ANGLICAN CHURCH

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 106, 7 May 1928, Page 8

ANGLICAN CHURCH

"SIGNS OF BITTERNESS" EXTENSION NOT WANTED (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. In the course of a sermon at St. Mary's last night, Canon Percival James, referred to recent happenings in the life of tho Anglican Church. "Signs are not wanting," he said, "that party bitterness is creeping into our household. ■ To crush these ugly beginnings, it is time for the great. mass of the central church people in New Zealand to declare plainly that they have no room here for the emissaries of those extremists in England who, while remaining in the church, treat Anglicanis. .i as it has existed since the Reformation with open scorn. They repudiate ■ the Anglican tradition in which people have been brought up in New Zealand. Their sympathies and loyalties are Latin, not Anglican. They aim at a crude revival of the Mass and the Confessional, and tho progressive Romanising of our services by the introduction of medieval superstitions and idolatrous rites. Nor is there room in the Anglican Church in New Zealand for extremists of the opposite type, of narrow, persecuting temper, who disgrace the name of Protestant by making it stand for a negative, barren repudiation of everything that might enrich the corporate worship of tho church, and who arc always watchful for some pretext for raising that favourite cry of ignorant fanaticism, 'No Popery.' "