REVISED PRAYER BOOK.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 43, 21 December 1927, Page 3

REVISED PRAYER BOOK.

SYMPATHY BY BAPTISTS. (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). (Received This day, 8.25 mu.) LONDON, December 20. “We sympathise with the bishops and are asking for special prayers on their behalf in all Baptist churches on Christinas Day,” states Rev. M. Aubrey, secretary of the Baptist Union. He adds: “Baptists are not rejoicing but are grateful for the defeat of the book. They realise the bitter disappointment to the reverend Anglican leaders but the new book meant the destruction of the hopes of a Protestant reunion. The Baptists trust that the rejection will demonstrate the country’s engrained Protestantism and thereby open a way to co-operation.” Mr Parmoor, who is regarded as a high authority on ecclesiastical law. expresses the opinion that disestablishment would not affect the King’s Accession Oath Act of 1534, which made the King head of the English Church. The only change in the oath was the deletion of the reference to the Roman Church, prior to the present King’s accession.—(“Sun”)