THE MODIFIED PRAYER BOOK
“The great defect of the proposed Prayer Book is its ambiguity. It evades crucial issues which the church must face. It seeks compromise where compromise is impossible. It faces both ways. Take an example. Evening Communion is tacitly but definitely allowed by the Book. Thence, surely, it must follow that it is not necessary to go fasting to Communion. The Bishops were asked to say so clearly. What did the majority decide? If the new Book is passed they will have committed tlie Church to the statement that fasting before Communion is an ancient and laudable custom. The custom may lie ancient, hut it is certainly not primitive. There is no warrant for it in the New Testament. I personally deny that to fast before Communion is laudable. AVe ought to go to Divine service under such circumstances as best lit us to worship God. Such fitness is not induced by adding hunger to the damp cold of the normal early morning climate of England.—Dr. Barnos, Bishop of Birmingham.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1928, Page 3
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173THE MODIFIED PRAYER BOOK Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1928, Page 3
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