ANGLICAN AND WESLEYANS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1069, 10 December 1903, Page 3

ANGLICAN AND WESLEYANS.

BISHOP IN HOT WATER.

(fier Ergas Association.) Auckland, lust night. In welcoming tho laymen of the Wesleyan Synod, tho Rev. Mr Garland, President, replied to Bishop Noligan’s charge, forbidding Angticau clergy joining in worship with other denominations. He quoted the Bishop as saying: “ For 51 Sundays of the year wo cannot worship the same God in the samo way and in words of the same confession of the faith ;

shall we play at doing so on the fifty.’ Sad Sunday '(> t cannot’ understand to e-beliove' iQ the oxprossion of my faith." Mr Garland declined to aooept this Strange explanation for the policy of isolation officially declared, but saw the reason of the High Church assumption that Anglican olorgymaon were ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ in a truer Bense than the ministers of other churches, that episcopal ordination was essential for vah'd minjstr?i and that whore there was no Visftop l he r C wap no Churoh. Would iiishop Nd'fian have prohibited the united service atNapior three years ago when five New Zealand Bishops took part with Noncomiormists every Sunday in sparsoly populated country districts '? In tho province of Auckland the Christians of different denominations /united in services conducted alternatively by Anglican clergySen and ptber ministers. Would Bishop eligan siiy the wot ship of these men and women was a mere make-believe, playing with sacred things? It was the policy quoted by Dr Neligan that formerly caused the Anglican Church to be the Church of a majority of the English people.