THE DAILY EVffNINO TELEGKAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1871
THE TRUE FAITH.
A Sermon Delivered at St. Clement'
Chnrch, Philadelphia, by Her. IV. II. N.
Stewart, IL,.I., on gnoila jr Kveulug, May
7, 18)1.
"TUB faith which was once delivered to the Saints."
.S'. Jude., 8d vtrne.
It is a great pity that people are not more
impartial. It is possible that judicial fairness
is a cold frame of mind, and orators and de
claimed seek to excite an impassioned state
of feeling in which men will fuse and talce a
shape and be moulded into partisans, often
without care or capacity to understand the
points thoronghly to the defense of which they
are once committed. This will be found
to be true in most disagreements in religion.
It is particularly true in the controversy
between what is called Protestantism and
Catholicism. These terms are difficult to be
defined with precision, and are by no means
contradictory of one another. Protestantism,
at least in its original condition, was opposed
to Romanism or Popery and not to Catholi
cism. Now, by Catholicism I understand
that system of doctrine, or aggregate of be
liefs and practices which are retained by the
Greek, the Italian or Latin, and the Angli
can Churches in common, after discounting
from each of them the peculiarities it has re
tained; and by Protestantism I mean every
phase of belief or unbelief, from the Wal
denBes to Theodore Parker, which agrees in
protesting against Romish errors or additions
to the faith. That aspeot of these different
societies "in which, methinks, they do pro
test too much," does not save them individu
ally from error; and if Home be oorrupt, the
Protestant sects, on matters concerning
the faith, which was once delivered
to the saints, are in a hopeless muddle. I say
this on my responsibility as a theologian,
from a thorough conviction, fonnded on in
vestigation, that if the Greek and English
Chnrch wore out of the way, the sects of
Protestant Christians would be virtually at
the mercy of their great opponent, the Roman
Chnrch, without a Bible and without an agree
ment, and without capacity to cohere.
Very few men understand their own faith,
or the true methods of defending their own
positions and doctrines. Still fewer have any
just conception of their antagonist's system.
No more painful or absurd scene can be wit
sesscd than that of two theological disputants,
each ene imputing to the other principles he
does not hold, or logically convincing each
other of holding opinions which eaoh
reciprocally repudiates. Tnus, on sev
eral occabions in my yonnger days, I
have been deluded by Protestants
declaimers wiih irrefragable confutations of
Roman opinions and practices, but had at
last to awake to the conviction that Rotnia
ists did not always hold thi-ir doctrines in the
terms or on the grounds that Protestant
orators assigned them. Instead, then, of in
quiries into points of difference, which pro
voke temper and raise illusive elouds of argu
ment, it is more rational and Christian to
inquire into points on which there is substan
tial agreement, and see by what possible or
extorted concessions on either side both
could concur in a joint statement of substan
tial truth. If that were doue men would not
. long be separated by needless divisions, but
would abate them. As long as Satan is prinoa
of this world, brethren, bo long the
truth of God passeth in the world
for a stranger, and being among
strangers, easily findeth an enemv
and is ill-treated. "This only thing truth
desiretb, that no man condemn her before b.3
know her." (Veritas scit se pereginam, etc.
Tertul. in Apol., D. C. 1.)
As an example of the haste and injustice
with whioh judgments are formed, we may
recall the statements made respecting St.
John the Baptist and our blessed Lard Him
self recorded in the Scriptures.
St. John, rebuking sin, preaching repen
tance, and hearing confessions, offended the
Jews by his simplicity, abstinence, roughness
of speech, and love of solitude, and was said
to be possessed with the devil. While our
Lord who went to the feast at Cana and ate
and drank in the houses where he was in
vited was thought to be a gluttonous man
and a wine-bibber and a "friend of sinners,"
which indeed they both were, you know, bat
' in a way their enemies did not wish to ac
knowledge.
"We know from Scripture and history that
equally unjust, capricious, and even flagrantly
blasphemous opinions have prevailed against
the doctrines of Christ and against earnest
men, like the Baptist, who make them a
reality. When their good life, or their re
formed life, cannot be denied, or their work
has become a success, as St. John's was when
the region ronnd about went out to him "re
penting and confessing their sins," theu tug
old heathen method is revived. The friendly
Herod of the day, who hears the preachers
gladly, but cannot bear personal reproof, and
desires to shut up the preachers in prison,
but fears the people who count them as pro
phets, is at last urged on, in spite of his own
regret, to cut off St. John's head, and, for
the sake of his consistency in a bad promis3
and false human respect for those with him,
he givt s it to the women of his family who
bad been waiting, if not plotting to receive
it long before. And thus the world often
triumphs over the Church, private spite over
public principle, and the concubine, Hero
dies, has power to destroy; and her daughter,
Salome, is exultant, while the Bride of Christ
herself the Church is outraged, and her
sons and her daughters denied a place or a
voice in the household.
