The Wise
In the missionary journal mentioned in the last paragraph, there occurs a condemnatory reference to the use of incense and lighted candles in processions in Spain. It recalls to our mind the reply which •an Anglican clergyman made some years ago when admonished to abandon these ' distinctly unwise"' adjuncts to ceremonial, in deference to the ; opinion ' of his -archbishop. ' In the New Testament ', wrote the clergyman in reply, ' only two classes of people are specially termed wise — the AVise Men, who offered incense - ceremonially, and*"*"" the Wise Virgins, who carried processional lights '.
' Distinctly unwise ! ' deft reply is dynamite to the Evangelical, as it was to tihe archiepiscopial, ' opinion '. - ■ '■
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 28 March 1907, Page 10
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110The Wise New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 28 March 1907, Page 10
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