ENGLAND ROMEWARD | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 16.

ENGLAND ROMEWARD.

THE Catholic Mirror, referring editorially to the reply of the English archbishops to the pope's encyclical on the English ordinations, tells us that the Church of England is losing its hold upon the people, and that this utterance of the archbishops has roused opposition to its effort to trim its sails so as not to offend either Catholic or Protestants. We quote the Mirror relative to this protest:—

"The editor of The Rock, one of the leading papers, representing an important section of the Anglican body, declares that if the letter of the archbishops does not evoke a solemn protest and vigorous action throughout the land, the Church of England is doomed. 'It is evident,' says this writer, 'that the bishops, with few exceptions, intend to deliberately undo the doctrinal Reformation in its most essential aspects.'"

The Mirror article thus concludes:—

"What does it all mean? Simply that England is fast on the road to the Catholic Church, where she belongs. Intelligent English men and English women who realize that they have souls to save and feel concern on the subject, know all about the Reformation, and in what way England was torn from the bosom of the old Church, and are anxious to return to the true faith. And it seems from all accounts that they are doing so in thousands. Documents like that of the Anglican archbishops force the crisis."