COPE AND MITRE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 944, 11 October 1910, Page 5

COPE AND MITRE

V':&mHCAti BISHOP CREATES A ;..:{!{''{}: : ' -^SURPRISE:;:' ;:,-■; '{:'-{:'; :"■;;;;::/{ i:;- : "■[■.'■"■][ Sydney; October 10.5 : :BMop. of; /North;' Western jiu|-; {tralia \(Dr;:'.Trower)' attended at-Christ Cburch on; Sunday {wearing-{'a cope arid mitre... . 'This; was';'the {first tirrie.a;-mitre", been worn in' Sydiey, ,and,it oreated;surprise.', ;,{:;'-, {'?-. ■'/;': .:';" , :::-",{::;'-:V ■'Is/V'l : Dr.'-Trower ''only, -recently- ; {arrived{'in 'Australia after having ; ! been '., for. eiglit* years Bishop of Nyassalahd, rn.Central: 'Africa. .{He is now Bishop of' the';newly- : formed diocese of North-Western VAustnfc, lia, which has a- coastline of{lsoo miles long; .and/ contains a largo number'': of aborigines: and '7000{white :settlers.-.; At present- there are. only v four, cleijgymen: ministering in; this large:area{,'{{' .-.';"':' .'.' In the.course ,of an'interi/iew recently.{the' Bishop, remarked:" "I. am pleased that' I:am,about to talce over this'new:diocese. :Central 'Africa is becoming: too -"-civilised,"; 1 like- a,savage, place/,; It-is getting;.too! close : to' South Africa.••:'; Boys {who -had: been;.accustomed/to.ldi ; 'a day.would; go' ;away' and, get. 'ji3-".a.'moritlii. arid: would' ,'cbme tan, :boots,';. w'aistco'ata, hats, .and.: other, things. {-Tlie missibri'iy'rio:.'.desire;to{;.make:s]iam; (white, ofi.'tho .-natives;^;;Tha'y'...desire''l.to,; Cbristian--ise;V,-them' ' in{ tlioir ; riwn;.'' sniToundirigs.' Civilisation' is' not their business—that, is,; ciyilisatioil; coriss.tbg: in . tro'use^sl-. 1 'So iindigriant"had 'spmo,.of.-the;iaissipjiaries : 'become with the. 'trouse.r'busiriess.':;.,that: in:.onß.sohool. a ;bby;{wnp.; Had { ;with - trousers.'.on: -was' unthinkingly;'• of-' • dered, to "'Take' those ■ things. offk' '., : <l X . ''C;?

.{.The.mitre.' 'is{a : •.worn' by bishops.; :it';was at. least{;occasibnally always used freely: as{a'n.{arm6fialV;bear.-' ..ing, -audits personal'use'is';;bemg.gi'(idri'.alfy revived again in pur bwri'iday;: ',:Tho', cope 1 is': a-vestment in: tbfe;.:fpfm. :; ofS<;a: .semicircular -oloak with a lioi'id;; 'Irivtne; canons' of 1603 it is", ordered tov.be.'- : wdrn; {oi 'certain{occasions, rand- -"its '.use'' as.-;a : ;'yestrii'piit'' I 'tequircd.':'.by/'.laT([ > has "beeij v .'re-{ vivcd> by' several ,of: the; bisKops,'{and {it .seoriis very .likely:'that it. will \ before .long' ;b6rhb; into gcrieral; use."r-Cutts's,"l)icti6n-:; : of ..the Cburch{ofEngland." i , : ':-, V . ;{,-'{'{ ..-THe' 'mitre : JjTbw'-[Zealand- "Anglican; bishops i \ : .-but;thd' cope'ris-'souietimes,worn/by tlie'.ißishbp of' Aupklahd. iThe Bishbp' of;. London' .arid several, other .English, bishpps':{wpjr{.bpth. cope.'arid. 'mitrV.ori; special ■;•:':)