To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuina Day News."
Sir,—The main object of my former letter was to draw attention to the fact that a Churchman is pledged to believe certain definite things.
I still think that a great many Churchmen are—to use St. Paul's words—obedient from the heart to that form of teaching into which they have, by their own act and will, been delivered. They earnestly desire to understand, to accept, and to be governed by all the implications of their faith. exercise their ministry Kat all And they look to the clergy so to
may come "to such an agreement in the faith and knowledge of God, and such a ripeness and_perfectness of age in Christ, that there will be no place left among them, either for error in religion or for viciousness in life."
My second object. was to remind the clergy that they were ordained to "preach the Word of God and to minister the Holy Sacraments in the congregation" on the ground of their profession of steadfast belief of all the Scriptures of the Old and New Testamants.
A re-reading of the Ordination Services will show that the Church of England holds that "only with doctrine and exhortation taken out of the Holy Scriptures and with a life agreeable to the same" can a clergyman fulfil his ministry.
it is urged that this was indeed the standpoint of the Church of England 400 years ago, but that we have moved from it now, 1 would reply that it was also the standpoint of St. Paul 1900 years ago, as anyone can see by reading 2 Tim. 3. If we have indeed moved away from that position, we had better make all haste to retrace our steps, lest darkness come upon us, and mental and moral' oblliquiry.
I am sorry that a printer's error made a sentence in my last
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.