REVISED PRAYER BOOK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20088, 27 October 1928, Page 13

REVISED PRAYER BOOK.

QUESTIONS BY BISHOPS. REPLIES BY SYNODS. ADDRESS BY DR. DAVID. Austral in n F'reP-s Association—-United Service (Received October 26. 3.5 p.m.) LONDON. Oct 23. The SouLhwark Diocesan Synod has accepted the 1928 Prayer Book, including the service of consecration and the canon for reservation for I lie sick, but it agreed not to permit deviations from the 1662 book without the prior assent of the parochial councils.

In an address to the synod of Liverpool the Bishop, Dr. A. A. David, said he was not altogether in agreement with the bishops' proposals, which he hoped would be modified.

Dr. David said ho specially regretted Iho proposed sanction for the use of the alternative Communion Office. Nobody desired the new offico more than himself, but ho still hoped tho bishops would quietly lay it aside for the present. However much some of them desired it, it would be a fruitful sacrifice.

The synod, which voted against the first four questions and accepted the fifth, in answer to the bishop's two further questions agreed to support him in any act of consure pronounced bv him relating to the use oi tho reserved elements, and secondly, agreed that no sanction should bo given to the use of the 1928 book.

The Synod of Lichfield accepted all tho questions, and did not, as stated yesterday, reply to any m the negative.