THE TABLET y f Weekly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v ie w DUM V O B IS GRATULAMUR ANIM OS ET IA M ADDIMUS UT IN IN C C E PT IS V E S T R I S CONSTANTER M ANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 159. No. 4,794.
London, March 26, 1932.
Sixpence.
R x a i S T I B E D AT T O T O lK B B A l . P O S T O l F I C I AS A N lW B T A P I B
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News and No t e s ................... 397 Three E a s te rs ................... 401 Victim® P aschali Laudes 402 Southern I r e la n d ................... 402 The A r t of To-day . . . 403 The D n ie ste r R uns Red 403 R e v ie w s :
The P r in ce Consort Again 404 The £ 404 Goethe’s L ife W o rk . . . 405 “ The Only W e a r ” . . . 406 B i r th Control ................... 406 Books Received ................... 407 New Books and Music . . . 407
CONTENTS
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Sermons fo r the Times . . . 408 Prize-giving a t P r io r P a rk 410 Correspondence :
Rome (O u r Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) ............................... 413 The Cambridge Summer
School ............................... 414 Lenten P astorals :
L ancaster ............................... 414 Menevia ' ............................... 415 Obituary ............................... 415 W il l s 415
E t Cj s t e r a ............................... 416 The E th iopic Church 4 . . . 417 i F rom The Tablet of Ninety
Y ears A g o ............................... 417 Catholic E ducation Notes 418 Letters to the E d i t o r :
“ Royalties ” on Church
Music ............................... 418 Sachets for C harity . . . 418 Ch e s s ............................................4 19 Or b is Terrarum :
England, Scotland and Wales . . . . . . . . . 420
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Orb is Terrarum ( Gontd.) :
I re la nd ................................4 20 B r itis h W est A frica . . . 421 China ................................4 21 Colombia ................................4 21 F rance ................................42 1 In d ia 422 I r a q 422 Poland ................................4 22 South A frica ................... 424 Spain 424 U .S .A ........................................ 424 Coming E vents ................... 424 Social and P ersonal . . . 424
NOTANDA A retrospect and a prospect. How to prepare for Easter, 1933 (p. 401).
Ireland. The Archbishop of Liverpool’s discourse on St. Patrick’s Day (p. 408). A Tablet leader-writer’s interim Note on the Oath and the Annuities (p. 402). How Proportional Representation worked at the recent General Election (p. 398).
Sun-bathing again. The need for vigilance against a neo-pagan campaign (p. 399).
At Prior Park. The new Bishop of Clifton’s first public function since his consecration (p. 410).
Ethiopic Christianity. A summary of the Rev. Professor Barton’s lecture to the Society of St. John Chrysostom (p. 417).
Missionary progress in China. Some interesting statistics from the Apostolic Delegation. The new canonically erected territories (p. 421).
Mr. Warren Dow on the Art of To-day (p. 403).
NEWS AND NOTES
f I AHIS number of The Tablet is printed on
-*• Wednesday, for publication on Maundy Thursday. Reports of the Holy Week observance are therefore lacking. We learn, however, that the Palm Sunday congregations throughout our country were very large, notably at the High or Sung Masses. This implies a widespread spirit of earnestness; because the morning service on Palm Sunday lasts for nearly two hours and a half in churches where the Passion is declaimed in the traditional manner by three cantors and a choir. Moreover, the experience is a physical strain upon all save the strongest worshippers ; because one stands up for th irty minutes, without a break, during the PassionGospel. The spectacular ceremonies of Palm Sunday
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do not account for the great crowds of the fa ith fu l; because one Palm Sunday is like another, and curiosity alone would not be a sufficient motive. We may thankfully believe th a t our churches were full last Sunday morning because there are still millions of people who care great!}7for their religion.
Even our “ Free Church ” brethren, in a few places, have announced Holy Week services ; indeed, we hear of one Wesleyan chapel where there are to be several celebrations of Holy Communion on Easter Sunday—a remarkable innovation. The High Church Anglicans have long been known for their devout seriousness at this holy season.
As for Good Friday, Canon Markham, the Anglican Vicar of Grantham, had a striking article in last week’s Guardian. Here is an extract :
What have we done with Good Friday ? We have taught everybody that the Three Hours is the only service that matters. . . .
We have provided a service which lends itself to the slackest kind of Good Friday observance. For what, only too often, happens? The conductor starts with a “fair sprinkling ” at noon, and the faithful stay all through. But the majority divide themselves into those who come in fo r an hour or so before luncheon, and those who come after luncheon and get in an hour or so before 3 p.m. which sets them free for the rest of the day. To my mind this is a thoroughly slack way of observing the day. A friend of mine— but he was unique as a preacher— used to start with a fu ll church and no one was allowed to enter or leave afterwards. But I take it, for the most of us, the description I have given above is not fa r from the truth. I notice, too, that young people, having learnt the “ correct ” way of keeping the day, spend a lazy morning, come in for a short bit, sample the preacher, in fact, and then for them Good Friday is over. I t is fair to add a fact which Canon Markham does not mention. Many High Churchmen use in the forenoon of Good Friday, a form of Communion « Service which outwardly resembles our Catholic “ Mass of the Presanctified.” Like us, they adore the Cross and chant the Passion according to Saint John.
