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Show "SOLEMN HIGH MASS" IN ... VAN ANGLICAN CHURCH Mr. Birrell in one of those phrases which cling to the memory defined the difference between the Protestant denominations and the Catholic church by sayinf "It is the Mass that makes the difference'." differ-ence'." Some of the Anglicans are doing all they can to make the difference disappear, and according accord-ing to the latest evidence, they are not content with imitating the Low Mass, but go still further. In the "Ecclesiastical Intelligence" of the "Times" for Friday, July 16, we read : "The bishop of Chichester Chi-chester dedicated the chapel of the Convent of the Holy Cross, Hayward's Heath, yesterday in the presence of a large gathering. At the dedication festival in the morning there was 'Solemn High Mass,' at which the Rev. A. H. C. Cocks, vicar of St. Bartholomew, Brighton, preached." What about the Thirty-nine Articles, which assert that the Mass is a blasphemous fable? We think plain people will be puzzled to understand how members of a church which thus emphatically affirms its disbelief disbe-lief in the Mass can with any pretense to consistency consist-ency entertain and show a belief in the Holy Sacrifice. Sac-rifice. It is manifest that their true home is not the Church of England, which rejected the Mass, and in which hostility is excited by the mere mention men-tion of the name, but the Catholic church, which has always preserved it. |