RIVAL FACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 December 1927, Page 5

RIVAL FACTIONS

DIVIDE ANGLICAN CHURCH. “BOTH CANNOT EXIST.” SAYS SIR W. JOYNSON HICKS. BJf CABLE—PRESS association copyright. Received 10.25 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 19. “1 consider the time has come for a definite split between Anglo-Catholics and Evangelicals,” says Sir W. Joyn-son-Hicks in a statement to the “Daily News.” Both views cannot exist in the same church. They want reunion with Rome and we want reunion with the Nonconformists. Anglo-Catholics yearly lean nearer to Rome and. indulge in more and more illegal practices. Parliament lias now said that they have gone far enough. The Evangelicals have been making room for Anglo-Catholics by quitting. The new Prayer Book has made England wake up. If disloyal clergy adopt illegal practices and teach illegal doctrines, they cannot honestly take stipends from the church that they are defying. They must deejde for or against Rome; if the former, they must leave the established church; a compromise regarding the Communion service is inconceivable. Anglo-Catholics want disestablishment in order to have a free hand to corrupt the church doctrine. They can get easier and quicker freedom by choosing another church; meanwhile they must- be required to respect their ordination vows.”—“Sydney Sun” Cable. DIFFICULTIES OF THE POSITION. LITTLE REAL GUIDANCE. LONDON. Dec. 19. The majority of Anglican preacher.® vesterdav referred to the rejection o! the Praver Book and the difficulties ol tin? situation, but little guidance wins possible in the absence' of a definite decision of the bishop. Speaking in Hereford Cathedral, the Bishop of Hereford (Dr. Smith) (said: •‘Th? question of the relation of the Church and the State had been raised acutely, but before the Church demands, at whatever cost, her complete * independence, there must not lie a hast} demand for disestablishment and dis- . endowment, because the Church would suffer. I believe the verdict of the House of Commons accurately represent* the .genera: l attitude of the nation, which is against the supremacy of the Pope and against certain practices in connection with the Snorammit, hut a verdict based on a lack of information robs the Church of real safeguards for its Protestant position.” The Rev. R. J- Campbell, interviewed at Glasgow, emphasised the fact that th/3c majority against the Praver Book were non-English members of the House who were largely influenced by the eloquence of SVIr Roslvn Mitchell “who not, only i*. not a member of the Church of England, but is a Then sophist. What moral right Mr Mitchell ha.d to make his impassioned speech is a mystery.”