A HIGH CHURCHMAN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 912, 3 September 1910, Page 6

A HIGH CHURCHMAN.

■'):} : AND ; P;ROIip OF IT. iHE NEWyidAR'OF ST MICHAEL'S, :-;:v:j{';,GHRiSTCHUKCH. ;VM;V (By ;Teiexrhjiu.-'l'rta \3socntlon i Soptembei 2 :-..'Tliero's ariiveSd in Chiistchuich tins ••'morning -from England : an i-ijteresting : persbhality.-'thc Ecv. Hi'Darwiu Burton, of St.' Michael's.'.; Mr,V 'Burton 'is aecoinpanied by, liis -.-'■■Avife', , - -whilst four 'of- his daiightors: .arc'--.on "their way,'but.by the Medic. His elaesb who .has just , -taken: a.; first-'olass'-i-ab Oxford in the .'literary-tripos,. ■has ■ decided to. remain .in England--to. .-.pursuo a literary carte , for, the ;presoii;t; !at .any. rate/tliough shiy.may.'como'.out.to : New 'Zealand la-tor'on;'\":;^:,: f .,; "■ ■ Oiv '.bping."; shown; a. ■paragraph/from: the "English Churchman,"/ charging ■him .with' btiirig ail advanced ritualist,.' Mr; -Burton exclaimed:—::./- ;■ rt.. . /•' ■ .."Those people, 'of. course,,.-would call-' me/ extremej - because they, are , extreme. on"''the, other side;. Years agor-l. should ;think.::', about "'fiffen—my' Jia'me',/was brought- up in the of Lords ~by, -Lord. Portsmouth, ■;,w]io-'oi,Ton€ously.as-■cribed to me- the authorship of; a. learii-' ed. publication ;by.: tlio.rhead of.'.Keble. Collegt', a book that had -.Ijpeli'- years--iivprint/aud was'at .the'time in' some-;' ,thing.like : its'..tenth. , '.thousand edition.' 'My .bishop, protesting, uatiirally-. /re-' fused 'to: answer the charge/- ' - ' ',; /'."The statement made by ;'The English Cliurchman' .that I- am /a". : High' 'cliurchiiiaii; can , , be-.-taken.': as correct.J' added. Mr./ Burton. /"I-am.-a:strong ■ champion of the principles; I hold,-and •I hold; to my convictions -and act up to, • them. in" church'. I fully explained niy : 'attitude, to my...parishioners'-in , a letter.' :'I "sent '.-..through, the 'Bishop of; "Chn'st'church,.and I also- stated, what I wits -going Uk do.' "I take no notice Hvhat-, ,'evei - of tlie '.'English, Churchman!' "iior, >m I," going'to enter into a newspaper" .;controyefsy ■by ii!ißwering,.ti.tta'cks/that, have be&n made.upon me' 1 in England? Such papers:,as the .'English' Church-' man', and: such, attaqks! as ithe presoiit : I are treated as 'beneath .contempt,, and are not,taken the slightest'-notiqe:of." ; -' Mr._. Burton; Jaid' he ;had lio intent-ipn" .of .using ! incense. '. He had not even suggested it, 'but, incense, was,-the, u&o •of..the' Church of.'England-.undoubtedly, and .was : covered . :the -; ornamoiit's rubric. The ' 'English' ChurchmanV h'adi tried 'to]' make; out-that 'ho liad':bee'n compelled ;t-o resign the post of dio'-, -cesan missioner at ■ St.. Saviour's ji-t ■Home./because he'had -used' incense; ' \Vhatlie had ;resigned for , - ivas' to go to Npw./Znalaiicl. 'rHe/had'been eighteen , .yfara-'dibnefan r,missioner, -aii<l-it had bieii very/hard -work, but lie -'had.-given.. it :.up to: come here.' , -.,"-. In :'doing so he. had given; up,a. great deal.' , ' >~- ■.; ■■,