REVISED PRAYER BOOK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20291, 27 December 1927, Page 9

REVISED PRAYER BOOK

BISHOPS’ NEW PROPOSALS. FORMULATION NEXT MONTH. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright ) LONDON, December 23. (Received Dec. 24, at 5.5 p.m. ) The modified revised Prayer Book is not expected to be authorised before 1929. The bishops’ new proposals will be fo ululated in January, and discussion in the separate Houses of the Assembly will take place in February. Discussions at the convocations and final approval by the General Assembly will occupy March and July, and it is unlikely that the book will be presented to Parliament till November. —A. and N.Z. Cable. PRAYERS FOR THE KING. MAY BE MADE OBLIGATORY. LONDON, December 23. (Received Dec. 24, at 5.5 p.m. ) The Daily News indicates examples of how the bishops are likely to act in order to avoid misapprehensions. First, they may rule out the adoration <f the reserved sacrament by express restrictions as part of the book, instead of relying on the recommendations. Secondly, they may include obligatory prayers for the King as head of th € church, instead of leaving it optional. An official notice from Lambeth Palace denies the report that the bishops are negotiating with evangelical leaders; they are negotiating with nobody. The Primate, i a letter to The Times, thanks hundreds of friends and critics for sympathetic letters and cables.—Sydney Sun Cable. HINT OF DISESTABLISMENT. REGARDED AS SIGNIFICANT. LONDON, December 24. (Received Dec. 24, at 5.5 p.m.) The archbishops’ hint of disestablishment as a possible rejoinder to interference by the State is regarded as significant. The Mornine Post, however’, expresses the opinion that nothing has yet happened, or is likely to happen, to precipitate such a conflict. Tfi e debates : n Parliament revealed an attachment to the Christian faith and to the Protestant form of it, which lends voice to the church and should encourage her in pursuing those ends which transcend mere doctrinal differences.—A. and N.Z. Cable.