IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9917, 4 August 1910, Page 2

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

ADJOURNMENT OF PARLIAMENT,

ROYAL ASSENT. Uaiied Press Association—By Electric Tfllegrapk—Copyright (Received August 4. 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, August 3. Parliament Lag adjourned ,to November 15. Tho Royal assent lias been given •to the Declaration., Regency and Civil List Acts. ml THE ACCESSION OATHS. The old Declaration ran:— £ 'l' do solemnly and sincerely, in tho presence of God, profess, testify and declare that I do believe that- in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of broad and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after consecration thereof by any person: and that tho invocation or adoration, of the Virgin Mary or any other saint, and the sacrifice of tho Mass as now used, in the Church of Rome are superstitious and idolatrous; and I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify and declare that .1 do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain, ordinary sense of words as commonly understood by English Protestante, without any evasion, equivocation or mental reservation whatever, and without any dispensation already granted me for this purpose by the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever." The new Declaration is:—" I solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify and declaro that I am. a faithful member of the Protestant Reformed Church, by law established in England, and will, according to the true intent of the enactments securing Protestant succession, uphold ana maintain tile said enactments to the best of my powor, according to the law."