Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

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Title:: Part VII. The Church in the dominions

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cuap. 1] THE CHURCH IN THE DOMINIONS 1433 decided by the Courts according to the agreement, or according to the legislative enactment. It is the more important that the real status and condition »f the Colonial Churches should be constantly present to the mind, because, as it appears to me, erroneous notions prevail bo a great extent on this subject. Some persons seem to imagine that they were founded and endowed in order that the association in each Colony should form a separate and independent Church. So far has this been carried that it seems to be supposed that, if the members of such Colonial Church, or a majority of them, should so think fit, they might, if dissatisfied with the person whom the Crown has appointed to be their bishop, withdraw from his superintendence and elect a bishop for themselves. That any number of persons, if they so pleased, might, though holding the doctrines of the Church of England, reject, either wholly or in part, the discipline and government of the Church, though they preserved still the creed, faith, and doctrines of the Church of England, is unquestionable. Such an association might elect their own bishop; they might divide the district in which they reside into sees, and elect a bishop for each ; they might parcel the district out into parishes and appoint a minister to officiate in each parish ; all this they might do, and all this would be perfectly legal, and all this would be binding on the members of the associa- tion who assented to it—as it is now in the Episcopal Church in Scotland, which is not, and by the Act of Union is pro- hibited from being, a part of the Church of England, and in which the Crown is prohibited from appointing or nominating any bishop. If dissensions arose amongst the members of such a Church, they must have recourse to the civil tribunals ; but when they did so the question would be tried by their own rules and ordinances, which would have to be proved by evidence in the usual manner. But this association would not be a branch of the Church of England, although it might call itself in union and full communion with it! By the law ¢ Judged by this standard, the Australian churches would already have seased to be parts of the Church of England, and the judgement is incon- sistent here with Merriman v. Williams, 7 App. Cas. 484, which recognizes shat these differences in the election of bishops or the constitution of new soclesiastical tribunals in the Church of the Province of South Africa (see C. 979, pp. 36, 37) would not sever connexion with the Church of Eng- land, since these differences were unavoidable, but severance was effected by the rule (Art. I (3)) that the Church did not follow in matters of doc- trine the decisions of the English Courts.

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