CHURCH OF ENGLAND ASSOCIATION.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 119, 18 November 1908, Page 5

CHURCH OF ENGLAND ASSOCIATION.

Press Assn— By telegraph — Copyright. [ (Received this day, 9.7 a.m.). I SYDNEY, to-day. ! At the annual meeting of the] | Church of England Association, the I report declared that every effort had been made to uphold the principles of [ reformation and to counteract pernicious ritualistic teaching. ; The bishops were blamed for the introduction of false doctrines, and the ritualistic practices which had taken such a firm foothold in the Church. The Episcopal Bench in England had been filled' with Romanising bishops, who had permitted the introduction of medieval superstition and sacramental idolatries. ' The aim of the society was to resist the spread of the system of sacerdotal despotism, which threatened to undermine the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, and restore the mass, the confessional, and the blasphemous doctrine of transubutantiation. It was a sad record, and a startling fact that 3000 clergy were wearing illegal vestments. The dim, religious light, gaudy and ostentatious colors and vestments, allured men to ritualism. The position was intolerable, and called for- drastic action. The President attacked the Bishop of Stepney, who was intending to visit Australia for his extreme ritualism. His appointment as Archbishop of York would no doubt cause consternation in England, as it did here. It was hard that York should, have such a ritualist forced on it.