A great meeting was held in St. James's Hall on
Tuesday, Earl Nelson in the chair, to adopt an address to the Commissioners on Ritual, against any modification of the existing Rubric of the Church of England. Archdeacon Denison made the great speech in behalf of perfect liberty for the high Ritualists. He avowed his sympathy both with the doctrine and practice of high Ritual, — the doctrine of the Eucharist, and the practice of insisting on the Church Rubric to the uttermost. He attacked the Guardian for its safe moderation, Bishop Ellicott for his as- sumption that Ritualism was a disease to be cured, and all oppos- ing parties in the Church for not being, like his own, "apostolic, primitive, catholic,"—i.e., we suppose, as apostolic, primitive, and catholic as the Athanasian Creed, which was invented in the tenth or eleventh century, and would certainly not have been understood by any of the Apostles. Of course the meeting decided, by an immense majority, to vote for full liberty to the clergy to drive away their congregations by the use of stage costumes, if they liked.
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