withheld from celebrating here the names of the Right Reverend and Reverend speakers who dignified its Course of 1894, and gratefully acknowledges its sense of profound obligation to the Bishops of Maryland and Vermont, to the Rev. Dr. Waterman, and to the Rev. Greenough White, the Rev. Robert Ritchie, and the Rev. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, for the kindness with which, in the midst of an absorbing vocation, they gave their unselfish labor in aid of the objects of the Church Club: "to promote the study of the history and the doctrines of the Church, and to stimulate the efforts of Churchmen for her welfare and for the maintenance of the faith."

New York, Advent, A.D. 1894.

St. Peter and the Primacy of the

Roman See.

LECTURE I.

THE RT. REV. WILLIAM PARET, D.D., LL.D.,
Bishop of Maryland.

ST. PETER AND THE PRIMACY OF THE ROMAN SEE.

THE subject assigned to me for this lecture is "St. Peter and the Primacy of the See of Rome"; and I understand that this is the first in a series of lectures bearing upon some of the most important points in Rome's controversy with all other Christian people. There have been greater controversies in the history of the Church. Those in the earliest centuries were concerned, not with matters of order and ministerial authority, but with the far more awful questions of the very nature of God; with the being and personality of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and with their rela

the Blessed Trinity to the Eternal Father. these controversies lasted they seemed to use the Church; but by our Lord's gracious ing those questions, of doctrine most vital,

decided absolutely and finally while the