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MOMENTOUS DEBATE. OPENS IN LORDS’ TO-DAY. ■ } MAJORITIES ANTICIPATED. (Received December 13, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 12. The debate on the revised Prayer Book will open in the House of Lords to-morrow, and the division must be taken on Wednesday evening. The Peers must either approve or reject it. They have no power to amend the book. If the House of Lords rejects’it there will ho no debate in the House of Commons.
The Daily Express says that many Peers and members of the House of Commons are of opinion this is the most important Parliamentary struggle concerning the doctrinal principles of the Church since the Reformation. Churchmen and Non-Conformists belonging to all three parties, and even the Cabinet itself are divided on the subject. If the Boole is rejected a crisis between Church and State is inevitable, but favourable majorities arc anticipated in both Houses. The Daily Herald says there has been a busy" whipping up of the Peers for the division. There will probably be the largest attendance snice the days when the “back woodsmen” mustered to fight Mr Lloyd George’s People’s Budget.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17277, 13 December 1927, Page 7
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185LATER. Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17277, 13 December 1927, Page 7
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