppressing the Jesuits, in Italian. 6c?. Resolutions of the First Old Catholic Synod, in English. 2c/. Corret-pondence with Old Catholics and Orientals, in English. Fii'st year. Is. Second year, 6o?. Third year, Is. Fourth year, 6c/. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. Patron and President. The Right Rev. the Loed Bishop of Winchester. Patrons and Vice-Presidents. The Most Rev. the Loed Aechbishop of Canterbury. Ihe Most Rev. the Loed Archbishop of York. The Most Rev. the Lord Archbishop of Aemagh. The Most Rev. the Lord Archbishop of Dublin. The Most Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. The Most Hon. the Maequis of Lothian. The Right Hon. the Eael of Harrowby, K.G. The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. The Right Hon. the Lord Selborne. The Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London. Ihe Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bangor. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chichester. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ely. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lincoln. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Llandaff. The Riglit Rev. the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. Albans. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. David's. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Truro. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. The Right Hon. and Most Rev. the Lord Bishop of Meath. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Moray and Ross, Primus. The Right Rev. tlie Lord Bishop of Argyll and the Isles. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. Andrew's, etc. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Adelaide. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Antigua. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Auckland. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Barbados. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bloemfontein. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Brisbane. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Columbia. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Dunedin. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Fredericton. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gibraltar. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Guiana. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Kingston. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Melanesia. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Melbourne. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Pretoria. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Rangoon. The Right Rev. the Bishop of Iowa. The Right Rev. the Bishop of Maryland. The Right Rev. the Bishop of North Caeolina. The Right Rev. tlie Assistant Bishop of Noeth Carolina. The Right Rev. the Bishop of Pennsylvania. The Right Rev. the Bishop of Pittsburg. The Right Rev. the Bishop of Tennessee. The Right Rev. the Bishop of Western New York. The Right Rev. the Bishop of Haiti. The Right Rev. Bishop Abraham. The Right Rev. Bishop Chapman. The Right Rev. Bishop Hobhouse. The Right Rev. Bishop MacDougall. The Right Rev. Bishop Tufnell. The Right Rev. Bishop Southgate. 12 ANGLO-OONTINENTAL SOCIETY. Episcopal Referees. The Most Rev. the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The Most Rev. the Lord Archbishop of York. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bangor. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield. Book Committee. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, Riseholme. Rev. the Lord Charles A. Hervey, M.A., Rector of Chesterford, Rev. W. Kay, D.D., Rector of Great Leighs, Chelmsford. Rev. E. C. WooLLCOMBE, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, Rev. Frederick Meyrick, M.A., Rector of Blichling, Aylsham. Chris. Benson, Esq., German. Rev. Dr. Camilleri, Italian. Rev. C. G. Curtis, Armenian. Rev. F. S. May, Scandinavian. Editors. Rev. F. Meyrick, Latin. Rev. M. Powley, Spanish. Wm. Talmadge, Esq., French. General Committee. AiNSLiE, Rev. H. Anson, Ven. Archdeacon. Badgek, Rev. Geor;j;e P., D.C.L. Bailey, Rev. Henry, D.D. Blunt, Rev. Walter. Bullock, Rev. Prebendary. Clark, Rev. Prebendary. Cobb, J. F., Esq. CuoK, Rev. Canon. Cooper, Rev. J. E. Cree, Rev. E. D. Darling, Rev. T. Davies, Rev. John. Dawson, Rev. A. A. Denton, Rev. William. Du BouLAY, Rev. J. T. H. Du Port, Rev. J. M. Emery, Ven. Archdeacon. Farquhar, Sir Walter, Bt. Finch, Rev. F. C, LL.D. France, J. F., Esq. Gibbings, Rev. Professor, D.D. Goring, Rev. John. Grey, Hon. and Rev. John. Hardie, Rev. J. Hessey, Ven. Archdeacon. Hope, A. J. B. Beresford, Esq., M.P. Howell, Rev. Canon. Hubbard, Right Hon. J. G., M.P. Jackson, Rev. Edward. Jacob, Ven. Archdeacon. James, Rev. John. Jeffreys, Rev. Canon. Keble College, Rev. the Warden of. Lee, Rev. Alfred T., LL.D. Le Mesurier, Rev. J. Lias, Rev. Professor. Lichfield, Very Rev. the Dean of. Lightfoot, Rev. Canon. Long, Rev. James. Mayor, Rev. Professor. More, R. Jasper, Esq. Nevill, Ven. Archdeacon. Nicholson, Rev. A., LL.D. Oldham, Rev. R. S. Ouseley, Rev. Sir F. A. G., Bart. Plummer, Rev. A. Rice, Rev. C. H. RiviNGTON, John, Esq. Rust, Rev. J. Cyprian. ScRATTON, Rev. G. Sharpe, J. C, Esq. Stracey, Rev. W. J. Stuart, Lieut.