ANGLICAN RITUAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 987, 30 November 1910, Page 7

ANGLICAN RITUAL.

THE BOW. CHUE.CH POINT OP : ":;;;.r\ iview. •-.."• ■ -•'.■ By Telegraph—Press Assoriation-Copyriffht. • . Sydney, November 29. The annual Teport of the Church of England Association supports tho Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Wright) in prohibiting vestments. It is added that tno preaching of the-Gospel of the Cross is the best antidote to tho cravings for mass', vestments, processions, and elaborate.ritual.

AddroHiing the Anglican Synod of the.- Diocese of Bathurst (Now South . Wales) - recently, the_ Bishop (Dr. Camidge) said ne desired for many reasons a revision in accordances with fuller knowledge of the judgment of what was. commonly calld the final court of appeal on. tho question of. ornaments, rubric, and more especially so as fivo .bishops in their report to tho Convocation of Canterbury say "Ornaments rubric, cannot. rightly be interpreted as excluding all vostmonts for the clergy other than surplices." Having had the advantage of lengthened experience he. looked upon tho question of vestments as one which would ere long settle itself. A large number of tho churches in England to-day used them. If an 'impartial judgment founded upon real historical faots was pronounced for the satisfying; of those who look to the quasi, civil Courts for the'interpretation of ambiguous rubrics, or an ecclesiastical court, consisting of bishops and presbyters, and even before that time, vestments would be as common,as surplices were to-day, and yet their Church would stand as firm as ever.