THE PRAYER BOOK;

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1928, Page 2

THE PRAYER BOOK;

Australian Press Assn..—United Service

LONDON, June 16.

Tlie English Bishops will meet at London on June 27, to consider the Prayer Book situation.

Tlie Primate had half an hour’s audience with the lying at the Palace to-day.

-Dr Randall Davidson, for whom there is universal sympathy, was early at work at Lambeth Palace. His manner to those brining him condolences was cheerful, and lie showed no signs of the great hl6w lie had sustained. During a dtiy of quiet devotion the Primate attended a service at the Chapel. Some thirty Bishops were present. Prayers were offered for guidance in the crisis. Letters, telegrams, and messages poured in all day long. It»was rumoured that the prophesied resignation might he accelerated by the rejection, but it now semi-offic-ially is stated that this is unlikely, unless Dr Davidson’s health is affected by his ruined hopes. LONDON, June 16. The Rev. Bullock Webster, central figure in the Bishop Barnes scene at Saint Paul’s Cathedral last year, has been urging tho Bishops to flout Parliament. To-day tho Rev. Bullock Webster posted an announcement in his own handwriting on the door of his church, St. Michael’s Royal, as follows: “ Tlie vote of the House of Commons now offers the Archbishop of Canterbury an occasion for the crowning act of his illustrious episcopate, namely, to take action, in union with the Bishops of the two Provinces, to promulgate the Revised Prayer Book, and thus to assert the spiritual authority of tlie Church, and so determine its own doctrine and its own worship unfettered by state control.”