PROTESTANTS AND THE OATH.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 July 1910, Page 3

PROTESTANTS AND THE OATH.

01! IKS OK "NO POPKRY" AT MR ASQiMTirs ri<;*H)i<;ncig. POLIOtf IXTERYKXK. DV ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] fI'KK PREH3 ASSOCIATION."! (Received This Dav, 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 28. The Protestant Truth Society has entered a protest against the new Oath, on the ground that it does not provide against mental reservation, or I'apal dispensation, and is merely on parallel lines with the oaths taken by King Charles IT. and King .Tames 11., both of which proved ineffective. Members of the Society marched procession to Downing street, and cried "No Ropery." The police stopped them,

[The Protestant Truth Society is an aggressive organisation, chiefly ■associated with non-conformists. One of itso leading spirits is Mr Keusit, son of the late Mr J. Kensit, the well-known bookseller, of Paternoster Row. E.G.. who gained considerable notoriety by publicly protesting agnin.sf what be described as '"Popish practices" at St. Paul's Cathedral. St. Albans. Ho'lborn, E.G.. and other churches, where a high ritual is observer!.]