REVISED PRAYER BOOK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 December 1927, Page 5

REVISED PRAYER BOOK.

THE BAPTIST ATTITUDE. GRATEFUL FOR DEFEAT OF BOOK. Press Association -Electric Telegraph-Copyrgb'i-. (Received Wednesday, .8.25 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. ’•'We sympathise with the Bishops and are asking for special prayers on their behalf in all tho Baptist churches ou Christmas Day,” states Air AL Aubrey, secretary of the Baptist Union. lie adds: “The Baptists are not rejoicing, but are grateful for the defeat of the book. They realise the bitter disappointment to the revered .Anglican leaders, but the now book meant the destruction of the hopes of I’rotcstant re-union. The Baptists trust that the rejection will demonstrate the country’s ingrained Protestantism, and thereby open the way to co-operation.” Lord l’armoor, who is regarded as a high authority on ecclesiastical law, expresses the opinion that the disestablishment would not affect the King’s Accession Oath. The Act of 1534 made the King head of the English Church. The only change in the oath was the deletion in reference to the Roman Church prior to the present King’s accession.—Sun.