CORONATION PROTEST.
FREE CHURCH BELIEF. LONDON, June 1. A protest against the Anglican treatment of the Coronation ceremony was made hy Rev. S. IV. V ilson (Moderator or the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland) at Glasgow. “it is not spiritual pride, but generations of plain Scottish worshipping which make us feel that the Coronation ceremonies are incorporated into the Communion service of the Anglican Church for the express purpose, it would almost seem, of warning off trespassing churches,” lie declared.
“TJie ceremony would have been no less impressive if it had concluded with the Communion service of the Presbyterian or Free Churches,” he added, and went on: “Does the heart not throb at the tnouglit ot that vast assembly of plenipotentiaries and. alas, potential enemies, being offered the bread and wine in the name of the Lord Jesus, instead ot the King and Queen alone?” Mr Wilson also said the time taken over the sword and spurs might have been occupied by rites more pregnant with Christian meaning.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 9
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