The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-04
THE CORONATION.

Americans are paying from $50 to
800 each for places to see from the
windows looking ont upon the streets
Of London upon which the coronation
pageant will move, the gorgeous spec.
tacle. IL will be magnificent moving
panorama, rich IN splendor and artistic
taste, in which the motive power, where
used, will be horses gorgeously adorned
no automobile or motor traction being
allowed.
The London Times devotes one full
page TO describing the programme and
| features of the coronation. The ex-
planation and commentary on the pro.
gramme take two pages more. We
find in The Independent condensation
Of the order of ceremonial. The twenty
sub heads under which the function is
stated are as follows:
l. The Preparation.
H. The Entrance into the Church.
III. The Recognition,
". The Litany,
v. The Beginning OF the Communion
Service.
VI. The Sermon,
VII The Oath.
VIII. The Amounting.
TX. The Presenting of the Spurs and
Sword and the Glrding and Oblaton OF
the Said Sword.
X The investing with the Armill and
Royal Robe, and the Delivery OF the Orb.
XI. The 1nvestiture per Annulum ct
Baculum,
XII. The Putting on of the Crown
Kill The Presenting of the Holy Bible.
XIV. The Benedsction.
XIV. The differentiation,
XVI. The Homage.
XVII. The Queens Coronation.
XVIII. The Communion.
XIX. Singing TIE Dcum Laudamus,
Xxx, The Reccssonal.
The explanation Of the different de-
tails under the sub-heads is very clab,
crate. The first paragraph under the
first sub title, "The Preparation, is
as follows:
In the morning upon the day of the
Coronation, early, care is TO be taken that
the Ampulla Is TO be filled with Oil, and
together with the Spoon, he laid ready
upon the Altar in the Abbey Church.
The House of Commons has no part
in the ceremonial, and reference is made
where this fact is mentioned (perhaps
by way of. explanation of the omis-
sion) to the act of the Commons in de
ereeing the beheading Of Charles l.
In the oath as modified the King
promises to rule under the laws, to
maintain the Protestant Reformed Re.
ligion, to ''preserve inviolably the set
tlemept of the Church of England, -
and to "preserve the Bishops and
Clergy of England in their ministry to
the churches there committed to their
charge in all their rights and priv
ilcges, The former portion of the oath
renouncing and denouncing the Pa
pacy now omitted.
The ceremonial will call into play all
the gorgeousness which the develop.
ments of our civilization make avail
able. The elaborate parade of pomp,
"with kneeling bishops and archbish-
ops, princes, dukes, marquises, earls,
viscounts, barons, the Lord Great Cham
berlain, who kneels TO touch the Kings
heel with the spur, the four Knights of
the Garter, who hold over him the rich
Pail of Silk, the four peeresscs, who
hold the rich Pail of the Cloth of Gold
over the Queen-all this pomp befits
the memory of high majesty of the days
of the divine right Of kings, and equally
befits the absence Of the representatives
of the people, as The Independent ex.
presses it.
1t will be the noblest show that the
world can bring forth. 1t will be amply
worth the money to those who are able
TO attend the coronation and pay the
great price to see the procession. In
the nature of things, however, the most
minister Abbey, where but compare
tive seclusion, taking place in West
minister Abbey, where by compare
tive few can be admitted 1t would