Both the hostile and the friendly being in
more or less of a muddle rospeating the
truth, some 6ay, "This is a good mm,"
others Bay, "Nay, but he deoeiveth the
people, and his greatest enemies, who are
nothing if they are not 'Episcopalians,' say
honestly that he is not only 'in a wing of tho
castle,' but in 'the very citadel,' dofonding
the literal truth of the Prayer Book, and tht
be has a right to be there, and this avowal is
made with the distinct admission that it is
not the destruction of the man they crave,
but the overthow of the citadel itself, the
Prayer Book be defends and stands protected
by. Our Lord, when accused of detnonisoi,
said, with simplicity and dignity, "I have not
a devil, but I honor My Father and ye do dis
honor Me," and wheu they insinuated tho
charge that the Baptibt was the Christ he
simply disavowed all power but that of a
Voice, and a Messenger, or Ambassador for
Christ, preaching repentance and proclaiming
remission of Bins, confessions of whioh he
beard. It was snch misrepresentations as
these that in later days led apologists for
Christianity to write thefr explanation an 1
set up a defense of the faith odm delivers 1
to the saints. Kraiueut men like Bis'i i;n
Jewell and Bull, ere spokeu of ail
claimed by rhetorical declaimers as dtfendHM
of doctrines they deny. T he dual rimers
men whom I know to be without fiiruo9i in
argument, hontbty in quotation, or theuLigio l
attainments autnuient to enable them to
understand what they say or whereof they
affirm. Buhop Bull, in his famous vindica
tion of the Church of EoLul,
p. 210, says, "The Church has retained soma
ceremonies that had on them the stamp of
venerable antiquity, or whioh recommended
themselves by their fitness. The Reformers
did not pull down the old structures, and raise
new ones; no, nor so much as newly conse
crate the old; but they removed the objeots
and occasions of idolatrous worship, leaving
the other things as they found them, and
freely and without scruple making use of
them." Calvin, who was not a priest, male
what he called a Churoh without one, and in
his "Institutes" directs unquiet consciences
to go to their self-corstituted pastors. And
the Puritans repudiated or reformed Calvin.
They razed the altars, discredited the orders
of the ministry, superseded the sacramental
system of the Church by a do-nothing-faith-onlj
(system of the results of whioh
Luther himself was ashamed.
They converted the priests of God
into preachers who went out before
they were sent, pnd could not tell by what
authority they taught the things they did
teach. " And so, by a process of attenuation
and minimization of the Catholio usages of
primitive antiquity, they assimilated them
selves to those who never had any authority
except an authority like Korah and his com
pany in the Church of God.
The puritan in heart, inside and outside
the Church, still denounces that as Romish
which has always been held in the church
catholic, and in every part of it; and this
church is the only one bulwark from behind
which the puritan can point his guns,
and they are all antique and wornout
artillery which will not bear to be dis
charged, and which are more fatal to
those in the line of their breech than
to those in the line of their muzzle. The
fundamental truths of religion are ackno
leged to be contained in the creeds of the
Church, and were at first believed as they are
now, because the Church taught them before
any New Testament was written. And Bishop
Bull says: "The Church does not deliver the
articles of religion as essentials of faith, but
simply as a body of pious principles for the
preservation of peace, to be subscribed and
not openly contradicted by the clergy. The
laity are not obliged to subscribe them, and
Arbishop Usher Bays, "We do not oblige any
man to believe, but only not to contradict
them." And Bishop Hall, in his Catholio
propositions, says: "The points of faith are
contained in the canonical Scriptures and in
the ancient creeds, received and allowed by
the whole Church. There are and may be
many theological points which are wont to be
believed and maintained by this or that par
ticular Church, or the Doctors thereof or their
followers, as godly and profitable truths, be
sides those essential and main matters of
faith, without any prejudice at aU to the com
mon peace of the Church. But it is not law
ful for the same persons to impose or intrude
the same doctrines upon any Church or per
son as of necessity to salvation, or to eject
out of the Church any person or company of
men that think otherwise." Vindication, p.
213.
I may now enumerate briefly, with a few
comments, some of the points on which our
branch of the Catholio Church differs from
the Church of Rome, and you may rely on
my statements as judicially impartial, no dis
honesty being in my mind more odious than
that which underrates or overrates the ex
pressions of an opponent. I do this for the
information of the unwary, as well as for the
confutation of ill-informed Protestant and
Popish talkers, who know not what they say or
whereof they aflirm, and I fear they do not
care for anything but momentary partisan
success.
