“TIME FOR DEFINITE SPLIT”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 1

“TIME FOR DEFINITE SPLIT”

Anglo-Catholics and Evangelicals Cannot Exist in Same Church VIEWS OF HOME SECRETARY By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. {CONSIDER the time has come for a definite split between Anglo-Catholics and evangelicals,” says Sir W. JoynsonHicks, Home Secretary, in a statement to the ‘‘Daily News.” “Both views cannot exist in the same church. They want reunion with Rome, and we want reunion with the Nonconformists.”

TIE continued: “The Anglo-Catholics i yearly lean nearer .to Rome, and indulge in more and more illegal practices. Parliament has now said they have gone far enough. Evangelicals have been making room for the AngloCatholics by quitting their churches. “The new Prayer Book has made England wake up. If the disloyal clergy adopt illegal practices, and i” —i . . teach illegal doc-

leacn illegal aoctrines, they cannot honestly take stipends from the church they are defying. They must decide for or against Rome. If they decide for the former, they must leave the Established Church. “A compromise regarding the Communion ser-

1 1 “-no uommunion service is inconceivable. The AngloCatholics want disestablishment in order to have a free hand to corrupt Church doctrine. They can get easier and quicker freedom by choosing another Church. Meanwhile they must be required to obey their ordination vows.”—Sun. AN ACUTE PROBLEM CHURCH AND THE STATE APPEAL FOR PRUDENCE LONDON, Monday. The meetings of the Convocations of York and of Canterbury, which were originally fixed for Tuesday and Wednesday respectively, have been cancelled. , The “Sunday News” says it is able to state that the Archbishop of Canterbury is not contemplating resignation. The majority of the Anglican preachers referred to the rejection of the new Prayer Book by the House of Commons and to the difficulties of the situation, but little real guidance was possible in the absence of the definite decision of the bishops. Speaking at Hereford Cathedral, the Bishop of Hereford. Dr. Linton Smith, sain the question of the relation between the Church and the State had

been raised acutely, but before the Churcb demanded, at whatever cost, her complete independence she must not make a hasty demand for disestablishment and disendowment, because the Church would suffer. Dr. Smith said: “I believe the verdict of the House of Commons accurately represents the general attitude of the nation, which is against the supremacy of the Pope and against certain practices in Connection with the service of the Sacrament. But the verdict was based on a lack of information, and robs the Church of real safeguards for its Protestant position.” THEOSOPHIST ELOQUENCE Dr. R. J. Campbell, formerly minister of the City Temple, London, and now rector of Holy Trinity, Brighton, in an interview at Glasgow, pointed out that the majority against the new Prayer Book consisted of non-English members of the House of Commons. They were largely influenced by the eloquence of Mr. Rosslyn Mitchell, the Labour member for Paisley, who was not only not a member of the Church of England but was a Theosophist. What moral right Mr. Mitchell had to make an impassioned speech was a mystery to him, said Dr. Campbell.— A. and N.Z.-Sun. NEXT PROPOSAL MORE MODERATE REVISION British Wireless—Press Assn.—Copyright RUGBY, Sunday. The Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks. who moved the rejection of the Prayer Book measure in the House of Commons, said to a representative of the “Daily News”: “I do not think there is any question of disestablishment at present. The next move, it must be expected, will be a proposal by the moderate section in the Church, headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. R. T. Davidson, for the revision of the Prayer Book without any change in the Communion service, or the introduction of, any doctrinal changes in a prereformation direction. “We should support it, and then we should see how many people in the country are really opposed to the present position.”—A. and N.Z.