"POLLEX" AS A THEOLOGIAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9262, 16 January 1889, Page 6

"POLLEX" AS A THEOLOGIAN.

TO THE EDITOR. ] Sir,—Having been brought up a member of the Anglican Communion, I most decidedly believe that we have the Apostolical Succession in the Church of England, and cannot imagine how anyone calling himself a member of that Church can believe otherwise. I shall be most happy to enter the lists with " Pollex," but in order that some foundation may be laid upon which to work, I challenge him for his evidence of the time when the Church of England became a Protestant Church, and when the consecration of her Bishops was interrupted in such a way that the Anglican Bishops of the present day are not in direcc and unbroken succession from Christ and his chosen Apostles. It iB easy enough for the imagination of anyone to build up a church and knock it about like the heathen does his wooden god, but loyal Churchmen must believe that the Anglican Church is "the visible Church of Christ," whose Bishops derive their authority from God, and not from man. lam nob prepared to discuss whether this or that is the teaching of a church whose foundations were laid in " Pollex's " fertile brain, but if ho is prepared to accept the teaching of the Prayerbook as the vade-mecum of the Church of England, I shall be there when he begins. —I am, etc., A Layman. Tarnahere, 14th January, 1889.