BISHOP SUTER AND THE DISSENTERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 286, 3 December 1867, Page 2

BISHOP SUTER AND THE DISSENTERS.

To the Editok op the JNelsox Evening Mail.

Sir — I learn from your issue of Saturday last that ' his Lordship Bishop Suter took part in the proceedings' (of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church), 'and by the address which he delivered contributed largaly to the general success of the meeting-.' All true members of the Church of England must have read the above quotation with sorrow and indignation. We wish tor unit}', but I ask is this the way to procure it? The Bishop, in his installation sermon, said, ' We do nor approve of their system . . . Shall v*e tell them that it is all one whether they believe as we do or not ? Shall we tell them that lie of all lies, that there are many roads to heaven, and say it matters not if a man does his best, leaves the rest, and acts according to his conscience. IS T o, we cannot do this; if we do, we must le.ave the Church of England, for that is not its creed.'

I consider that- Bishop Suter, by taking part in a meeting professedly under the auspices of a Dissenting body, has compromised his own principles and those of the Church of which he is aa overseer. The Archbishop of Canterbury, when ut Inverness in October last, uttered the following words at a puolic meeting: — ' I rejoice to be able to give testimony to my anxious desire to seal the union and communion between the Episcopal Church in Scotland and the Church of England. That Episcopal Church is the only true representative of the Church of England in Scotland.' If the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand is the Episcopal Church of Scotland, then I wish to withdraw -what I hare said above. At present I must subscribe myself

An aggrieved Member op the Church of Exglaxp. Nelson, December 2, 1867.