DR JENNER AND RITUALISM.

Evening Star, Issue 3615, 23 September 1874, Page 3

DR JENNER AND RITUALISM.

The conduct "of two of our Colonial bishops has attracted the attention of the ‘ Christian World,’ of whom it speaks as follows :

“Bishop Jenner, late of Otago, and now holding a kind of roving commission to promote Ritualism in this country, preached the other day at the opening services of St. John’s, Hulme. His discourse had at least one merit, that it dropped the mask and called a spade a spade. The bishop went to the root of the matter of the Real Presence, ‘ Jesus was either present or absent on the sacrament of the altar. If He was present, what worship could be too splendid to do Him honor 1 If He was absent, I what worship was justifiable?’ Excellent sense we say, and this at once brings the point to an issue. Either the reformers were fools, or they died for a principle. That principle is again at stake, and if the Church not know their own mind, and on which side of the hedge they are on this truth, on which the Reformation had turned, the people of England will soon ask the reason why of an Establishment nominally Protestant, in reality neutral or worse. Happily, all returned colonists are not as Bishop Jenner. There is Bishop Alford, late of "Victoria, whose courageous letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury we noticed recently. He has succeeded the Rev. Dr Blakeney in the living of Christ Church, Claughton. The ‘Church Times describes him as that ‘ Heathen Chinee,’ but censure from such a quarter is real praise.”