Lehre und Wehre St. Louis, Missouri — August 1913, Seite 376

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376 Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches.

in close agreement), with Protestants on the Continent, and in that sense
the word Protestant' was sometimes used by English Churchmen to de-
scribe their attitude. But the Church of England never adopted Prot-⸗
estantism as its essential name, and that word has now come to have a dif-
ferent meaning tlian it has either in English literature or in the legal
name which the Protestant Episcopal Church in this country adopted
akter the Revolutionary War.“ Der Aufsatz schließt damit: In 1534, the
convocation declared that the bishop of Rome hath not by Scripture any
greater authority in England than any other foreign bishop.“ This com-
pleted the process of casting offt papal government over the Englisbh Church,
but it left the Church the same, which still claimed to be the ancient
Catholie Cburch of England.“ — Nach dieser neuen Darstellung würde die
Reformationsgeschichte Englands bedeutend vereinfacht werden. Die alte
angelsächsische Kirche ist ungestört ihre Wege gegangen, das Paypsttum ist
nie in England gewesen. Weil man aber hörte, daß es anderswo sein
Wesen treibt, so beschloß man 1531: Wir können es nicht brauchen. Das
war alles, was man mit dem Papsttum zu tun hatte. Heinrich VIII. hat
auch nie in Theologie gemacht, sondern hat bei allem sittsamen Wandel und
exemplarischen Eheleben sein Volk weislich regiert usw. Eine ganz be⸗
deutende Kürzung! Aber faets are stubborn things. Der Cvurchman
bemerkt noch: diese Verordnung der Mrs. Houng sei besonders “signifi-
cant“', da sie ein Glied der römischen Kirche sei. E. P.
über christliche Erziehung sagt D. J. W. Cochran, Sekretär des Pres-
byterian Board of Education: „We turn our children loose in the publie
Sschools with broken-down family altars and a smattering of Bible instruc-
tion, and then expect them to grow up to be sturdy champions of the cross.
The Protestant Church can never win with its present method of Chris-
tian education in homeopathic doses. The Roman Church does not suffer
for priests and nuns, because her policy is to secure her supply of mission⸗
aries When of tender years. We have abandoned the parochial school and
shall never return to such a poliey, but we must do something to make up
for the deficieney. If our ministers were fit to provide à program of Chris-
tian education in church, home, and school, a new day would be dawning
in the Church. We are playing at the business of recruiting. The Pres-
byterian Board is reaching 10,000 Presbyterian students in state univer-
sities. We have 14 university pastors; 800 Presbyterian students united
with the Church; 56 students will become ministers, and 66, missionaries.
The Board has put 50 per cent. more money into the work this year.“ —
Das heißt: So geht es nicht mehr, Gemeindeschule wollen wir nicht, wir
müssen an unsern Kindern intensiver Mission treiben! E. P.

Zur römischen Heuchelei in der Ehescheidungsfrage erzählt der Con-
linen“: α case in Quebec, already celebrated and promising to become
still more famous, illustrates this. Napoleon Tremblay, whose wife and
himself had been strict Catholics all their Iives, being married in regular
church form by the proper parish priest, got tired of Mrs. Premblay after
Six years of wedlock and wished to divorce her. A fact unknown to either
of them when they were married, but discovered afterwards as they com-
pared their ancestral trees, furnished his way of escape; they were fourth
„onsins. Ves, the church authorities admitted that was an impediment,
to the marriage, but a dispensation from the bishop wonld have fixed it

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