Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Pastoral Letter to the People of His Charge on Certain Points of Christian Doctrine, Worship, and Manners: June, 1879
Such a view would (and does) go farther; and thinks to justify the making of a national Church a speckled bird by the intro duction of rites, garments, &c., credited to the Nicene, the Oriental, or the Mediaeval Church, and in accord with Catholic instinct, although this Protestant Episcopal Church, to which we have sworn conformity, has elected to omit them all. No wonder that to such reformers the most convenient rubric of all has suggested itself; viz., the lawfulness of any Catholic custom or practice not forbidden any where by this little fragment Oi the Church universal. When the Church comes to this consummation of wisdom, each year must add a volume to the catalogue of things which fertile fancies and stimulated indiscretion may not do, in their improvements upon the liturgy of the Christian ages.
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