A PRESBYTERIAN TILT

Grey River Argus, 3 June 1937, Page 5

A PRESBYTERIAN TILT

At Coronation Ceremony TOO MUCH ANGLICAN! (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received June 2. 7-30 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. A protest against the Anglican treatment of the Coronation ceremony was voiced by the Reverend S- WWilson, Moderator-General of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland- Speaking at Glasgow, he said: “It is not spiritual pride, but generations of plain -Scottish worshipping, which make us feel that the Coronation ceremonies l are incorporated into the Communion service of (the Anglican Church for the express purpose, it would almost seem, of warning off trespassing churches- The ceremony would have been no less impressive if it had concluded with a Communion service of the Presbyterians or of the Free Churches- Does the heart not throb at the .though/t. of a vast assembly of plenipotentiaries, and also of potential enemies, being offered the bread and wine in the name of the Lord Jesus,, instead of the King and Queen alone being offered the bread and wine? The time (taken over the Sword and Spurs might have been occupied by rites more pregnant with Christian meaning.”