PRAYER BOOK.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1927, Page 3

PRAYER BOOK.

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(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, Dec. 14. The House of Lords assented to the prayer hook measure by to 242 to 88. The Chamber was crowded in anticipation of the prayer-book division. There was almost a scramble tor places i„ the galleries and a long queue of those unable to gain admittance. The Bishop of Durham said it was ridiculously fictional to suggest the Bishops were guilty of unwarranted interference. The revision was solely undertaken because the situation m the country had become intolerable. the Bishops of Norwich and Birmingham, protagonists against revision, had no parochial experience. Pastoral experience was imperative for a sound judgment on the subject of the new book, “ modernised in the best

sense.” This expressed what was genuinely descrihahle as scientific thought, but included theories, melody descri .- able as “the view of the Jiour. It represented the desires of a majority of three and a-lialf million ehnrchfo k, represented by the Church Assembly. He believed the new book would lay the foundation of the restoration o discipline. The revision consisted mainly of legalising existing procedme. He said here is an instrument winch the Church declares indispensable. Can -the House justify a refusal? /"Lord Cushemlen, opposing, said lie thought the proposals more far-reac ling than were ever present m mine s of the electors of the Church Assembly while numbers of the laity who voted at the Dioeesean Conferences on negligible. alternative services, would lead to bitter strife in every parish, especially when a new incumbent was being appointed.