REVISED PRAYER BOOK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 December 1927, Page 5

REVISED PRAYER BOOK.

REJECTION BY COMMONS. MUCH DISCUSSION IN ENGLAND. Press Association -Electric Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, Monday. A majority of the Anglican preachers yesterday referred to the rejection of the Revised Prayer Book and the difficulties of the situation, but little real guidance was possible in the absence of a definite decision of the bishops. Speaking in Hereford Cathedral, the Bishop of Hereford (Dr. Smith) said the question of the relation of the Church and State had been raised acutely, but before the Church demands, at whatever cost, her complete independence, there must not be a hasty demand for disestablishment and disendowment, because the Church would suffer. “I believe the verdict of the House of Commons accurately represents the general attitude of the nation, which is against the supremacy of the Pope and against certain practices in connection with the Sacrament, but the verdict was based on a lack of information, and robs the Church of real safeguards for its Protestant position,” said the Kev. R. J. Campbell, when he was interviewed at Glasgow. He emphasised the fact that the majority against the Prayer Book were non-English members of the House of Commons, who were largely influenced by the eloquence of Mr Bosslyn Mitchell, “who is not only not a member of the Church of England, but is a Theosophist. What moral right Mr Mitchell had to make his impassioned speech is a mystery.” OUTSPOKEN STATEMENT. (Received Tuesday, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. ‘■l consider that the time has come for a definite split between the AngloCatholics and the Evangelicals,” said Sir W. L. Joynson Hicks in a statement to the “Daily News.” “Both views cannot exist in the same church. They want.-- re-union with Borne, and we want re-union with the nonconformists. Anglo-Catholics yearly lean nearer Borne and indulge in more and more illegal practices. Parliament has now said that they* have gone far enough. Evangelicals have been making room for Anglo-Catholics by quitting their churches. The new Prayer Book has made England wake up. “If disloyal clergy adopt illegal practices and teach illegal doctrines, they cannot honestly take stipends from the church they are defying. They must decide for or against Borne. If the former, they must leave the Established Church, “A compromise regarding the Communion service is inconceivable. AngloCatholics want disestablishment in order to have a free hand to corrupt the church doctrine. They can get easier and quicker freedom by choosing another church. Meanwhile they must be, required to respect their ordination vows.''—•' ‘ Sun. ’ ’