1 copy. This idea vas formulated and agreed upon during two successive meetings of the Cleical Association during the latter half of 1888.

Christmas; the Sa'vices and the Controversy.

The services in St. Peter’s Cathedral Church for Christmas were as follows: Midnight Mass at which there were 4 communicants, 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion with El communicants, and 11:00 a.m. Missa Cantata with an "appropriate and efoquent" sermon preached by Father Simpson. The Daily Examiner. reportec that: "The service was sung by the Reverend Fred E.J. Lloyd, the music bang Woodward in F. There was a very large congregation present, and the service was most heartily and reverently rendered."119 Although the Chrismas services were appropriately written up for readers of The Daily Examiner, readers of The Patriot. were not given details of these services. Some realers took exception to the manner in which the Cathedral was summarily dismissed in an offhand fashion by that newspaper. This prompted the follcwing two Letters to the Editor which appeared in the December 28th edifion of The Daily Examiner. in response to that treatment:

At it Again. Sir. — On reading over the Patriot of Wednesday, Dec. 26th, which did not come under my notce till last evening, I observe what purports to be a "short summary" of the X-nas services in the churches, but which in reality is nothing more than a laudafory sketch of those held in St. Paul’s and the Methodist Brick Churches, —the services in St. Dunstan’s and St. Peter’s being disposed of in the following srmmary fashion: ”Services were also held in St. Dunstan’s Cathedral and St. Peter’s Church. "

Judging frcrn the foregoing, the effect of the Editor’s conversion recently announced is not so long-lasting as I could have hoped; but as this is the season for making good resolutions, I trust that he will soon see his way clear

to making a second reformation ENQUIRER

and:

Christmas Services

Sir. — Why is i: :hat the editor of the Patriot devoted half a column (in Wednesday’s issue) to the services held in St. Paul’s on Christmas Day, and passed over unnrtised the beautiful services of St. Dunstan’s and St. Peter’s? This is not in keeping with his remarks with reference to advertisements.

Comment is unmccssarjy. " OUTSIDER.120

119. The Daily Examiner. December 26th, 1888. 120. The Daily Examiner. Friday, December 28th, 1888.

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