The Church’s one foundation

The Church's one foundation. Samuel John Stone* (1839-1900). Written in 1866 when Stone was Curate of New Windsor and published in Lyra Fidelium; Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles of the Apostles’ Creed (1866). This is aptly entitled ‘The Holy Catholic Church: the Communion of Saints’ and headed ‘He is the Head of the Body, the Church’. The author composed this in tribute to the orthodoxy and steadfastness of Bishop Robert Gray of Cape Town at the height of the Colenso controversy. John William Colenso, who had been consecrated Bishop of Natal in 1853, had published The Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua Critically Examined (1862), which had expressed doubts about traditional biblical...