BOTH Houses of the Convocation of Canterbury and the House of
Laymen met at the Church House on Tuesday. In the Upper House the
Bishop of London presented a petition, signed by 676 priests of his
diocese, expressing alarm at the uncondemned denial of the Virgin
Birth and the Resurrection of our Lord, and at proposals to effect
Christian re-union in a way that would make episcopal ordination no
longer the condition of a valid ministry. The Bishop gave notice
that, at the next group of sessions, he would move that something
should be done to allay the present anxiety respecting the denial
of certain articles of the Creed, and to re-affirm, perhaps in more
explicit and simpler terms, what is known as the Lambeth
Quadrilateral. In the Lower House, the Dean of Christ Church
reported progress from the Prayer Book Revision Committee in regard
to a reform of the Kalendar, which brought forth from the Dean of
Canterbury an expression of surprise at the non-inclusion of the
names of Luther and Calvin. The time ofthe House ought not to be
wasted on such preposterous suggestions. The Archdeacon of Dorset
moved a resolution, desiring their lordships of the Upper House to
take measures for a joint protest to be made against the threatened
interference with the constitution and rights of the Provincial
Convocation by means of the provisions of the Welsh Church Bill. .
. The Dean of Lincoln advocated carrying the protest direct to the
foot of the Throne.