The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Vol. 5 : A Monthly Journal, Under Episcopal Sanction, January to June, 1899 (Classic Reprint). Unknown Author
Excerpt from The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Vol. 5: A Monthly Journal, Under Episcopal Sanction, January to June, 1899
'It is truly said that the National Church of England in its foundation was a compromise between conflicting opinions. But in order that this compromise should be established on a firm and lasting basis it was necessary that it should rest in some national sanction. It is, of course, a question whether there should be a National Church at all; but if there is to be such a Church, it must be based on a national authority, and the only national authority which we recognise is that of the Crown and of Parliament. This principle was the bed-rock of the Reformation in the sixteenth century; and the three great pillars on which the reformed Church of England was reared were the Act of the Submission of the Clergy (25th Henry VIII.), the Act of Supremacy of the Crown, and the successive Acts of Uniformity of Public Worship and Doctrine.' - Sir William Harcourt, in The Times newspaper, Thursday, Sept. 22nd, 1898.
Never in the whole history of that work of human hands, the Church of England as by Law Established, has it been in greater or deadlier peril than to day, three hundred and fifty years from the date of its uprearing. Even the most casual observer of current events cannot fail to be impressed by the conflicting elements which at the present moment are rending the Anglican Church in twain, and which assuredly must end in the ejection of one or the other from within her pale, or else in the utter demolition of the fabric itself. As Plutarch has it, Varietas religionis, dissolutio religionis.
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