REVISED PRAYER BOOK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 January 1928, Page 5

REVISED PRAYER BOOK.

COMMONS 19EBATE.

A BISHOP’S VIEW. (Received Tuesday, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. Bishop Hensley Hanson, speaking in the Durham Cathedral, said: “The debate on the Prayer Book in the House of Commons Avas ill-informed. Sacramental doctrines were handled with vehemence, conviction and the crude dogmatism of ignorance. The hostile majority consisted largely of Scottish, Welsh and Irish whoso concern in the English Prayer Book Avas slight.” •He asked could the existing connection between the Church and the State be rightly maintained since it involved such an experience. The recent declaration of the Archbishops meant that the Church did not Avant to be established if establishment involved subjection to the State in such spiritual matters as tiie form of the liturgy and the method of providing for spiritual needs of the sick and dying. The A-ote in the House of Commons created a situation no church could possibly accept. However great Avere the consequences of disestablishment there Averc many clear, moral obligations to justify patriots advocating it.”