PRAYER BOOK
BISHOPS’ ATTITUDE CONDEMNED “CLAIM TO SPIRITUAL AUTOCRACY” article by sir william JOYNSON-HICKS (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn. —United Scivlce.) London, October 30. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, writing in the “Empire Review,” makes a sharp attack in connection with the Bishops’ attitude toward the rejection of the Prayer Book. He says: “There is something perilously near profanity in the complete disregard bj’ many promoters of the new Prayer Book of the fact that the action of the House of Commons may possibly have been a Divine answer to the prayers which the opponents of the measure offered up. It would be more sensible and more dignified if the Bishops accepted Parliament’s decision. The Bishops are virtually setting up a claim to spiritual autocracy. The Reformation freed us from this, and it is too late in the day to attempt to restore it. If the Bishops give us a Prayer Book conforming to the doctrinal teaching of the New Testament, and having due regard to the fact that the Church of England is a Reformed Church, they need have no fears regarding the support they will receive.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 32, 1 November 1928, Page 11
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192PRAYER BOOK Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 32, 1 November 1928, Page 11
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