AGAINST VESTMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 501, 7 May 1909, Page 5

AGAINST VESTMENTS.

" -1 TO CO^V^ATIONi- - ' ikobUTiou~iS}'mia&.f :;,;;..':: (M& i l^: i,Ml a;m;)'.• -. " '•,'.'■' ! ; - ': ' LdKaon, ii&jf- i. ',;A. patitiH'^SfgrfM. by. It.M'G .ci'er'fef lr& .aga'iast the use of' eucbanstio'■. v'e's'tment. ■v' THE PftESrfeNT POSitf6N. :,: • tHe 4 lTi(iiM:Hdliiß of Gonl°WW <ly Canterbury, recently .rltfdrUa-'en- the' uJe,.6f„,T.estnientS in-fhe.Anrflii fTO 1 a AO, thttt ,o»r,o,wn study .e£-tho facts 'l? a .^: l^ij«iffl6^iftlu^ion,. v that the, Oraamphta EußHc.cdilllM.tigHtly.be,interpreted as.exclud-Lit^'lf-H 50 , , of -;, 411 for. the. oldfgy' bther than the sitrplitd in p'li'risK churches afitl, ifl.Cathedfat; ifiid>Calle|lata tHe tig phoe,' hob'di ahd itipi>.' f ■ \ : , . . ■•-.DU6; o£. the'. main ob'JebtidnS tis tHe ii's4 bf' Mfawa rai.sed. by.: thfe. Evangelical ■pat'ty Aas' been,th^.ttjey.sigtiiiy,certain dbctfincs Whioli' a M M ,l n „?ccprdance Witt, ths .teaching: bf .the' W i( t an ..:gn.tlu'3 point,- the - report '■• ."4i^ r^Sr *V* tQ^6fn^nt s■ ol theLminisSr* we .bfelmtt that thi e'Tidehbe he'f9" cbjllcted indicates that .they. canndE r'iiMr-bo Mgdrd«d" a's eifrhesm bf .ddctfihe, Bil't that fhSlr tfsb : is" bl matter;.of fetefbht- 6Mer; - All qnbstioils of legislation- therefore/.in' r'egdfd fa them are questions, rather than of principle. What should be the' action of the Churoh_ at the presen|-,limo in extendinif or restnctjng liberty, as regards such ornaments, of ih hiakin'g' deMto i .f?ciuii l enieltfs as ftf their use-; r dr..ih. leWhg ■the .bbntioviiSf, dbbut thiffl where, it. stahdSi lies butlide the reference' of the sflb-bgrqtnittee - ;", ( „,•, ; ~.-■,', ... ■•.■'•.:■ V;A. CMiraittcSol .the.-Ltls-br House of. Convocai 1^, n .Pt Canterbury subseoiteiitH reported to the s j < S ll 9 n ' i y e «!. o t til? Cph'yOpat-ibn Ofi.Xprlc presented a report; fav.bunng. the.perP'M'tSi.M «-;Wp. Dnfy'.;. fven h r .WPW c H-Pw fi |eM? asth'eßish6ps;6f pdrhnM and. Livornbbl hav'e sfa'fed- I hat; for the. snkft.dfperfce fnfh'e CHatfch. they reluctantly agfee tb this couMc: Of coufso'tlie eitrehlb.Lbw GhufolL pffrty ' arg Strb'n'glf o'ppbScd,,even to tli'6 optional use of eufcnttristi* Testments. ~,„„„„._. ... ;■..-'.-.