First, then, we reject the supremacy of the
Pope. We are willing to conoedo to him a
primacy, as a patriarch, or presiding bishop
of the Latin Churoh, but we deny his su
premacy in the Catholio Church, because all
bishops are equal, and no bishop can be su
preme over his brethren. We are willing to
grant that the Pope, in a general council
of his province, may come to right de
cisions on faith and usage, but we deny
that he is infallible. This simple
denial is a corrective of all erroneous
additions to the faith once delivered to the
saints, which additions were made by Papal
authority or insinuation. The Roman Church
has of late been forced to lay aside her tem
poral power. The English Church is now
voluntarily adherent to temporal privileges
of endowments and State support, which the
Church of Ireland has been violently despoiled
of; so that the Presbyterian Establishment
in bcotland and the English Established
Church are the only two organizations allied
to the State by pecuniary and privileged ties,
and trying there with lamentable nou-snooess
to serve two masters. I believe the English
Churoh will soon be severed from the State;
and 1 hope it may be somewhat impoverished
in the process, or at least have its now nu
justly allotted endowments redistributed in a
fairer and more equitable way.
Thus in the matter of temporalities the
various branches of the Church are drawing
together again, rejecting human treaties with
States aDd Kings, and preparing for reunion
in dependence upon the Divine support of
Christ without any State aid, when the time
Khali come to reunite.
In regard to the doctrine of justification
by faith, the best divines do not think the
doctrine of the Council of irent so far from
the truth, or the Lutheran doctrine so near
it, as that an honest mind could not strike
a man which would obviate grave objections
en botn sides, and unite the opposing parties.
Our articles on justification are so cautiously
expressed that a Roman Catholio could, I
think, sign them freely. But Methodism
brought in the Lutheran doctrine in a flood.
It is of this doctrine, whioh Luther claims to
have discovered, that Luther himself thus
writes, "If God had not shut my eyes to con
sequences, if I had foreseen the scandal I
should create, I would certainly never have
ventured to propagate my doctrine." EI.
Waloh. vi. l20.
In the matter of transubstantiation the
assertion of a real objective presenoe is no
longer thought by intelligent theologians or
devout Christians to imply any physical or
carnal presence, but.a sacramental, spiritual,
mystical, and real presenoe. For, on a calm
inquiry into the word "substantia" it appears
that Rome and England meant
different things by it. Substantia is the
substratum or underlying something in which
all qualities of bodies inhere where crain in
mo uciu, uuur m me mm, oreaa In the oven
have qualities whioh vary, change, and disap
pear at each change, but the substauoe re
mains the same that underlying thing by
which we are nouiihhed. Bat though the
eubt-tacce be unaltered while the sausi'de
qualities are changed, you can reverse this
order, and imagine tho substance to be
altered aDd the quttliiies whioh strike tho
Eeme lo be still unchanged. Thin is transub.
BtaiitiUiun. The substance alters, the quU.
tis remain the same. No the EuulUh
Church saja th qnlititis of the bread and
wine remain sensibly the same, but that a
chaege does, by the consecration of the
I riebt, take place (for God blesses His work)
somewhere in the bread and wine.
But where is this change located ? The
English Church does not looate it anywhere.
The Roman Churoh does, and thst is the
amount of the difference between them
on transubstantiation; and when men
cease their - wrangles they will see
substantial unity on that point now
exists. To say with the Romanists that the
change is in the substance, is to say with the
true Catholio that the change is. not visible,
is inward, is not in the sensiblo qualities, but
that while the sense perceives one thing, faith
receives another. Neither Romanists nor true
Catholics pretend to worship or adore any
material thing. Again, the great Roman
writer, Dr. Moehler, Symb. p. 203, says the
confession of Augsburg, a .Protestant doou
ment, expresses itself in a manner to enable
Romanists to declare themselves tolerably
well satisfied with it. And a subsequent
"apology" for it was still more explicitly satis
factory. In the course of time no important
differences, inherent in the nature of thing,
could be pointed out between the parties.
But as a dispute had once existed in Germany
between Roman Catholics and Protestants,
from which the original Protestants had re
treated, then the later would not acknowledge
the mistakes of the earlier Protestants, and to
keep up a separation bad to invent other dif
ferences. Thus, Marheincke says the
difference between Protestants and Roman
ists is this: Romanists say "the sacraments
contain grace," Protestants say "the sacra
ments confer it," but the Romanist will use
both phrases; so that this alleged fundamen
tal difference vanishes before the critioal
statement of it; not by the Protestants ac
cepting the Roman view, but by Romanists
acquiescing in the Lutheran-German-Protestant
doctrine.
