A “REMARKABLE SERMON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 817, 22 March 1910, Page 3

A “REMARKABLE SERMON.

Father Vaughan has been preaching what the local paper calls a “remarkable sermon” at the Roman Catholic Church in Worthing (Eng,), and the close proximity of this building to the Ritualistic Church of St. Andrew, Worthing, lent special emphasis to his words. He told his congregation to remember they were Catholics, and “ not High Church people calling yourselves Catholics and taking Protestant money.” The Catholic Church was so beautiful that even some of their Protestant friends were quite ashaiqed qf being called Protestants, and wanted to be called Catholic. If they went into their churches they saw them “ all decked out just like ours.” It showed \Vhere they thought the truth must be, “ because they are always mimicking us.” “ You see their clergy decked out iu our millinery.” He, however, praised the devotion of these people, “who will go regularly to their mimic Mass,” and contrasted with the lukewarmness ot bis own people, some of whom “found it hard to go to Mass ou Sunday.” Ou this the Anglican Record says: —“ We are fully sensible to the significance of Father Vaughan’s words, aud the fact that they are true, however distasteful and unpalatable they may be to English Churchmen, reveals something of the gravity of the situation. But it is no new charge that he brings. $ greater and wiser man of our own ■ communion, Archbishop Benson, long qgo protested against Engjish clergy “ fingering the trinkets of Rome.”