THE RITUALIST PARSON.
The "Ritualist Parson" holds an ambiguous and unenviable position Unrecognised by Rome, he is a butt for ridicule in the Church, to which he actually belongs. The Week thus sketches him: — '*We all know the Ritualist ; he is, like the conies, a feeble folk, and in his worst type seems to care nothing for law or his bishop, and to hanker after Rome, or a sham martyrdom'iuflicted by LordPenzance. Further, he thinks a good deal of his clerical appearence, and is given to wearing a piece of haberdahshery know as a Rome collar, which causes the Irish crossingsweepers near the Oratory at Brompton and the Pro-Cathedral at Kensington to touch their caps to. him — a fact which causes him the liveliest gratification. He delights in the musical masses set to a burlesque' of the English Communion service, and in vestments of gorgeous hue. We once had a friend, a curate, or, as he like to be called, an assistant priest, at a well-known church at Brighton, and were taken by him to see the vestments, all of which he proceeded to try on for our satisfaction, walking away with his head over his shoulder, exactly in the way in which the young lady with the - good figure shows off a mantle in the show room. It was a warning to us never to go behind the scenes again."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 839, 19 July 1879, Page 2
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231THE RITUALIST PARSON. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 839, 19 July 1879, Page 2
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