With Puritans all grades in the ministry,
and especially Episcopacy, or government by
bishops, is in fact prelacy, if not actually
Popery. Now the recognition of the autho
rity and jurisdiction of diocesan bishops over
their own flock, according to law and in con
formity with standards, is the most effectual
bariie a J strongfst protest against the ar
bitrary rule of any one bishop, or any at
tempt at domination over others. The equality
of States prevents the nsurpation of authority
by any one State over toe others, and in like
manner the usurpation by any one bishop,
and the law which protects those under him,
render his attempts to rule at will, instead of
according to law, nugatory. So that if a
Bishop were to order what is not, or forbid
what is, in the Prayer Book, or deny it to be
there when its accredited expositors (such as
Wheatly and fifteen other writers and thirty-
six bishops) have found it and expounded it
as contained therein, then that single bishop's
judgment, however Btrongly expressed, may
be disregarded with perfect respect for him
and his office, until he can get the House of
Bishops and the whole Church to join him in
altering the words of the Prayer Book which
he ignores, and which it is the radical pur
pose of a persistent party to change I, for
my part, do not think that a bishop who is a
mere rhetorician, and without accurate theo
logical knowledge, can induce any respect
able number of priests or bishops to believe
that God did not give power and command
ment to His ministers to declare and pro
nounce to His people, when penitent, the
absolution and remission of their sins.
This is patt of the power and
commandment transmitted from Apos
tolio dys in what is called
the apostolical succession. I remember the
time when men oast down their eyes in modest
deprecation of "apostolical succession as a
thing, you know, whioh only very imprudent
extreme men acknowledged themselves to
hold, and always apologized to their dissent
ing brethren for holding even in a timid way.
But, I believe, it is no beginning to be re
garded as a thing which nobody can deny;
and I have heard that Presbyterians are look
ing up their titles, and trying to clear the
flaws in their records and exhibits of them
that they may claim a Presbyterian succes
sion; and I suppose it may go on until we
have Quaker preachers, who intone thoir ser-
I mons with acceptance, and prove thoir lineal
descent from I ox through ronn, with a pneu
matic but not tactual junction with Buuyan
and the "Pilgrim's Progress." I know from
Methodist friends in England that the young
people there are much exercised about the
validity of the orders Mr. Wesloy is supposed
to have given the Methodists there or here;
and the feeling that, if they have sound
doctrine, they at least have no priest's sacra
ments, is driving their most studious young
men into the Anglican Church. The power
of remitting sin (ministerially) was undoubt
edly given by Christ to men. There must be
some sense in which it is still true that the
power of remitting sin exists on earth still.
This power is exercised before men's eyes by
men who are priests, in baptism, absolution,
and in the Holy J '.ucharist. "In baptism it
is a whole and full remission," says Bishop
Jewell, and St. Paul says, "There is no con
demnation to them that are in Christ Jestts,"
to them "who by baptism have put on Christ."
Def. p. 21'J.
In holy communion prayer is made for the
remission of our sins and all other benefits of
Christ's passion. But in both baptism and
communion the absolution or remission
secured proceeds upon the previous renun
ciation of sin and confession of it, whioh tho
parties make in the ear of the priest, who
exacts the promises of renunoiation,
faith, and obedience, and diotates
to penitents the very words of
confession in the publio service before they
are absolved. But sinners are penitent at
other times than at baptism or communion,
and need the comfortable assurance and de
claration. The desire to confess, the deter
mination to be honest and thorough, and no
longer a sham and a lie to others, requires,
demands, craves the opportunity. It is a
need of nature, not at all times, nor habitu
ally, but sometimes, and those times are gra
cious times when God is dealing with the soul,
and convincing it of sin.
"Mo Booner I my wound disclosed.
The guilt that tortured me within,
But Thy forgiveness Interposed
and mercy's healing balm poured In."
If any one in this state desires to relie ve
his conscience, and come to the minister at
any time, like a physician he is open to such
calls at all times, and must in pity take those
first who are in the greatest pain of mind.
He must restore those grieved and wearied
with their sins in a spirit of meekness and
charity by "the Word of God," which is "the
power of God unto salvation." And in doing
this there must be no restriction placed by
any one, bishop or layman, on the right of
resort to the priest by the penitent at his own
will, and in any buitable place, but, on the
contrary, he must be encouraged to come,
though never urged or compelled to come.
This Luther rejoiced in, Calvin reoom
mended, Knox practised, aud the whole
Church, except a bishop or two and some
veKtrymeu, allows.
The Roman rule of confession is practically
compulsory, enforced, aud in voluntary, for
without sacraments there can be no salvation,
and, practically, sacraments are denied with
out confcffiion. This Roman rule is
objected to by the Anglican father, and
by uh priests of this Church is repudiated.
A voluntary resort to a minister of recon
ciliation to obtain the comfortable assuranoe
of God's mercy, and those are. "comfortable
words'' which contain it, is no more censura
ble than resort to a legal adviser for counsel
or guidance, or to a physician for reliaf and
remedies.
