The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-23
GROWING OF A KING
ITS RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE DIS
CUssED BY REV. J. L. sCULLY.
NOT A DISPLAY OF SPLEND0R.
SHOULD BE CALLED CONSIDERATION
RATHER THAN CORONATION
SERVICE.

Whole World Looks Forward to the
Event which VIII be witnessed
by Representatives of Half the
worlds PeODIes-WiH Be Finest
Ritual and subIimest Service That
VIII Be Enacted Till Christ Shall
Come at Last Day-Address Found
ed on Manual of Coronation With
Commentaries and Explanations.
The religious significance of the cor
onation service was discussed by Rev.
). L. Scully. rector of st. Pauls
Church, at last nights service. The ad-
dress consisted in great part of read
ings from the manual of the coronation
with commentaries and explanations.
THE whole world looks forward"
said the Mr.. Scully, ito that great
solemnity which will take place in
Westminister-Ab Abbey Thursday. when
The ruler of four hundred millions of
people will go up to the altar of the
church and in the sight of God and
men will acknowledge that he holds
his office from God and men.
LAS the ceremonies will be seen by
representatives of probably another
four hundred million of people other
than those who owe allegation to the
king it may be said that half of the
population of the world will be rep
resented on this solemn occasion.
THE ceremony will not be a mere
display of splendor, nor will it be real
ly the coronation of the king; rather
it will be the conservation of the king.
The placing of the crown on the head
is only an incident of the service, and
the last incident. 1t is a conservation
rather than a coronation because Ed
ward is already king, but now goes
to hunbly profess before God that
though a king he is his subject and
holds his power because of the will of
God.
THE ceremony will take place in an
ancient church of an ancient people,
yet one nevertheless where you have
the right to enter and to join services
for it is in communication with this
parish. You have this right because
Westminster, that great church, is one
OF the great Catholic churches, which
like the English language shall circle
the globe
AS showing the religious significance
of the ceremony Rev. Mr.. Scully quoted
from the manual the fact that the king
after entering the church passes by
his throne and goes direct to the al
tar. He passes by his throne" con-
tinued the speaker, ito go to Christ
throne, there to make humble adora-
ton"
The Church of England gave birth
to the finest ideal ever presented to
man. You know of instances where
the church is supreme and the civil
government nothing; and you know
also of the other form, such as you
have in the United States, where
church and state are entirely separ-
ate. The ideal of the Church of Eng
land is united people that shall COM
prise both state and church. 1t is the
sublimest conception and ideal the
world has, ever seen and though that
ideal has been married by sinful hearts
yet it is much to have given such an
ideal to the world
Mr.. Scully described in detail the
amounting of the King with Holy Oil
the presentation of the two scepters
and their symbolism. and finally the
presentation to the king of the Bible
with the admonition from the arch.
bishop that here is wisdom; here is
the law of God"
This service is not a display of splen-
dor; it is not a worldly thing. The
people acknowledge God, his rule his
way, and the responsibility they bear
to his law. 1t will be grand and mag
nificent and orderly and chaste; the
finest ritual and the sublimest service
that will be enacted in this world til
Christ shall come at the last day anC
claim the world for his own"