NEW PRAYER BOOK
CLERGYMAN ANTICIPATES.
AN INTERRUPTED SERVICE. (BT CABLB-PBBS« ASSOCIATION—COrtWGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AJTD K.2. CABLI ASSOCIATION) LONDON, February 13. The. Rev. AV. Geiko Cobb, robed in chasuble and maniple, which are not yet officially sanctioned, though he has used them for the paat hall-century, and attended l>y two women as altar servers, began the revised t'orra of service at tit. Etheibiirga's Church, Uishopsgate. A member of the congroyintion rose. and protested against the continuance, been use the new prayer booh was net ratified. Mr Cobb said that Mich interruption wan legally classifiable as brawling. Ho explained that he desired to allow the congregation to sec how the service worked, whereupon a woman rose up : briefly joined in the protest, and walked out, accompnnicd by the male intcrjector. There was no further interruption, and Mr Cobb subsequently said he had been told that .the Bishon reparded his action as very arave. This made him smile. It would not stop the revolution of the earth.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18926, 15 February 1927, Page 9
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