TEMPLE CHURCH BESIEGED

Grey River Argus, 7 February 1928, Page 5

TEMPLE CHURCH BESIEGED

TO HEAR BISHOP BARNES Discourse on Prayer Book SPIRITUAL PROPERTIES AND INNATE MATTER. ‘A PRIMITIVE SUPERSTITION.’' (Received February 6, at 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, February 5. A large crowd besieged the Temple ChuYch to hear Bishop Barnes. The Solicitor General (Sir Thomas Inskip K.C.) was present. Hundreds stood throughout the service. Bishop Barnes declared that the Church was only narrowly prevented by Parliament from making changes which wiiuld end in the primitive superstition that a priest could give spiritual properties to innate matter. DEMONSTRATION AT ST. CUTHBERTS. 400 PEOPLE LEAVE BEFORE SERMON. (Received February 6, at 6 p.m.) LONDON, February 5. Four hundred people wolked out of St. Cuthberts Church, before the sermon. Hundreds followed the vicar to his home. There was no hostile demonstration. A recent cable stated that disturbances were resumed, culminating in riotous scenes, after a service at Saint Cuthberts, necessitating the Police protecting the vicar and his colleagues from a crowd of 2000, who held up the traffic while the police barred the road. Personal conflicts marked fhe service, after the interrupters Dad sang hymns and crowed “Eucharist!