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Assault on Church’s rights

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31 May 2013

May 30th, 1913.

AN APPEAL to Churchpeople on behalf of the Welsh Church has been put forth by the Archbishops and the Episcopate, with the exception of the Bishops of Hereford, Oxford, and Lincoln. One point which the letter particularly emphasises is the effect the Bill would have in separating, so far as the State is able to separate, the Welsh bishops and clergy from the Convocation of Canterbury. Even the attempt to do this is a scandalous assault upon the rights and the Constitution of the Church in the Southern Province, and we can only hope, as we think the guarded language of the appeal justifies us in hoping, that, if the Bill becomes law, the English and Welsh Bishops will go on meeting together in their Convocations as though nothing had happened. The appeal bids us "beware lest, by our action, or by our inaction, we render it less possible for those to whom that trust [which has come down to us] is given to discharge it freely and fully to the glory of God and to the good of men." Not to resist this interference of the State with the internal affairs of the Church would be to be guilty of that inaction against which our Fathers in God, with the three notable exceptions named above, are careful to caution us. Best of all would it be if Churchpeople of all political sections so bestirred themselves as to make it impossible for this Government to place this Bill on the statute book. In this way we should avoid the unpleasant conflict with the State which will in all likelihood follow.

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