The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-12-21
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The vestry Of the State Street Church was
filled with large congregation yesterday
morning, including many besides those who
usually worship there, who were drawn thither
by an announcement that the Bishop would
speak on the above subject.
The Bishop took for his text "Ohi worship
the Lord in the beauty of holiness" He COM
menced by saying that when he informed his
parish on the preceding Sunday that he should
address them on tue subject of ritualism he
had no idea that such publicity would have
been given to the statement. He had there
fore written down what be had to say in case
he should need to refer to his sermon hereaf-
ter He said that there would be found in the
doctrine, or symbols or ceremonies of his
church nothing that had been condemned by
the Protestant Episcopal Church of America
That whatever is presented that has not been
presented before would simply express to the
fullest extent the doctrine of the P. e. Church.
That the clergy must obey the laws laid down
by the church from which they have received
their orders or else they will violate THEN vows
In the Cathedral Church of Maine there would
be daily morning and evening prayers, with
the litany GA Wednesdays and Fridays, that
the Holy Communion would be administered
every Sunday, and,-on sil other days for
which the Prayer Book provides special col
lect-epistle and gospel. That the litany would
be said on Sundays in the afternoon, instead of
as part of the morning service, and that ev-
cry Sunday evening there would be full chol al
service and sermon.
The music will continue to be performed by
men and boys, and no organ lofts or quartettes
will DO found in their Cathedral as in the
Church of Rome, but the music will be choral
in character, and lie hoped it would ultimately
become congregational The choristers will
be dressed in SUPPLIES, as has been common in
the English church service from the Reforma.
ton down. The rectors would he designated
by stole and scarf, as is customary. He had
yet TO learn of any chorister la Romish church
es dressed in surplces. The services will COM
nence by singing hymn as the congregation
take their seats, and one as they retire. (The
Bishop was rather severe on voluntaries) In
this description, he said, there is not the faint
est similarity to ritualism so justly condemned
by the House of Bishops.
People, he said, do not rightly discriminate
IN regard to ritualism. They, In many cases,
confound the simple church service with it.
There are, he said, many able men who dispar-
age the Reformers and the effects of the Refor-
nation, and who would give up alrcontended
for there. and accomplished. Their doctrines
are hostile to their church. Their followers
and Themselves are so few that they would not
have received the least attention il it had not
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ing. That there was not Bishop in the House
of Bishops that believes in their doctrine.
The Bishop closed with an eloquent and
beautiful peroration TO his hearers, to remem-
Der that, after all, forms and lip service were
but hypocritical unless "out of the fuilness of
the heart the mouth speaketh.'