ANGLICAN ATTACKS BISHOP'S POLICY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 21 December 1928, Page 8

ANGLICAN ATTACKS BISHOP'S POLICY.

“ CAN NEVER REGAIN ESTEEM OF PEOPLE.” (Special to the “Star.”) AUCKLAND, December 21. Fred A. Snell, a well-kno-wn Waikato Anglican, writes from Claudelands to the Press as follows: “The letter written by Archdeacon Evans is a grave reflection on the bodv of church people who, to say the very least of it, are equally as loyal to their church as the Archdeacon. Those same people have shown all through this fight for their church that they have a.great deal more backbone than their critic. , With reference to the Archdeacon's prayer, may I suggest that a much more appropriate petition for people to make use of would be that they might be given the power to see the very grave menace of the AngloCatholic movement which is one and the same thing as the Oxford movement. “This movement is nothing more nor less than an insidious attempt to undermine the principle of the English Reformation and so carry the church and freedom-loving people of the British Empire back into the dark ages. This I am fully convinced is the root cause of the present trouble. Church people are at last beginning to see -where this movement is leading them and by withholding their financial support for the present are using the onlv effective weapon they have in self-defence. If the Archdeacon is a supporter of the Oxford movement let him definitely say so. If on the other hand he is opposed to that movement why has he acted in such a supine manner in not saying definitely -where he stands? I am quite convinced that the present Bishpp of Waikato can never regain the esteem and confidence of the church people of the diocese and the sooner the present order is terminated the better it will be for all concerned.”