ANGLICAN PRAYER BOOK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 58, 7 February 1925, Page 5

ANGLICAN PRAYER BOOK.

QUESTION OF REVISION. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Feb. G. Reference was made by Archbishop Julius at the Anglican Gsneral Synod to-day to the Church of England Prayer Book. "There are some," he said, "who do not want it revised, and many of tho bishops will say that thcV like it as it is, with their right, to turn and twist if, and alter it and adapt it, but the Church of England is adopting another Prayer Book, so what are you goinf; to do? Are you going into a panic because one wants this Prayer Book and one wants that, and another wants to know what you are going to do about it, and thus have the country in a turmoil? That is the worst tlfing you can do to tho Church." Continuing 'on tho same lines, Archbishop Julius said that Canada had its own Prayer Book, Ireland had its own Prayer Book, Africa had its own Prayer Book. They were different forms and constitutions not like our own, but were their bonds with the Mother Church any lighter than our own? "Why, gentlemen," lie added, "there will be no change. Tho Church of England does not say you must take our Prayer Book as it stands or be excommunicated. There is no danger of that, and we are not held to the the Mother Church by our obsolete constitution. We must have practical autonomy, which, as a branch of the Catholic" Church, we now possess theoretically, and so let us go to Parliament and say, 'Give us freedom of our property which belongs to us now.' "