RELIGIOUS PROCESSIONS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 61, 10 September 1908, Page 5

RELIGIOUS PROCESSIONS.

Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, yesterday. . At a meeting of the London Council of 51 Protestant societies, Mr C. Mc- < Arthur, M.P., presiding, it was resolved to urge Government to forbid the procession, of the Host, in connection with the Eucharistic Congress, through the public thoroughfares. T^ey telegraphed a betition tO'Kihg Edward, and sent 400 peers and membex's of the House of Commons a message inviting them to use their influence to prevent the procession, which they feared might cause a riot, and even bloodshed. Mr McArthur and others, in letters published in, the newspapers, describe the procession as a .public adoration of the- Host, and an .attempt to create a precedent for similar processions in all the great towns of the Empire, thus leading to religious feuds.

(Received this day, 8.10 a.m.). LONDON, yesterday

The' Morning Post and Westminster .Gazette consider that the Catholic Emancipation Act definitely forbids processions, and there is no reason why the law should not be observed. Both papers condemn the promoters, and" apart from the extremists many consider the proposal regrettable.