Volume 4 - 1887

Issue 1 – January 1887

P.3-9 – “The North Side of the Table”

P.9 – ‘A vigorous offshoot of the Church Association has been established in Australia.’

Issue 2 – February 1887
P.16 – “Secret Legislation”. Editorial.

P.17-20 – “The North Side of the Table”. Continued from P.9.

P.20 – “Position of the Minister in the Ante-Communion”, opinion by Counsel.

P.24 – “The Right to Confirmation”, critique on a candidate being required to ‘go to confession’ as a prelude to Confirmation.

Issue 3 – March 1887
P.29-31 – “The Abolition of the Veto and of Imprisonment for Contempt”, editorial.

P.31-35 – “Some Unpublished Evidence Respecting the Ornaments Rubric of 1662”

P.36 – “Side-Altars”, ‘The judgment of Chancellor Tristram allowing a second table to be erected in Leeds Parish Church is important as being likely to be quoted as a precedent.’

Issue 4 – April 1887
P.43-47 – “Extinguishers Wanted”, editorial on the use of candles – followed by “Altar Lights”.

P.48 – “The Church Patronage Bill”, ‘This Bill has been greatly altered during its passage through the House of Lords. Unhappily, it retains all the worst faults which we pointed out in the original draft. Heresy and ritual non-conformity are not recognised as bars to promotion, even in the case of a deprived clergyman.’

Issue 5 – May 1887
P.57-58 – “The Unprotected Laity”, editorial.

P.58-60 – “Altar Lights”, continued from P.47.

P.60-64 – “Dean Perowne on the ‘Eucharistic Sacrifice’”, lecture.

Issue 6 - June 1887
P.71-72 – “Imprisonment for Contumacy”, editorial.

P.73-83 – “The Spring Conference”, proceedings.

Issue 7 – July 1887
P.85-87 – Obituary notice of Dr I P Fleming, Secretary to the Church Association.

P.93-96 – “Dean Perowne on ‘The True Church’”, lecture.

Issue 8 – August 1887
P.99-100 – “Bishop – Judges”, editorial.

P.100 – Mr Henry Miller appointed as Secretary, Mr R Stewart Clough appointed as Organising Secretary.

P.100-102 – “The Mixed Chalice”, article on the illegality of ‘put the wine into the chalice . . . putting thereto a little pure and clean water’ which was ordered by the rubric in the Prayer Book of 1549 but withdrawn in 1552.

P.107-111 – “The Christian Ministry”, lecture by Dean Perowne.

Issue 9 – September 1887
P.113-114 – “Lord Addington and Abp Benson”, editorial.

P.115 – “Tinkering the Catechism”, comments on the revised draft.

P.117-121 – “Dean Perowne on the ‘Real Presence’ in the Lord’s Supper”, lecture.

P.123-125 – Review of ‘A Manual of the Book of Common Prayer’, author the Rev Charles Hole.’ A compact, well-printed, handy volume, brimful of information, . .  creditable to author and publisher alike.

Issue 10 – October 1887
P.127-128 – “The Counter-Reformation in England”, editorial.

P.129-131 – “Additional Evidence Respecting the Ornaments Rubric”

P.134-136 – “Bp Stubbs on National Church Councils”

P.136-138 – “The Doctrine of a ‘Spiritual’ Presence as Taught by the Ritualists”

P. 140 – A list of the Officers and Members of Council of the Association.

Issue 11 – November 1887
P.141-142 – “Church Congress at Wolverhampton”, editorial.

P.143-144 – “The Teaching of the Catechism as to the Lord’s Supper”

P.144-146 – “Our High Priest in Heaven”, extract from ‘Christ a Priest’ a book by Archdeacon Perowne.

P.150 – ‘The Church that shuts the Bible Is not the Church for me. It has no rule to guide it, No light wherewith to see . . .’ Opening stanza of a poem ‘The Church for Me’.

Issue 12 – December 1887
P.155 – “Diocesan Synods”, editorial.

P.156 – The Right Hon Lord Ebury, Sir John Don-Wauchope and Sir S Arthur Blackwood elected Vice-Presidents of the Church Association.

P.156-157 – “The ‘Long-Standing’ Misprints in the Prayer Book”, correspondence.

P.159 – “Bp Ryle on Anarchy”

P.160-168 - ”The Autumn Conference”, proceedings of the conference in Manchester.