THE HOMEWARD MOVEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9726, 23 January 1895, Page 6

THE HOMEWARD MOVEMENT.

' . TO THE EDITOR, bra,— Your correspondent, "C.W.R.," is nob happy in his defence of the English Church Union. He says, "I hare nob the least / affection for the '■; Romish Church." Very good. Bub what does Cardinal Vaughan say of the High Church party, in his latest letter to the Cardinal-Archbishop of Toledo:— " If we consider the wonderful change which has recently' taken place in the Established (Protestant) Church in all parts of the country in matters of Catholic,

i doctrines practices, which wereform. i • denounce! id even held up to derision I . we exami ie marvellous communicati' • presented our Eminence by Lord Halif in the nat I a multitude of adherents respectful full of Catholic sentiment that it set ' necessary to me to warn v Eminence b it had no Catholic origin °* we consic .11 this and more of a finvi character ely a good foundation «*!.?' for hopii that there is now the in r i nation m tary for the reception 0 great ac it. of grace, and we D |„*} i that this clination may ripen to fn maturity. C.W.R. "considers the En*lui! Church ' m has 'a mission to in v ! Christeric The assumption is in a sen amazing, owever, let a higher authorit" on the qu on than myself speak. Th the Care 1 Archbishop of Toledo " Withou i* universal headship of tiT Roman I iff, and . consequently witho ! the infalli authority and teaching of n, faith of P :, Catholicism is not conceb able. Fo i both sides aspire to the till of Caftholi they clearly show that tra Christian >fession has no real existen ' outside tl sentre where, all can unite T brotherho under the direction and conns"! tf one cou on Father. Ut omnes itnumsint 'that all iy bo one," was the standard of P>ce, of i rcy, of love, and of grace which JeejsChrl raised up to give life to th hunan rarf— redeemed ones—and lif 8 in a \undice— Ut vitam hbeant tt dbun dantt* hckant." I commend the last two lines CtW above quotation to all who 1 0? ! Christy Sncerity.—l am, efc., E.P.q,