IT IS not for us to judge between the Bishops of Zanzibar [Frank
Weston] and of Hereford [John Percival]. We can say quite frankly
that our sympathies are for the moment rather with Africa than with
England, but sympathy is one thing and judgment is another. . .
More than a year ago, some of Mr Streeter's teaching in the book
called Foundationswas gravely impugned by the Bishop of
Zanzibar and others. Shortly afterwards, the Bishop of St Albans,
whose attention had been pointedly called to the matter, dispensed
with Mr Streeter's services as Examining Chaplain, but no further
action was taken against him in the diocese of Oxford, where he was
resident, or elsewhere. A memorial was, however, presented to the
Archbishop of Canterbury which was generally understood to strike
obliquely at him, and the Archbishop with his Provincial Synod
adopted a resolution, which was taken by his critics, rightly or
wrongly, to be a temperate condemnation of his teaching. He is not
known to have made any recantation; he probably holds that the
Synodical declaration did not really touch him, and he has more
recently reproduced the same teaching with further develop-ments in
another book. In these circumstances the Bishop of Hereford has
promoted him to a canonry. The Bishop of Zanzibar considers this
action a condonation, or more than a condonation, of false and
dangerous teaching. He has therefore taken the only step open to
him, solemnly separating the Bishop of Hereford from Communion
in sacris with him, and making the fact known to the whole
Church. . .
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