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166 THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH.
or Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
are all under the control of the Church. They may be
changed to any extent which, to the majority of the
whole Church represented in the General Convention,
may seem advisable. The General Convention has the
whole subject under its cognizance. Any General Convention may propose an alteration or addition to any
extent, and it must inform the several Diocesan Conventions of the proposal; and if the next General Convention thereafter approve it, the proposed alteration or
addition becomes the law of the Church. Thus changes
may at any time, and to any extent, be effected, according to the varying circumstances and wants of the whole
Church.*
The subject of modifications in the Liturgy has frequently been touched upon, and been considerably discussed, in the General Convention. Some modifications
have been introduced; others, when proposed, have
been rejected. There has never yet been any expression of opinion, sufficiently general and sufficiently definite, by the whole Church, to warrant or authorize any
very extensive changes. But the spirit of the General
Convention is liberal, and necessarily so from the mode
of its organization ; and whensoever there shall be any
sufficiently general and definite demonstration by the
Church that extensive changes are demanded, then such
changes will be accomplished.
It has been supposed that, in the matter of public
worship, there is an inflexible stiffness in the Protestant
Episcopal Church ; that this Church is bound down to
a fixed and invariable form, which can never be mod-
* Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Art. 8.
| Title | The comprehensive church |
| Creator | Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard) |
| Publisher | Appleton |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000170 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 166 THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. or Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church, are all under the control of the Church. They may be changed to any extent which, to the majority of the whole Church represented in the General Convention, may seem advisable. The General Convention has the whole subject under its cognizance. Any General Convention may propose an alteration or addition to any extent, and it must inform the several Diocesan Conventions of the proposal; and if the next General Convention thereafter approve it, the proposed alteration or addition becomes the law of the Church. Thus changes may at any time, and to any extent, be effected, according to the varying circumstances and wants of the whole Church.* The subject of modifications in the Liturgy has frequently been touched upon, and been considerably discussed, in the General Convention. Some modifications have been introduced; others, when proposed, have been rejected. There has never yet been any expression of opinion, sufficiently general and sufficiently definite, by the whole Church, to warrant or authorize any very extensive changes. But the spirit of the General Convention is liberal, and necessarily so from the mode of its organization ; and whensoever there shall be any sufficiently general and definite demonstration by the Church that extensive changes are demanded, then such changes will be accomplished. It has been supposed that, in the matter of public worship, there is an inflexible stiffness in the Protestant Episcopal Church ; that this Church is bound down to a fixed and invariable form, which can never be mod- * Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Art. 8. |
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