Category: History - Religious
The following pages had been prepared, for the most part, for publication, before it was known that the question of Ritual would be discussed in Convocation, or a Committee of the Lower House appointed, by the direction of the Upper House, to report upon it.
Let me first be permitted to remind the reader of the present aspect of our Church, such as it was presented to view in an earlier page. Let it be remembered and taken home as a...
2. Part 2It is always a somewhat delicate task to gather from the provisions of the Old Law sure and certain conclusions as to the destined ones of the New; because some of the former we...
3. Part 3What then, supposing the clergy to be really anxious for it, are the difficulties in the way? The first and most obvious is that of finding a sufficient number of Communicants....
5. Part 5Now it is a question at least worth asking, whether we have not here indications of a greater disposition than we have commonly given our people credit for, to be moved by such...
6. Part 62. The question of the _legal_ position of the "two lights on the altar" is a somewhat complicated one. But in its general aspect the usage derives a sanction and an interest fr...
4. Part 4On the whole, it cannot be gainsaid, that what "this Church and realm hath received," and what her Ministers, therefore, undertake to carry out in their ministrations, is _not_...
1. Part 1The following pages had been prepared, for the most part, for publication, before it was known that the question of Ritual would be discussed in Convocation, or a Committee of t...
8. Part 8"Why have these been disused? Because the parishioners--that is, the churchwardens, who represent the parishioners--have neglected their duty to provide them; for such is the du...