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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, February 4, 1868

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 8

RITUALISM IN ENGLAND.—Evidence brought out before a recent Commission of Inquiry shows that many Established churches are fast becoming almost indistinguishable from Romish churches. The vestments copy exactly the papal forms, these being regarded as the highest authority as to the usage of antiquity. In many parishes, confessionals are established and penances imposed. Thus a young lady of eighteen in Brighton, for sins of temper, was made to kneel on a marble slab for four hours at night, on bare knees, repeating penitential psalms and prayers. These confessionals are in some respects more objectionable than the Romish, being located in less public places—in vestries and quiet chapels, secluded from observation.