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mation to the present moment. If they were valid,
she could have no motive to deny them. For she
would of course still regard the Anglican Church as
in a state of schism. As we have already said, she
admits the orders of the Oriental clergy. Which is a
conclusive proof that she does not deny the orders of
a church, merely because that church is separated
from her. Certainly the bare fact that the Catholic
Church has denied the validity of Anglican orders
from the very first, ought to have great weight with
every reflecting mind, and especially, too, when it is
considered that many clergymen of the Anglican and
Protestant Episcopal Church have, particularly during
the last few years, entered the Catholic Church under
a conviction of the utter insufficiency of the orders
which they had received. Of course our limits will
not allow us to set forth the arguments by which the
judgment of the Catholic Church in the case is sus-
tained- We could not do justice to them within so
small a compass. Those who wish to examine the
subject at length, will find it ably treated in a work
entitled "The Validity of Anglican* Ordinations Ex-
amined," by the Rt. Rev, P. R. Kenrick, bishop of St.
