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...parson and received a conventional English middle-class education. At the age of 19 he fell ill, and doctors suggested the clear warmth of South Africa. He took a job there, working among people afflicted with leprosy. He went home in 1930 and a little later was ordained an Anglican priest. He worked in a country parish, in a quietly rich London church and among the rough poor of London. He went to India to work quietly in Calcutta and Bombay as an obedient priest. War came, and he joined the R.A.F., not as a chaplain but as an aircraftman...
...language of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer as musty as it is memorable? A good many Englishmen seem to think so, to judge by the hot salvos of mail they have been dropping on the old (1549) masterpiece in the pages of London's Daily Telegraph. Squadron Leader P.J.D. Wood of the R.A.F. touched off the controversy after the death of George VI. While intoning the commemorative service for the late sovereign, wrote Commander Wood to the Telegraph, he had snatched a quick look round at the faces of his airmen, and found them a perfect blank. Wood...
...week's end both sides were resting on their pens. Whether or not the Anglican Book of Common Prayer should be revised, all could agree that it was some time since it had been. Even the oldest communicant couldn't quite remember when. And for a good reason...
...exceed her powers, and must sign thousands of papers. She enacts laws by and with parliamentary assent, appoints judges and magistrates who act in her name,* confers titles and creates peerages. She is supreme head of the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, which makes her an Anglican south of the Tweed, and a Presbyterian north of it. She is guardian of infants, idiots and lunatics (the Lord Chancellor actually does this job). If a condemned murderer should be pardoned, the Home Secretary will tell her so (George VI conscientiously read up on capital cases, but often discussed...
...Bernard C. Pawley, in the Anglican monthly, Theology