CHURCH AND STATE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 January 1928, Page 9

CHURCH AND STATE.

DISESTA RLISRMENT A OVULATED. AFTERMATH OF HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATE. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 12.3 op.m. to-day. LONDON, Jan. 2. Bishop Hensley Hanson, speaking at Durham Cathedral, said.: ‘‘The debate on the Prayer Book in th House or Commons was ill-informed. Sacramental doctrines were handled with the vehemence, conviction and crude dogmatism of ignorance. The hostile majority consisted largely of Scottish, Welsh and Irish whose concern in the English Prayer Book was slight,” He asked whether the existing connection between the Church and State could be nightly maintained, since it involved such an experience. "The recent declaration of the archbishops meant that the Shurcli did not want to be established,’’ he said, ‘‘if, establishment involved subjection t.o the State in such spiritual matters as the form of liturgy and the method of providing for the spiritual needs of the oick and dying- The vote in the House of Commons had created a situation

which no church could possibly accept. However grant were the consequences of disestablishment, .there were many clearest and moral obligations to justify patriots advocating lit.”