6 MAY 1911, Page 3

The Bishop goes on to meet the alleged diinculty of

the rubric at the end of the Confirmation Service, which states that "none shall be admitted to the Holy Communion until such time as he be confirmed or he ready and desirous to be confirmed." The Bishop holds with Bishop Creighton that "this rubric was intended solely as a direction for normal cases in our own Church and did not contemplate the case of Nonconformists." Bishop Creighton stated that Archbishop Benson agreed with him in this view, as did also Archbishop Maclagan and Archbishop Tait. The Bishop adds that it is well known "that members of other Protestant Churches were in former years freely admitted to Communion in our Church, so that in this invitation we shall be transgressing no rule of Church order."