Electing a Bishop.—The proceedings connected with the election of a successor to Bishop Harry took place in Committee. Erery member was in honor bound not to reveal the deliberations of the conference until they met in Synod. At a conference of this kind (says the Telegraph) no record of the proceedings is kept; minutes are taken, but these are destroyed immediately the conference is ended, and whatever is said against any name proposed is not made public. Should a member know anything against any one proposed as biihop, he is in duty and honor "bound to say it; this he can do in conference without fear of it being known outside"; *>2ffany gentlemen would strongly object to have the:r names brought up for discussion, and a record kept of those who approved of them and those who did not, and also to have their supposed or actual deficiencies for a bishop proclaimed. All this unpleasantness, which did occur during the election of the last bishop, is avoided by considering the matter in committee.
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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7350, 1 July 1889, Page 6
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