CORONATION CEREMONY
ANGLICAN TREATMENT FREE CHURCH PROTEST LONDON, June 1. A protest against the Anglical treatment of the Coronation ceremonj was made by the Rev. S. W. Wilson, Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland, at Glasgow. “It is not spiritual pride, but generations of plain Scottish worshipping which makes us feel that the Coronation ceremonies are incorporated into the Communion service of the Anglican Church for the express purpose, it would almost seem, of warning off trespassing churches,” he declared. “The ceremony would have been no less impressive if it had concluded with the Communion service of the Presbyterian or Free Churches,” he added, and went on: ’Does the heart not throb at the thought of that vast assembly of plenipoteniaries and, alas, potential enemies, being offered the bread and wine ni the name of the. Lord Jesus, instead of the King and Queen alone?” Mr. Wilson also said the time taken over the sword and spurs might have been occupied by rites more pregnant with Christian meanrz.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 131, 4 June 1937, Page 7
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