ENGLISH PRAYER BOOK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20251, 10 May 1929, Page 11

ENGLISH PRAYER BOOK.

RESERVATION OF SACRAMENT DR. INGRAM OPPOSED. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received Mi\y 9, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 9. Tho Daily Telegraph says a group of Anglo-Catholic incumbents havo addressed an open letter to the Bishop of London, Dr. A. F. Winnington Ingram, saying tlioy cannot conscientiously comply with tho directions ho issued in November in connection with tho reservation of the Sacrament. They say:—

"We aro convinced that the essential principles havo been obscured, and what is more important a departure has been made from immemorial Catholic precedent."

A cablegram from Loudon on November 3 last stated: —Tho Daily Express says that although the proposed rubrics permitting tho reservation of tho Sacrament were tho chief reason why the House of Commons rejected tho new Prayer Book, tho Bishop of London, Dr. Winnington Ingram, sent a letter to the 160 incumbents of the churches in his diocese who practise reservation, out of 620 churches in tho diocese, permitting reservation. The decision of tho bishops at the conference after the second rejection of the book was to tako the new book as a standard but to consult tho clergy in the synod. The London Synod rejected the proposal to permit reservation, as allowed under the new book. Tho paper says tho bishop's letter defies both the synod and the House of Commons.