THE ANGLICAN MISSION

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13830, 6 September 1910, Page 8

THE ANGLICAN MISSION

TO THE KDITOB OF ' ; THE PRESS." Sir, —Again. I bog a little space to reply on the above subject. "'Church of England" conducts his correspondence free from bitterness and rancour, which is to be commended. On a subject like this the average j>erson -usually lets passiou run loose. If the coming niiasioners have High Church practices, and hy using them draw souls into the Church, are they to be condemned? Apparently they are. This Anglican mission must be conducted on tho lines of tho Henry-Potts affair, .so as to appease the wrath of the Dissenters, who look with horror on anything which is beautiful in Church worship.

Personally, 1 hope tho mission will bo successful, and that the Church wiii take a leap upward. I would ask ''Church of England" to disprove ray statement regarding Protestants having a knowledge of their belief. The average Wesleyan knows nothing of Wcsleyan belief. The Presbyterian knows nothing of that stern Scotch belief. How many Presbyterians know the difference between the Free Kirk and the United Church of Scotland? The Anglican will express horrified surprise if you show him portions of his Prayer Book. There* is only one denomination who studies, lives, and loves hi s religion, and that is the Roman Catholic. They really love it, and they seldom, if ever, show bitterness to cth'r.-r creeds : only the very ignorant do that, and yet we have, 1 presume, educated people tearing the old religion to pirces, which was old and venerable when the Churcii of England wasn't thought of. Tho other Saturday I counted 17 different announcements of church services, exclusive of Anglican. Each announcement was a different creed. Now why don't the detractors of the lloman Catholics and the Ritualists heal the breach between all the- Protestant bodies. I*t tho two eld Churches alone. Let the detractors,• the ignorant, and the scoffers, cultivate a little charity and a little love, and then come forward with a t-chome for the amalgamation of the old with the new Churches.—Yours, etc., ONLOOKER.