THE PRAYER BOOK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20167, 8 June 1928, Page 7

THE PRAYER BOOK

AN APPEAL “OLD MEN DREAM DREAMS” i By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—copyright j [ Australian Press Assn.— United Service j LONDON, July 6. 44 1 f Parliament again rejects the' Prayer Book tnere is a prospect that coirxusiou wid spread, and lawlessness rooms laige ana ugiy,” says the Archbishop ur Canterbury, in a letter appealing to Parliamentarians adequately to consoler tne conditions under which the revision has been carried out. lie emphasises his belief that the Prayer x,ook, wnich. is a labour of years, will serve in tue church of the twentieth century the highest uecr.ls of the varied groups of woiohip--1 pers. He cannot easily believe that .ie vehemence of a small minority -isisting of a strange companionship extremists on either side will be . c to thwa>t the wishes of i.u .aolc central opinion which has not ueen lightly reached. He believed that the Book would Ki the rallying point for a rich and splendid unity. The Archbishop of Canterbury denied that the consecration prayer in the alternative Communion service is inconsistent with the Reformation principles. 44 It is our intention, with the co-operation of the clergy and laity, that the public shall be obeyed. So far as I am concerned, no effort to secure peace and orderliness will be Jacking. 1 am an old man. and old mon dream drcams. My dreams for the world I am soon leaving are rich in hope. I believe and have confirmed by questionings, that the average people are not hostile to the old faith. My heartfelt prayer is that it may somehow, and not least through the new Prayer Book, be helpful to the younger folk. ’ ’