BISHOPS AND NEW BOOK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 713, 12 July 1929, Page 9

BISHOPS AND NEW BOOK

GUIDANCE PROPOSALS APPROVED CANTERBURY DEBATE {Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Servioe) Reed. 12.5 p.m. LONDON, Thursday. The Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury approved by 23 votes to 14 of the Primate’s motion that official sanction be given to the proposals outlined by the bishops last September for the guidance of the clergy and laity. Dr. Cosmo Lang postponed his full statement till he addresses the Lower House. The Bishop of London, Dr. Winnington Ingram, who seconded the Primate’s motion, said the State had rejected their plans, but something must be done, or everyone would be a law unto himself. He denied that they were flying in the face of Parliament. They were not proposing to authorise the 1928 book for use in every parish, and it was untrue to say that they were forcing ritual on reluctant congregations, because the parish councils must assent to its use. No solution would ever be satisfactory to the extremists of both sides, especially regarding the Sacrament. The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. L. W. Barnes, suggested the addition of a rider to the motion, to protect the minority of the bishops. CHURCH AND STATE Dr. Temple, Archbishop of York, in moving the motion in the House of Convocation of York, said the Church might yet have to seek disestablishment, but at present there was no clean-cut conflict between the Church and the State. It was deplorable that any member of the Church should appeal to Parliament against Convocatl£He hoped that the next Church Assembly would appoint a commission to study the relation of the Church to the State. The law of the Church was at present hardly observed anywhere and nobody seemed to wish it should be observed. The bishops contender ’ that the law should be altered in order to bring inside the law certain prac--1 tices which were now outside the law.