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...subordinate priests last week commanded elderly Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, to write them out an Office for faith healing. They want him to prescribe what unctions to use, how to apply them, how to "lay on hands," what prayers to utter and in what order. Perforce the Archbishop, who is Anglican Primate of All England, will prepare such Office. But his version will endure only until the Canterbury House of Bishops prepares an official prescription. It will of course have no authenticity other than exemplary in the Archdiocese of York or other subdivisions of the Church of England...
...Although Cosmo Gordon Lang is second in command after King George V (titular head of the Church of England), William Temple, Archbishop of York and Primate of England, is a potent and virtually independent third. It would require a convocation of both archdioceses, such as met four years ago, to formulate such a new Office for the entire Church of England...
Important as the success of the loan was for the whole Australian Commonwealth, New South Welshmen were more excited over the unsuccessful attempt of N. S. W. Premier J. T. Lang last week to appoint 60 of his Laborite friends to the State Legislative Council (Upper House...
...Laborite, Premier Lang has found every Socialist bill he has tried to pass blocked by the Legislative Council. In New South Wales, an exception to other Australian States, the members of the Upper House are not elected by the voters but appointed by the Governor at the suggestion of the Premier. Premier Lang announced that, just as the late great Herber Asquith pushed his Parliament Bill (curtailing the veto power of the Lords over money bills) through the British House of Lords by threatening to create enough new Liberal Peers to override Conservative opposition, he (Mr. Lang) would appoint enough...
They got it last week. Chief Justice Street, of the High Court of New South Wales, to which Premier Lang plans an appeal, held "that the Consitution of New South Wales requires a specified manner and form for the passage of legislation abolishing the Council, which form in our opinion is a referendum." Observers doubted whether, now that abolition of the Upper House is impossible without a referendum, Premier Lang's 60 lady friends will ever become Councilors...