News of the Week
ON Monday the daily papers were able to give us the text of the Prayer Book Measure, 1928, as amended J y the Bishops, with a statement which explained the changes now proposed owing to the rejection of the Measure presented to Parliament. We have written a leading article on the subject. Here we would urge everyone to study again the efforts of the Bishops to provide progress and peace in the Church of which they are the Fathers to-day. We ask, in all earnestness, whether people can look round upon the immeasurable advance of education and the broadening of opinion in every sphere of knowledge and among every class of persons since 1662, and say that the Church would not be open to the charge of wilful stagnation if it had not demanded through the proper channels some changes in the Book which embodies, in its prayers, in its forms of worship and its rubrics, its thought, its ideals and its search for self-expression in. worship.
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