CHURCH AND STATE.

Grey River Argus, 25 September 1928, Page 5

CHURCH AND STATE.

A NEW CRISIS. For Anglicans in Britain. (Australian and NZ. Cable Assn,; (Received September 24 at 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, September 24. The Bishop of Durham, preaching at Now Shildoh, quoted the text: “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. and to God the things that are Gdd’s. ” He then went on to argue that the State had no righ*t to interf< re with, the Cnurch in its spiritual afrairs. When the Church and the Ktate were* in conflict’ there was no State whose claim was supreme. Bishop Hensley Honson’s declaration ■above derives additional significance i from the fact that forty-three Arch | Bishops and Bishops, who are meeting, at Lambeth on Tuesday, will discuss the situation, following on the retent rejection of the Revised Prayer Book measure. The Bishops are expected to appoint a Committee of Statesmen and Churchmen Io consider the readjustments that are necessary t 0 determine the relations between the Church and the State; but a more immediate problem is the question of how to regularise public worship so as to prevent the Anglican Church from lapsing into Congregationalism. The Bishops may agree t 0 permit variations in the service and the occasional offices of th* new Prayer Boole,, to which Parliament did not object. A difficulty is that the* Anglo-Catho-lic clergy may be unwilling to surrender the practices which they have been permitted to use by various Bishops for the past twenty-five years. On the contrary, the Protestant Societies. backed, as they believe, by Parliament. may take legal action. A series of prosecutions, in this connection, would he a grievous calamity, and would greatly hamper the Church. The Anglo-Catholics. MAY NOT ATTEND CHURCH CONGRESS. 1 September 24 al 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, September .24. to withdraw from the 1 and to persuade oth attend, Lord liaiifax, the th? Anglo-Catholics, to ito F’-wer than 721 clergy men, has sent a letter to the Bishop of Gloucester objecting to Rev. Doctor iT. E. Major, the editor of “The Modnrn Churchman,” speaking at the .Church Congress. Dr Major. D.D., is the Examining ‘Chaplain to the Bishop of Birmingham as well as editor of “The Modern iChurchman.” lie was born in 1870, and is the son. of a. New Zealander, Air :H. D. Major. Kati-Kati. and received ■his early education in New Zealand. ‘He married a New Zealand girl, Miss ’Mary McMillan, of Reniuera. Dr MaJor is the author of several religious . works. The letter of Lord Halifax and the i 724 clergymen declares that the views iof Dr Major are shocking, and are i only a perversion of the gospels. The “Daily News,” expressing the opinion that this objection is a new heresy hunt, says that it understands that Dr Major’s address, relating to the Anglican interpretation of the doctrines of Christianity, deals with the matter in an uncontroversial way