NEW PRAYER BOOK
PIECEMEAL ADOPTION,
CONTROL OF EXTREMISTS.
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.40 a.m.) LONDON*, July 3
“The Archbishop’s statement - indicates an entirely new departure in the policy of the bishops,” says the “Daily Telegraph.” “The prayer book, Avhi’ch was rejected as a whole, is to be adopted piecemeal. Thp Act of Uniformity is a dead letter. Every parish priest has been a lawmaker to himself. The bishops will now have a difficult task in confining the deviators from the existing book within the borders of the revised book, which has behind it no force of law. It will mean an effort to bring the more extreme clergy into lino by prevailing on them voluntarily to accept the limitations contained in the deposited book. No doubt the bishops will be accused of defying Parliament, but we are sure it was not in a spirit of defiance that they arrived at their decision. They are acutely conscious that the drift must he arrested, or, at any rate, controlled. The bishops have been compelled by the authority inherent in their office regarding the larger issue. Since the enabling Act has failed the church in its greatest need a movement for an amending Act will probably arise.
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Northern Advocate, 4 July 1928, Page 5
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204NEW PRAYER BOOK Northern Advocate, 4 July 1928, Page 5
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