ANGLO-CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21102, 12 August 1930, Page 13

ANGLO-CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

LIFE GUARDS’ BAND,

NO PARTICIPATION IN HIGH MASS

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

. LONDON, June 27. On Sunday, June 29, High Mass is to be celebrated on Chelsea football ground in connection with the fourth Anglo-Catholic Congress. It had been proposed that the band of the Life Guards should play on that occasion. The participation of the hand in this ceremony, however, was opposed by low churchmen on the grounds that High Mass is associated with the Roman Catholic service. The band, as servants of the public, should not, it was submitted, be employed. At the request of the Secretary of War. the committee of the congress have agreed to cancel the engagement of the band. In a letter to the Secretary of War the committee wrote: —

“The committee is in agreement with you that controversy in this matter is in every way and it has been able to make other satisfactory arrangements for its music.”

The following letter was sent in reply from the War Office:— <*

“ I am desired by the Secretary of War to thank you for your letter, in which you say that your committee, being in agreement with him that sontroversy in the matter is in every way undesirable, have decided, in response to his request, to cancel the engagement of the band of~the Life Guards to play at Stamford Bridge.”