Usually in all three cases the same sins
confessed to the priest appear as diseases to
the physician or as crimes and offenses to the
lawyer. While it is true and even notorious
that among a certain class of medioal and
legal praotitioners the most shocking otimss,
connivances with guilt, compromises of felo
nies, frauds and immoralities are planned and
executed, there can be no doubt that in
general the highest principle and
the nioest sense of honor regu
late every detail of snob, interoourse.
There is, therefore, no need of restrictions
being placed on the confidential interoourse
of priest and people, whioh only base minds
suspect, and which goes on every day in
purity with physioians in respect of disease,
and with lawyers in respect of crimes and
immoralities in their clients. Suoh restric
tions as a wise prudence will suggest are
placed by us upon those who resort to us and
do not come unattended. And here lot me
sey I know physicians who are baulked and
baffled in their treatment of disease, where
young men and young women die of con
sumption, or become nervous wrecks on their
parents' hands, and these physicians have
told me that it was not the physician with
medicine, but the priest with moral and re
ligious restraints, who was needed for their
cure or conservation in body and soul.
Again, the question of the celibaoy of the
clergy is dependent upon an arbitrary rule of
the Roman Church. Many Popes were mar
ried men. Pope Hormisdas was married, and
left a son Silverius, who was Pope after him.
Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman who
was ever Pope (Nicolas Breakspeare), was son
of a married priest, and Pope Clement IV (A.
D. 1205) was married, had children, his wife
died, and he was mnde Pope, and no bad one
either. Churtou's, Ear. Eng. Ch.,'p. a.")7.
The State law in Italy now allows that there
is nothing in the condition of a priest to for
bid his marrying, and it is desirable and
inevitable that in time the greater part of
them will. The compulsory enforce
ment of celibacy, as a rule, is one
thing and the voluntary adoption of
it by priests or laymen or wo
men is another. There are thousands
who think it good for the present distress,
and daily men or women are devoting them
selves to this life. We have already con
nected with our Church a company of celibate
priests, and there are say forty such companies
of different orders in England. Those that
are here have the sanction of the bishops of
Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York, and
their celibacy being voluntary, the Chnrch
does not interfere with any one who seeks in
that way freedom for a religious, or as the
sects are beginning to call it, "the higher
life." So we are building up brotherhoods
and sisterhoods who take up the cross and
leave all to wait on their Lord in the person
of his weaker brethren.
Thus, while the Italian priests will, under
protection of the State, gradually cast off
obedience to the law of the Church about
celibacy which has been foroed on them,
many here are freely embracing it. The
Greek Church compels her parish priests to
marry, but selects her bishops from among
the celibates. So we shall soon have the like
mixed and free condition, every one in his
vocation and ministry truly serving the Lord
according to nis guts and grace.
I have thus noted some of the point on
which we Catholics are drawing nearer and
nearer to each other. There are many and
grave grounds of difference which bar inti
mate ubbociation with Rome at present, or
nnlil the reforming party within her do that
for uer which we are trying to do for
the Protestant Episoopal Church. Toe
good work of promoting unity, peace, and
concord is engaging men of peace and piety
w no labor lor its restitution, and the reunion
of Christendom, not on an ecclesiastical
muddle like the Evangelical Alliance, but on
the statements of the truly Catholio Church
Let us, without losing our love to the
truth, with uniform intention seek for unity
of spirit, first the reunion of Christendom
afterwards by the removal of old errors, pre
judices, and walls of partition set up by un
reasonable, unscnptural, or wicked men.
Hitherto the Greek Churoh and the Anglican
nave been lite brotners and Bona ot one
mother who do not even speak. Until lately
the Anglican Protestant has denounoed
everything Roman because it was Roman
and the Roman has denounced everything
Anglicanbecauseit was Protestant, and neither
of them for any other good reason often
After the opposition and abuse Rome has re
ceived, there is, or will be among Protestants,
a reaction in her favor, as is seen by the con
versions she makes. Men educated in the
narrowest Protestanism, and in the strictest
sects of Puritanism, have gone over to Rome,
Most of these converts were evangelical Pro
testants who went through many phases, and
were High Churchmen by the way, before
they joined Rome. They wore obliged to
crosB our territory before they went over, but
they started originally with tho Protestant
idea that Rome alone is the Uatnolic Churoh
and they passed over, or never stumbled on
the truth that our Church is the
true Catholic Church for English
npeuking people. These men who went will
tell you they found Protestants igaoraut
of the claims of tho Catholio (not Roman)
Church on all Christians, that they found
Protestants misrepresenting those claim
when they noticed them, aud treating the
gravest questions of faith and morals even
with coiitroverbial bitterness and partisan
utifairnebs, instead of Christian caador aud
honesty.
