BISHOP JENNER.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 20, 26 November 1874, Page 5

BISHOP JENNER.

(From the • Daily Times.') fl There was a time in Dunedin when y3| the name d| Bishop Jenner was better -,- vli known than op now readily be re-*- -^| membered or understood. Those who ii| are familiar witfi the Colonial career of r that remarkable man will not be surr ■ '*$jjs prised to learn that he still retains the §1 notion that he was the first Bishop of v ; ;|lf Dunedin to tho Anglican Church. In a letter to the ' Standard .' he reiterates rM his claims, and calls Bishop Neville a ''y'§ schismatical intruder into the See, in- 7 1 sinuates a doubt as to the infallibility M of the General Synod of the Church 'f) here, and generally upholds his claims .-. 'i as against, ail comers in a trenchant, '•$- --purposeful way. He has resigned, it ' ;J is true; he does not intend to revoke; : J$ his resignation, but not one jot will he j| yield of his claims. We must confess *?*i to a certain admiration for his courage y| and persistence, it would have been a 3 pity if his presence had been forced ?! upon an unwilling Church, but wo can-, . j not deny him our meed of admiration ;| for the determination he has displayed U in the matter, and the obvious bona : y fides with which he ' urges his claim. I Vnfortunately to those who knows the 1 ins and outs of the matter, the flaw of ■;< the argument becomes painfully cvi- | dent the oftener he states his position. f No sooner are we told of the sequence , | of events which led to his present con- fl ditioh, than in comes Bishop Selwyn as certainly as King Charles in the ;; ;Story. To those who remember what ; took place, the weak link in the chain is immediately suggested. It is a pity 1 that some one does not tell the good man. that Bishop Selwyn overstepped I the powers entrusted to him, when he ii asked the Archbishop to select a Bishop I lor* Dunedin. Hinc illcee lachrymce. To :1 rest upoflr the Bishop's action is really 1 to say that his cause is rotten. Bishop | Selwyn not unnaturally supposed that if 1 he got a man appointed and had him | on the spot, Otago Anglicans would | accept the action, and all would go i! like a marriage bell. They didn't. It | was* one of those things that no man ■% (f^cfli.havft foreseen. Little or no ■'% blame- attached to any one side or .--Vi party;. It just happened! that. Bishop J Selwyn's energetic action was objected y to for causes remote to that action, and so his work was upset. Nobody blames '% Bishop Jenner. nobody thinks Bishop Selwyn went off the rails very far. j Why connot this unfortunate claimant ■ ) be persuaded to let the wretched past be buried. Has no one got any infla- j ence with him to urge him to keep his I hypothetical claims to himself, and let ; 1 the Church of England in Otago gang 1 its am gait ? . ° Jj