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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 171, 16 February 1867, Page 3

Dr Pusey has written another letter to the Times, stating his opinion of absolution. He believes that Christ, conferring upon the Apostlss the power to remit sins,, intended to confer •ib also upon their "successors" He therefore holds that every/successor has the power to reiniithe sins of penitent persons as fully as Christ himself could have done, and so he affirms on the authority of the Ordination Service the Church of England abo holds, lv other words, Christ inteuded so leave the salvation of souls dependent on the will of such human beings as can be proved to liave been ordained by the ordained up throiigh the ages to Himself.. One single unordained bishop, say in the middle ages or the third century, would spoil the whole arrangement. Why does not Dr Pusey claim the power of working miracles given to the Apostles at the same time? The invisibility of the ' deed is no grea-ter-obstacle in the one case than the other. If the sick did not get visibly better for the priest's touch, neither do the bad get visibly better f or his absolution. , After all, does the human race advance? A Re/man gentleman would have smiled at a superstition so gross as that which Dr Pusey dignities with the name of Christi-