DELETION OF "OBEY."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18922, 10 February 1927, Page 9

DELETION OF "OBEY."

ALTERED MARRIAGE SERVICE. YIFAVS OF PROMINENT PEOPLE. Il'T '■■.'iLil -rßr.sa association— rorifßroHT.) iavstkalian an:) it.;, cauls association.) LONDON. Feiuuniy s. "U-:u. 11 iionrrally will hail the de'etl"H "! th, v, old •ibey,' vhile, with the '\>i'p!i.ii! of a lew Church people, in-."! i;i-ii.-rally will Mihmit t:i it.'' said .Mi>N Maud Koydi-M. the prominent "iiiiiaii preacher. "Ii lifts the Li-nice t>> a holier plain-. Civilised people thi'"ucj„, ul the world will ln> in perlect accord. 1 royret that the obsolete iiiri.'iniL'le-.-, custom m ;;i u "= away tin- biiiir ;., retained.'' Mi- .Mario Tempest .slid: "As 1 lia.'.o obeyed all my lite, the deletion of the uoi.l does nut iitf'vt me in the least." -Miss Ellen WilkiuM.n, .M.P., said that she was surprised that such an antiquated crowd of people as the bishops should have produced such a wlcome chaime. She felt more benevolently towards them. I.oid Cecil said that the House of Dishops had insufficiently considered grave marriage changes. 'I he Rev. Chapman, of the. Savoy Chapel, said: '-The change is a good thing:, but when all is over my experience has been that the man obeys the woman more than the reverse. I support the word 'share' instead of the word 'endow' because it is laughable jo hear an attractive man without a bean say 'endow' when marrving a great heiress."

NOT TOWARDS ROME. BISHOP OF LONDON'S VIEW. (AUSTRALIAN AND S.Z. IABLI ASSOCIATION.) (Received February 9th, 8.45 p.m.) BRISBANE, February 9. The Bishop of London, who is at present in Brisbane, said the proposed new Prayer Book was really a restoration of the ancient liturgy. It was ridiculous to say that it wa's a movement towards Rome. Evangelists in America had used this suggested new form ever since they had a prayer book.

BIG FIGHT COMING. (Sydney "Suh" Service.) (Received February Oth, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, February 9. "The Archbishop of Canterbury's prayer of peace is unlikely to be realised," says the "Evening News." The first blow in the Prayer Book conflict was struck to-day when the Church Association summoned its members to consider methods of combating the proposals. Tho Bishop of Barrow-in-Fiirncss declares that many of tho clergy threaten to leave the Church if tho changes were made. "I advised them to await the issue of our efforts," he said. "We oppose tho Reservation of the Sacrament, use of vestments, and prayers for the dead, which assumes that tho dead benelit thereby. That infers there is purgatory, for which there is no justification in the Scriptures. 1 hope- there will be a big battle at tho Convocation on February 22nd. If beaten there, I will carry the fight to the Church Assembly in July, and press it home when Parliament considers the Bill in tho autumn, and many Commoners have promised, us support." Tho Rev, Sir Montague Fowler says: "The League of Loyal Churchmen and the Protestant Allianco oppose tho extempore prayer. They also think the Reservation of tho Sacrament likely to lead to the adoption of tho Roman practice of the Adoration of tho Sacrament, and possibly Romish customs like raising tho hat when passing a church where tho Sacrament is rosorved. They oppose Communion vestments, which are tantamount to legalising the Roman Mass. Wr arc organising mass meetings of protest in Hyde Park. Tho National Church League is also opposing the Reservation of the Sacrament." Meanwhile, Anglo-Catholics, comparatlvelv content with their gains, arc organising a campaign to resist tho attack.