Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
POSTSCRIPT.
Ixxxi
SINCE the above was written, I have seen
that two speakers
in a meeting of the
Anglo- Continental Society have ventured to
declare that the act of the Bishop of
Illinois in communicating the Archbishop of
Upsal
"
has set the most solemn seal to our
intercommunion with the Swedish Church."*
The Bishop, probably, thought nothing less than
that his act should commit the whole English
Communion, unless it were repudiated. Since
the English Church has in no way committed
itself to the acts of the Church in the United
States, still less can it be supposed to be com
promised by the acts of an individual Bishop.
It is painful to revert to a statement which
gave pain at the time (because it is true), that
the Church of the United States is no pattern
for us, since in evil times
"
she omitted the
Athanasian Creed and bracketed the Nicene."
But since the claim is made, that the English
Church is committed to the act of a single
* Col. Ch. Chron. 1867, p. 169.