Church-Life in Australia; With Two Hundred Years Ago
by Thomas Binney (9781150546822)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: Jackson and Walford Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Metliodism wants no State-aid. It has had none in our fatherland, where it has obtained so high and honourable a position; it has had no State-aid in America, and yet it is the largest Protestant Church in that country; and, I verily believe, that when State-aid shall cease in this country, Methodism and true religion will advance with far more rapid strides than they hitherto have.'" No. VII. Part of a Conversation between Judges and Members of the Bar, on Colonial Ecclesiastical Law. The following extract is taken from Swainson's " New Zealand and its Colonization." It is described by him as " an amusing illustration of the ignorance of the highest legal authorities as to the power and status of a Colonial Bishop." It is, however, more than that; it is deeply suggestive; -- especially by the admission it contains, that an unlicensed clergyman " may preach wherever he can find hearers," -- without, I presume, affecting his position in England beyond what is supposed in those passages of the preceding Address to which this note refers. A clergyman in a neighbouring colony has offered to preach for one of our ministers; but the offer has hitherto been declined from a reluctance to accept what, however well and kindly meant, might possibly damage him who rendered- it. It might here, -- but it is at least questionable whether it would affect, in the slightest degree, his position in or relation to the Church at home. The subjoined colloquy took place in the Queen's Bench -- The Attorney-General v. the Provost and College of Eton (May, 1857). Lord Campbell said ...

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