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i’?‘ MacFarlane Co. 2 DURHAM CHRONICLE England can truce up his spiritual gen- e‘logyffroln histh to hishop so far back as the time of the Conquest. There remain many renturies during which the transmission of his orders is buried in utter darkness. And whether he he a priest hy succession from the Apostles depends on the question. whether during that long period. some thoixsunds of events took place. any one of which may, without my gross improhahility. he supposed not to have taken place. “'e have not a tittle of evidence for any one of these events. \\'e do not even know the names or countries of the men to whom it is taken for granted that these events happened. “'e do not know whether the spiritual ancestors of any one of our contemporaries were Wish or Armenian, Arian or Orth- .301. In the utter absence of all par- “lar evidence. we are surely entitled 'bnqnire that there should be very . evidence indeed that the strict- ” ' Wt!" ohuu'yed inevery ~. ._ . and that epieeoeal func- .. Whymewhowere %' “ ' . by new an the i juteehve no um.- The extract above referred toisas follows :â€" “The transmission of orders from the Apostles to an English clergyman of the present day must have been through a very great number of inter- med§ate persons. Now, it is probable that no clergyman in the Church of This week I have contented myself with quoting an extract from the Es- say of Lord Macaulay on “Gladstone On Church and State." as a sufficient refutation of Reader‘s claim that the Anglican church was guided through the violent commotions of the Reform- ation period with “Unbroken Contin- uityâ€"undoubted historic continuity withthe past "â€"in other words that the churchzhas the true Apostolic Success- ion. The Essay can doubtless be had in the Public Library and will repay a careful reading by anyone interested in some of the claims ofithe Church in this regard. Next week, I shall en- deavor to give some proofs to show that Reader is somewhat-at-sea as to the origin of Ecclesiastical Vestments in general and of some of them in par-\ ticular. Having been formally years a some- what indifl'erent (except as to facts) student of early church history, I am considerably surprised at some of the statements and inferem-es of your cor- respondent. \Vlzere he gets his auth- ority for them I know not, unless a rich and lively inmgination, assisted by personal leanings. he freely at his disposal. I hope to give him in this and following letters my reasons for thinking he is mistaken, hacked by such proofs as lie at hand, and I feel sure that a broader. deeper study of the works of his own church writers, without going beyond, will convince him, if heme open to conviction. that I am right. DEAR EDITOR,â€"â€"l have again waited for Reader to continue the series of interestinglnrtieles upon his beloved church so that I could reply to them or remark upon them together to save We and time. As no further letter appears, I wish to say a word or two on the points intnxlueed in his last latter lest it might be supposed that there was hut one sideâ€"namely Read- er’sâ€"to those questions. DURHAM, JULY 3RD, 1902. Unequdlod for Restoring, Strength- Oling and Betutifying the Hair rendering it soft, silky and glossy. IT IS NOT A DYE lamhert’s. . APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION. W. IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. Dwoms'rs AND Booxsnmns. But it stimulates the Hair follicles, so that the natural coloring principle of the hair is readily restored. a Bottle. TRY IT! SOLE AGENTS HAIR : : : RESTORER f Since the first century. not less, in all probability. than a hundred thous- and persons have exercised the func- tions of bishops. That many of these have not been bishops by apostolical succession is quite certain. Hooker admits that deviations from the gener- a1 rule have been frequent, and with a boldness Worthy of his high and statesmanlike intellect. pronounces them often to he justifiable. “There may he.” says he, “something very just and sufficient reason to allow or- dination made without a bishop. \Vhere the Church must needs have some ordained, and neither hath nor can have possibly a bishop to ordain, in case of such necessity the ordinary: institution of God hath given often- times, and may-giveplace. And there- fore we are not simply Without excep-i tion to urge a lineal descent of power from the Apostles by continued suc- cession of bishops in every efiectual ordination.” There can be little doubt. we think, that the succession, if it ever existed, has often been interrupt- ed in ways much less