ANGLICAN CHURCH CONGRESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 May 1925, Page 5

ANGLICAN CHURCH CONGRESS

(By Electril telegraph.—Copyright t Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

MELBOURNE, This Day At, the Australian Congress of the Anglican Church an address concerning the revision of the Prayer Boole was delivered bv the Dean ‘of Bristol, England, the' Very Reverend E. Burroughs who was one of the six members in charge of the Prayer Book revision when it came before the House of Clergy in 1923. He said the question had first arisen out of a Royal commission on ecclesiastical discipline in 1906. The inadequacy of 16th century forms and language, the necessity for softening the hard lives of reformation and theology', and the consequent, rules and prohibitions, were recognised by the commission, but they desired no alteration in doctrinal balance. The scope of these proposals had changed beyond recognition in tlie measure that came before the Church Assembly in 1923. The Dean dealt with the cruieial position created bv the demand for reservation of sacrament. "We have been pushed step by step to a series of rubrics which, although not so intended, can in fact he made to cover perpetual reservation. The sting lies in the fact that, the AngliCatholic leaders have told us straight that, adoration ia their ultimate aim. Many of us tire now wondering if we ought not to move hack and say that there shall be no revision if it is only a cloak for reaction.” In conclusion he appealed to iiis hearers in their attitude upon the question to he. and remain British:^