BISHOP JENNER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2201, 24 February 1869, Page 3

BISHOP JENNER.

To dm Editor of the Ota«o Daily Times

Sjk—l was much p'eascd witb tho Roy. Mr Bcrimgeour*B letter in yesterday's paper. VVo need tho: sympathy and support of our brethren of the other (lqnnntinations. Moreover, ho atrack at the root of the matter, and spoke of Bishop .Tunnor'ii defence as evasive, which T also regard it. Dr Jcnner evaded the ono gre.tt and mo»t import int point by iiajing, " This is not tho place uor tLo time to apeak on thu subject of doctrine." Will Bishop Jenner then k'ndly write his views now, and giva ua them either through tho press or in pamphlet? Wi'l ho satisfy our rninda by stating clearly and distinctly whether ho brilioves in tho " Koiil Presence ;" or. as the Roy. Mr Oldham expresses it, "Christ present in tho bread and wine upon the altar, nofc in the heart of tho worthy recipient J" This may seem a tinall thing to discuss—to the outsido world it seems a trifla. — But I afk, " Why were our Reformers > nrn<xl ?" Because they would cot confess that Christ Wfla present in tho Sacrament in any other sense, than in the heart of tho Worthy recipient. This ia tho sense explained in our 2Sth article. hb the doctrine of the Church. May I ask Bishop Jcnucr if he holds merely this, o: docs ho believe that consecration produces some othor effout upon tho elements t If so, what effect? I entreat him not to keep us longer iv suspense on this^one point, which seems auch a littio thing to thoso who have not hnd the matter set before them in its true light, but which is in reality of suchvnat importance that Protestantism or Romanism is suspended to it. If concerning this little thing, our Reformers were brought to tho stake, arc wo to bo thought' uncharitable for craving satisfaction ?

If Hiahop Jeriner ropeats what ho ea:d at tho meeting—viz.,' that he ought not to be expected to give an exposition of his fiith, I would respectfully submit that I think events have mado it incumbent upon him to do bo. Nay, may Ibe pardoned for saying that ns he considered a defence upon accusations of a lower character to be but common justice to himself, a defence on far greater accuHations still, is a master of justice to the whole Church as well as to himself. My warning voice may be feeble, but 1 cannot keep silence at this critical juncture. If the objectionable doctrino of which I have Bpoken is admitted amongst ns, tho way is mado for every other kind of Popish error. If any other effect is caused by the consecration of the elements iv tho sacrament than that stated clearly in om* 28th article to which I have already referred, ministers are sacrificing priests, and Christ, instead of once being offered when ho died upon the cross, is offered up every time the sacrament ie administered.

If persons then are willing to receive a Bishop, with some show of reason suspected, and with some ■ apparently just grounds accused, of holding such an error as that to which I have alluded, without requesting a satisfactory explanation, all 1 cm say is, "They know not what they Ao. n —T am, &c, M. H. Martix. '.< Parsonage, Lawrence, 20th February.