respectable. For example. let us suppose, and we are sure that no welloinformed person will think the supposition by my means improbable, M in thothird century, amndnopfinciple “whom Fl!" ‘99 *- We-w-d sminsm were mere boys, and who rivalled the frantic dissoluteness of Caligula, nay, of afemale pope. And though this last story. once believed throughout all Europe, has been disproved by the strict researches of modern criticism, the most discerning of those who re- ’ ject it have admitted that it is not in- ‘ triusically improbable. .11) our own i island, it was the complaint of Alfred that not a priest south of the Thames, ’ and very few on the north, could read I either Latin or English. And this il- iliterate. clergy exercised their minis- ‘try amidst a rude and half-heathen population, in which Danish pirates, _ unchristened, or christened by the hundreds on a field of battle, were mingled with a Saxon peasantry ‘ scarcely better instructed in religion. 'The state of Ireland was still worse. “Toto illa per universam Hiberniam dissolutio ecclesiasticze disciplina', illa ubique pro consuetudine Christiana szeva subintroducta barbaries,” are the expressions of St. Bernard. W'e are, therefore, at a loss to conceive how any clergyman can feel confident that his orders have come down correctly. \Vhether he be really a successor of the Apostles depends on an immense number of such contingenciesas these; whether, under King Ethelwolf, a stupid priest might not, while baptiz- ing several scores of Danish prisoners who had just made their option be: tween the font and the gallows, inadC vertently omit to perform the rite on one of these graceless proselytes; whether. in the seventh century, an impostor, who had never received con- secration, might not have passed him- self off as a bishop on a rude tribe of Scots; whether a lad of twelve did re- ally, by a ceremony huddled over when ' he was too drunk to know what he was about, convey the episcopal char- acter to a lad of ten. the Apostles, cannot be proved by con temporary testimony, or by any testimony which can be regarded as decisive. The question, whether the primitive ecclesiastical constitution bore a greater resemblance to the An- glican or to the Calvinistic model has been fiercly disputed. It is a question on which men of eminent parts, learn- ing, and piety have difiersd, and do to this day differ very widely. It is a question on which at least a full half of the ability and erudition of Protest- ant Europe has, ever since the Reform- ation, been opposed to the Anglican pretensions. Mr. Gladstone himself, we are persuaded, would have the can. dor to allow that, if no evidence were ‘ admitted but that which is furnished by the genuine Christian literature of the first two centuries, judgment would not go in favor of prelacy. And if he ‘ looked at the subject as calmly as he i would look at a controversy respecting 1 the Roman Comitia or the Anglo-Sax- on .Wittengemote, he wouid probably think that the absence of contempor- ary evidence during so long a period was a defect which later attestations, however numerous, could but imper- fectly supply. It is surely impolitic to rest the doctrines of the English Church on a historical theory which, to ninety-nine Protestants out of a hundred, would seem much more questionable than any of those doc- trines. Nor is this all. Extreme ob- scurity overhangs the history of the ‘ middle ages ; and the facts which are discernable through that obscurity proves that the Church was exceeding- ly ill-regulated. \Ve read of sees of the highest dignity openly sold, trans- ferred backwards and forwards by popular tumult, bestowed sometimes by a protligate woman on her para- mour, sometiim-s by a warlikebaron on a kinsman still a stripling. \Ve read of bishops of ten years old. of bishops of five years old, of many popes who full and accurate information touching the policy of the Church during the century which followed the persecu- tion of Nero. That. during this period. the overseers of all the little Christian societies scattered through the Roman empire. held their spiritual authority by virtue of holy orders derived from "v“ US one . He‘lxaé n3 headachee 3c); kidne tron 0, but is enjoying perfect health. { can honestly recommend these Tablets to unyono having my trouble with their L- -L- 9) PLASTEIS I0 9000. Mrs. Mary Wilson, livin on Albert Street, Sarnia, Ont., has 00 deuce in Dr. Pitcher’s Backache Kidney Tablets. Her son Geo e, employed as a machinist on the Gran Trunk RR, has been cured of lumbago by using them. Mrs. Wilson said: “Dr. Pitcher’s Backache Kidney Tablets that I