p. 7 | Rome in the Church of England

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 30, 1908

Rome in the Church of England

THE power and influence of the Roman element in the English state church has been growing steadily for years, and the sympathizers with the Romeward tendencies in the English rituals are becoming bolder in their declarations of purpose. This was strikingly shown in a recent congress of the Church of England when Lord Halifax declared:—

The principles of the Reformation are things to be repented of with tears and ashes.

There can be no question as to the direction of Lord Halifax’s sympathies, and he was but speaking the feelings of many another influential member of the High Church. The Romeward drift, though not yet so outspoken, is plainly evident in many of the popular, formal churches of America at the present time. Roman prelates keep watch of the movement of this tide. Rome is looking anxiously to the time when she can say, “I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.”