The Convocation of Canterbury has met, under the Letters of
Business issued by the Crown, to discuss the Rubrics, but has not done much as yet. The Upper House appears to have agreed to make the rubric enjoining daily services only hortatory, i.e., one declaring such services to be " not indispensable," though "a witness of the value put by-the Church on daily prayers and intercessions, and on the reading of the Holy Scriptures." In the Lower House, no particular decision has been arrived at, but the tendency seemed to be to give a sort of dispensing power to the clergy to obey or disobey the Rubrics chiefly in dispute, namely, the Ornaments' rubric and the rubric as to the posi- tion of the celebrant at the prayer of consecration. In other words, it is in favour of what Sir W. Harcourt ridiculed so much under the name of " optional conformity."
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