Fr. Wagner, Fr. Purchas, Fr. Enraght and the many other Brighton Anglo-Catholic priests all carried out their ministries to large sympathetic congregations. Against the backdrop of public support for Anglo-Catholic priests the local press continued in their campaign to use the Public Worship Regulation Act to rid ritualism from the churches of Brighton. From the "Brighton Gazette's" editorial for 23 April 1874 on the topic of the Public Worship Regulation Act, quote, ""Let us have the law obeyed and let there be an easy mode of redress from offending clergyman"".