CHANGES OPPOSED
BETRAYAL OF TRUST
CHURCH ASSOCIATION'S MANIFESTO
(United Press Association. —Copyrigfit.) (Received 10th February, 10 a.m.)
LONDON, 9th February.
The Church Association has issued a manifesto urging all desirous of maintaining the principles of the Eeformation to oppose the authorisation of-the alternative Prayer Book. The manifesto declares that the anarehial conditions in the Anglican Church are mainly duo to the Bishops' disregard of consecration vows. The revision proposals are a reversion to mediaeval theories and practices. For example,, the alternative Consecration Prayer contains a petition that the bread and wine "may be unto us the body and blood of Thy Son," which the-Church has thrice rejected. The reinstatement of such a pernicious dpetrine is a betrayal of trust, providing a shelter for teaching which the Prayer Book' articles exclude.
The manifesto opposes the vestments concession as likely to lead to blasphemous teaching; also reservation of the prayers for the dead, the last of which is superstitious. It adds that the proposals that the clergy's subscription to the Prayer Book includes agreement with the alternative is an outrage on conscience.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 11
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180CHANGES OPPOSED Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 11
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