REVISED PRAYER-BOOK.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17277, 13 December 1927, Page 7

REVISED PRAYER-BOOK.

FREE CHURCHES’ ATTITUDE. - A SERIOUS RESPONSIBILITY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Deo. ii ; An amendment to be moved by Viscount Stanhope in (he House of Lords urges that the revised Prayer _ Book should not be accepted until it is accompanied by a measure ensuring order and discipline in public worship. The Rev. 1 Alfred Garvie, principal of New College, Hampstead, and a former president of the National Free Church Council, In a letter to the Times, while deploring the conjunction of the free churches generally with the disorder into which the Church has drifted, expresses regret that some changes in the Prayer Book can he interpreted as sanctioning the tendency of Anglo-Catholics toward Rome. He believes that free churchmen must as citizens see that the Protestant character of the Church is maintained. He adds: “I of hostile action by Parliament in view of the assurance of the Archbishop of Canterbury as to the bishops’ intentions to ensure faithful observance. If the Prayer Book is faithfully administered, there is prospect of a better condition of things. On the contrary, if the administered is ineffective the Church will be faced with a serious responsibility. Noncomformists 'would then be justified in, claiming that disestablishment is necessary to P re ~ vent the Romanising of the National Church.”