A PROTEST
SCENE IN CATHEDRAL OBJECTION TO AN IMAGE REPLY BY THE PRIMATE United Press Assn.— F.lec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON. Dec. 25 While the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang, was dedicating the Crib during the Christmas Eve service in Canterbury Cathedral, Alfred Marfin. a member of the Protestant Truth Society, passed through the congregation and thrust a letter to him, shoutinc: “I pray you, desist from this childish pre-Reformation practice.” The Primate replied: "You should make your protest at an appropriate time.” Martin was hustled out by the police and was released when he promised to leave town immediately. The letter protested at the dedication of the Crib as “a deliberate reversal of the Reformation,” and proceeded : ‘‘These images cannot be con-
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY sidered mere decorations, as people are invited to kneel at the Crib and offer prayers. For anyone to suggest that images or idols can teach anything concerning the glorious incarnation of our Lord and Saviour is to reduce the worship in the English Church from the high spiritual standard attained by the work of the Reformers and bring it to the level of a corrupt, .unreformed Church.” The Crib shows the Holy Family, with an ox and an ass, in an ancient English barn.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20689, 27 December 1938, Page 7
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