as he does
religion. Actually he tells us there would have been no vice and crime
in the country, no godless education, no pauper Bastilles, if Henry VIII.
had not put down the _Holy Brotherhood_. Of course he means by the "holy
brotherhood" the lazy and dissolute monks. Why, if we were to sully our
pages with but a tithe of the abominations and obscenities and
rascalities recorded of the "holy brotherhood" in indisputable historical
documents, every father of a family would hide away this volume. The
less Brother Michael says about "the holy brotherhood" the better.

Again, let us take another illustration of High Church literature:
"Innovations: a lecture delivered in the Assembly Rooms, Liverpool, by
Richard Frederick Littledale, Priest of the Church of England." The aim
of Dr. Littledale is to show that prayers for the dead, the choral
service, the sign of the cross, the weekly offertory, the daily
celebration of Holy Communion, the elevation of the Host, turning to the
east, the division of the sexes in churches, the mixed chalice, incense,
vestments, and lights are _not_ innovations. He knows so little of
history that he tells us that the conversion of our forefathers is due to
Gregory the Great (the man under whom Popery was introduced into
England); calls Edward VI. "_a tiger cub_," and speaks of Cranmer, the
martyr for his religion, as having "_been arrested in his wicked career
by Divine vengeance_." He says, "of the depth of infamy into which this
man descended" he has not leisure to speak; and all the Reformers,
according to him, were equally bad. Dr. Littledale says, "Documents,
hidden from the public eye for centuries, in the archives of London,
Venice, and Simancas, are now rapidly being printed, and _every fresh
find establishes more clearly the utter scoundrelism of the Reformers_."

The Doctor admits the Church of England was in need of a physician in
Henry VIII.'s time. His language is, "A Church which could produce in
its highest lay and clerical ranks such a set of miscreants as the
leading English and Scottish Reformers must have been in a perfectly
rotten state--as rotten as France was when the righteous judgment of the
Great Revolution fell upon it." The Rev. Thomas W. Mossman, West
Torrington Vicarage, Wragley, Yorkshire, goes further still. In a letter
to Dr. Newman, he says he believes that a time will come to pass that
Anglicans will also see that it is God's will that they should