THE SPIRITUAL PEERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1997, 25 April 1885, Page 4

THE SPIRITUAL PEERS.

>i it Wi.r ae> )t limy seem, the buhoph are the only clas-, of men who keep their H«.it» in r.uluiiH'iit by the old traditionary right of tho linjjuh fnviiun to appear in person in the assembly <.f his people. They h.i vc kept uli.it othei-. haw- lost. In theory \>«" might <! ly the of the earls ; but the earldoms h.ivo Uttoily lost then ancient clmiactor — they have become Minph one rank in tho Lwlitaiy peerage. The enrl, with hi" ilhistiioim Scand-uaw in title, lenlly dilfeis in nothing fiom the tionch li'.irques* who walks before him and tho French viscount who walks aftei him. But tho bishops still hold tho wnw "fati by tho Hiium tenure an when Ansclin braved tho wrath of Kufim, not for ecclesiastical pnvilegn, but for moral light — an when Stephen Langton read out the chatter of lli'iuy, and wrung its umie than renew. d from John— an when Kduiund, niuok iiiid ascetic ivs Anselin, cmld with sUnd Jsing ami Pope alike in tho eaino ot Knj;l^h freedom. If tin tushops 1 «oat» had beontikrn away .it any moment up t<> the pie-.pi>t, it would ha\e b'-en aiinply pi\m« up tlie iimci mo t d. fence )f the lortrr^s to it-* n. viildiits. It v.mld ha\b been trHuifr tho fiii.il 'c«l to tho ioiiff ercroacliHients »f tho exclusive hou'dil.irv dor time. In any inoii* i-'t nei.tl con^idfijtion of the wlnde -lll'j. ( t, this mattn, Ilk 5 otliei», \m!l h-\\a to be thm tfht ovor. Two points rr.ny claim a wonl or two in the meanwhile. At th« piefent moment «c cumot forget tho all but uiuinimotis \ote given by the spiritual loklh on behalf of the Franchise Kill, a change indeed from tho action of their piedoceisoiBinl<S3l. But, with nil flunk fulues<. for tins serMco in thu cuupc of light, it cannot bo wrong to remind the buhops that, if they wish to keep their wites, they mu«t uhc them. Sitting, ns we may say, as tho last reprcsontatiNes of the people in a Hoaso which has been so h»r«rly handed over to tho prido of a Hilly .superstition, they nhould n«t Hhrink— an in this case they emphatically have not riuunk— from coining forward ns the chntn|)ionH of every cause of truth and justice and chanty. It will not do siini)ly to muster on Home ecclemotical question. The claims even of the tortured pigeon— tnrttued for the amusement of hereditary legislators— might well ha\e drawn i\ greatei »r-itlierinK of thoHe whose Master did not despise the spairow. It is Haid that it is haul for .k bishop of an ordinary «cc to get a hearing from tho^e lords of moie leccntly invented classes who deny him the r.uik of peer. Here we w'f the H«nnn kind of insolence m that which ie fu^-d his seat to the great lawyer who w.is not " ennobled in blood." Smnetliing indeed m.iy bo allowed to the feeling-* of u|> sUits m tho presence of their hi-t<>uo eldeiH, .iud mu>t of the ranks of the lohlh tempoi.il are up-t.uts indeed in the piewence of the lordrf spiritual. The two 01 thiee hundred year« during which a Cecil or a Heibert haH fancied his blood "ennobled" do indeed seem <i<i yesteiday beside tho long ages of the sees of Win cheater and London. — Contemporary Koviow.

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