THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN NEW ZEALAND'S DIOCESAN SYNOD AT WELLINGTON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3795, 13 September 1883, Page 3

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN NEW ZEALAND'S DIOCESAN SYNOD AT WELLINGTON.

[TO THE jejDITOH OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPn.] Who3o Bona must bow thorn a"; a bis!nji>'s motion, Al if his eenf_les3 crowier woro a w.inel, Hull of the lUMt'i'J <■! i-xploJcel tcicn.-c Sin, —It was with mingled feelings of regret and indignation that I read the summary of the Bishop of Wellington's address in your columns last evening, a just and righteous indignation at the unwarrantable attempt to set this church above the law. The Bishop, with but little wisdom, has thrown down a gauntlet that our .Government unless utterly destitute of self-respect, must take up. Their reply lies, ready to their hand, " Any clergyman refusing to perform a marriage " declared legal by the laws will have his license revoked. " The bare announcement would probably be sufficient, for a parson unable to tie a legal knot would be a very poor parson indeed. A far more serious question, however, is this : shall wo hand over tho education of our children to the very men —bigots I had nearly written —who are conspiring- to disobey and set at defiance tho laws under which we live? In a free land, and in an age of freedom, shall we sacrifice the birthrights of our children for the miserable and discredited mes.ses of pottage these poor proud zealots alone can offer us in exchange ? 1 trow not! if wo be men. —I am, Sec, Caveat Actor. September 13, 18S3.