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"THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH."

Dr. Gregg, in the course of a reply to the Bishop of St. Albania,'says that in hia letter of the 6th current, hia Lordship had no doubt unintentionally, made two mistakes as to facts—namely, that the Bishop through whom' he (Dr. Gregg) received the historical succession "lay under prohibition," and tbat V none of the American Bishops had ever recognised as valid his episcopal acts after his secession. Both these statements were contrary to fact. Intelligent persons were asking what was the character and what was the cause of the existence of the Reformed Episcopal Church in this land. Its character was Protestant, Evangelical, Beformed, Episcopal. Its Bishops professed to be successors of Cranmer, Kidley, and Latimer, and were not ashamed to avow their principle!. The Beformed Episcopal Church was not a new Nonconformist body, but a real branch of the Church, carried on upon Evangelioal Church principles. The recent attacks upon it by Bishops have-done much to rouse the dormant spirit of Protestantism. This was still the land of a Wickliffe, a Chalmers, and a Knox, and, lie trusted that we might be spared to see the United Kingdom once again stirred by the principles of the Protestant Beforma* tion from Land's End to John Groat's house, and from Southend to Coanemara. What the people of Scotland had done through the Free Church there, that the people of England and of Ireland also could do through the Beformed Episcopal Church. Bomanism and Bomanizing in the Church of England were, carried on with the connivance and at times with the approval of some of her Bishops. When Bishops allowed Boman* ism to scatter their flocks and raised their voice against a Church whose greatest crime in their eyes was its Protestantism, the time had come when to be silent is to

be guilty.

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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3133, 4 March 1879, Page 2

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"THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH." Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3133, 4 March 1879, Page 2

"THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH." Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3133, 4 March 1879, Page 2

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