"AN ARMY OF AMATEUR LAWYERS."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 915, 7 September 1910, Page 4

"AN ARMY OF AMATEUR LAWYERS."

IPOrOTEDEEMARKS.; BY BISHOP :';■'. ..;.'-.:■', '■ .'■ JULIUS;;'-v:..;.;-"; ■:•>/:, ..- The recent activities'of amateur, ecclesi, •astical lawyers ,was the' subject of ;somo pointed' remarks; by'the'Bishop: of Christ church (Dr.' Julius) in -the course of his address at the institution of the Rev. H. Darwin . Burton" as V; Vicar', of; St. Michael's oh Sunday last. 1 ' 'The" BisKon; said: it would: be. affectation on his : part if he were to ignoro the circumstances under which, the-new vicar came .to '.'the parish. There ; had been some . disquiet in the minds of ;spme good people, -but that.was not wonderful.' ....... He:.-:, reineih-. liered.: that there had been - some disquiet when Bishop Averill first came to St. Michael's. ■ People" were always in soma trouble wheri';.a; change, came,: and / in this case; an army' of amateur' lawyers had. comn to, their help and assisted to muddle' tlheir,-'heads- a- ; few degrees .more than: they had been- muddled previously. He wanted- to say •a few words to , thV congregation. - The first'was:, Did they believe \in -honesty? "Did - ; they .or ; did they not'respect a man, when ho; said "Such has been my habit, such , my method; in this way lean work'best for .God, and His" Church, and; such t propose to ;do"? Orvdid they believe in a man, who would : bring a thing in by" a back . way?. r'or his own . part, ho preferred straightforwardness and' honesty. The next thing he had to .say was that. there -was a great, spaciousness: in God's house. • They : did hot want God's - Church to; be .- a .little . colonial house;».with every room; 12, x. 10.' -For-his own part.he. wanted ;reyerence. fori the, 'law, and:' obedience to the; right rulei' if, the Church, but .'he did not want !a : dead,' : flat uniformity,' and 'he did not : want'- a iman : bound dpwn, fettered.hand and'foot by the : precedents of ; custom: He'-had spoken, : of: law and amatenr, lawyers..: They should: go and' teach ; the' Privy Council; they might-do someVgood. There was ho';. (harm : in-variety; nothing .'was to be lost, and nothing was to be. feared, if the service was that of an honest man. . .'• Referring; to:. the new ■'. vicar's first, :'seN mon, the "Lytteltoh Times" states that "he showed himself a; rapid and fluent: speaker,: and'possessed- of .the kind... 0 f magnetic:- attraction; that- 'cohtributes ;.to; the huccess, ofireligipus. teachers. : It ;v%3 : apparent: from,, the 'interest Vwith which :his address was' received, and - the' dis-. cussion: among -the. congregation at-the conclusion of..'..the.'"servicf," that'.he"had' created a ; most'.'favburable':, impression."