5 MAY 1928, Page 3

-On Monday the Legislative Committee of the Church Assembly submitted

the revised Prayer Book Measure to the Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament. The Measure comes to the Ecclesiastical Committee this time with a rather smaller Church vote in its favour. But this is by no means to be explained by' the hardening of Evangelical or Protestant feeling. On the contrary, the elucidation of the Measure has estranged some of the Anglo-Catholics who regarded what they got from the Measure in its original form as a minimum concession. The recent voting by Churchmen therefore should tend to improve rather than to- make worse the -prospects of the Measure when it again reaches the House of Commons.- * * * *