The united Communion to which Nonconformists were invited by the
Bishop of Hereford, and about which there has been • so much discussion, took place in Hereford Cathedral last Sunday. According to the Times report
there was a representative gathering. Nonconformist ministers and members of congregations from various parts of Herefordshire attended, and the communicants numbered 204. The officiating clergy were the Bishop and Canons Capes, Bannister, and Rashdall. The Bishop in his sermon pointed out that those who objected to the action he had taken seem to have forgotten, or do not know, that the rubric on which they rely to prove his action illegal had been interpreted by archbishops and bishops of highest authority to be a purely domestic rule of the Established Church, and so be himself understood it -a rule intended to secure that our children as they grow up to years of discretion should be adequately instructed before they came to the service of Holy Communion. The rubric, rightly understood, had no direct or explicit reference to devout members of any other Christian denomination, and consequently it contains no prohibition which he had disregarded.
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