-General. SwAiNSON, Rev. Professor. Sweet, Rev. J. Bradby. Thompson, Rev. A. TooKE, Rev. T. H. Townsend, Rev. G. F., D.D. Turner, Thomas, Esq. Verney, Sir H., Bart. Vernon, Rev. H. John. Walker, John, Esq. Wayne, Rev. E. F. White, F. A., Esq. Wordsavorth, Rev. Canon. York, Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of. OFFICERS. 13 Secretaries. Rev. Frederick Meyrtck, BUckling, Aylsham. Rev, the Lord Charles A. Hervey, Great Chesterford, Essex. Wm. Talmadge, Esq., 135, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, for France. Ven. Archdeacon Huxtable, Sutton Waldron, Shaftesbury, \ ^ j. ■, Rev. R. J. Nevin, D.D., 39, Via^della Mercede, Borne, / *^^ ^^^^y* Rev. Matthew Powley, Beading, for Spain. Rev. G. E. Broade, 36, Feld Strasse, Dusseldorf, for Germany. C. H. E. Carmichael, Esq., 46, Coleshill Street, London, for Switzerland. Rev. F. S. May, 32, Craven Boad, London, W., for Scandinavia. Rev. C. R. Hale, D.D., 239, Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, for America. Treasurers. Thomas Copeman, Esq., TJ'p'per Clapton, London. Rev. Canon Wade, St. Ann's, Soho, London. Messrs. Riving ton, 3, Waterloo Place, London. Messrs. Coutts' Bank, Strand, London. T. Parry Woodcock, Esq., 64, Seymour Street, London, for Italy. Messrs. Hoare's Bank, Fleet Street, London, for Italy. Rev. F. S. May, 32, Craven Boad, London, W., for Scandinavia. Auditor. M. Burrows, Esq., M. A., Chichele Professor of Modern History, Oxford. Corresponding Secretaries. Addison, Rev. W. F., G-ihraltar. Bayly, Rev. E., Genoa. Benson, Chris., Esq., Wiesbaden. Blomefield, Rev. C. D., Munich. Boys, Rev. H. A., Algiers. Crofts, Rev. J. D. M., Bonn. Curtis, Rev. C. G., Constantinople. Davis, Rev. E. J., Alexandria. Gilderdale, Rev. J. S., Dresden. Hamilton, Rev. C, Quebec. Henry, Rev. Joseph, D.D., Lima. Hill, Rev. J., D.D., Athens. Hughes, Rev. J. W. C, Corfu. Jones, Rev. Pierre E., Haiti. Meade, Rev. W. S., King George's Sound, Western Australia. Mereweather, Rev. J. D., Venice. O'Callaghan, Rev. R. C. G., Trieste. Page, G. D., Esq., Malta. Parker, J. H., Esq., C.B., Borne. RoLFE, Rev. Canon, Cannes. Scott, Rev. T. S., Malaga. ToPHAM, J. T., Esq., Canary Isles. Sidebotham, Rev. Canon, Menton. White, Rev. T. A. S., Baden Baden. Local Secretaries and Treasurers. Bailey, Rev. H. R., Brentwood. Bandinel, Rev. J., Wakefield. Barnes, Rev. Prebendary, Exeter. Davidson, Rev. B. C, Dublin. Drummond, Rev. S. R., Brighton. Eaton, Rev. Canon, Chester. GoLDiNG, Rev. H., Colchester. Gordon, Rev. R. A., Boyston. HosTE, Rev. P., Farnham. Lea, Rev. Canon, Droitwich. Meade, Rev. W. E., Ardtrea, Stewarts- i town, Ireland. 1 The Patrons, and all the above-named OflGicers, etc., are ex officio Members of the General Committee. Pearson, Rev. E. L., Little Ahingtony Cambridge. Pickance, Rev. J. W., Beigate. Potter, Rev. Canon, Ipswich. PuRSELL, Rev. J. R., Harlow. Sleeman, Ven. Archdeacon, Maindee, Newport, Monmouthshire. Tatham, Rev. G. E., Fakenham. Thompson, Rev. J. H., Datchet, Windsor. ( 14 ) APPEAL. The income of the Society for the past year amounted to 1167/. 5s. 9d; its expenditure to 1234/. 2s. U. The Com- mittee feel justified in urging the claims of the Society upon members of the Church of England and the daughter churches. It has been the aim of the Society to serve as the organ of the Church in dealing with foreign Christendom, and for twenty-four years it has been quietly carrying out its object. The Committee are aware that their appeal will find no response in those persons who confine their sx3iritual and ecclesiastical interests within the boundaries of Great Britain. But is this in accordance with the dictates of Christian love ? Nay, is it not possible that it may be equally unac- cordant with the true welfare of that body which is thus jealously singled out for regard? Has not a home battle sometimes to be fought abroad ? Eome was saved by Scipio's fighting, not in Italy, but in Spain and Africa. Is it not possible that the progress of Popery throughout the world, and therefore finally in England, may be more successfully checked by