RIGHT OF CHURCH

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1930, Page 9

RIGHT OF CHURCH

TO FORMULATE FAITH

RELATIONS WITH STATE

PROBLEM IN ENGLAND

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LONDON, sth February,

The Church Assembly at AVestminster, by 382 votes to 105, carried a resolution moved by the Archbishop of York, directing the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the present relations of the Church, and State, with a view to securing the Church's right to formulate her faith.

The terms of the resolution moved by the Archbishop of York declared it desirable to appoint a Commission to inquire into the present relations of the Church and State to determine what legal constitutional changes are necessary to secure the effective application of the fundamental principle that the Church must retain its inalienable right to formulate its faith and arrange the expression thereof in the form of worship.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, in winding up a long debate, said the motion was not meant as a movement towards -disestablishment. "I share what is believed to be the feeling of the bulk of the- assembly and church people. We do not desire disestablishment. Who could be so futile as to bury their heads, like the ostrich 1 I am not prepared to defend the present situation, as a permanently right establishment was not made. Disestablishment cannot animate the Church. The situation is precarious. We are traversing a road beneath which are volcanic forces. At any moment a crack may appear and those forces burst through. The bishops' extra legal actions may be brought into open conflict with public law."