essential dogmas of historic Christianity her voice is unanimous, but she imposes no excessive burdens upon the intellectual or personal liberty ofher members. She maintains the essential constitution ofan ecclesiastical hierarchy (Bishops, Priests and Deacons) and, in conformity with the Council ofNicaea (325) does not impose compulsory celibacy upon her clergy. And the sacraments, of which Baptism and the Eucharist are the chief, are properly and duly celebrated. She is Catholic because she is so essentially a Biblical Church, and she wisely puts both the Scripture and the Liturgy in the hands of her people in their own language."

In other words, she holds dear the four principles of The Lambeth-Chicago Quadrilateral (1880) which, long before, Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667) described as follows: "We have the Word of God, the faith ofthe Apostles, the Creeds ofthe primitive Church, the articles ofthe four first General Councils, a holy liturgy, excellent prayers. perfect sacraments, faith and repentance, the Ten Commandments, and the sermons of Christ, and all the precepts and counsels ofthe Gospel... Our priests absolve the penitent. Our Bishops ordain Priests,

and confirm and baptise persons. and bless their people and intercede for them. AND WHAT COULD THERE BE WANTING FOR SALVATION?"

WHAT ANGLICANISM MEANS TO ME: - THE PRAYER BOOK AND THE MASS.

In this age of sensitivity training and navel-gazing we need the corrective the Prayer Book provides in its balance of "subjectivity" and "objectivity" in the practice of religion.

* On February 2. 1949, The Feast ofthe Purification. six priests whoformed

the nucleus of”The Anglican Fellowship/or Social Action " in the Diocese of

Nova Scotia — a group that included Stavert Tanton - were summoned by Archbishop George Frederick Kingston to meet with him, and his new coadjutor Bishop, Robert Harold Waterman. at King’s College, to hear complaints and accusations levelled against them by a group o/laymen to the effect that they were "trouble-making, destructive, anarchic and communistic. " The meeting ended when one ofthe group asked the Archbishop ifany ofthe six would be among the ten best parish priests in the diocese. The Archbishop replied that all six would be included in such a list (See The Briefcase Boys, by Russell Elliott, Lancelot Press. page 126).

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