CHURCH OF ENGLAND
CLIMAX IN CONTROVERSY
HIGH CHURCH AND' BISHOP
BARNES
(Received 24th December, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 23rd December, mo controversy regarding Hish Church practices^ some churches of the diocese of Birmingham has reached f e^, Tho trustees of the parish of St. Aidan's, including the Bishop of m^»V ! aten-Bish°P Barnes wi& a High Court action to test his right to refuse to institute an appointed vicar :o hnUL fnsr dtoaceeptß^ B™^
Bishop Barnes i SSU e S the correspondence to the Press and says that the issue is moral and spiritual, not legal. It tho trustees succeed, any Bishon henceforth will have to institutf nny clergyman, though the latter may intend to introduce the whole Boman sacramental system. It would end all hope, he says, of restoring order in the Church of England. "I will not tllr^ ■in institution service of prayer into a mockery. No Court in tho Realm can make me do it."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 9
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156CHURCH OF ENGLAND Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 9
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