ON THE eve of this week’s momentous meeting of bishops the Morning Post published a leading article bidding them leave the Prayer Book alone, and our contemporary has since printed letters from its Protestant readers characterized neither by good temper nor by good sense. It is only “flabby Christians”, we are told, who desire an enriched Prayer Book, and another Morning Post Protestant scornfully refers to the authorities of the Church as “time serving and compromising”. As might have been expected the Times has been far more reasonable and dignified. Its leading article showed a real appreciation of the difficulties of the situation and of the responsibilities that rest with the bishops. The Church Times digital archive is available free to subscribers.
