Part 13 (1/2)

THE MERITORIOUS CAUSE--Christ's death

THE EFFICIENT CAUSE--The operation of the Holy Ghost

THE INSTRUMENTAL CAUSE ON God'S SIDE--The Ministry of the Word, Baptism and the Holy Communion

THE INSTRUMENTAL CAUSE ON MAN'S SIDE--Faith which works by love

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Kalendar--The same as CALENDAR (which see)

Keys of the Church--To the Rector belongs the control of the keys of the Church building, and this because he alone can determine what services shall be held in it If he chooses he can hold services every day; he can celebrate the Holy Eucharist every day or as often as he thinks best, and no one can interfere with hie of the spiritualities of the Parish and in this he is left absolutely free, being a to do in deter what use the Rector shall {160}out the provisions of the Prayer Book The Office of Institution recognizes this right in that one of its provisions is that ”then shall the Senior Warden (or thehis place) present the keys of the Church to the new Incu, In the name and behalf of------Parish [or Church] I do receive and acknowledge you, the Reverend, (naive into your hands the _keys of the Church_”

Keys, Power of the--A phrase used in reference to the discipline of the Church which our Lord has intrusted to the Bishops and Pastors of the Flock as ”race” This phrase involves the doctrines of Absolution and Exco, admission and rejection, and the administration of the Sacraments In Holy Scripture, the ”Power of the Keys” is called a ”binding and loosing”; also a ”re reference to the authority to admit into communion with the Church or to exclude therefrom (See St Matt

16:19; 18:18; and St John 20:23)

Kindred, Table of--A table set forth in the Prayer Book of the Church of England, with the title, ”Table of Kindred and Affinity, wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and in our laws to ether” While this Table is not published in the Aarded by many American canonists as the law of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States It is interesting to note that this Table is (or at least was until a few {161} years ago) embodied in the Statutes of the State of Maryland, and that in soe of first cousins

Kingdom of God--The New Testadoelists e equivalent terdodom of the Gospel, the Church of Christ This is, indeed, a heavenly and divine kingdoh it is now set up on earth yet its nature, its purpose, its powers and its ends are ”of heaven” That this phrase is used to signify the Church on earth can be seen most plainly in the various parables in which our Lord likens the ”kingdo to the present time See the parables in St Matt 13; also in St

Mark 4:26-32 The Gospel which our Lord delivered to dom ”:--see St Matt

4:23; 9:35; 24:14; St Mark 1:14; St Luke 4:43; 9:2; 10:9; 16:16; Acts 1:13; 8:12; 19:8; 20:25; 28:23 and 31 Froes we learn that our Lord embodied His Truth and Salvation in an _Institution_ which should be the ation throughout the world, and into which men are admitted by Holy Baptism to become partakers of His Salvation This truth appears constantly in the Bible and is the basis of its appeals to live righteously and Godly in this present world As an exa the Stole--The stole represents the yoke of Christ, and the Priest in recognition of that yoke and of his vows, kisses the stole each tiness to sub posture in which prayer is to be offered to God Our blessed Lord Hiard to kneeling in Public Worshi+p, the Annotated Prayer Book has this note: ”The gesture of kneeling is not only a mark of personal humility and reverence, but also one of those acts required of every one as an individual colect it, is to neglect a duty which is owing to God and ht to conspicuous private gestures in a public devotional asseestures which we use (in conformity to the rules of the Church) to be necessarily interpreted as hypocritical because our personal habits or feelings y have an official duty in Church, irrespective of their personal characters, so also have the Laity

Itsuch official duties, may often lead onward to true personal reverence and holiness”

Kyrie--The Greek title of the responses after the Ten Commandments in the Communion Office _Kyrie_ means ”Lord,” and taken with the Greek word _eleison_, they form the first words of the response ”Lord, have lish popular name for the FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION (which see)

Laity--Derived fro ”people” The word uished froy The terht to be noticed that the term Laity, or Layman does not mean the mere absence of rank, but denotes a positive order in the Church The word is the equivalent of ”brethren,” as we read in the Acts of the Apostles, of the first Church Council which issued the first pastoral letter, which begins ”The Apostles and Elders and _brethren_ send greeting” (Acts 15:23) When in our Conventions or Councils the vote by orders is called for, the Clergy vote by themselves and the Laity by themselves; in this we have an illustration of the Laity as an order in the Church

La--A symbolical representation of our Blessed Lord, used in Church decorations The lamb is the chief emblem of our Saviour as called by St John Baptist, ”the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world” The lalory of four rays, one partly concealed by the head The rays areonly to our Lord The lanifies Victory, and is an emblem of the Resurrection This symbolism is appropriately used at Easter {164}

Lae of the Bishops of the Anglican Communion on the invitation of the Bishop of Canterbury, and held in La was held in 1867; the second in 1878; the third in 1888, and the fourth in 1897; the Bishops thus coether every ten years for lican Cohout the world As ether in conference, at one tiiven to the first day of August because on that day in Anglo-Saxon tis in kind, loaves, representing the first-fruits, of the harvest The word ”Lalo-Saxon word _hlaf ”ust in old Calendars was the Feast of St

Peter-in-chains, it is also supposed that _Lammas_ is an abbreviation of _Vincula Mass_, or the Feast of St Peter _ad vincula_ in cos, the Four--These are Death, Judgment, Heaven, hell

(See ESCHATOLOGY) These subjects being so very solemn in their import, they are frequently taken as topics of instruction or of serhts are turned to the contelorious Majesty to judge both the quick and the dead”

Lauds--One of the seven CANONICAL HOURS (which see) {165}

Lay Baptism--Baptism administered by a layman The Church has always held that Baptisreat necessity, such as sudden danger or sickness and the inability to secure the services of a clergyreat care should be taken that the proper form and words are used (See BAPTISM, HOLY) It is well to note that when Holy Baptisyman _without such necessity_ as reat sin, even though his actto the person baptized His act cannot be undone, but it ought not to have been done

Layman--One of the LAITY (which see)