REVISED PRAYER BOOK

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 December 1927, Page 9

REVISED PRAYER BOOK

A BISHOP’S APPEAL.

THREE CAUSES GIVEN. FOR LOSS OF 20 YEARS’ WORK. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. Received 11.25 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 18. “Let us concentrate our thought on political happenings and not alter spiritual facts,” says Bis Lop iiipon, in appealing to the supporters of the new Prayer Book to stand f ast. “If we love and believe in the church, let those who are ready for the sacrifices whereby the new Prayer Book may be validated still move towards the centre, proving that their attitude is due to God’s unchanging spirit in the church and. not, as our opponents suggest, due to indifference to truth. Let us bravely learn our lesson. The fruit of our toil lias been lost owing—(l) To the rank and file of the laity’s ignorance and prejudice, which teaching might have done more to dissipate. (2) To suspicion of anything suggesting surrender ot the heritage of the Reformation. (3) To the extremist intolerance which is the negation of the spirit of Christ. If the spiritual forces which at the end of 20 years’ labour and prayer have drawn churchmen closer can survive the trial, the church will soon qualify to' give the spiritual lead which the House of Commons declined to accept.” He urges prayers for the bishops, especially for the Archbishop, for whom the blow was most crushing of all.— A.P.A. and “Sun.” CONVOCATIONS - CANCELLED. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY NOT RESIGNING. Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 18. The Convocations of the Archbishops of York and of Canterbury, originally fixed for Tuesday and Wednesday, have been cancelled. The' “Sunday Times’’ says that it l is able to state that the Archbishop of Canterbury does not contemplate resignation.