THE RITE OF UNCTION.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 10

THE RITE OF UNCTION.

Oraojt ov& , ow* ' R LONDON, Janikry 20. When, tho Convocations of* Canterbury and York meet .pn Wednesday' in 'tjhe ■Lower lloUso of Cantorhury, Prebendary Harris, .Vicfw of goutlileigh, .•will move a resolution op 1 lse lQhtircli.'a ministry ■to the rick in its relation to> •taftk a v f<>nn'. •shoold- s b& .jjaaointing ,of 'the sfck ana W/oi bands,"'. ■ ■ The revised. Prayer. Bpok, contained-, a form for the imposition of the laying! on of bands, but although l t|ur Bouao of Convocation petitioned for it, the form of tanot£o£*-w&6 }l ijiot* added,*, the Bishops preferring ,fo* decision of the ;liamJ>etli' ,Gonfe*ene<C This has now reported in ' favour" of the lading. of -hiinds and'- th&unetlon, and the "way is now open Cor the restoration- of 'the primitive iito of; the unctiqn of the eiekwhieh was, con-< tauaed in the first edition of the Prayer Book in 1549. - ■ / "> The rite of unctioh is already in'in-' creasing nse in Marly ail the JgngUfcV' dioceses, in moat case? with the" fall approval and co-opeiation of Riahopa, many of -vshom now Lleas the oil which* l is used'by their clergy,. parpchial .clergy, have ?i£e& xojj. nearly a quarter oft a'-century, an<l*it is claimed that some ,of the eqres effected' rival tho results obtained at Lousdes. Zt is also cluuned that nnotion, as now usrd in the Anglican Church, not only follows tho ancient precedent, but afcb . uSes the resources .of psychology in preparing tho patient for the reception of • the .rite. * "Unction.--is very largely .used in the treatment V>f nervoijLS diseases «tbd ifywiujjy, v principally in cases-of epilepsy* Closejr.co-' operation between the -clerical > and medical professions in thfr,trseatanen*j>f the sick is recommended in' the .Jrejjort of the Archbishops* Committee, ynfl the ; matter is, receiving the close, attention lof the Continuation tOommittetr which 1 was appointed at the suggestion of the Conference. , «■