REVISED PRAYER BOOK

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 October 1928, Page 11

REVISED PRAYER BOOK

ATTACK ON BISHOPS. ATTITUDE TO PARLIAMENT. ‘‘PERILOUSLY NEAR PROFANITY. ’’ (United Presh Association—By Electric Telegrapti Copyright.) (Australian Press Associatiou —United Service., Received 12.10 p.nf. to-day. " LONDON, Oct. 30. Sir Wii’iiiaan Joynson Hicks, writing in tiie “Empire Review,” makes a sharp attack in connection with the i>i,shops’ attitude towardts the rejection of the Prayer Book. He says: ‘‘There is something perilously near" profanity in the complete 'disregard by many of the promoters of the new Prayer Book ■that the action of the House of Ooanmons may possibly have been .a Divine answer to the prayers which the opponents to the measure offered up. It would have been more sensible .and dignified if the bishops had .accepted Parliament’s decision. The bishops aire virtually setting up a claim to a spiritual autocracy. The Reformation freed us from this, and it is too late an the day to attempt to restore it. If the bishops give us a Prayer Book conforming to the doctrinal teaching of the New Testament and having due regard for the fact that tine Church of England is a reformed church, they need have no fears regarding the support they will receive.