THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN OTAGO.

Evening Star, Issue 5042, 2 May 1879, Page 2

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN OTAGO.

Archdeacon Edwards has forwarded to the 'Church Times' (London), the following reply to a letter that appeared in that journal attacking the clergy of this diocese.

• T.} n . y ? ur "£ ue of January 3 there is a letter signed A Late Duncdin Churchman," on which I trust you will permit me to say a few words As one who took a prominent part in the "Jenner tr ,°T% Sy ' i lnd f unt i} l "e General Synod of the New Zealand Church refused to confirm Dr Jenner's anponitmenttothc See 0 { Duncdin. his earucft supH ' ™°I eoVer, i" the eiontj-man who proposed Mr he .11 as a lit man for the vacant office. I beg to ff ivc Ist As regards the frcsbyterians. I luivo lived in pnncdui nearly twenty years, and have known the ,' ,h°M?.nr ' ' em I!tte 'y and never was a charge biou-ht more uncalled for. 1 never met wiili or he.,rd rh,Th n r? b °r^.- U,at . Chllrch who "bjecited to the Church of tiigland 111 this Provincial district having a 3° reside over it. The assertion that "thW meddleil 111 the affairs of- the (EnglMi) Church, wm.eLines mfluencuur matters very seriously," ia m in-corrcf-.taKitisriaiculous *£*£ ThC Wi .s cr ' "P« a, ' J »!»' <> f the clergy of this diocese, snys-.-As l,r as I have known them they have never Jost an opportunity, in the Diocesan oyuod.ou the public platform, or in the columns of t-ie daily Press, of oppressing their Bishop." Difference of opmton has, of course, sometimes existed on tniittev:)l>i-ov. s ht v.fore the fcynod, and when such has hoen tho case, as in all deliberative assemblies, tlicro li;n t'f».o:i considerable libortv of discission. J.in, ihatsuuii ireortom of debate shoul I \<i coi.stuied into peV.-Mteiir opp.vsi.J,,,, «„-, tho'part« ' the t.» their ..mi ~.,; , n -*, ;,• j oilst sl xe|lJ . ( , |0 . s fll t c;mi ui,o!i tu.i uit 1 lmii.diutjii'urchiua.■ " (who takes {-•i.ou c.ne 10 I r nj bis f Use aucusitiouu 16,000 miles •civv.iy) 1.. tuhstita' ate tbcu. 8r ; l. _s'«vill. w ., om t ucy c ] cc t e d on account o. iiw money. Ihi.s sta .ement is equally una-uthful. WrlvuvjU was elected ehiefiy because the late Eishop of Now and and the lato Bishop of Wellington rociiiaiiicndwl him as one well qualified to occupy the bee of tho latter, supposed at the time to be vacant: and because the Bishop ot Auckland, a near neighbor

of Mr Nevill's in Staffordshire, wrote to mo a stro; g letter in his favor.

It Is to bo hoped that when next a " Late Dunedin Churchman" writes to Uib ' Ohuroh Timo»,' or any other |>!\pur and brings serious shares Wohißt men, he will take BouiClUtle trouble to ascertain tiio trutluulhesd b! his assertion"—and have tho manliness to attach his name to his letter.—l am, etc.,

The 'Churchman' publishes the letter and devotes an article to the commun'c ition that oallcd it" forth, Tho chu-gea in the latter aro said to bo "so far-fetched and inaccurate that we cannot but tkiuk that they have been formulated by some one who had no personal knowledge of the matters of which he treats so confidently." The ' Churchman' blames Mr Grime, who fcl* warded "<» late Dunsdin Churchman's* letter to it, for not expressly freeing himself from all participation in the sentiments it expressed.