ANGLICAN CHURCH DIFFERENCES

Evening Star, Issue 19784, 7 February 1928, Page 5

ANGLICAN CHURCH DIFFERENCES

SERMON BY BISHOP BARNES

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LONDON, February G. A largo crowd besieged Temple Church to hear Bishop Barnes. The Solicitor-General (Sir Thomas Inskip) was present, and hundreds stood throughout the service. Bishop Barnes declared that tho church was only narrowly prevented by Parliament from making changes which would end in the primitive superstition that a priest could give spiritual properties in inamiraatc matter.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

DEMONSTRATION AT ST. CUTHBERT’S.

LONDON, February 5

Four hundred people walked out of St. Cnthbert’s before the sermon. Hundreds followed tho vicar to his home, but there was no hostile demonstration.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

[Tlie resentment of the congregation against Anglo-Catholic ritual recently culminated in the calling in of the police at St. Cuthbert’s, Darwen (Lancashire), and in the abrupt abandonment of the morning service. The majority of the worshippers objected to the vicar (the Rev. E. Lauria) using the sung Eucharist. When Mr Lauria proceeded to the altar to lead the' singing of tho Eucharist over 100 of the congregation rose and sang hymns, and some women quitted tlie church sobbing. Meanwhile the organist played music conflicting with tlie hymns. When the congregation readied tho third hymn the vicar left tho church and brought the police. He then addressed those who were protesting, saying; “Do you know that you are very blasphemous?” Some replied: “Wo want our own service, and we are going to have it.” Confusion reigned, and the protestors resumed the singing, whilst tho curate and the choir returned to the vestry. The vicar requested the congregation to leave, and the service ended. ]

CHURCH ASSEMBLY MEETS

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY HONORED

TWENTY-FI FTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS PRIMACY.

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RUGBY, February 6, (Received February 7, at noon.)

Tho Church Assembly met to-day to consider the return to Parliament in an amended loim of the Revised Prayer Book which the House of Commons recently rejected. The Archbishop of Canterbury, who presided, Was celebrating tho twenty-fifth anniversary of his primacy. When he entered there was a burst of applause, and the whole assembly rose in greeting- . , . The Archbishop of York, m paying a tribute to tho Archbishop of Canterbury, pointed out that he had served a longer period than any of his predecessors lor over 400 years. He spoke of Dr Davidson’s single-minded, wise, and heneficient rule of tho church, and of the admiration, trust, and affection which tho whole church had towards him. , , The Archbishop of York announced that a, committee had been appointed in order that some special personal token might be presented to tho Archbishop of Canterbury in this outstanding year in which, incidentally, h© would also celebrate his golden wedding.