THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2352, 19 November 1908, Page 4

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.

RITUALISTIC TEACHING.

A STRONG! PROTEST. ~ > United Peess Association. Copteight SYDNEY, Nov. 18. At the annual meeting of the Church of England Association, the report declared that every effort had* been made to support the principles of the reformation and to counteract pernicious ritualistic teaching. The nicious ritualistic teaching. The Bishops were blamed for the introduction of false doctrines and istic practices, which had taken such a firm foothold in the Church. The Episcopal Bench in England had been filled with Romanising Bishops, who permitted the introduction of medieval superstition and sacramental idolatries. The aim of the Society was to resist the spread of the system of sacerdotal despotism, which, threatened to undermine the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, and restore the Mass, confessional, and the blas-ifr phemous doctrine of transubst-antia-tion. It was a sad record and a startling fact that 3000 clergy were wearing illegal vestments. The dim religions light, and gaudy ostentatious colors and vestments allured men to ritualism. The position was intolerable and called for drastic action. The President attacked the Bishop of Stepney, who was intending to visit Australia, for extreme ritualism. His appointment to York no doubt cause consternation in England as it did* here. It was hard that York should have such a ritualistic forced on it.