OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13250, 19 October 1908, Page 7

OBITUARY.

FATHER IGNATIUS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 16. The death is announced of Father Ignatius, aged 71. Tho late Rev. Joseph Leyoester Lyne, or "Father Ignatius," as he was generally tonmed, was * born in 1837, at Trinity square, London*. In 1860 ho was ordained to the curacy of St. Pofcor's, Plymouth, and was tlieut Mission Oirrate to the late Mr Lowdeo-, at St. George's in tho East, but left him in 1862, to begin an attempt to restore monasticism in the Church of England. Ho began at Claydton, near Ipswich, and a fow years later purchased land among the Black Mountains, and built Llanthony Abbey, fivo miles beyond the old rmined I__iii!thony Prictry. A priory of nuns was attached to the church, as well as an abbey for monk®, after the example of many of the old double monasteries of tho Saxon Church. The monks cLaimed to follow the ancient rude of St. Benedict,, and use tho Benedictine Breviary for Choir office, and the Sarum Missal of tho ante-Roformaitiioin Church cif England. They wore the old) Benedictine dress. 'i!ho late Rev. Mr Lyme's monastic name was "Ignatius of Jesus," and some years ago he inaugurated a special crusade in defence of tho Holy Scriptures and Orthodox Christianity against tho Higher Oritdcs and other opiponents of Orthodoxy within the Church of England. In 1893 he initiated a petition to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Convocation, praying that Church authority should arrest tho attacks upon the Faith of Christ so common" among the clergy. Tho petition was largely signed, and was presented by the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. In 1893 the Monk's preaching at tho University Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford caused much excitement, and its significance was largely commented on by the Press. Never had such vast congregations of men assembled in this historic church for centuries, one Church paper stating that "tho feat of moro than filling St. Mary's with men only 'has not been accomplished by any other preacher. At the Church Congress at Birmingham in 1893 Father Ignatius ' denounced tho author of "Lux Mundi" as "an impugner of Holy Scrinturo and of our Lord Jesus Christ." In the years 1890 and 1891 he made a missionary tour ;of North America, and preached the ' old-fashioned Gospel message, clergymen of all denominations inviting him to proclaim his doctrine from their pulpits. In 1898 ho was ordained priest at Llantlionv Abbey by Archbishop. Mar Timotheus of tho Syrian Church, and afterwards issued a manifesto with regard to his ordination, in which he maintained the validity of tho orders he had received. He was the composer of many pieces of sacred music, and the author of many published sermons, poems, hymns, and other works.