The Report recommends that letters of business should be issued
to the Convocations with instructions to prepare a new rubric regulating the vestments of ministers, and to frame such modifications in tiss law relating to Divine Service and to the ornaments And fittings of churches as may tend to secure greater daptieity. In other words, though they hold that certain illegal practices must be done away with, the Commis- sioners also consider that the law of public worship in the Church of England is too narrow for the religious life of the present generation. "In an age which has witnessed an extra- ordinary revival of spiritual life and activity, the Church has had to work under regulations fitted for a different condition of things, without that power of self-adjustment which is inherent in the conception of a living Church, and is possessed by the Established Church of Scotland. The result has inevitably been that anoient rubrics have been strained." The elasticity recommended would, it should be noted, not merely allow greater freedom to the High Church Party, but would permit the exclusion of the whole or part of the Athanasian Creed and the modification of services in accordance with present-day requirements.
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