BISHOP DEALS WITH DISPUTE IN DIOCESE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 21, 20 August 1928, Page 5

BISHOP DEALS WITH DISPUTE IN DIOCESE

CATHEDRAL CHAIR CAN BE REMOVED.

PEOPLE ONLY TO SAY SO.

VESTMENTS AND ORDER OP SERVICE.

Press Association —Copyright. HAMILTON, This Day. Referring to the trouble In the Waikato Diocese, Bishop C'herrington, preaching in the Cathedral last night, said that Ham-, ilton people had asked him to make St, Peter's Church his Cathedral, ami he hail done so. If the people did not like it and preferred that the Cathedral Chair be removed, they hadl only to say so, and lie would ask spine other parish to have the Chair placed in its church, but while the Chair was where it was, he intended to have a say in the conduct of the Cathedral. He said the trouble was never officially brought before him, and the resignation of the Cathedral Chapter was a most extraordinary

event. He was forced, as Bishop of the Diocese and head of the Chapter, to take action. As far as he’ was aware, the trouble concerned points, .the wearing of vestments at' Holy Coinmuniqn and the order\ of the service.

As to vestments he claimed that no change was made since his arrival. Vestments were doctrinal, in that they always had been taken as manifesting (the , spiritual sacrifice which the Church believed had been offered in the Blessed Sacrament. Referring to the order of service, Bishop Cherrington pointed out that St. Peter’s was a Cathedral, and the proper services in a Cathedral every Sunday were Morning Prayer and ’Holy Communion together. The Cathedral was not a district church in a country parish.

He considered the present order of services was good, but \e mviti eel the parishioners to meet him on August 29 to discuss possible changes.