[Footnote 56: Ibid. p. 126.]
[Footnote 57: Ibid. p. 160.]
"I am satisfied our liturgical services as now used are to a certain extent impediments in our way. … There are circumstances in which all the services help us. … There are other circumstances in which the use of all the service is a manifest and felt hinderance. … We are not as powerful a church as we might be if we had more liberty. Of this I am fully persuaded." [Footnote 58]
[Footnote 58: Ibid. pp. 160, 161.]
The missionary bishop of Oregon and Washington, out of his large experience, concludes:
"There are undoubtedly great advantages resulting to the church from a general uniformity of worship; but if that uniformity be so minute and fixed as to refuse adaptation to the actual condition and wants of Christian men, or to restrain in any degree the preaching of the gospel to every creature, then it becomes a yoke of bondage and a damage to Christ's kingdom." [Footnote 59]
[Footnote 59: Memorial Papers, p. 213.]
The Rev. Dr. Howe remarks:
"I do not believe, sir, that the difficulty lies in the organization of the church, … but in the unvarying and (in the esteem of many) invariable use of our forms and other usages of worship. … The church may be entirely Catholic in her doctrine and polity, yet she can never be practically so while she requires all men to worship everywhere in precisely the same forms." [Footnote 60]