THE PRAYER BOOK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20109, 30 March 1928, Page 7

THE PRAYER BOOK

ANOTHER STAGE Primate’s Stirring Appeal for Speedy Passage LOWER HOUSES IN FAVOUR (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.) DUN DU)lx, Marcii 28. The bishops of the Lppcr House of tne province of CanteiMury accepted tiic new I'rayer liook by 10 voces io 6. The bishops of tne province of 1 ork accepted it unanimously. The Primate, addressing me Lower Houses of both provinces at Church House, Westminster said he hoped, the book would soon pass because important business awaited the Convocation’s attention.

He respected the conscientious convictions of those opposing the book from, the outset. He had no right to expect many of them to vote differently now, Dm he found difficulty in understanding the attitude of those previously in favour who now opposed it. Objection was apparently taken to the verds restricting the use of the Sacrament. Personally he would be dishonest if he objected to the endeavour to remove all ambiguity upon the subject. He appealed to the Convocation to take the book as a whole. Sometimes postponement after postponement made people wish to get a matter ended at any price. Such an attitude was unworthy. He asked them not to relegate the book to the limbo of forgotten things after so many years of endeavour. He believed it would promote unity, order and peace. The Archbishop of York spoke in the same strain. He added that the Convocation should consider the effect of their vote, not upon Parliament but upon the church itself. Each province separately debated the motion to concur in the Houses’ resolution and adjourned.