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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Portsmouth. (search)
ight entail confusion, and require endless explanations. Bishop Elliott would be extremely loth to strike out a term which was a standing rebuke of Rome's peculiar assumption, that she is the Catholic Church of the world.--The English Church gloried in it, and even the Queen had to take an oath to support the Protestant religion. He would repeat what he had said in a sermon in 1844, that the Church is Catholic for every truth of God, and Protestant against every error of man. Bishop Atkinson urged that names should correspond to things. They should be distinctive. He thought the term Reformed more expressive than Protestant. The Jansenists protest, but do not reform. His preference was for the Reformed Catholic Church. Rev. Mr. Trapier urged that Protestant Episcopal, as a designation, was now a concrete thing, and hallowed by association. Bishop Davis dwelt upon the inconvenience of change. For several centuries after the Church was established, it bore the