MORE BISHOPS WANTED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 July 1910, Page 3

MORE BISHOPS WANTED.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] LI'KR I'UEHS ASSCWU-iWOai 1 LONDON, July 28. In the House of Lords a .Hill to facilitate the creation of now bishoprics and to amend the Bishops' Resignation Act has been road a. second time. [An acute controversy has been raging in Kngland for some time past ou the question of the creation of more sees. The Houses of Convocation-- both of Canterbury and York—.have passed resolutions in favour O'f additional dioceses, but the proposal has been attacked by the low church Members of Parliament, on the ground, that such proposal would, under existing conditions, be utilised for the propagation of ritualistic practices. This might have been the case under Mr Gladstone and Lord Salisbury, whose predilection for "advanced" bishops is wellknown. "Within recent years, Prime .Ministers have invariably chosen men of broader sympathies for submission to the Sovereign. Tn 18(il when the population of England and Wales was 20.000.000 there were 28 bishops, whereas to-dav, with a population of M 1,000.000. the number of prelates is only .'J7.]