As a general rule catholics do not go to
Rome unless under extraordinary pressure,
and when they go are not happy there, as
many of them have returned. But wheu
denied the privileges which catholio Chris.
tians love and our Church allocs, even her
enemies being judges, they go wheru they
can worship the Lord every Lord day la the
Eucharist, instead of listening to tb inapt
talk of preachers who, denying the sanraments
of Cbribttheir sacramental force, transfer that
force to sermons, which they assert to be the
word of God. which Protestants believe to be
so for a time, but which, when their eyes an
opened, they see to be only the crude tradi
tion of a sect, er the ignorance, the folly, or
the jargon of tongues'in strife. The revival
of Catholio truth, which the Prayer Book is a
manual of, is one of the miracles of our day.
Christian people Lave told toe they laarne 1
their Prayer Book over again from us, and
never saw in it until they came here the real
measure of its worship, or the real signifi
cance cf its wordH. When even bishops ig
nore what is on its pages, aud what forty
coiuLuenUtors, bishops, and presbyters, and
laymen have found there, it is no wonder if
buuibler men are deceived. The preaching
and teaching of these doctrines make the
hearers Catholics. In the articles there are
750 negative and 150 positive propositions.
We Catholics teach positive truth; Trotestants
teach negative truth. We say this is so; the
Protestants say that is not so. A proper un
derstanding of infallible supremacy, the doc
trine of purgatory, and the worship of the
Virgin Mary are the real obstacles to union.
It is not possible intelligently to unite with a
Church teaching them. It is the duty of the
Er elish and American Chnron to retain, pub
lish, and mActise onenlv. full v. and honestlv
everything catnolio sue noids and nas. Al
, r "..." . .
ready the Greek Churoh hails us as a sister.
The Roman Church has two manners of peo
ple struggling in her. The late Counoil
showed their strength. It is not doubtful
that the catholio party will triumph, and the
Roman will fail. The Anglican Churoh has
only to maintain her catholio protests against
Rome and to abandon those l'uritanloal
denials of truth which sectarian
Protestantism has implicated her in.
and in less than a generation, at our present
rate of progress, the Greek, the Roman, and
tne Anglican Church will be seen advancing
with outstretched hands to reconciliation, and
our own Chnrch throughout the world will be
the honored instrument of reunion, on the
basis of "the faith onoe delivered to the
saints," which she upholds.
IN SU KAN Ota
Firf. Inland, and Marina Ininranct.
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF
NORTH AMERICA,
Incorporated 1794.
CAPITAL $500,OOC
ASSETS January 1 1871 $3,050,533
Receipts of P 70 2,098,164
Interests from Investments, 1ST0.. 137,030
-43,233,304
Losses paid In 1870.
.$1,136,941
STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS.
First Mortgages on Philadelphia City Pro
perty 934,9t0
United States Government Loans 890,939
Pennsylvania State Loans 169,310
Philadelphia city Loans soo.ooo
new jersey am oiner Mate Loans ana
City Bonds...' 825,610
Philadelphia and Heading Rauroaa ua,
other Railroad Mortgage Bonds aud
Loans 363,248
Philadelphia Bant and other Stocks 69,4sa
cash In Bans 831,0 ts
Loans on Collateral Becarlty 81,434
Notes receivable and Marine premiums
unsettled 439,420
Accrued interest ana rremium m course
of transmission 83,)1
Real estate, oince of the Company so.ooo
13,060,536
Certificates of Insurance Issued, payable In London
at the Counting House of Jiessra, mt JWN, SHIP
AUTsiuii o. coirn,
PBE3IDBNT.
CJIAItI.i:S PIATT,
VICE-PRESIDENT.
ATTIIIAM BIAKI.M, Mecretary.
C. H. REEVE! Assistant Secretary.
OIKEUTUHM.
ARTHUR G. COFFIN, i FRANCIS R. COPB,
SAMUEL W. JONES,
EDW. H. TKOTTKit,
KDW. 8. CLARKE.
JOHN A. BKUWJN,
CHARLES TAYLOR,
AMBROSE WHITE,
WILLIAM WELSH,
JOHN MASON.
T. CUAKLTON HENRI,
AL.rtlC.lJ L. al&MSUL,
LAJU1S IT. HAUKIKA,
1KORUE I HARRISON,
CLEMENT A, GKIiJOOlf
WILLIAM BROOEIE.
DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE
COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature
01 Pennsylvania, isso.
Office S. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT Streets,
MARINE INSURANCES
on Vessels, Cargo, and Freight to all parts of tie
worm.
INLAND INSURANCES
n Goods by river, canal, lake, and land carriage to
Hi pnria ui tuo uuiou.
FIRE INSURANCES
n Merchandise generally ; on Stores, Dwellings,
iiouueo, etc
ASSETS OF TUB COMPANY,
November 1, 1ST0.
