AN ILLUSORY HOPE
PEACE IN THE CHURCH BISHOP BARNES SCEPTICAL By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Monday. The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. E. W. Barnes, made the following remarks in the course of a sermon which he preached at Birmingham yesterday. “ Any hope that the new Prayer Book will bring peace and order to the Church seems to me to be illusory. “In another 30 years the tendency to make the Holy Communion the centre and circumference of Christianity will be as incomprehensible to the large majority of Churchmen as the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book of Genesis is to most of us to-day. “The position will become worse if the new Prayer Book should be authorised, as it will legalise a number of Catholic developments which the Evangelicals regard as unsound. “What is needed is the reform of the Church Courts, so that an incumbent who has broken his vows can after trial be deprived of his benefice without beings sent to prison.”—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 7, 30 March 1927, Page 13
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