brought my son from Geary’s drug store has cured him of that constant pain and lameness in the back that caused him the greatest misery. He had tried plasters an other remedies, but nothing gave him the rmanent relief obtained from these Tab ets. The whole dificulty has quite dimppeared and with it the mannanyingyearmess and lack of Dr. Pitcher’ s Backache Kidney Tablets have proved themselves the greatest benefactors of all classes of railroad men. They give ease to the aching, sore back, clear up the urine, relieve the scalding and burning, and impart new life and vitality to the urinary organs. to change of weather and tempera- ture very hard on their back and kidneys. There are few railroadmen who do not complain of kidney trouble in some form. ()hillingworth states the eonelusion at which he has arrived on this sub- jeet in these very remarkable words: “That of ten thousand prohahles no one should he false; that of ten thous- and requisites, whereof any one may fail, not one should be wanting, this to me. is extremely improbable, and even (rousin-german to impossible. So that the assurance hereof is like a machine composed of an innumerablemultitmle of pieces, of which it is strangely 1m- likely but some will be. out of order; and yet, it' any one he so, the whole fahrie falls of necessity to the ground : and he that shall put them together, and maturely consider all the possible ways of lapsing and nullifying a priest- hood in the Church of Rome, will be very inelinahle to think that it is a hundred to one, that among a hun- dred seeming priests, there is not one true one; nay, that it is nota thing very improbable that, amongst those many millions which make up the Romish hierarchy, there are not twenty true.” We do pretend to know Now, suppose that a break, such as Hooker admits to have been both com- mon and justifiable, or suchas we have supposed to be produced by hypocrisy and cupidity, were found in the chain which connected the Apostles with } any of the missionaries who first spread F Christianity in the wilder parts of Europe, who can say how extensive the effect of this single break may be? Suppose that St. Patrick, for example, if ever there was such a man, or Theo- dore of Tarsus, who is said to have consecrated in the seventh century the first bishops of many English sees, had not the true apostolical orders, is it not conceivable that such a circum- stance may at’fect the orders of many clergymen now living ? Even if it were possible, which it assuredly is! not, to prove that the Church had the? apostolical orders in the third century, ‘ it would be impossible to prove that 1 those orders were not in the. twelfth century so far lost that no ecclesiastic could be certain of the legitimate descent of his own spiritual Character. And if this were so, no subsequent precautions could repair the. evil. discreditable life, been a catechumen at Antioch, and has there become fa,- miliar with Christian usages and doc- trines, afterwards rambles to Marseil- les, where he finds a Christian society, rich, liberal and simple-hearted. He pretends to be a Christain, attracts notice by his abilities and affected zeal, and is raised to the episcopal dignity without having ever' been baptized. That such an event might happen, nay, was very likely to happen, cannot well be disputed by any one who has read the Life of Peregrinus. The very virtues, indeed, which distinguished the early Christians, seem to have laid them open to those arts which de- ceiv ed “ Uriel, though Regent of the Sun, and held The sharp-sighted spirit of all in Heaven." Now this unbaptised impostor is evidently no successor of the Apostles. He is not even a Christian; and all orders derived through such a pretend- ed bishop are altogether invalid. Do we know enough of the state of the world and of the Church in the third century to be able to say with confid- ence that there were not at that time twenty such pretended bishops ? Every such case makes a break in" the apostolical succession. Dr. Pitcher’s Railroad Men’s Backache. Men who work on the railroad whether in the capacity ,of engineers, firemen, ma- chinists or traekmen, find that the heavy work they do and the exposure and tempera- Will be at the Middaugh Home lat We of each man th,fmm2t06p.m. Lam Ania-taut Roy. Londn n Ophthalmic Hos Eng" and toGolden Sq. Th mat and N030 Hm The Priceville Gar: postponed till July 4th Why. somewna t injured, but Mary with 'a good shaking up. The entertainment held in Ebenez- er church last Tuesday evening was quite a success. The progaam con- sisted of music, addresses. readings, recitations, etc. Everyone enjoyed