THE NEW PRAYER BOOK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19951, 21 May 1928, Page 12

THE NEW PRAYER BOOK.

Sir, —Mr. JSorman Burton says that he is not interested in the opinion of Rev, Howard Elliott, and ends up by saying the world would be much happiar it people would mind their own business. Just so. Has it not yet struck Mr. Burton that this new Prayer Book is every Protestant's business, or should be ? It is just because Protestants have not minded their own business that the present state ot unrest and dissension is now in evidence. C. E. Knight.

Sir,—l plead guilty to a careiess slip in referring to England as an Empire at the Reformation L therefore correct that statement and affirm that the ascent of England to her present position began at the Reformation. But my object in entering into this controversy was not to defend England's well-known and unassailable position, but to justify Mr. Howard Elliott from Mr. Burton's rather surly charge of meddling in what-did not concern him The present crisis concerns every Englishman, to whatever denomination he belongs, and woe be to us if, through apathy or indifference, we allow the birthright of enlightened religious liberty, purchased by our forefathers at such tremendous cost, to he subtly filched from us. A.B.