THE PRAYER BOOK
BISHOP BARNES FIRM PARTLY AGREES WITH ARCHBISHOP [ Australian Press Assn. J LONDON, June 7. Bishop Barnes reiterates his objections to the Prayer Book proposals as further (disuniting th© church. He advocates in the event of the House of Commons rejecting the proposals, a non-contentious revision, Ire partly agrees with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s plea but though moved by the pathos of its words declares that younger men must face the realities, especially because the church’s present plight is due to the failure of its leaders m the immediate past to do so. If the present proposals pass he says that the church will steadily lose its evangelical liberal elements and a possible ending is church disendowment. The Archbishop of Canterbury presiding at the Canterbury Diocesan Conference, hinted at his early retirement. He sairi that the seventh Lambeth Conference in 1930 would not be under his chairmanship.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 7
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