A WAVE OF SECESSION FROM ANGLICANISM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8282, 14 June 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

A WAVE OF SECESSION FROM ANGLICANISM.

Quite a wave of secession seems to bo passintr over the troubled w-Hters of Anglicanism. Only the other day the Rev. C. W. Townsend, M.A., the Principal of the Oxford University Mission at Calcutta, followed the example of the Rev. Luke Riving 1 ton, M.A., the head of the similar mission at Bombay, and submitted to the Catholic Church : and now it is stated that the Revs. William Tatlock, M.A., R. Bens ley, M.A., George Clarke, M.A., formerly attached to such well-known " High 1 ' churches as Christ Church, Clapham (where the Sarum as distinguished from the Roman ritual is carried out in its entirety), Helmsley (Yorkshire), • and St. James-thc-Loss, Liverpool, have been "received." Moreover, since the beginning of Lent no fewer than one hundred members of the Church of England have joined the Catholic communion in one parish in North London ; and at Brighton, always a centre of Ritualistic activity, the converts are estimated at nearly 500. The Redemptorist Fathers at Clapham (whose monastery, by the by, is t-lie identical house in which the British and Foreign Bible Society was originated) have altogether "added to the Church" upwards of 1000 persons.