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BISHOP KEXNTON AND 'CON-
TINUITY.'
TO Till BDITOR.
Sir— 'For modes of faith let rraceless
zealots fight,' might have been said with
authority byanyosber Pope than Alexander
o' that ilk. and it is smusine to notice its apt
ness after readme the letters of 'Two and
Two Mako Four' and a 'Discordant Har
mony,' in to-day's Reyistir. Bishop Konnion
is too capable a controversial!*! to need help
in the diecuciion provoked t-y hii words in the
Synod, and distort calconbrmaiion is toacloarto
need mention, liowevt-r, it does striki- a reader
thai your Goodwood correspondent would be
wiss to takeofl his 11. 0. spectacle* and examine
minutely tbe differences in 'fundamentals'
now existing in his branch of the Uoly
Catboliu Church, as compared wi;h say the
fourth century and tho sixteenth. (Ha« there
not been one important addition this last
century ?) Tbe Aaplictn branch rill compare
most favourably after similar search. Non
essentials necessarily are continually altering.
Tem]x-ra nutuntur, iw-( it miriamur in Mis.
Your sejoad corroijiondent dues not
seem to properly appreciate the dis
cordant eleai6uts whioh t;o to make
up ' one harmonious whole ;' but he would
have great trouble to find anything like abso
lute kariuonT in aay good thing natural or
supernatural— take away iti sourness and tbe
pineapple is little better than a iwe#t turnip.
What would mu«io bv without a judicious me
of discordant notes? While the Church itself
in Apostolic tunes— on which it is presumed
we do not want to improve— found St. Paul,
Peter, and James at variance sometimes, and
on important points too. 'I withstood him
to the faoe' says the tint of tbe second.
The dead level of uniformity has always
been a stumbling blo:k to the Roman
Churob, and its missioners find it
so to-day, so that tbe latitude allowed in tbe
eieter and, need it be said, elder branch, is
rather to be copied and admired than depre
cated. Churchmen have always beon too lax
10 teaching She history of their Cburch, to its
great damage, and it is only lately that dis
establishment with disendowment (an impor
tant connection) ha* be«o so prominent that a
better state of thingi baa prevvlad. Still there
11 great room for improvement in this re»p*ct.
I am. Sir, to., & T. W.
August 4.
[A. M. Ryan, Catholio Book Depot, Start
street west, writing on tbe same subject, lays:
— 'Fueling tbat ths calumns of a newspaper
are not the most favourable place to examine or
discuss such questions, I am willing to present
gratis to any one who wish to enter folly into
the Question a little book entitled ' The Con
tinuity of the English Church,' by the Very
R«v. Canon Croft, which will prova extrenel
interesting, the more as the authorities quoted
are, in many instances, taken from ' Angli
can' tources.'— Ed.]
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