NEW PRAYER BOOK.
HOME SECRETARY CONDEMNS BISHOPS’ ATTITUDE
SETTING UP CLAIM TO SPIRITUAL AUTOCRACY
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Sir William Joynson-Hicks, writing in the Empire Review, makes a sharp attack in connection with the bishops’ attitude towards the rejection of the Prayer Book. He says:— “There is something perilously near profanity in the complete disregard by many of the 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 offered up. It would have been more sensible
and dignified if the bishops had accepted Parliament’s decision. The bishops are virtually setting up a claim to spiritual autocracy. The Reformation -ifneed «s. foflsil.tJii.V-and it is too late in the day to attempt to restore it. If the bishops give us a Prayer Book of the New Testament and having due regard for the fact that the Church of England is the reformed Church, they need have no fears regarding the support they will receive.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10732, 1 November 1928, Page 3
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