PRAYER BOOK REJECTION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The
rejection of the Prayer Book Measure will have results beyond the confines of the Church. The failure of the large Conservative majority to uphold Constitutional Government will alienate thousands • of loyal Church people; who, like myself, have always voted Conservative. Now is the opportunity of the Liberal Party.
The issue was .perfectly clear. The constituted bodies of. the Church had, by ovcrwhehning majorities, decided for-the:
Book. The Parliamentary Committee had reported that the rights of his Majesty's subjects were not infringed. No one was to be compelled to use the Alternative Form. The old could still be used. If minorities are to call in the aid of unbelievers and rion-churchgoers to defeat what the majority in the Church Assemblies had so decisively passed, what is the use of the Enabling Act ? It strikes at the root of consti- tutional government.—! am, Sir, &c., W.
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