"A WICKED STIGMA."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 380, 4 May 1910, Page 8

"A WICKED STIGMA."

IUT'JALISTIC INVASIONS | THREATENED. | CLERICS UP IN ARMS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. "The English Churchman" contains an article by" Walter Walsh, author ot '•The Secret History of the Oxford Movement," in •which the writer alleges that the Anglican .Mission of Help to' visit 'New Zealand in September next will constitute l, a big invasion of New Zealand by ritualistic priests." Canon Pollock and the Rev. H. A. Kennedy, forerunners of the mission (now in Auckland) are described as "two ritualistic priests," and the article proceeds to individualise as to the various societies to which it is alleged several of the missioners belong. Mr. Walsh concludes by expressing the hope that no Protestant incumbents in New Zealand will invite any of the* "ritualistic clergymen" to preach in their churches. Bishop Neligan, on heing asked by a Herald reporter to reply to the allegations, said that the paper quoted was beneath contempt, and a party organ working for party purposes. Canon Pollock referred to the contents of the article as pernicious reports. He denied the allegations of a ritualistic invasion, and said the suggestions as to Romanising the Church in New Zealand was a '•perfidious lie." The Rev. 1-1. A. Kennedy similarly denied the statements in ''The Churchman," declaring that the majority of the coming nlissioners are pronounced evangelicals. The stigma placed on the movement was, he considered, perfectly wicked.