THE PRAYER BOOK REVISION SOCIETY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3907, 28 January 1884, Page 4

THE PRAYER BOOK REVISION SOCIETY.

Tho Archbishop of Canterbury, in a letter dated August 2, , 1883, acknowledging the receipt of a memorial from .the Council, members, and friends of the Prayer Book Revision Society, recommending that steps should be taken to procure a Royal Commission with a view to undertaking a revision of tho Book of Comman Prayer, .states that the present does not appear to him to bo a favorable time for such an enterprise, as it was by no means likely that if the Book of Common Prayer were altered in any direction it would continue to claim the allegiance of all who now thankfully and thoughtfully accepted it. A work of such importance, requiring -such .skilful and delicato treatment, should be undertaken at a time of comparative reflectiveness and freelorn from contentiousness in the Church, while nt present the temper of our minds was scarcely sufficiently judicial for the purpose. On these grounds ho bogged to bo excused from promoting the prayer of the petition. To this letter the president, Lord Elbury, replied by expressing the regret of tho Council at the decision of the Archbishop, which required them to wait fur the millennial time, when perfection should replace error mid human institutions should become merged in Divino onos.—Public Opinion.