NEW PRAYER BOOK

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 78, 15 June 1928, Page 6

NEW PRAYER BOOK

SOME BITTEEHESS.

UPROAR IN COMMONS

United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Received 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 14. The galleries of the House of Commons were again l packed for the Prayer Book debate.

Almost every fourth person in the gallery was a clergyman, including ' th.- Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishops and peers. Sir W. JoynsonHicks re-opened the debate and opposed the adoption, of the new Book, stating he considered that it endangered the life of the Church. It would not bring peace. It was a concession to the Anglo-Catholics and threatened the liberties obtained by the Reformation. Following the Home Secretary, Mr Cyril. Atkinson (Con.) immediately threw the House into an uproar by Stating the campaign against the frayer Book would-go down in history as a classical example of that adv.ocacy>,which consisted the abuse Of opponent and misrepresentation. ;(Loud cries of 'Wltn..draw!")- ' r;- :. : - ! 'J Mr Atkinson ,was not permitted to proceed,'owing, to .the rising disorder and. silence was only obtained when the Speaker rose and appealed to the House to give the member an opportunity of explaining. Mr Atkinson: "I am speaking of the campaign against the Book. I do not know to what extent the Home Secretary.is responsible and I make no charge :ofi any want of good faiths but thejipampaign is based on misrepresentation." (Cries of No!) HThis campaign is responsible for baseless"'f,ears amongst many people • Twenty-two years ago, a Royal Commission said the law of public worship was, too narrow and needlessly . condemned niuch in which church„peqp]e believed. The Gentses of'the new.. Prayer Book was this report, the BoOk is an answer which the Church presents to th ,o demand of the Royal Commission.. There is absolutely no doctrinal change. Th c demand or reservation comes not from AngloCatholics but from those who wanted it for the sick and flying-United Service nad British Official Wireless.

SUPPORT FROM HAMILTON

Press Assnrmtion— Copyni«£ht. ™* 'HAMILTON, This Day

The opposition of a section of the Anglicans in the Waikato Diocese to the revised Urayer Book was voiced in a cablegram sent 'by .some members ofthe Cathedral Chapter

to Sir 'W. Joyhsou-Hicks. The message reads: "The majority of lay members of .the- Cathedral Chapter "«'the Waikato Diocese and many people, congratulate you on your past successes and are fully with you .in,opposing the revised Prayer Book'. ,f , ,