Rev. W. R. Smith’s illustrated ad- dresses. After the program Mr. Wm. Ramage was presented with an chairs. as got '03 very suitable reply, thanking all {or their kindness to him. While driving over Hooper’s hills about a week ago. Geo. and Mary Hargrave happened with what might have been a very serious accident. The horse became frightened at. Mr. Thos. Hornsby wiis visiting friends in Owen Sound last. week. The roads in this vicinity were greatly improved last week by the use of tee township road grader. Another ridiculous food fad has been branded by the most competent authorities. They have dispelled the silly notion that one kind of food is needed for brain. another for muscles. and still another for bones. A cor- rect diet will not only nourish a par- ticular part of the body. but it will sustain every other part. Yet. how- nutriment is destroyed by indigestion or dyspepsia. You must prepare for their appearance or prevent their coming by taking doses of Green’s August Flower. the favorite medicine of the healthy millions. A few doses aids digestion. stimulates the liver to healthy action. purifies the blood and makes you feel buoyant and vigor- ous. You can get this reliable reme- dy at Darling’s Drug Store. had apostolical orders, how can he possibly call upon us to submit our private judgment to the authority of a Church on the ground that she has these orders? That the founders, lay and clerical, of the Church of England, corrected all that required correction in the doc- trines of the Church of Rome, and , nothing more, may be quite true. But I we never can admit the circumstances that the Church of England possesses ' the apostolical succession as a proof ’ that she is thus perfect. No stream T can rise higher than its fountain. The succession of ministers in the Church of England, derived as it is through the Church of Rome, can never prove more for the Church of England than it proves for the Church of Rome. But this is not all. The Arian Churches which once predomin- ated in the kingdom of the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, the Burgundians, the Vandals, and the Lombards, were all episcopal churches, and all had a fairer claim than that of England to the apostolical succession, as being much nearer to the apostolical times. In the East, the Greek Churches whichis at variance on points of faith with all the \Vestern Churche, has an equal claim to this succession. The Nestor- ian, the Eutychian, the Jacobite Chur- ches, all heretical, all condemned by councils, of which even Protestant (li- , vines have generally spoken with re-: spect, had an equal claim to the apos- tolical SllCLft’SSitlll. Now, if, of teachers I having apostolical orders, a vast ina-i jority have taught much error, if a: large proportion have, taught deadly heresy, if, on the other hand, as Mr. Gladstone himself admits, churches not having apostrflieal orders, that of Scotland for example, have been near- er to the standard of orthodoxy than the majority .of teachers who have And, after all, if Mr. Gladstone could prove the apostolical succession, what would the apostolical succession prove? He says that “ we have among us the ordained hereditary witnesses of the truth, conveying it to us through an unbroken series from our Lord Jesus Christ and his Apostles.” Is this the fact. Is there any doubt that the or- ders of the Church of England are gen- erally derived from the Church of Rome? Does not the Church of Eng- land declare, does not Mr. Gladstone himself admit, that the Church of Rome teaches ~much error and con- demns much truth? And is it not quite clear, that as faras the doctrines of the Church of England differ from those of the Church of Rome, so far the Church of England conveys the truth through a broken series? to what precise extent the canonists of Oxford agree with those of Rome as to the circumstances which nullify orders. We will not, therefore, go so far as Chillingworth. We only say that we see no satisfactory proof of the fact, that the Church of England possesses the apostolical succession. It: Eye. Ear. Throat and N039 Brain-Food Nonsense. GLENMON T. EXCLUSIVELY 0.9 J] ‘ AM“. rarty is We wonder THE PEOPLE’S MILLS . . PARKER’S DRUG STORE. D- Campbell, - Durham, Ont. SEEDS ! SEEDS ! 80 "'v- ”vuulurflc“ “ell” e [“8 null!“ Danator and Famous '1 hreshers made by Whim Son R. MCGOWAN. of Turnip, Mange]. Corn and other Leading Seeds at We’ve also got our new Chopper in my class running order. and have 0. lugs quantity of Chop- ped Corn. Wheat. etc. on hind. Give our Break- hot. I. trial. It’s good. 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