18 FEBRUARY 1928, Page 1

The revision of the Prayer Book continues to cause us

no less anxiety. Our hopes that the Church of England may continue to be a comprehensive National Church are at best stationary, whereas our earnest desire has been that the result of twenty years' labour would be a growth of tolerance and an expansion of the limits within which English Christians could find satisfaction- in their Prayer Book. - The question of Reservation' has been to the fore throughout the week. The earnest Evangelicals have shown little sign of allowing the more Catholic members to use what they feel is for them a means of grace : and those whose piety' sets a high value upon these means abate nothing in their demands in consideration of the others' scruples. On Thursday, February 9th, the Houses of Clergy and Laity considered severally the revision stage of the Measure. The House of Clergy had no difficulty over the small change proposed by the Bishops for ensuring the prayers for the King.