“ROMANISING”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 519, 23 November 1928, Page 13

“ROMANISING”

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON PRAYER BOOK

PRESBYTERIAN VIEWPOINT “It is surely fitting that in this great crisis, one of the greatest since the Reformation itself, we should express our sympathy and unite our prayers on behalf of the evangelicals who are seeking to thwart an insidious and determined sacramentation propaganda.” In this way the Protestant; principles report, presented by the Rev. A. S. Morrison to the General Assembly, made reference to the Prayer Book controversy.

“We feel the present conflict over the Anglican Prayer Book is a question that cannot be viewed as 'the private business of that Church,. It concerns the purity and progress of the Gospel itself. The new Prayer Book has been twice rejected by the House of • Commons, because of its markedly Romanising tone,, especially in relation to the reservation , of tho Sacrament and the of the. Holy Communion to the Roman Mass ‘‘Among the evangelicals of the Church of England and among the Protestants of the world there has been much thanksgiving to Almighty God for the result in the House of Commons. That result proved that a large and vigorous body of opinion, both in and out of Parliament, -was still strongly Protestant, still devoutly attached to the Gospel in its simplicity, still strongly averse to the insidious efforts of*Romanisers.”

Mr. Morrison said the principles of the Reformation were being threatened by an undermining: process going on in certain churches named Protestant.

The report was adopted, and ministers, Sunday school teachers, and Bible class leaders were enjoined to employ fitting opportunities of teaching principles of. Protestantism.