The Archbishop also suggested the desirability of adopting shorter forms
of service for daily service in the churches, and hinted that he hoped the revision of the translation of the Athana- sian Creed might end in showing that the damnatory clauses were separable from it, and need not be recited with it. That would, of course, be a great relief to the laity who are not called upon to pass any opinion as to the orthodoxy of the creed, but who do object to hear such bitter anathemas launched at ninety-nine hundredths of the Christian world on days like Easter and Christmas Day. But it will be a little pitiable if the Church can- not find strength of purpose enough to eliminate these clauses with- out finding an excuse for so doing in some old text of the creed. Is the Anglican Church not strong enough to say definitely, So very many Anglicans disbelieve what all Anglicans once believed as to the connection between creed and salvation, that the recital of this profession of faith is no w a mere unreality, if not a sham, and as such certainly ought to be carefully excluded from Christian worship ' ?
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