CHURCH AND STATE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17179, 8 February 1930, Page 5

CHURCH AND STATE

PRECARIOUS SITUATION INQUIRY INTO RELATIONS (British Official Wireless.) Kit. 10 a.in. Rugby. Feb. 7. The resolution of tin* Archbishop of York, Dr. Temple, for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the present relations of church and State was adopted yesterday by the Church Assembly by 382 votes t0T.05. The decision follows upon successive refusals of the House of Commons to sanction the measures for the revision of the prayer book used in the Church of England and the subsequent decision of the Bishops to permit the use, with certain reservations, of the revised prayer book. The commission is to report in particular what legal and constitutional changes, if any, are needed in order to maintain and secure the effective application of the principle that the church must, in its last resort, retain its inalienable right to f.orrnulate its faith and to arrange the expression of that faith in its form of worship. The Archbishop of Canterbury said the situation was precarious. At any moment extralegal actions of Bishops might be brought into open conflict with public law.