METHODIST CEREMONIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2007, 14 March 1914, Page 8

METHODIST CEREMONIES.

-—, ■-># —LJ PROPOSED NEW "BOOK OS , \ ■ OFFICES." Ono of tho proposals before the Methodist Conference at j)uuedin on Monday was to adopt.the rep&sfc of a committee appointed to l-eVisis tie "Book of Offices," . The' revisets siig". gested a' large- jiitriiber of alterationß,, some in. the nature of- word' changes, as-for instances' "hades", for "holl"j others looked like tiiodiCea-tious of dootriae ■;- and prospective- 'bridas' may be; interested', in learning, that in tho ■olitao of tho solemnisation of matrimony it was {and maflae still is) proposed ■ to omit those* nuiiA-dkeussed words "and to obey." Members of the troiiferoiicc i-uelifted to • the Opinion that' the revision ought to bo deferred; so as to get tho collective Methodist wis* dom ■ oil- tfes subject before, issuing a jiew boot, whieb. would probably servo lor Bmny years. Before that deeis-itm was come to. B.<n\, f. W, IVir(ikiigli told his brethren thjits ho rei|anfed tho matter a;g. yctv tm : port-a.nt. So far aS'inany of tiro- public- were cotieeniecl, the-, only means they, had oi judging tlie Methodists was by •■o.Wrving tl-wii - xvaj's of canflijcting funefa] ■ sci'vic.cis and inarri-ag«-5.,. S. J. SerpeU empiiasjse.d this vie-w,' sayiiig , tlmtlte- had- soßieti-nies fel-fc vorj- a-ugry ; Aat-sei'ittg'^'euqlj'sowieeg/ca-ndiicletl-' (n, il ste-Vejjly toaaner. '■ Hb-was no Ritualist, but- ii> sooifted.to Km that a ijiiiiistor csbl.d not- be too rev*rcji:t wh'en fixer-- ; cfeiug. Us isffitre. Pctfpfo of the; .poorest iitteltet a.p.preei-ated the doing: ofi-t'heso.tlvHigs <l(ic;pntiy aiid i.n d/iit-, : - atiS pbrsans .'of nnfe fenliflgs _ must bo , slweied whea, it was otherwise. . i . . . ■ .:. .' : ■ '