PRAYER BOOK
CONTROVERSY CONTINUES
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LONDON, Oct. 30,
Sir Joynson Hicks, .writing in the “Empire Review” makes a sharp attack in connection. with the Bishops attitude towards the rejection of the Prayer Book. He says“ There is something perilously . .near profanity in the complete disregards by many promoters of the >new ,: prayer Boole that the action of the Commons may jpossibly have been a Divine answer to the prayers which the opponents of the Pleasure offered up..; It wouldhave been more sensible and dignified if the Bishops had accepted Parliament’s decision. The Bishops are virtually setting a claim to .the spiritual autocracy. The Reformation freed us from this, and it is too late in the day to attempt to restore it. If the Bishops give us a prayer hook conforming to the doctrinal teaching of the New Testament and having due regard for- the fact that the Church of England is a Reformed Church, they need have no fears regarding the support they will receive.” ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1928, Page 5
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169PRAYER BOOK Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1928, Page 5
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