CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND RITUALISM.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12403, 19 November 1908, Page 2

CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND RITUALISM.

AN AUSTRALIAN PROTEST. [Phess Association — Copybmht.] . Sydney, Nor. 18. • At the annual meeting of 'the "Church of Engl-ind Association the report declared that every effort bad" been made to uphold the principles of tha Reformation, and tj counteract the p3rniniou3 ritualistic teachings. The bishpp3 were blamed for the introduction of falsa doctrines and ritualistic practices which had taken such a firm foothold in the, Church that the Episcopal Bench in England bad been filled with Romanising bishops, who. permitted the introduction of mediaeval superstition and sacramental idolatries. The aim of the Society wns to resist tbp spread of the Systran of sacerdotal despotism, which threatened to undermine the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, to restore the mass and the confessional, and the blasphemous doctrine of transubstantiation. It was a sad record and a start! iug fact that 3000 clergy were wearing illpgal vestments. A dim religious light, and gaudy and.oatentatioas colours and vestments allured men to ritualism. The position was intolerable, and called for drastic action. The President attaoked the Bishop of Stspusy, the new Archbishop of York, who wa9 intending to visit Australia, for his extreme ritualism, and Sdid his appointment to York no doubt would cause consternation in England, as it did here. It wus hard that YorK should have such a ritualist fofoed on it.