NEW PRAYER BOOK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 334, 20 April 1928, Page 8

NEW PRAYER BOOK

ARCHBISHOP AVERILL SEE WEAKNESSES

TRIBUTE TO GREAT WOH

(From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLING TON, Thursday. “We cannot but feel prof** thankfulness to the English eplsw. pate for the product of 20 years’ h*. our, and for the excellent result that labour/’ said Archbishop AvenE. referring to the Prayer Book revaio? in his presidential address at Gereri Synod this afternoon. Taken as a whole the revision rfully worthy of the great Chore: which has produced it, and it will remain as a monument of patieuc* wisdom and honest endeavour, * unite the Church more closely wi2 out being the cause of offence to at party in the Church. It was natnnil to be expected that so important i measure, supported by nearly tk whole of the episcopate and by great a majority of the represent* tive members of the Church, woe; have received the consent of Parte ment, and consequently the Roy* assent.

“To my mind its weakness consktF (1) In the retention of the ornament* rubric; (2) in providing alternate services for the administration of tesacraments; and (3) in pennittfo continuous reservation. “Whatever may be the ultimate te of the measure in England, I be sorry to see the Church of province accept it as it stands.”

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