a counter-movement in Italy, Germany, Switzer- land, France, Mexico, than by a mere front-to-front contest in England itself ? But we take a wider and less insulated position than this. No thoughtful man can look out on the Continent of Europe without seeing that there are two tremendous forces arrayed against each other, with neither of which can an English Churchman sympathise. These are Ultramontanism and Atheism. Man must have religion, and if the necessity is forced upon mankind of taking a choice between these two causes, Ultramontanism will never want adherents, and by this adhesion, however unwillingly yielded, it will acquire power to dominate spiritually and politically over Europe. Old APPEAL. 15 Catholicism is a protest against the dichotomy of the religious world on the Continent into Ultramontanism and Atheism. It declares aloud that there is a middle path, the path of manly Christian faith, which was trodden by Primitive Christians. The hope of Christian Europe appears to rest on the progress of a de-Vaticanised Catholicism and a de- Eationalised Protestantism, which there is every reason to believe would after a time find themselves capable of uniting on the platform of Scriptural truth witnessed to by the Church. Can English Churchmen help forward such a movement ? Spiritual movements are effected by spiritual forces, and one of the strongest of these spiritual forces is sympathy. This we can bestow. This the Anglo-Continental Society is bestowing. During the first years of its existence, its attention was chiefly directed to Italy, where a great religious movement, long delayed by political causes, may be confidently expected, as soon as the time for it has fully come. Latterly it has more engaged in the work of holding com- munication with the Old Catholics of Germany and Switzer- land. It has done this by placing books illustrative of Anglican theology in their hands ; by friendly correspondence with them on controverted topics ; by employing a specially qualified agent as secretary, whose duty it is to make known the doctrines and rites of the Old Catholics to AngUcans and of Anglicans to Old Catholics ; by taking an active part in the Bonn Conferences; by holding the Conference at Farnham; and by exhibiting practical sympathy in such ways as have offered themselves, especially by supporting two theological students at Bonn, and two at Berne. At the present moment it is co-operating with Pere Hyacinthe Loyson in his effort to recall Frenchmen to the principles and practices of the ancient Galilean Church before it was corrupted by Papal innovations. It has held out a friendly hand to the German Lutherans who are maintaining a struggle for orthodox doctrine and 16 ANGLO-OONTINENTAL SOCIETY. ecclesiastical discipline, in opposition to rationalistic ten- dencies. It has done something towards making the Oriental Church — a most important factor in the future of the religion of Europe and of the world — better understood, in its excel- lences and its weaknesses, by English Churchmen, and the English Church better understood by Orientals. This better understanding has been wrought not only by an interchange of thought at Bonn, but by a correspondence kept up during the last few years with some of the most enlightened and learned members of the Eastern Church, An account of the work of the Society during the past and the present year, as well as information as to the religious state of the churches and religious communities of Europe, has been and will be given in the ' Foreign Church Chronicle,' published by Mr. Wells Gardner, 2, Paternoster Buildings, London, for which periodical increased support is invited. The annual subscription to it is 55. The Eeport of the Society for 1878 will be found in the December No. of the ' Foreign Church Chronicle/ ^ The patient work of the Committee, faithfully carrying out the main object with which the Society was founded, in a spirit of entire loyalty to the Church of England, has framed an organization, which in God's providence appears designed to exercise, in the present condition of Christendom, a far more extensive influence than can have been anticipated twenty-four years ago. Those who think the cause a good one, and worthy of support, are requested to communicate with the Eev. Frederick Meyrick, Blickling Eectory, Aylsham, Norfolk, Secretary; Thomas Copeman, Esq., Upper Clapton, London, Treasurer ; or Local Secretary ; who will gladly supply any further informa- tion. * "We wish this very valuable magazine might be in the hands of our clergy and laity generally."— iJe^Jorf of a Committee of the Convention of the American Church. «r*' #' ^.^ »'^ tz .4.-^ ?i i' >^i;