CHURCH BURNT DOWN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 12 January 1926, Page 7

CHURCH BURNT DOWN.

RELIGIOUS OPPOSITION. DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS. INTOLERANCE AT BEDMINSTER (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.-30 a.m.) LOMjJON, January 11. The parish church of St. Michael's, Bedminster, Bristol, has been burned down. The damage is £12,000. The church was strongly Anglo-Catholic, and the police believe the opponents of ritual deliberately set fire to the church, the vestry alone escaping. A safe weighing several hundredweight was found overturned, and the vestments were in confusion, but there is no real evidence of theft, though the miscreants apparently attempted to suggest a burglary.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.f

CHURCHMEN DISAGREE.

DISSENSION IN BIRMINGHAM. BISHOP AND VICARS QUARREL. LONDON, January 11. A religious crisis of the first importance is developing in the Birm ; ngh:im diocese, owing to the vicars 'of 14 important parishes defying the Anglican bishop, Dr. Ernest W. Barnes. The vicars in question refuse to stop the practice of the reservation of the Sacrament and the' adoration of the sacred elements in their tabernacles. The Anglo-Catholic vicars have already withdrawn from the Diocesan Finance Board, and Anglo-Catholics in all parts of the country promise their support if Dr. Barnes takes legal action against' them.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)