Heresy Charges

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 191, 11 February 1914, Page 5

Heresy Charges

I FACING THE KIKUYU CHARGES. •PROCEEDINGS FOR HERESY AND SCHISM JRULED OUT. Isy Cable—Press Association —Copyright London, February 9. . A number of the London clergy arc piomoting a memorial asking the bishops to repudiate clergy who reject the Virgin Birth and to insist upon episcopal ordination as a condition of exercising the ministry and administering the sacraments.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, after bearing the Bishop of Zanzibar'.! charges and the Bishop of Uganda's statement, declines to permit proceedings for heresy and schism, but as questions T)f far-reaching importance are raised, he proposes to submit the matter to the Central Consultive Committee which meets in July. The committee consists-of certain English and colonial prelates, including the Archbishop of Sydney and Dr. Wallis, exBishop of Wellington.

, THE ARCHBISHOP. DOES' NOT WISH TO PRESS CHARGES. Received 10, 8.20 p.m. London, February 10. The Archbishop of Canterbury points /•ut to the Bishop of' Zanzibar, while not withdrawing the [charges of heresy and schism, he does not wish to press them if the results desired can be reached in another way, but if he presses for a decision which can make clear his own position in relation to tho neighboring dioceses, the Archbishop of Canterbury says,he is unhesitatingly of the [ opinion that he is not justified in allowing the inquiry to take the form of proceedings against the Bishops of Uganda and Mombassa for heresy and schism. There is no clear precedent for such a trial, and the facts afford no case for such a proceeding, which is wholly out of place. The Bishops of . the province of Canterbury would not be specially qualified to give arbitrament on a matter which markedly a fleets interests outside those of the Home Church. ]

THE ARCHBISHOP'S QUESTION'S. IS THE COMMISSION OF ADVICE CONSISTENT? Received 10, 9.45 p.m. London, February 10. The Archbishop of Canterbury had two happily consultative committees elected at the Lambeth Conference in 1008, comprising exceptionally qualified cter, Gibralter, and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of Armagh, Winchester, St. Albans, Exeter, Gibraltar, and Archbishops RupRupertsland and the West Indies. The following questions are being asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury:— , Whether the scheme of federation "embodied in the resolutions of Kikuyu contravened any principles of the church order'; secondly whether the Commission of Service is consistent with the principles accepted by the Church of England, whereat many communicants are not members of the Church of England or episcopally confirmed, though all, as a basis of possible federation, agreed to the loyal acceptance of the Scriptures as the supreme rule of faith and practice, and accepted /the Apostle and Nicene creeds as a general expression of fundamental Christian belief. The Archbishop of Canterbury points out that in the Uganda State no chnrch or society is committed to the ..scheme of federation, which is sub judice. The problems were not and had come before the Church regarding missionary work in China, Japan, West Africa and elsewhere. The call Was imperatively patent} though there was a definite answer.