RITUALISM IN ENGLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2003, 1 June 1868, Page 4

RITUALISM IN ENGLAND.

(To the Editor of Him Otaoo Dai&t Tmm j Snt--I take *ha liberty of correcting your "Own Coy reS p olK i ent} London," not only with reg ard to the decision W the Dean of Ah ; i les fSir r, Phillimore), _,~ *?«. » '°??ii Mr Maclconochio, of'Sfc Albans, Holby fn but also iXB to the anpealtothe^Pw vy Council. 1 In the ter fc p ] acCi the j m igment delxvered on ' Saturday, 28th March last, resulted i» • three out of four of the prac^ tioes bemjr declared illegal. » The elevaxion or t& d Sacrament, the use of incense m£££l no Comm"nion service, and the oi the water with the wine, dmmg w., same sorv j cej are condemned ; but alta/ i° ? f iwo li S]lt.ed candles upon the + P rt » m,mg the administration is permittea » The e i evafioll) Sir R p ]lilUmore «•*■ .lsidera distinctly condemned by the Arw clo which declares that tlio Sacrament wa3 not by Christ's ordinance reserved or lifted, up. With respect to the incense and mixed chalice, he considers the Jminuteness of the directions in the Prayer Book for the administration of the Communion to amount to a prohibition, of additional practices. iAt the conclusion.

f the Judgment, notice of appeal to the Privy Council was at onco given. your correspondent states that "the cases wero decided against the defendants, and as no notice of appe»al was given, wo cflljllic Sir Robert Phillimore's elaborate iiidgnicnt will bo accepted a« final" J am not writing insupport of Ritualism, but merely to place before your readers the true state of the case, as fully reported in the London daily papers. I am, &c, W. W. W.r.nox.