ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



religions advantages gained by the Simeonite 

 and Oxford movements, the opposition to God's 

 truth has since become more and more violent ; 

 and, moreover, that in the Established Church 

 " every vestige of distinct corporate entity " 

 has now utterly disappeared. As examples in 

 proof of this proposition are cited the mode 

 of nomination, election, and confirmation of 

 the bishops of the establishment, the extraor- 

 dinary oath of homage which their lordships 

 take on their knees to the Queen on their ap- 

 pointment, by which they solemnly declare 

 that they ''receive all spiritual as well as all 

 temporal power and authority " from her maj- 

 esty. The division of existing sees and the 

 erection of new dioceses by letters patent alone, 

 as well as the recent Public Worship Regula- 

 tion Act, and other examples of the strained 

 power involved in " royal supremacy," are 

 asserted to have brought about the existing 

 crisis and the coming disestablishment. A for- 

 mal and solemn protest follows " against all 

 and every intrusion and interference of the 

 civil power in spiritual things, whether past 

 or present," both as contrary to the Word of 

 God, and "because the great and venerable 

 charter of our liberties secured in 1215 recog- 

 nized and solemnly guaranteed the spiritual 

 freedom of the Church of England." Among 

 the special objects of protest are carelessness 

 in administering baptism, the disuse of chrism 

 in confirmation, the abolition of unction for 

 the sick, the abrogation of spiritual discipline, 

 looseness as to the marriage of divorced per- 

 sons, the Public Worship Regulation Act, ap- 

 peals to the Privy Council, and the anti-Chris- 

 tian character of board schools. The authors of 

 the pastoral express their desire "to avoid all 

 violence, schism, and disobedience to consti- 

 tuted authority in things secular, regarding it 

 as our duty rather to support and restore, as 

 Almighty God may permit, the ancient consti- 

 tution of our country in Church and state, than 

 to cooperate in any rash and dangerous work 

 of demolition and destruction, the conse- 

 quences and end of which none can foresee," 

 profess a frank and unreserved acceptance of 

 the faith and teaching of the undivided Church, 

 and appeal to a general council to bring about 

 corporate union. In order to gather up and 

 preserve the canonical authority which, it is 

 alleged, the bishops of the establishment have 

 yielded up, the order has secured three distinct 

 and independent lines of a new Episcopal suc- 

 cession. While claiming all their rights as 

 citizens and sharers of the legitimate benefits 

 of the establishment, the members of the order 

 are represented as intending to refuse to recog- 

 nize any intrusion of " Crosar or Csesar's ser- 

 vants " into spiritual affairs. All members of 

 the order must be certainly baptized ; no cler- 

 gyrnan will be admitted who has had two 

 wives,\no divorced person who has been mar- 

 ried again, nor any person who has married a 

 divorced woman, and no freemason or member 

 of any similar secret society can be a member, 



except in all these cases after the renunciation 

 of his error and subjection to due discipline. 

 The document is signed by Adrian de Helte, 

 Notary Apostolic. 



A prospectus has been issued for the estab- 

 lishment of a new religious order in London in 

 the spring of 1878, to be called The Fraternity 

 of Jesus. The fraternity will consist of three 

 orders : the first order to include brethren liv- 

 ing under the three vows of poverty, chastity, 

 and obedience, in the strictest sense ; the sec- 

 ond order to consist of brethren at business in 

 the world, but who live in the college of the 

 fraternity, paying for their board and lodging, 

 and who will keep the three vows in a modi- 

 fied form; and the third order to consist of 

 associate brethren, who will live at their re- 

 spective homes, but who will subscribe accord- 

 ing to their means toward the expenses of the 

 fraternity, who may visit the college at any 

 time they may choose, and will keep the vows 

 of poverty and obedience as the second order, 

 but whose vow of chastity will be limited to 

 conversation. The fraternity will engage in 

 parochial and mission work, and will encour- 

 age the formation of societies and guilds to be 

 under the management of its brethren. Its 

 affairs will be managed by a fortnightly con- 

 ference of the first order, and a general month- 

 ly conference of the three orders. 



Mr. Frederick Martin, compiler of " The 

 Statesman's Year Book," was requested by 

 the Liberation Society, in 1875, to make an 

 estimate of the extent, nature, and" value 

 of the property in possession of the Church 

 of England. He presented in May, 1877, 

 the following estimate of the income of the 

 Church : 



This statement has been criticised on the 

 ground that the sum applied to the building 

 and repair of churches is the result of free-will 

 offerings, and, therefore, not properly classed 

 among the revenues from endowments; also, 

 that a discount showed in the annual value of 

 the parsonages, the average of which is esti- 

 mated, it is alleged, at too high an amount. 

 Making deductions on account of these items, 

 the revenues of the Church would be about six 

 million pounds sterling per annum, represent- 

 ing a capital amounting to 150,000,000. 



Mr. Martin's report furnishes also the ma- 

 terial for the following statement of the num- 

 ber of acres of land included in the properties 

 of the Church : 



