The Primary.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 34, 10 February 1904, Page 4

The Primary.

Chnstcliurch Truth thug comments upon the ••flection" junt held to determine who should ho the chief Anglican ecclesiastic in Nyw Zealand • Owing to ti!-«s amazing method of election adopted- by the Anglican General Syaod, Bishop Nevill seeius to have secured the Primacy by default. We arc'bluntly sorry fiji it With the Bishop of Imnedin at the head of the Anglican communion the movement for closer union betw-en the churches is not likely to he advanced much. The Presbvtorian Church, for example, will scarccly i'orget the unfrocked ex-J'rcsbyteriun clergyman who was ordained by Bishop Nevill «i>d given a charge in the South a short time ago. Bishop Ncvill is a clever man, but tact is better than brains, and Bishop Ncvill has alxnit as.much tact as an infuriated Malar running amok. We do not believe his elevation will l-. e hailed with amy (jrent joy bv a large number of his flock. They know their Primate, and are familiar with his careor si-nee he was lirsl appointed a Bishop. His time the Anglican Synod revised its methods oi election, anyhow. Ror inconvenience and general futility its clumsy way of trying to discover its own opinion is about unique. Nobody ever heard of any practical body of common-sense men adoring su.:h an extraordinary system. Applied to anything else tyit the eleaUVm of a Priniiato, if, would .reduce socknv to chaos in a week, and applied to a it is nadculatiod to elect the man the voters ohicfly don't want every time.