REJECTION OF PRAYER BOOK

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 91, 28 November 1928, Page 6

REJECTION OF PRAYER BOOK

s r ■ I —— • ~ «Bfir" .jl PKESM'TEIUAS- COMMENT. ( _• ~',.;• v'.j ANGLICAN MINISTER ""AMAZED." ,| (Special .to|Post).' ' ; CHRISTCHUR&',' This ' Cay.' I -, "The" criticisms ofpte W*&f\ Church in the Presbyterian Assembly of published ion Saturday, -'mi me™ amazement that a so-called dempera tic body, claiming fo| l&very basi:> of existence freedom df religious sellexpression, should deny/to, 9psistev. organisation 'the right to similar freedom, and, further, that its members should <mmt WiiUlito the. fact that they .ar 9 «making a|Protefetant church to hold that:what' is wrong applied to a Presbyteriaiv church is gloriously :MaM when, directed against Anglicanism, namely, State control of religious self-expression.' This is the declaration of an Anglican minister, the Rev}. H. 0. Hanby.in a letter published to-day

After referring to aspects of the Prayer Book- controversy, Mr -Hanby says: "In a tfeW 'book 'of. order 'ia*. suexl for one of the Scottish * Prea-j hvferian churches, /it ft 'Prided

that sufficient consecrated bread ana w i ß omaybJ ! re S erv^irom;''tlie:main service in for adtainistratton ■lafar&i the/day- to. those whrj cannot atte&l the' earlier service, Thus New , Zealand / Presbyterians J stigmatise asjltomanism' what is al-j lowed in principle under tho rule J of: one of tie. largest ol! their system. What! pewer prejudice has to > blind.' j

( "DISPOSITION TO INTERFERE."

"But, '.what rm m'ost genuinely ] oncerned about," Mr Hanby says, "is tiJB-i disposition in non-Anglican r lurches to ; interfere with, the free(f ,m of the Anglican church t'o rule | keif. . Is it fair,?, Is it just? Is if kindly? Is it Christian charity What tumult and fury there would be shown if, in ait Anglican, synod, ajpmmittee were t'o traverse the doc|fines and. methods of a Presbyterian p other church', and roundly to'as- ' 'sort, that the State/ was quite right 1 o step in and block its assembly rom, say, at- random, conferring life | Ice 'on its Moderator with- the Roll ani'sirjg title of 'most reverend,' 1 r from permitting the use, oft unferlented wine in the Lord's Supper?

LEAVE THE ANGLICANS ALONE.'? ' "why can't the Presbyterians be |i ue to their own principles of reli- ' ious freedom and leave the Angli- ' an? alone? Why do they not rise ' n the strength of tbeir old Scottish '|oU of religious liberty, and, while! ' frankly dedicating this alleged lov'ement Romewards, demand in ' he name of justice and of religious

r'eedom so clear to th e Scpttish hurcliman, that whatever 'her apparent errors, the English church must (jbvve the same freedom which they ?nj their State and free churches enoy?" " That wouUl be consistency, f id wmlft demonstrate, that, the ; rqsbyterian mind could, ncbly free itself from' ancient 1 prejudice, and how Christian chivalry to. an errant

ister church. "Let .'Presbyterians by all means Jack UP their brethren of Britain iii jt tacking' the Egljsh establishment t they are minded so to do, but in K e name of justice and religious \ r-edom, lot them keep their tongues from denying the privileges they Ihcmselves enjoy to their fellow Christians in the English church."