ANGLICAN CHURCH

Evening Star, Issue 20061, 29 December 1928, Page 6

ANGLICAN CHURCH

QUESTION OF DISESTABLISHMENT ADVOCATED BY BISHOP OF DURHAM Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 27. (Received December 29, at 9.5 a.m.) The Bishop of Durham, writing in flic ‘ Nineteenth Century,’ advocates disestablishment by consent, arguing that the rejection of the Prayer Book measures created a, situation in which tho church’s first duty is to vindicate its spiritual independence. He adds; “ The loss of national status would for many churchmen he a wounding experience, but establishment has ceased to be an object or regard for the majority. Disestablishment does not stand alone, but goes with the sinister and terrifying prospect of disendowment. Statesmen, in a friendly conference with the loaders of tho Church of England and free churches, might frame a measure of disestablishment and disendowment, ending the immemorial relation of the church and Stale in England, which has now lost its justification and has become unwholesome for both. This would secure indispeusible freedom to _ spiritual society. It would not cripple tho church’s work by a harsh measure of confiscation and it would not wound devout Anglicans by secular control of sacred buildings.”—Australian Press Association-United Service.