ENGLISH PRAYER BOOK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 May 1925, Page 7

ENGLISH PRAYER BOOK.

PROGRESS OF REVISION. “REMAIN BRITISH.” DEAN OF BRISTOL’S APPEAL. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received May 7, 11.35 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 7. At the Australian Congress of the Anglican Church an address concerning the revision of the Prayer Book was delivered by the Dean of Bristol (England), the Very Rev. E. Burroughs, who was one of the six members in charge of the Prayer'Book re vision when it came before the House of Clergy in 1923. He said the question had first arisen out of the proceedings of a Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline in 1906. The inadequacy of the sixteenth century forms and language, the necessity for softening hard lines, the reformation of theology and consequent rules and prohibitions were recognised by the commission, but they desired no alteration in doctrinal balance. The scope of these proposals had been changed beyond recognition in the measure that came before the Church Assembly in 1923. I'he Dean dealt with the crucial position ci’eated by the demand for the reservation of the Sacrament. We have been pushed step by step to a series of rubrics which, although not so intended, can in fact be. made to cover perpetual reservation. He said: “The sting lies in the fact that AngloCatholic leaders have told us straight that adoration is their ultimate aim. Many of us are now wondering if we ought not to move back and say there can he no revision, if it is only a cloak for reaction.” In conclusion, he appealed to his hearers in their attitude upon the question to be and remain British.