DISESTABLISHMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 252, 21 October 1892, Page 4

DISESTABLISHMENT.

(To tho Editor.)

Sih, —In your loador of tho 17th you say '"a largo portion of tho Church lauds al' over England waa derived from grants by kings." 1 urn awaro of Ethelwulf'n charter respecting tithes, and also of certain Parliamentary votes undar tho Goorgos of an odd £100,000 or two, but, I should very much liko to havo nioro ample references for tho abovo statement. Your leader loses bight of the fact that Church proporty is chiotly titho ; Church lauds, gltbo, is but a small part of it. Moreover, tho English Church ie nowhere in English law recognised as a property holder or ownar; there aro numborloaa corporations in tiio English Church that aro rocojrnisod us such—as, 0.g., cathedral bodice parishes, etc. But tho English Church ijua ecclctsiu Anglicana holds no property at all.

1 am exceedingly glad that you put so clearly the probatilo consequences to all property in England that will ensuo from upsettjnft tho titlo of euvlusjiistiot*' owners to what they hold by aa good a title, as any in tho liiiui.

For all tho Church hasi done for England it need aurely never grudge the CUurch us a whole, und its corpurato bodies as property-holders, Homo protection. The Church mado tho State, made ib one united kingdom, suppliod its education and its loarned mon, gavo it statesmen, and, in fact, built it, up, and now it ncoms inclined tv spurn its own rnot.uor,—l am, otc,

\V. Edward Lush. Church of tho Epiphany, Nowton, Octo ber 20th, 1092.