THE PRAYER BOOK.
Tf the book should pass it ivill unquestionably mean a step towards disestablishment, which to-day would involve disendowment. And that means according to Mr Gladstone’s estimate, some £90,000,C00 to the credit of the State. The nation at large with its many devout and learned critics should have leisure to discuss it. A day of prayer could be set apart to inaugu-
rate the great expriment of improving our national liturgy. Lastly the whole of the changes—none- of which need he vital, and many of which are long over-due to meet more modern phases of thought—might be embodied in an appendix to be used only at the discretion of each Church, and at the lesponsibility of each Bishop. That would at any rate be an honest and wise course. If it were done it would be seizing the occasion of a great and useful opportunity:—Rev. A. H. T. Clarke, in “The Nineteenth Century aml After.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1928, Page 4
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157THE PRAYER BOOK. Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1928, Page 4
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