FIFTH OF NOVBMBER DEMONSTRATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7784, 2 November 1886, Page 6

FIFTH OF NOVBMBER DEMONSTRATION.

Wα have received letters upon this subject, from whioh we extraot the following matter as bearing direotly upon it :—

" Evangelical" writes, "Apart from all considerations of brotherly love and Christian charity, no clergyman of the Anglican Churoh can loyally notice the Gunpowder Plot either in his services or sermons. On the day after Her present Majesty's accession, at a Privy Council held for various purposes, four special services were ordered to be retained in the Book of Common Prayer, viz., 'The Queen's Accession,' 'The Martyrdom of King Charles I.', ' The Restoration of Charles 11.,' and 'Gunpowder Plot, , and •The Landing of William 111. , Bat at a Privy Council held in January, 1859, the three latter were ordered to be expunged, and the first alone retained. The Ohurott of England has thus practically excluded all partisan demonstrations from her ritual. " A Subscriber" sends us the following quotations from papers recently received :— Extraot from Sir William Harcourt's speech in the House of Commons on September 2 last. Hβ said: " I say that this Orange party is, and has long been, the curse of Ireland Archbishop Whately said : ' The very name of Orangeman is a sign whioh is chosen to keep up the memory of a civil war which every friend of humanity would wish to bury in oblivion. It is doing what among the heathen was reckoned accursed, in keeping a trophy in repair.' It is known that among the Greeks no trophy was allowed to be made of metal, but of wood, in order that the memory of past feuds might be obliterated. But the Orange Society lives for the purpose of preventing the memory of past feuds from fading." "An Admirer of the Professed Principles of Orangeism " points out that Orangemen are expressly prohibited from taking or giving any cause of offence from or to those with whom they differ in politics or religion, and animadverts strongly upon their attempt to drive the gospel of peace and goodwill from the pulpits of the churches. "A Clergyman " also complains of the intolerable nuisance that these repeated attempts to mould their utterances are to ministers generally.