PRAYER BOOK

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1928, Page 2

PRAYER BOOK

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LONDON, Jan. 24

Dr AVm. Temple, tho Bishop of Alanchester, in a statement in regard to the Prayer Book, says he is unable to agree with either the complete defiance of the State, in the interest of Church autonomy, or the immediate acceptance of the vote of tho Commons. Explanatory modifications will dear away many objections, but it would be a fatal mistake to accompaiiv the proposals by measures for coercive discipline. The first necessity is to provide a law for public worship which really corresponds with the spiritual life of the Church to-day. so that they may be on firm ground when checking wliat is illegal. If the bishops had made more extensive alterations, it would have meant acquiescence in the right of the State to determine the church's- form of worship.

A COMPROMISE. LONDON, Jan. 2:1

The Council of Churchmen's Union lias sent a letter' to the Archbishops and Bishops, urging the following amendments to the deposited Prayer Book, before it is again presented to Parliament: “Rubrical provision that the Elements, if reserved, shall be only reserved in a closed safe in the vestry. outside the parts of the church used for worship: (2) The insertion of a Rubric indicating tho lawfulness of reservation for adoration ; and (J) the insertion in an approriale place in the Prayer Book of a statement that nonlasting Communion does not conflict with the practice and teaching of the Church of England.

AN AIR STUNT. NEW YORK, Jan. 24

Clarence Chamberlain has started on a thirty-thousand mile lecture tour, following up the aviation boom which Lindbergh started, using a light, small, one-man machine. Chamberlain made a sensational start, taking off from a tree-lined street, without halting motor car traffic, wheeling the plane from the factory into the street. He waited for a gai> in the traffic, then slipped in for a hundred feet. Enter he leit the pavement, wishing to return for adjustments. He mice more picked a gap in the traffic, landed among motor ears, made repairs on the roadside, and ascended again amid the cheers of a grea t crowd.