Title

'The Agitation Against Ritualism: Mr. Kensit's Violent Protest in a West End Church', c1900. Creator: Arthur Herbert Buckland.

Caption

'The Agitation Against Ritualism: Mr. Kensit's Violent Protest in a West End Church', c1898, (c1900). '...Mr. John Kensit, a publisher of Paternoster Square...stood forth and displayed his evangelical zeal by supervising the services in certain churches which came under his critical displeasure as savouring of Papistical practices if not preaching Papistical dogma. Disgraceful scenes occurred...he was on one occasion charged with willfully disturbing a congregation...by seizing a cross, and walking down the church calling out, "We are Protestants. It is nothing but idolatry!" - an assertion of opinion that cost him £3 or seven days [in prison], with leave to appeal'. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne]

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