CHURCH OF ENGLAND
PRAYER BOOK CONTROVERSY. OPPONENTS’ GREAT YEAR. DISESTABLISHMENT UNLIKELY. (United. Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) —United Service). Received 1.50 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Oct. 1. Sir William Joynson Hicks, in a message to the meeting of the National Church League at Cheltenham, wrote that it liad been a great and glorious year, which had witnessed the definite uprising of the nation against tampering with, the fundamental protestant principals of the Church ol England. He did not believe that their opponents would carry out the threat to get church disestablishment, because it would involve the degeneration of the national church into a party sect. APPOINTMENTS DISPUTED. (Australian Press Association.) Received 1.20 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Oct. 1. Lord Halifax, ..addressing the English Church Union at Cheltenham, said: “It is a scandal that the Bishop of Birmingham should bet accepted as a member of the Anglican episcopate and. it is hardly less a scandal that Dr. Major should be the head of the theological college for the training of candidates for holy orders.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 October 1928, Page 9
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172CHURCH OF ENGLAND Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 October 1928, Page 9
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