100 years ago: December 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that it is comforting in these days to find that just as hard things were said of politicians by our grandfathers. Sidney Smith's epitaph on Pitt is...
Category: December 2000, The way it was ... as seen by the Churchman
100 years ago: November 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries went through a stage of profound irreverence. Courtiers, ecclesiastics, writers, all agreed to make a jest...
Category: November 2000, The way it was ... as seen by the Churchman
100 years ago: October 1900 Canadian Churchman asked the question: Is there an age limit to ecclesiastical preferment to usefulness in the Church of England? If so, what is it? If not, why should not aged ecclesiastics be...
Category: October 2000, The way it was ... as seen by the Churchman
100 years ago: September 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that a merely sentimental religion may be quite as dangerous as a mere intellectual religion. We are glad to see this side of the truth brought out in one of our...
Category: September 2000, The way it was ... as seen by the Churchman
100 years ago: June 1900
Canadian Churchman reported that the subject of church attendance is one of enormous importance, demanding grave thought and heart searching. Among other questions asked, a prominent place is...
Category: June 2000, The way it was ... as seen by the Churchman
100 years ago: May 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that it is interesting to note the various streams of tendency, in our own day, setting in opposite directions, one towards liberalism, another towards something like...
Category: May 2000, The way it was ... as seen by the Churchman
100 years ago: March 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that the Season of Lent is with us again with its solemn, earnest, yet hope- inspiring voices when the Church calls her children to special self-examination,...
Category: March 2000, The way it was ... as seen by the Churchman
100 years ago: February 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that it is curious to see how people still doubt as to whether we are now ending the 19th Century or beginning the 20th. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury has...
Category: February 2000, The way it was ... as seen by the Churchman
Canadian Churchman reported that it is a mistake, characteristic of little learning and large assurance, to suppose that a rambling, off hand talk, however fluent, is extempore preaching. Few minds are full enough,...
Category: December 1999, The way it was ... as seen by the Churchman
100 years ago: November 1899
Canadian Churchman commented that with one exception, all Canadian bishops are again at their posts of duty. We are far from saying that the journeys so often made to England are unnecessary, or...
Category: November 1999, The way it was ... as seen by the Churchman