RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 752, 26 February 1910, Page 9

RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.

: A "REMARkABU&^ERMON.' , V Father Vanghan.-hW: been,:- preaching .what the local paper calls a "remarkable sermon"', at /iho.-Bomai Catholic Church . m Worthing. (Eng.), and. the close proximity of this building- to "the Ritualistic church of St. .'Worthing, lent special emphasis to his\ words. ■'■ He told his congregation to remember they ivero Catholics, aaid "not High Church people calling yourselves Catholics; and- taking Protestant money." :. The Catholic Church was so beautiful that even some 6£ .their Protestant friends were quite ashamed 'ofbciing called Protestants, : and wanted; to be called Catholic; : If,.they went'into their churches they saw' them "all.decked; out just like "ours." Jt showed where : thcy ; thought the truth must be, "because 'they are always mimicking us." ."You see. their; clergy decked out in our millinery/' He; .however, .praised, the "devotion of .'these, people,."who willVgo regularly to -their mimic. Mass,", and- contrasted: with tho, lnkewarnuiess of,his oven people.esome.of whom "found it hard to go; to Mass on Sunday.' Oil this tho'Anglican "Record" says:—"We are-fully sensible of the significance of; leather. Vaughai'ii.iwords, and tho fact that they are' true,-"however, distasteful, and unpalatable ..they may bo ■ to' English Churchmen, , ;reveals something of the; gravity of , the situation. But; it .is ■no new charge that : he. brings.•., A greater and wiser: man of,- our own' communion; Archbishop. Benson,'• long ■ ago ..protested against English clergy 'fingering the trin-' I kets.of.Rom'e."'-' . .' ~.: •_."-. ... ~-/