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It is a pity, of course, that the Enabling Bill

did not contain clauses giving the spiritual rulers of the Church greater freedom" to decide matters of doctrine and liturgical practice. It may well be, however, that if the Enabling Bill had been other than it was it would not have been passed. Churchmen nevertheless had good reason, if not a right, to assume that when the Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament hall-marked a Measure from the Church as a proper Measure to be presented, any clauses affecting doctrine and liturgical practice would be accepted by Parliament as a Matter of course. - Everyone had in mind the example of the Established Church of Scotland, which in these matters has not been interfered with for eighty years.

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