.000 United States Slx Per Cent
Loan (lawful nione)) f 333,378 00
30,000 state or rennsyivama oix rer
Uent Loan 814.000 0C
130,000 City or rnuaaeipnia mx rer
Cent. Loan (exempt from
Tax) 804,163-50
164.000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan 163,920-00
20,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Six PerCU Bonds. SO.TOO-OC
85,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second
Mortgage Six Per Ct. Bonds. 83,250-OC
85,000 Western - Pennsylvania Rail
road Mortgage Six Per Cent.
Bonds (Pennsylvania Rail
road guarantee) 80,000-00
80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Ct.
Loan 18.00000
T.00O State of Tennessee Six Per Ct.
Loan 4,800-00
12,500 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany (850 Shares Stock) 13,000-00
6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad
Company (1U0 Shares Stock).. 4,300-OC
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall
Steamship Company (BOsu's
Stock) 4,000-01
1,660 Loans on Bond and Mortgage,
first liens on City Properties.. 861,650-00
11,860,100 Par. Cat, 11,864,441-84. M'ktvT $1,893 17-0(
Real Estate 66,000'SO
Bills Receivable for Insur
ances made 830,071-27
Balances due at Agencies
Premiums on Marine Policies
Accrued Interest an I JUier
debts due the Company 83,379 40
8 took and fcerlp, eto, ot sun
dry corporations, 87V&0, esti
mated value 8,818-00
Cash 148,811 78
l,830,787-iT
DIRECTORS.
Thomas C. Hand, .Samuel E. Stokes,
John C. Davis,
William t. Boulton.
Jdiuand A. Soader,
oseph H. Seal,
Jamea Traqualr,
Henry Sloan,
Uenry C. Dallett, Jr.,:
James C. Hand,
W ullam C. Lad wig,
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
Oeorge W. Ilernadou,
Wni. C. Houston.
Edward Darlington,
U. Jones BrouKe,
Edward Lafourcada.
Jacob Rlegei.
Jacob P. JoneB,
James B. McFarland,
Joshua P. Kyre,
Spencer Mcllvalne,
Thomas P. Btotesbary,
John B. Semple, Pittsb'ig,
A. 1J. Busger, Pittsburg,
D. T. Moriran. PHULmrtf.
U. Frank Kobtnaon,
juuMAi) u. iiabii, rregiaaut.
JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-President.
Hbnkt Ltlbckn, Secretary.
Hkxhy Bill, Aaaiataiit bacretary.
Men Mutual Insurance Company
OP PH1LADKLPIII 1.
INCOKPOKATKI) I Mil.
Fire, Mai ire, and Inland Iaiurancs.
Office. N.E. Cor THIRD and WALNUT
LOSSES PAID S1NOK FOEAIATION,
S7.O00.O0O.
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, JANUARY 1, 1ST1,
255,30709.
RICHARD 8. SUITE, President.
JitUii MOSS, becreuu-j.
INSURANOE.
1829 CHARTERFKRrKTUAL. jQ"7j
Fndlii Fire Insurance CGiaay
07 PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Ho. 435 and 437 CHES3TUT St.
Assets Jan. lt'7lJL$3f087t45235
CAPITA!",, 1400,000-00
INCOME FOR 18T1,
LOSSES PAID IH 18T0,
tT,88W0.
11,100,000.
jLohrcis Paid Since 182i Nearly
&c,ooo,ooo.
The Assets of the "FRANKLTN" are all Invested
In solid securities (over 11,750,100 In First Bonds and
Mortgnges), which are all Interest bearing and
dividend paying. The Company holds no Bills Re
ceivable taken for Insurances ell'eoted.
Perpetoal and Temporary Policies on Liberal
Terms. The Company also issues policies npon the
nents or an sinas oi Buuaings, urouna Rents ana
Mortgages.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred O. Baker.
Alfred Fltler,
Thomas Sparks,
William 8. Grant,
Thomas 8. Bills,
Gnstavas 8. Benson.
Samuel Grant,
George W. Richards,
Isaac Lea,
George Faloa,
ALFRED G. BAKER. President.
GKORGB FA LBS, Vice-President.
J4MKS W. MCALLISTER, Secretary.
THEODORE M. RHGER. Assistant Secretary. ,
ASBURY
LIFE INSURANCE CO.
TJX2W YORK
LEMUEL BANGS, President.
GEORGE KLLIOTT, Vlce-Pres't and Sec'y.
EMOKY McCLINTOCK, Actuary.
JAMES M. LoNGACRE,
MANAGER FOll PENNSYLVANIA AND
DELAWARE,
Office, 302 WALNUT St., Philadelphia.
H. C. WOOD, Jr., Medical Examiner.
REV. S. POWEHS, Special Agent.
People's Fire Insurance- Coipanj,
No. fflJ. WALNUT Street.
