Lehre und Wehre St. Louis, Missouri — August 1913, Seite 375

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Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches. 375

Episkopalkirche, ging damit um, in Nasbville, Tenn., eine medizinische Schule
einzurichten. Die Annabme der §1,000,00 härte die Vanderbilt University
dem methodistischen Einfluß entzogen und die Gründung der Schule unter
dem Einfluß der Evistevalen verhindert. Aber das College of Bishops der
Merhodisten wies mit Entrüstung das Angebot Carnegies, des agnostie
Arelmonger“, wie Bischef Chandler ibn nannte, ab. Die Bischöfe sprachen
die männlichen Worte aus: We knom how to endure poverty, but we
have not learned. nor are we reade to be taught, how to accept gifts to
which aré annexéd conditions that requiré the sacriflce of our self-respect,
the defeat of the founders otf the Eniversitr, the renunciation of prin-
ciples which we hold in πππmon with all the churches. and the abdiention
of the mission of the Church of God in the field of Christian edueation.“ —
Nachträglich wird nun gemelder, daß die Board of Trustéees der Vanderbilt
Universits sich doch enrschlossen habe, die angebotene Summe anzunehmen.
Der νεhινιμ ιistiun Adrocate, ein methodistisches Blatt, sagt: There
are many people in the wWorld. and some in the Church, who find it as
difficult to justife the refusal of a dollar. especially of ea million dollars,
as to square the eircle.“ — Das katholische Veνσ Tort Freeman's Journal
sagt: It is the first rime in the history 0r the Enitéd States that an in-
dividual has so flagrantly affronted one of the Protestant Churches by as-
suming that it is in his power to induce it to abandon its prineiples in
return for cash paid. It is a sample of what Carnegieism stands for.
Carnegieism should be held up to puhlie scorn in the intérest of Christian
civilization, Wwhich is 50 intimately bounund up with Christian edueation.“
G. P.

Die anglikanische Kirche will weder mit Heinrich VIII. noch mit der
Reformation etwas zu tun haben. Vor einigen Monaten hatte Mrs. Joung,
Superintendentin der Chicagoer Schulen, verordnet, daß aus den Lehr⸗
büchern der Geschichte die Angabe herauskorrigiert werde, daß Heinrich VIII.
die anglikanische Kirche gestiftet habe. Damit ist der Chicagoer CurehHman
sehr einverstanden. Und das Standing Committéee der Diözese veröffent—
lichte einen Aufsatz: The English Church and the Reformation.“ Es
erklärt, die gegenwärtige Church of England sei nicht im 16. Jahrhundert
gegründet worden, weder von Heinrich VIII. noch von sonst jemand, sondern
sei die alte Kirche, die seit alters in England bestanden habe. What hap-
pened in the sixtéenth century was à rejection of the supremacy over the
Englisb Church of the foreign bishop of Rome, a partial readjustment of
the relations of the national Church to the English Crown, a rejection of
certain medieval beliefs, and a removal of certain medieval practices which
were regarded as abuses. The same Church remained, having essentially
the same worship and sacraments, preserving with them direct the aneient
episcopate, retaining its property and church buildings, and claiming to
retain the Catholie faith, freed only from what were regarded as medieval
conditions. Consequently, the English Church did not become a Protestant
Chureh in the sense now commonly understood by² the word Protestant' —
that is, it did not become anti-Catholic, but continued to profess belief in
the Catholic Church, and to accept the doctrine and practice of the an-⸗
cient Catholie Couneils and Fathers. It did, indeed, protest against papal
claims, and what it regarded as corruptions. In this respect, it bound,
and felt itself generally to be in a certain kind of alliance (though not

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