Eddis was a member of the Catholic Apostolic Church and he was appointed as a prophet by its Westminster congregation.
Around 1860, Edward Wilton Eddis and John George Francis (?–1889)[4] had a theological dispute with John Ross Dix when the latter published The New Apostles; or, Irvingism, its history, doctrines, and practices in 1860, an attack on the Catholic Apostolic Church.
After moving to Australia, Edward Wilton Eddis was one of the 11 clergy operating for the Catholic Apostolic Church in Melbourne in the 1880s and 1890s.
[7][8][9] This hymnal was intended for use in public worship of the Church and in private devotional exercises.
A difference lays in the alterations towards premillennialism and the contribution of original hymns phrasing catholic apostolic thought, mainly provided by Edward Wilton Eddis.
Some of them only appended their initials to their newly written hymns and translations, as they declined to give their name to the public.
From John Mason Neale, who was affected by the Oxford Movement, 16 translations were included in the second edition of the Hymns for the Use of the Churches.
Much Catholic Apostolic teaching reflects the revival of catholic tradition within the Anglican Church, largely initiated by the parallel Oxford Movement, though it is difficult to determine the precise extent of direct influence of one upon the other – Columba Graham Flegg suggests that this was slighter than often supposed.
In 1872, Edmund Hart Turpin, organist of the central church on Gordon Square, helped to bridge this gap by publishing the Hymn Tunes.