BISHOPS AND CLERGY
PRINCIPLE OF AUTHORITY (From "The Postls" Representative.) LONDON, February 2. In the Lower House of Convocation of Canterbury, Dr. H. Maurice Relton, London, submitted a motion which declared that an effective principle of authority, to which appeal can be made for such acts as would be recognisod as binding upon the conscience, is inherent in the sacred synod of tho province, and ought to be exercised by the corporate episcopate acting constitutionally, i.e., through the Convocations, the acts of which (though lacking the full force of formal canons) should be binding in conscience on all bishops and clergy. It was, he declared, "an intolerable position that clergy should have to put up with the idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of individual bishops doing what was right in their own eyes. This resolution will give a clear indication to our ecclesiastical rulers, and if they will lead and rule us on constitutional lines we will follow them to a man." The resolution was carried with the addition of a rider expressing the opinion that the authority will have its full exercise only when' appointments to the episcopate arc in larger moasuro [the responsibility of the Cliurch.
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Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 9
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196BISHOPS AND CLERGY Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 9
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