CHARTERED 1869.
Fire Insurance at LOWEST RATES consistent
rtth security. Losses promptly adjusted and paid.
NO UNPAID LOSSBS.
assots .December 81, 1870 1128,851-73
CIIAS. E. BONN, President.
OEO. BTJSCH, JR., Secretary.
jji I B E ASSOCIATION,
INCORPORATED MARCH 17, 1S20,
OFFICE,
NO. 84 NORTII FIFTH STREET,
INSURE
ILDLNQS, IIOTJ8EHOLD FURNITURE, AND
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY
rom Loss by Ore (In the city of Philadelphia only).
ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 1870, $1,703,310-07.
TRUSTEES.
Wllllnm H. Hamilton,
John Carrow,
(ieorge I. Young.
Joseph R Lyndall,
lfvlP. Ooats.
Charles P. Bower,
Jesse Llghtfoot,
Robert Bhoeinaker,
Peter Arrabruster,
m. ix. LiicKinaon,
Samuel Spar hawk, Peter Williamson,
Joseph E. Schell.
WM. H. IIAMIL1 ON, President.
8AM C EL SPARHAWK, Vice-President.
WILLIAM F. BUTLER,
Secretary.
F
AME INSURANCE COMPANY,
No. 809 CHESNUT Street.
INCORPORATED 1S50. CHARTER PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL 1200,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss or Damage by Fire either by
Perpetual or Temporary Policies.
D1KSCTOKB.
Charles Richardson,
Robert Pearce.
wunam n. unawn,
William M. Seyfert,
John F. Smith,
Nathan Wiles,
John Kessier, Jr.,
Edward B. Orne,
Charles Stokes,
John W. Everuian,
Mordecai Buzbv.
George A. West,
CHARLES RICHARDSON. President.
WILLIAM U. RHAWN, Vice-President.
Williams I. Blakcbarp, Secretary.
TUB PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Incorporated 1S26 Charter Perpetual.
No. 010 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence
Square.
This Company, favorably known to the comma
alt j for over forty years, continues to insure against
Iubs or damage iy Are on Public or Private Build
ings, either permanently or for a limited time. Also
on Furniture, Stocks of Goods, and Merchandise
generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund,
la Invested In the most careful manner, which eoa
bies them to otter to the insured an undoubted seca
r i y in the case of loss.
DIKavTuim.
Daniel Smith, Jr.,
iHaao llaf leliurst,
Thomas smith,
Henry Lewis,
J. Gllllngbam Fen,
inosias nouiua,
John Devereux,
Franklin AX7omlv,
DANIEL SMITH, Js., President
wm. u. lhowiuh Decretory.
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE S. W. CORN h R FOURTH AND WALNUT
STREETS.
PERPETUAL AND TKRM POLICIES ISSUED.
CAfrH CAPITAL (paid up in full) $200,000 00
CASH ASSETS, December 1, 1870 00,83800
F. Ratchford Starr,
J. Livingston Errlnger.
rvaioro i ruzRT,
John M. At wood,
Benjamin T. Tre.llek,
(it-oige 11. Stuart,
William a. Boulton,
Oharle Wheeler,
ThomasQ.Montgomery,
James M. AerUeo,
jonn it. irown.
F. HATCH OBD STARR, President.
THOMAS II. MONTGOMERY, Vice-Pre
AI.RX AfNDER W. WISTKR, Recrelary,
JACOB E. PuTERSON AsaUllftt-Seere
- president.
cretary.
NTHRACITB INSURANCE CO DIP ANY.
INOORPOK4TED 1864.
CHAKTER PERPETUAL.
Office, No. 811 WALNUT Street, between Third
and Fourth streets, Philadelphia.
This Company will insure against Loss or Damage
by Fire, on Buildings, Furniture, and Merchandise
generally.
Alo, Marine Insurauce on Vessels, Cargoes, and
Frcifcliia. Inland Insurance to all purls of the Union.
William Esher,
Lewis Audenreld.
Win. M. Balrd.
John 1L Blaklston,
W. V. Dean,
John Ketcham,
J. E. Bauin,
John B. Heyl,
Peter Sieger,
Satnm-l
H. HothermeL
WILLIAM ESUEH. President.
WM. P. DEAN, Vice-President.
M. Smith, Sn-rctary.
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J SOUTH WUAKVES, Philadelphia.
Na i Co
No. IS SOUTH WUAKVES, Philadelphia.
Na AS W milT KT&RKT. Rlttmrrr
are prepared to ship every dtoriptloa I
height to Puiiad. if b'a, t ew Tork, WDiiiLgton, an
niieriLfcdiaU points ua promptnatM auddosptttch.
Canal Boats and bteatu-ULs f aruiahed at th auuruxt
aottca,