THE BISHOPS AND THE KINGS DECLARATION.
I hear,'" writes a correspondent "a vers characteristic story of Lord Salisbury in connection with the abortive King's Declaration Bill of last session. It will be remembered that the Government were very much blamed tor not putting at least one representative of the Bench of Bishops upon the committee which sat: to consider in" cutestion of modifying the Declaration." *The Archbishop of Canterbury protested strongly but ineffectively against the exclusion, abU Lord Rosebery also expressed a preferenca for the advice of these ' thological experts.* J he Premier subsequently spoke rather i undid'}' to a friend about what he caihd this 'ecclesiastical ingratitude.' 'I am not in favour,' he said, ■ oi Disestablishment, and yet the bishops blame me for refusing to take active steps towards that end. T»iey ought really tc thank me for keeping Ifcein off that committee. For what could be more likely to promote Disestablishment than to ask the bishops to define the " Protestant religiou" in writing?"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11825, 30 November 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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