ANGLICAN CHURCH IN INDIA,

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1521, 17 August 1912, Page 9

ANGLICAN CHURCH IN INDIA,

THREE ARCHBISHOPRICS PROTOSKD. A Memorandum was drawn up for the information of tho Anglican Provincial Synod held at Calcutta last February on tlio subject of tho alterations in Provincial organisation necessitated by the removal of the capital of tho Indian Empire to Delhi. This Memorandum is published in tho Indian Diocesan ''Magazines, and is put forward for consideration rather than as representing tho conclusions of tho Episcopate. It suggests that "India and Ceylon is an area too largo I to bo an ecclesiastical Province," and that the Metropolitan has not been ablo to visit all India every five, years'as his Letters Patent contemplate. If,' as the Synod hopes, tho number of Indian Bhliops should bo multiplied, tho personal touch of the Metropolitan will be a matter of still greater importance. It will also in present; circumstances bo impossiblo to get together a General Synod really representing all India and Ceylon—tho distances to bo traversed arc far too great. •Xcr would useful discussion or legislation that should cover so heterogeneous an area be possible. Tho Memorandum suggests the, fprmn(ion of. a v Southern Province, to include, tho Sees of Madras, 'rinnevelly,-.Tiuvou-core, .and Colombo, with an .Archbishop at Madras; a Province of Delhi, with an Archbishop who would bo Frimatoof All India, to include tho Diocese of Delhi, Lahore (subdivided to provide a See. for the Archbishop .of Delhi), Lueknow, Bombay, and Nagpiir; tho Province of Calcutta, to include the existing Dioceses of Calcutta, Chhota Nagpur (or Bihar). Assam (when formed), and Rangoon. Each Province would have its own Synod. Tt is probable that a decision on the subject will bo promulgated very shortly.

THE VULGATE COMMISSION. From the hands of tho Hisht Iter. Abbot Ainelli', to whom the Holy Father granted a private audience recently, Pius X has received the first volume of "Collectanea Biblica. Latina," containing the "Liber Psalmoruni" discovered in a codex of Monte Casino in the twelfth century. This interesting ■ work was transcribed from an archetype which at least goes back to tho sixth century, according to many experls, and has behind it a history'that is of special jmportanco at' a timo when the Vulgate Commission is bringing to liphfc so many facts connected with tho llible. Tho Latin version of tho Psalter is said to be tho primitive African version corrected by means of tho Hebrew text and tho Hexapla of Origen, the characteristics of which aro confirmed by testimonies, which aro far from being unimportant, in Tertullian, St. Cyprian,-St. Augustine, St. Ambrose, and others. In the opinion of several 6ava.nts the purposo of tho work must have been to preservo tho most ancient version of tho Psalter, which had been in uso up to tho end of the second century, and at tho same timo to correct with tho aid of the Hoxapla deviations from tho Hebrew text. Tho Holy Father graciously received the presentation, and, through' Abbot Ainelli, sent his thanks to the Commission for the Revision of the Vulgate.—"Catholic Times."