THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 14631, 29 July 1911, Page 4

THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

AND PURITAN. May 28, at Edinburgh, Canon Henlivared the Lee lecture, is tfie course tch. he said re ware forces coming into play ware not friendly to a continuance ircomnmaion between the Church of id and the other Reformed Churches, sae it must suffice to indicate but The coarse of political affairs erad beyond all precedent the relations ►Ream and Puritans. Still more unfortunate, because in its influence more lasting, was the effect of the controversy with the Roman Chmch, which was never more rigorously earned on than during S' temporary eclipse of the Church of f' „ England. Tee properly secondary quesp' ■ nop of polity was raised to the rank of an . essential, and the Anglican apologists, al |;V'v mo?t in spite of themselves, contracted f, from contact with the Roman adversary a habit and a temper which were incompatible with the larger and more reason- {■ able Protestantism of the previous period. No Churchman of that age would ever •->. have the Church of England as a ’teri&im quid in Western Christendom, jieither Papal nor Protestant; the via 1 jaedia df Anglicanism was never under- » , Jfcood m that sense. When, on Christmas ; ‘ J?»y, 1669, Bishop Hacket dedicated the f restored Cathedral of Lichlield amid great demonstrations of joy and loyalty, he in1, eluded in the special prayers of dedication *. the significant petition : “ Let the ’ true Protestant religion be celebrated in it ns ' long as the sun and moon endure.” Bishop tv Wilson, who carried into a changed world the fervors of Caroline Churchmanship. was accustomed to pray for a blessing on ? ; “all file Reformed Churches” in the prayer which preceded his sermon. It is i one of the ironies of history that within a single generation the persecuting Anglicans should have had to appeal for rescue to the foreign Protestants. The substitution in the Prayer Books of William for 5 James implied the definite repudiation of ! the fantastic theory of monarchical Anglicanism, which had grown from the twin roots of Tudor despotism and Laudian sacerdotalism. The mere fact that the Tender of European Protestant ism now heJ came the “Supreme Governor” of the Church of England reduced to absurdity ] the notion that that Church was other hj than, in the fullest sense, a Protestant “■ Church. The accession of the Elector of ‘ Hanover to the Throne of Groat Britain ji placed a Lutheran in the position of “ Sulk prams Governor” of the National Church, and thus provided another significant demonstration of its essentially Protestant I- character. |i‘. —The Present Situation. —

\ ■ Throughout the Protestant world there [ is active a tendency towards ecclesiastical fe- reunion. Within the English Church this * tendency is certainly present, but it is largely concealed by the new fervor with | which the discipi*.; of the Tractariaas exalt if the claims of episcopacy. We have re- , eently witnessed negotiations with the t * Lutheran Church of Sweden on the basis of its possessing the *• historic episcopate.” a Bins we are returning, though by a novel and drenitons route, to the earliest phase f( of our Reformation, and drawing nearer to the Lutheran Churches, la this way it may seem that the long alienation from onr historic allies, the Calvinist Churches France and Holland, may be in some tw** Ttnall degree counterbalanced by approaches to their ancient opponents. If f- the Church of England resumes communion with the Lutheran Church of Sweden t it will find itself thereby introduced to a I wider communion still.' The Church of England will resume communion with the u Protestant Churches as a whole as soon as f it joins hands with any one of them. The emphasis on the succession of the bishops is a new factor in the religious diplomacy af reformed Christendom. It may disr* e, but it cannot alter, the true cha’acof the policy on which the Church of England has entered. Meanwhile it is the right, and 1 apprehend also the clutof •very member of the Church i.f Eng'jnd who values the heritage of spiritual li'bertv implicit in his membership of a reformed Church to communicate with the other re- - formed Churches wherever and whenever opportunity to do so may be given him. • Bo doing, he will be true to the principles hi s om!

5 STUDENT' CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT -■ -.At-the Association Hail, Manchester, on May 25, addressee were delivered in support of the Student Christian Movement nf Great Britain and Ireland. The Rev. -Or J. Hope Moultan presided, and the ' .rpeakers were the Rev. Tissington Tatlow •’ md the Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil. The Chairman said this was one of the f nost extraordinary movements of our time, and was likely to accomplish a regenerative work for all churches alike. It had now girdled the globe, had brought together people from all the universities and colX fcgas of the world, and had bound them in J. «hoj , breaking down divisions between nations and between churches. ’ The Rev. Tissington Tatlow, general [' secretary, said the beginning of the movement in this country was in the eighties, r ! when there was a good deal of rulitrious * interest in various students’ centres which ■ were drawn together in 1832. It began t with Christian unions in 20 universities and- colleges in the British Isles. He referred to the founding of the union in ; the Manchester University in 1897, ana f" inentioned that there were now 150 unions in the United Kingdom, covering the entire college field, and with a total memberr, ship of about 10.C00. Their evangelistic p ' work was 'done not with a great deal of noise, but by the personal interest of those connected with the movement. Mr Tatlow 1 spoke also with gratification of-the excelIt lent results of the summer conferences svery year. The movement in this coim- "■. try was only one of thirteen similar movements in different countries. Ihe repreaentativee of the student federation had 1 met at their biennial conferences in Sweden, the United States, Germany, France, f. Japan, England, and (last year) at Coni’ stantioople, where they represented stuJ dent organisations from 40 different coimtl trine. Throughout the world there were i 8495 unions, numbering 148,000 students. While the income, which last year reached if £4,000, was not less than it had been, it f' wan inadequate for all the demands now nade; and there was really needed £5,000 id William Gascoyne-Cecil, in the pT: aourse of his address, said the world was f shrinking fast., .becoming a smaller place, k These were all sorts of new questions, new L positions. No Longer could we move in f, sections. The day was coming when the X- only movements which would have anv E; iSal vitality would be world movements X neh as this. Why the world’s students’ f - movement was so valuable was that it pi-o-il- noted unity among Christians, and in the ; £ght between Christianity and materialism for the control of civilisation, in which he ; was sure Christianity would dominate the If world, the old sectional movements would - lisappoar. The world would have to |r. choose between Christianity and mater r&Hsm. —Exchange. |‘ •’ A MINISTER’S COARSENESS. p- Addressing an open-air meeting, con--6 i risrhd by the LL.P. at Gainsborough I ' fEngd the other day, the Rev. W. R. y Qarke-Lewis, a member of the urban rl council and pastor of the local Unitarian i Church (now advertised as a “ Free Chriafe, riant Church”), made some coarse obeerea vatiooa in regard to the King. Mr ClarkoZsMcm, who is a Socialist, said he hoped i that iho oders of Gainsborough would i ‘ when they were enjoying a day’s “-spree,,”- that the “First Gentleman in f. was a “ waster.” The Kinst set IX tint'sßEmKaid -fc all “society butterflies.” K. : If ’ he’ wore a patch on-his trousers, all m [ “bOclety flunkeys ” would follow. But in * economic sense —as an employer—he hoped that the Bang would not be foll|s;,h&wed- Last year the King told the workp’BKn an the Balmoral Estate to look upon ||f: him as their real friend, and, taking him IIX-xt hie word, they had made an appeal to their" employer for a rise in wages of 2s was not on extravagant seeing that many of these men BXgptlS. a week in winter and 18s in sum- j HSaws ; «id were stopped for broken time. ~ m » efaSdce&’s hacking cough at night. Peppermint Core, Is fid, Ik Id.

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