The only secession as yet resulting from the Ridsdale judgment
has been, oddly enough, the secession of an Evangelical. The Rev. Dr. Gregg, Vicar of East Harborne, who gave his parish- ioners to know some years ago that he was unhappy at the tolera- tion of Ritualism which the Ecclesiastical Courts sanctioned, has now finally seceded, and has accepted the charge of a Voluntary church and congregation, the members of which have recently ceased to worship in the Church of England. It is difficult to understand what it is in the Ridsdale judgment which has added the final straw to Dr. Gregg's burden. But his conscientious self- sacrifice is worthy of all praise, even though it be self-sacrifice for a crotchet of a curious kind. We presume that Dr. Gregg holds that the eastern position ought not in any case to be tolerated,— whether the breaking of the bread be visible to the congregation or not.
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