A. J. B. Beresford Hope

“ So, too, I believe the 24th Canon leaves the ornaments rubric unrepealed, while it prescribes the minimum use of vestments, namely in cathedrals and collegiate churches. If the 24th Canon is read attentively in connection with the 25th, it will be seen that it does not order that "copes" and the dresses "agreeably" worn by Epistler and Gospeller shall only be the costume at the principal feasts, but that on those feasts the Bishop, Dean, or some Canon or Prebendary (and not a minor Canon) , shall always be the celebrant, and shall therefore be so attired. ”

“ I do not believe that the adoption or rejection of distinctive dresses for the celebrant and assistants at the Holy Communion in parish churches, or the adoption of lights (irrespective of their practical need) at the same holy ordinance, can, in the present state of feeling among Churchmen, be left to adjust itself irrespective of some superior and controlling jurisdiction. ”

“ THE increased appreciation of ceremonial and art in the worship of the English Church within the last forty years is intimately connected with the higher tone of spiritual life, more thorough grasp of dogma, and wider munificence in giving to sacred purposes also characteristic of the period. ”

“ The Archdeacons may perform the task of collecting them and embodying them in a form to lay before the Bishop, unless, indeed, they may, in this or that case, find themselves in the position of being at once informants and prosecutors.
We have now come back to the point at which we always find ourselves, after all—the great unfairness of constituting a one-sided tribunal for the redress of supposed infractions of the Rubrical law only upon the side which has happened to offend Lord John Russell, Mr. ”

“ Speaking generally of these two rites, they quite stand the test of being capable of proof, irrespective of Roman usage. Even conceding that the pre-reformational English Church must in ceremonial matters be reckoned as a branch of the Roman communion, vestments are found not only in the Eastern Churches, but in the Protestant Churches of Scandinavia, and altar-lights in the latter, as well as in the Lutheran and "Evangelical" Churches of Germany ”

“ That the later usage, observed by the English Church before the Reformation, and by those members of it since who have taken the west side, is not, as falsely alleged, an attitude of turning his back to the people, but one of facing the same way as the people, of whom the priest is the præses and representative. ”

“ Qui s'excuse s'accuse. The "recent measures of the Pope" are so easily, viewed political1y, to be confounded with at least the division of Scotland, as to be absolutely and entirely parallel with it, and accordingly Lord John's his- torical knowledge made him uneasy, and led him to blurt out what is, in point of fact, a refutation of his whole letter. ”

“ I trust we have heard the last of so unfortunate a con- trivance fiS this publication would infallibly turn out, to kindle strife vhere harmony may nov exist, to subject honest men to the torment of a divided conscience, and to compel them to Inake questions, now in solution, matters of principle, and to fight for theln as such, without the hope of an accom- 11lodation. ”

“ But the principle underlying the rubric of 1549 and the Canons of 1603 is confessedly the same, that of doing the highest material honour to Almighty God at the highest act of worship. Thus the question is reduced to a very narrow issue, not of principle, but of detail. "Does the 24th Canon contemplate a maximum or a minimum use of the given ceremonial?" At this point surely negotiation may come in ”

“ XXIX. Lord John Russell, Low Churchmen, and the Bishops . . . 150 LETTERS ON CHURCH MATTERS. - I. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AXD SCOTCH EPISCOPACY. Nov. 25, 1850. IN Lord John Russell's sufficiently notorious letter to the Bishop of Durhan1 upon the new Papal hierarchy occurs the following passage: -" It is impossible to confound the recent measures of the Pope with the division of Scotland into dioceses by the Episcopal Church, or the arrangement of districts in England by the 'Wesleyan Conference." ”

“ Thus, sir-to return to the point fro111 vhich I started- the Russell revel ended, all parties but the "large party" of High Churchnlen find thelnselves in their vrong place, with vrong allies, and ahning after bnpossible results. The "large part:r" itself was at first adopting some erroneous policy, but it corrected itself just at the right tÍ1ne. Churchmen vill have enough to make theln fearful for the future ”