Offices of MYSTICAL RELIGION Projecting congregationally the inner disciplines CUENP 372344 Co INTRODUCTION There are many more experiments in progress throughout all the churches in the matter of ritual and ceremonial in connection with Christian worship than one is apt to realize. The opposing fact, of stupid adherence in many cases to meaningless convention or tradition, is what more commonly obtrudes. A striking single example in recent years of originality and reality in a great act of Christian worship was the Consecration Service at Liverpool Cathedral. Here there were combined an exhaustive study of ancient material with a startling-one might say gripping-note of modernity. For many years now Dr. Guthrie has maintained an experiment station at St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. It is his belief that in every great center of population there should be a station of this nature. He shows a notable humility of spirit as to the universal value of what he has thoughtfully and patiently wrought out. Better results may be reached at other stations, or better at least for the conditions which may there obtain. But at St. Mark's, Dr. Guthrie has developed with serious thought and a Catholicminded grasp, results that are not only interesting but important. There is a pioneer quality in his at |