THE NEW BISHOP FOR OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND.

Southland Times, Issue 698, 19 July 1867, Page 3

THE NEW BISHOP FOR OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND.

(TO THE EDITOB OP THE SOTXTSXAND .TKIIBS.Ji : f3iE,-T-Eeferring..to a-^letfer- which f*p|3 peared in your contemporary's issue 'ot y th inst., from the Bishop of ~ohrisl^, r church, and addressed, to,, nobody vinvparticular, I wish to give its history, and s&y£ a few, words in reply,; That- -letter^ ; wa^ originally addressed to me, and a/ cpp/jp sent to Mr Edwards. 1 3y spme'i^^tak^v ■I'suppose, the Bishop omitted to post* ! therJei'iginal to me, and the; first I saw;6f j it was in the public print. -'- The* prin^ 1 cipal point to T be noticed in the letter isP Dv Harper's objection, to . evidences} taken from "newspaper reports^ which' 3 I, on the contrary, deem more trustworthy than any general -account or defence- ofi his yiewg would be 'irony any' member" of the- party with which"' he has chosen^ to identity himself, t..^ Bishop Harper grants .that he has heard .'-from the ikrehbishop of Canterbury ; 'thajt- Dr"' ifenner is T "an earnest mndedjand.y^^'^ bious ■ man \ ' ' holding his own- views, r'tnAot " without .^^^gi^g ; ;6ti«nce.'"'\.s'Thi]^wquld be evidence; enough, and from thefyerp'S highest quarter. Br ■' Jenner,; i we r; '-ane <i told,' r<{ holds 'his own ; yiewsVf as^ W^.'-t those views are the company iiij^wiiiclL^H^x is constantly seen at home. very-! cleariy sliow^j "" Then, : among; ly.sb associates iit l 3 processions and " high celebrations ""-'jivjaF father Ignatius, Mr. J^conpcjfle^Brpln^j Bazil (another of the monksj who advocated — the>— Cotnmrinion at iunerals, "ras 'a man for the dead,"* and T .. ,all the leaders of the T )^ , ; Ad : rega^rdLS, r the.' app ointment,, haying R j , been_acjg[uiesced in by the liural Deanery -m Board; in February, the meifloriar dis- rvr tinctly- states that' it was : so; r! anjj the l^ reason, viz., that it appeared, to : jnany'^fc'^ least, tod late to raise objections. •* that time he has become better -fenownj 0^ being constantly seen- associating withy aijd llo •countenancing the promoters pf what'kre^ called Ritualistic processiohs &c., v . and r iiqt^ fionly in the churches about [ ItQjftdpn, ; but us >going ' out of his way as far as Teign-1% imouth-^T-ii' lrecollect right jto'lend hw'sup^ . port to a man who has been . .lately 8p;; r j outraging his parishioners^'tnai ixi^q ichurch has been made the scene of theoK «ame profane and ;<scandalous ; ; put;^^ rages as St ' Greofge's >: in the fi East a; ji few years- ago. '; T think /th^efor'e. the ', r ' o time can nevei? have gone past _when/.g it is our. duty -to protest earnestly andod energetically against his coining •' out-™ among us; My idea in originating the opposition to him was this : — as Bishop ."/r j Jennerwill almost certainly remain ..in: England until after the great Conferences;* of Bishops announced for September, we°'; have, now an*" opportunity of taking^ measures to avert so terrible a mia-^---fortune. I believe still that. ;lnsplans ir . : '! will be altered t9 enable him to meet:theilfi rest Of the Bishops in England before he °j sails. 1 ; 'hope therefore that'- cdunirgj members of the Church will sign the'pieta^ tion, or send their names to me to be.addedLjr; to it j and that the- Invercargill Vestryou will make so decided a stand that we mayt^'. : be spared the many dangers and sbandals-,^ which would .inevitably follow upon,the * m advent. of a Bishop taken from that smallsbut unscrupulous school. I—l1 — I am, siTi^ your's&c, <y ': W; J. Oldha^i; ' ■% EiyertonViith July, 1867. : ! 'C\".^v