biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

CANON FARRAR ON NONCONFORMITY
AND RITUALISM.

Canon Farrar brought his series of sermons on the
Established Church to a close at the Abbey on Sunday
afternoon by a sermon on the position of Christian
Dissenters. He traced the history of Protestant Non-
conformity from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to the
Evangelical revival of last century, and bitterly
lamented that the Church of England should have
needlessly and cruelly ejected those who would
willingly have remained within her fold. "The true
Christian policy would have been pot to goad them
into Nonconformity, but to win them to union, just
as it would be true and Christian policy to grant some
toleration to ritual now. The Church was once con-
vulsed because Puritans were not allowed to decline a
ou4.pliee. have we learned b 0 little that it is now to
he convulsed because Ritualists are not allowed to light
a candle or wear g, chasuble? Perhaps you will say,
'But these are such triaes ' Well, they, too, may
live to see that they are only trifles ; but meanwhile
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