RITUALISM AND THE ANDLION CHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 124, 26 May 1911, Page 6

RITUALISM AND THE ANDLION CHURCH.

"BaraFostus" replies to Mr T. Dyer E4 wards' statement that Mr. Kensit, jun., is regarded in England as a fanatic auj a "brawler." He says that statement has no foundation in feet, and proceed! to adduce evidence of the 'practices' ol Ritualists -within thejAnglican Church, which are in gross violation of the Pγ* testant principles upon which, the State Cliuroh of England is founded. He notes specially the ritualistic practices 1 at Brighton, England, where: "during thr second week of March, 1910, a proces« sion which passed through;, the? streets of Brighton and Hove created - ih'e most profound sensation. Ritualistic priesti swung incense to and fro, .young girls dressed in white represented the "Children of Mary," the "Virgin Mary" carried aloft. No Church of England clergyman ever organised such a saddening spectacle since the Reformation. At Brighton, July, 1910, there w?s enacted within the leading Anglican' .Church' a. service including the 'Benediction ol the Blessed Sacrament,' prayers ■ssferji read in Latin, a language certainly not understood by the people at l&Tge; in , vocation of saints was preached ana practised during Lent. Yet rid action has been taken by the Bishop of ChiChester or the Archbishop; ofjCanter bury. Eecent events at Brighton, Hove, and Bristol .strengthen the demand fo£ the passing \)f an Ecclesiastical Disorders Bill into law, by which a chea| and effectual means will be provided for ousting traitors from Anglicanism, It they love Romish ceremonies, then let them have courage of ;their convictions, and join the Roman Catholic Church. In Anglican Churches in England -we hart Corpus Cbristi celebrations, btap* masses, requiem, masses, tenebrae, ■ sta« tions of the cross, mass, vespers of the Blessed Sacrament, vespers ofthe dead, mass of the pre-sanctified, and tion of the Blessed Virgin all taking place under the eves of the Bishop of Chichester. Moreover, his Lordship actually encourages such services by officiating vrithin the churches wh'*'- they take place. We have still wprse thinM. The "Rev. 0. P. Henly, who was deprived of his living for "heresy' of the henefice of St. Mary's, Wolverton, by the Dean of Arches at the suit of the Bishop of Oxford, to-day officiates at St. Bartholomew's Church, Brighton. So much fol the statements of Mr. Dyer Edwards.