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THE TABLET A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f of H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , "June 4, 1870.
Vol. 46. No. 1856. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 6, 1875.
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[R eg is t e r ed a t th e G en e r a l P ost Office a s a N ew s pa p e f .
■ Ch ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :—
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The Prince of Wales in Arabia.— Accouchement of the Duchess of Edinburgh.—The Controversy on Communion.—The Real Point at Issue.—Russia on Turkey and the Insurgents.—The Action of the Three Northern Powers.—The German Emperor on the Church in Germany and Italy.—The Italian Prime Minister on Church and State in Italy.—The War in •the Basque Provinces.—The CarTist Commanders.—The United States, Cuba, and Spain.—M. Gambetta’s Manifesto. — The Transformation of Our Judicature.—Dr. Ward on the Irish Rate ’in Aid of Education, &c., &c. .. 577
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L e a d e r s :
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Russia in the East .. .. . .5 8 1 The New Church at Oxford .. 581 Oaths in Italian Courts .. .. 582 Fictitious Appeals to a General
Council.—I. .. •• •• 583 P ic tures :
The French Gallery .. .. 585 R ev iew s :
The Holy Roman Empire.. ... 586 The XVIIIth Century .. ..586 The “ Month ” for November .. 587 S hort N otices :
A Catechism for the Richt
Understanding of the Sacrifice and Liturgy of the Mass .. 588
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S hort N otices (continued) :
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The Three Commanders .. .. 588 Bell's Pleading Books .. .. 588
C hurch M usic ;
Die Schule des Katholischen Or
ganisten .. .. . . .. 588 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 589
C o rrespondence :
F. Parsons’ “ Christian Directory” 590 Secularism in Elementary Education .. _ .. .. . . .. 590 The “ Romish ” Church .. .. 590 Ratisbon .. .. .. .. 591
Correspondence (continued) :
The Eighteenth Report on Re
Page formatory Schools .. .. 59E R ome :—Letter from our own Cor
respondent .. .. .. 593 D io cesan N ews Westminster .. .. .. .. 594
Southwark .. .. .. .. 595 Beverley .. .. .. .. 595 Salford .. .. .. •• 595 Scotland—Northern District .. 595 F oreign N ew s :—
Germany . . . . . . . . 595 M emoranda :—
Religious .. .. .. .. 596 G en e r a l N ews . . . . . . 599
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
ARABIA. T
THE PRINCE OF WALES IN
H E Prince reached Aden at half-past six on Monday morning, and was greeted with a salute from the batteries. He landed under a second salute at half-past nine,
and was received in that important and torrid dependency with great rejoicing. The inevitable address was presented and answered, and the Prince reviewed the garrison, and received and rewaided the Arab chiefs ; giving to our ally the Sultan o f Lahej— about whom there was a difficulty with Turkey a year or two ago— a medal and a ring o f honour. In the evening he entertained the President and a small party at dinner on board ship, the town and port being brightly illuminated, after which the Serapis weighed anchor and departed. Both at Cairo and at Aden we hear o f telegrams from the Princess at Sandringham, and are reminded o f the fact that half the bitterness o f such long separations has been done away mainly by the inventive genius o f an unpretending youth from Gloucester, who in the fulness o f years and honours was buried last week in Kensal Green. T h e Prince is, it seems, to go to Hyderabad after all, and great preparations are being made by Sir Salar Jung to do him honour.
ACCOUCHEMENT O F THE DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH.
We have another Royal p rin cess; the Duchess o f Edinburgh having been safely delivered on the 29th ult. o f a daughter, an event which will have an almost equal interest for St. Petersburg and for London. The bulletins add the satisfactory intelligence that both mother and infant are doing well.
THE CONTROV ERSY ON COMMUNION.
Lord Redesdale seems to have lost his temper. H is letter in Wednesday’s D a i ly Teleg ra p h talks o f “ wilful misrepresentations,” “ daring to charge him with changing the ques“ tion,” and more in the same tone. And his lordship assumes that the cases o f Communion in one kind -—adduced in proof that Communion in both kinds was never held to be o f necessity— do not include Communion under the form o f wine only. A s we have already stated, this is not the c a s e ; communion having been given sometimes under the species of wine only to infants, at a time when it was the custom to give them communion immediately after baptism, and in a particularinstance mentioned by St. Cyprian. Nor can Lord Redesdale get over the words “ treason and “ heresy,” and he speaks with no little emphasis o f Communion in both kinds being made, at the dictation o f the Church of Rome, “ deserving of the severest punishment.” It is extraordinary how the use o f a word in one sense will sometimes make people forget that they themselves constantly use it in another. The Cardinal Archbishop had
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said that to appeal from a living Divine authority was “ treason and heresy” — formal treason and heresy if that authority is admitted by the person so appealing to be Divine —material treason and heresy if he is ignorant that it is a Divine authority. So the D a i ly le le g r a p h , not liking to go into the controversy about Communion, rides off on the use of the word “ treason.” “ Heresy,” it says, we have got to think nothing of, and know that it need mean no more than a difference of opinion about the Greek, aorist or the Latin gerund, but “ treason” is a word which has still a terrible meaning. Vague images o f hanging and quartering evidently suggest themselves to the writer, and Lord Redesdale’s recurrence to “ treason and heresy,” and crimes “ deserving “ o f the severest punishment,” seem to indicate that his thoughts too are running on the gibbet and the stake. But we have never found Protestant writers loth to use such phrases as “ treason to science” or “ treason to humanity,” and therefore we cannot see why we should not be allowed to call by the name o f “ treason” the rejection o f an authority admitted to be Divine.
Among all the heap o f irrelevant corresponpoiNT^r dence which seems to have poured in upon the issu e . D a i ly le le g r a p h— a correspondence which ranges from the subject o f Communion to that o f Galileo and the infallibility of the present Pope—one correspondent, signing himself “ an Anglo-Catholic,” brings back the controversy to the real point at issue. H is remarks are so sensible that we quote them here at length. H e expresses his surprise that Lord Redesdale’s acute intellect should so entirely fail to perceive the real point in dispute and says :—
The proposition to be met is simplicity itself, viz., That by the indwelling presence of the Spirit of Truth, i.e ., the Holy Ghost, tho Church is, and ever will be, the supreme authority in all matters of faith and discipline. This being proven, it follows as a matter of course that any appeal from this Divine and infallible teacher to a human and fallible one is inadmissible, or, as Cardinal Manning puts it, a “ heresy and treason. ” Does this Divine authority exist or not ?This is the one and only subject for discussion, and to it I beg Lord Redesdale’sattention, for supposing it could be demonstrated from Scripture that every doctrine and every practice enjoined by tho Church was false and erroneous, this, the key of the position, would still remain untouched, and must be dealt with on its own merits. A little illustration will, I think, make this clear. Lord Redesdale, we will assume, occupies a position of authority in the House of Lords which involves the issuing of certain rules or orders for the conduct of public business. These rules may or may not be founded on precedent, or, in conformity with, established authorities, may be judicious or otherwise; hut his lordship will see at once that the question of their lawfulness or propriety has nothing whatever to do with the authority under which they are issued, which is absolute. Their force is derived, not from their own merits, but from his authority, and no fault in them could invalidate or touch that in the most remote degree. This is the power which Cardinal Manning claims for the Church. If it exists, all dissent from its teaching is clearly a heresy and treason. If it does not exist, no possible form of religious belief can be blameworthy that does not transgress tho