THE MINISTERʼS SCARF, or the,“SACRIFICERS” STOLE—WHICH?, Church Association Tract 267

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THE MINISTERʼS SCARF, or the "SACRIFICERS" STOLE—WHICH? Church Association Tract 267

In the next place, what the loyal clergy wear is not a "stole" at all. Unluckily the Tractarian revival made it fashionable to smatter "correct" (?) antiquarian terms; and Bp. Jenner and Canon Trevor tell us that it became the fashion about 1848 to call the old-fashioned scarf a "stole." Ignorant Evangelicals may have foolishly followed this fashion; but so far from being identical, the two things  were constantly contrasted in the time of Elizabeth as being the badges respectively of the Protestant parson or the Popish priest.

The stole and the scarf are perfectly separate and distinct things.

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