" Your 'Doxy Not My 'Doxy"

Southland Times, Issue 19227, 14 December 1903, Page 3

" Your 'Doxy Not My 'Doxy"

'. O — AICKLAM*. J'l'f. 1". Wclroinins the- laymen U> tin- Wc-s---lcyau Synod, the Uev. Mr Garland, the president, replied to Bishop Ni'liKuii's chaise f«n 1 >ic)tl i nt; the Anglican clergy joining- in worship with other denominations. lie quoted the Bishop a s saying : "" I'or -VI Sundays of the year we cannot worship the same (Jod in the same way. and in the words of the same confession of faith. Shall we play at doing' Bo on the -"2nd Sunday •) I cannot undertake a make-belief, in the expression of my faith." 31 r Garland declined to accojit tliiK s trail go explanation for the policy of isolation officially declared, but saw the reason in the High Church assumption that Anglican clergymen were ministers of the work of .Jesus Christ in a truer sense than the ministers of other churches; thai episcopal ordination was essenI i.ij mi- a valid ministry, and that. while ilii'iv was no bishop, there was no church. Would Bishop Nelm'an lt,(\<- |.i ohil.n ,-.| i!k- -.ii.iti.-d M-i v u-o at Napier three \ears ago when fi\'e New Zealand bishops took parl with Nonconformists '? Kvery Sunday in sparseh -populated country districts ill llH" province of Auckland Christians of different denominations unite in services conducted alternately by Anglican and other ministers. Could Bishop Neligan say that the worship of these men and women was a makebelief, playing with sacred things. It was tin- policy laid down by Bishop Neligan that formerly caused the Anglican Church to cease to be the church of the majority of the English people.