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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 95, 8 May 1900, Page 4

THE BISHOP OF LONDON ON THE "MASS." The Bishop of London on February 21 delivered to the clergy of the diocese, at St. Paul's Cathedral, his primary charge, the subject of which was ' The Church and the Nation,' This address has considerably stirred the High Church party, who did not expect such & deliverance from Dr. Creighton, who is a pronounced High Churchman. The importance of the issue raised by the existing controversy in the church, he said, lay in this; that certain tendencies within the church were viewed with suspicion by the people at large. This suspicion, if unfounded, should be allayed by frank explanation. The English people regard with suspicion any form of theological opinions which they thought even remotely threatened their idea of freedom. They demanded that any ecclesiastical development should maintain clearly the sense of individual responsibility to God, and he did not think that any religious movement could have a chance of lasting success which could not or would not give effective guarantees on that important subject. The lleformation settlement as embodied in the Prayer Book, was the statement of the .position claimed by the church, its teachings, and its ministrations, with the State's acceptance. Recent controversy was concerned with two cardinal points in the system of our church—the restoration of the primitive conception of the Holy Communion instead of the medieval conception of the Mass, and the abolition of the disciplinary requirement of confession as necessary before Communion. After pointing out that on these points there were two conflicting lines of thought which, springing from differences of temperament, could never wholly disappear or be reconciled, the bishop urged that they must be subject to the fundamental principles of the church, as determined by its authorities. The claim that every individual priest was free to select from ecclesiastical antiquity any rite or ceremony which he thought fit, provided he applied them to the services of the Prayer Book, which might be rendered at his discretion, naturally caused universal disquiet, and it was impossible that such a claim could be maintained. The bishop proceeded to maintain that the object of the Reformers, which had ever since been been pursued by the Church of England, was to turn the mass into a Communion, and make it a service for the people. He condemned the attempts to revive the use of the word " Mass," the practice of fasting Communion, and the disciplinary imposition of confession, urged the desirability of loyal obedience to the Prayer Book in respect to the holding of daily services and other matters, and closed by deprecating any waste of the energy of the clergy over trivialities and questions of mechanism. Never HAIR Look Old 1 There is no need of it. You can look at thirty as if you are sixteen. Then why look as if you are sixty ? Thick and glossy hair belongs to youth. Thin and faded hair to old age. will make your /wens hair solt and glossy, rich. and abundant. It "will keep HMT your scalp free from dandruff, and will surely visor prevent your hair from falling out. It Never Fails to Restore the ;, Natural Color to the Hair It gives to the hair that soft, glossy appearance so natural to early life. For men, this means the look of strength and power. For women, it is the one Ornament of youthful beauty. Remember that pimples, rashes, and like disfigurements of the face may be thoroughly removed by taking a course of treatment witij Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Muj., U. S. A TO BE PUBLISHED IN AUGUST, 1900. STONE'S VfEUINfiTOK HAWKE-S BAY&TARANAKI OoMMEBaiAL, Municipal & Genkuai DIRECTORY ... AND ... NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL. Edited by John Stone. AUGUST, 1900.—TBNTH Yeah OP Publication. Demy Bvo., containing over POO pages, to. gether with maps of Now Zealand and Wellington, corrected to date, the whole handsomely bound in clotb, gilt-lettered. PRIOR: If Ordered before Publication, 10s Gd; After Publication, 12s 6d. STONE, SON & CO., PRINTERS & PUBLISH® S Crawford and Jetty Streets, Dunfidin, and at Grey Street, Wellington. TBADIVG STAMP* i-iTVKJj ON A.LI OASH PURCHASES.; SOLE~HUOS., TAIiAKAIU BCICHBay. We kill .inW tho PEUMKBT O.? JV-ISAT gr -.'£o& on b«'«l f;i' l«nn& iii tin vfisJri ;t. OR SBALITY . . ' . Wt OSI ¥ TITI3 OT JVKHS VVTI i<D ON MAILT. 30L3 AGKKTB P. ANDREWS' vVIiL.L-K--.OYVN BACON. THE BEST IN IHJS MA£KE']|