NEW PRAYER BOOK’S PASSAGE MAY MEAN DISESTABLISHMENT

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6631, 9 June 1928, Page 6

NEW PRAYER BOOK’S PASSAGE MAY MEAN DISESTABLISHMENT

BISHOP BARNES HOSTILE ‘CHURCH WILL STEADILY LOSE ITS EVANGELICAL AND LIBERAL ELEMENTS Aust. Press Assn.—United Service.. LONDON, June 7. Bishop Barnes reiterates his objections to the Prayer Book proposals as further disuniting the Church. Ho advocates that in the event of the House of Commons rejecting the proposals there should be a non-conten-tious revision. He partly agrees with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s plea but, though moved by the pathos of its words, declares that younger men must face the realities, especially because the Church's present plight is due to the failure of the leaders in the immediate past to do so. If the prese.it proposals pass, the Church will steadily lose its Evangeb -al aud Liberal elements and may possib’.y end in ‘‘Church diseudowment.” PRIMATE LIKELY TO RETIRE. 1/ 'NI ON, June 7. The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Kandell Davidson), presiding at the Canterbury Diocesan Conference, hinted at his early retirement. Ho said that the seventh Lambeth Conference in 1030 would not be under his chair manship.