The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-25
EVENING TIEGRAPH-PHHA ADEIPHA MONDAY 25 1867

1tanv Of the saints in which we address
ALMIGHTY God directly, without asking the
intoroession of His blessed. This over the
,,;nisters and alcolytes retire in the same
r5ar in which they entered, and the organist
nlavs n voluntary, during which the other six
altar candles are lighted. When the clergy
retIrn. the priest is seen in a green maniple
and obasuble The latter differs from the
vestment worn by the Catholic priest at mass
only in being less stiff in texture, pointed
behind, and covering the arm nearly to the
elbow; and instead of being embroidered with
4 cross on the back, it is marked with figure
nearly resembling the letter Y. With hands
olasped before his breast the priest now
ascends the steps, and standing be-
fore the altar, with his back to the people.
goes on with the second part of the service.
We need not describe it, for it is principally
translated from the missal. The words are
all reported in tone which is half reading
and half chanting, and whenever the minister
says Let us pray or THE Lord be with YOU
he turns round to the people like priest
chanting 'Oremus' or Dominus Vobiscum'
The epistle and Gospel are read by the dea.
con. The sermon fOllows-a rather vague and
wordy discourse, chiefly remarkable for the
frequent and aiiectiOnate use of the term
Catholic The preacher begins by saying.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost and the more de-
j.
upon cross themselves After the sermon
comes the most solemn part of the
service, taken nearly verbatim from the canon
of the mass and at the commencement a
great many of the congregation, who appa-
rently are not communicates, leave the church
with reverential faces, as if they supposed the
old law forbidding catechumens to witness the
more sacred mysteries were still in force. But
the curious spectators who compose a large
Of tho anHianna ,1,,,
scruple about remaining" The writer afirms
that there are many places in New York where
the Sunday services are conducted more or
less in conformity with the ritualstic ideas of
st. Alban's, but the innovations in this re-
spect in our own country are nothing com
pared with those which are rapidly gaining
ground in the English Established ChxEch.
The movement in Great Britain iwnot
so much the struggle of an enthusiastic party
for change or reform as it is the spon-
taneous working of a logical doctrinal deve-
lopment which is gradually spreading through
out the community. Among other measures,
| great efforts have been made to introduce
| Protestant religious orders, and there are now
| at least four hundred or five hundred mem.
bers of various sisterhoods who take vows
! some for life, some for three years. Societies
4 of the same kind have obtained precariou:
! footing in the United States. "There is one
| III NEW lOIh, WllOSt IntLuD6IS wear a COSLuUle
| suggestive somewhat of the clOister and some
! what of the mantua-makers shop. They
| have neat little things, between cap
and wells, on their heads make
believe rosaries hanging from their gir
| dies, and black bombazine gowns distendec
to fashionable dimensions by means of hoop
skirts" The writer alleges that the views O
the ritualists tend to unprotestantize the Churcl
of England, by accepting, as they do, the doc
trines of the Roman Catholic Church in ever,
| particular except the supremacy of the Pop
and the immaculate conception of the Virgil
Mary, and also its discipline even to religion
vows, sacramental confession, and clerical cell
bacy. He finds great encouragement for tn
prospects of Catholicism in the movement
believing that the Protestant has gained some
thing by the discovery ''that one can ben
before a crucifx without breaking the com
mandments, and that frankincense is not a
abomination in the sight of the Lord -