'High' Churckes Banned

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7352, 21 July 1902, Page 4

'High' Churckes Banned

DX INGKAM WILL NOT VISIT

"HIUH" OHUUCHES,

Bishops ara ofien accused of bting on both sides in occloHinslical crios eroatiDg controversifs. Dr Winningtou Ingram, Bishop of London, has gono a iittlo further outside tbo shell of defensive indecision than most Bishops. Ho told n church Hou*o audience tit tbo London Diocesan Conference, the other day, that ho hud araved n.t a. working arraugement on tho Eilualisiic difficulty. Tho year just ended had marked n peaceful tono io tho Loudon .diocese. Whon he took offico he was between tho upper and the lower millstone, especially p,B regarded the vexod questions of incense and reservation. Tho upper millstone waa tho " opinion" nf tho two Archbishops, and tho lower millstono was tho very considoraplo proportion ol laity which supported tho usage. Ho thought thoy would all ngrea that fcho truo policy was not to disturb the existing Btato of ihings. Having camo to that decision, ho wroto to a number of clergy whoso names h'ld beon given him, informing them that he was unablo to define a fixed limit, but that " As Bishop of the diocoso he must decline to bo present in any church wero ineonso was ÜBed, or whero iho general rules for tho administration of tho Sacraments were not observed." To that dscioion he intends to adhero. He found that tbo iticenao and reservation usages had boon followed in ten dhurcheß from thirty to forty year?, in fix from twenty to thirty years, in ten from ton to twenty years, and in thirtoon from five to ten years.