ANGLICAN BISHOPS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 October 1928, Page 3

ANGLICAN BISHOPS

- NEW PRAYER BOOK ATTITUDE. a (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assik—Copyright.) LONDON, September 28. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s secretary announces that the Bishops,’ next conference is expected in December or January. An authority on Church law, writing to the “Daily Herald.” asserts that the Archbishops’ decision means a defiance of Parliament's refusal to legalise the 1928 Prayer Book, which, he says, is now made useable so long as certain Romish practices are stopped. k The “Daily Telegraph’s” ecclesiastical correspondent points out that this is a virtual authorisation of the 1928 Book. He asks: Are the Bishops above the law? The Home Secretary (Sir W. Joynson Hicks) states that the Bishops’ decision is of such far-reaching importance that it will require consideration before he can make a statement about it. Tho Protestant Alliance regard the Bishops’ prayer book conclusions as deplorable, because these entirely ignore the decision of Parliament, which emphatically expressed the nation’s will. The bishops recommend a continuance of the existing permission for Reservation though Parliament specifically condemned it. The bishops claim to authorise a service which the highest court in the land declared to ■ bo illegal.