ANGLICAN RITES
Presbyterian Protest About Corouation (Eeceived 3, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. A protest against the Anglican treatment of the Coronation ceremony was voiced by Rev. S. W. Wilson, Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland, at Glasgow. He said: "It is not spiritual pride but generations of plain Scottish worshippers which make us feel that the Coronation ceremonies are incorporated into the communxon service of the Anglican Church for the express purpose, it would almost . seem, of warning off trespassing churches. "The ceremony would have been no less impressive if it concluded with the commnnion service of the Presbyterian or Free Churches. Does the heart not throb at a vast assembly of plenipotentiaries and, alas, potential enemies, be. ing offered bread and wine in the name of the Lord Jesus instead of the King and Queen alone. The time taken over swords and spurs might have been occupied by rites more pregnant vritli Christian meaning/'
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 117, 3 June 1937, Page 4
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