After all, the Archbishop of Canterbury has informed the Church
Association that he does not think the only precedent with which they have furnished him for his right to try the Bishop of Lincoln (Dr. King) for his alleged ritualistic practices,—namely, the one in which Bishop Watson was tried by an Archbishop of Canterbury and certain Suffragan Bishops,—sufficient to justify him in asserting his juris- diction, unless they shall get for him the opinion of a competent Court to the effect that his jurisdiction would be sustained. As it is extremely unlikely that the Church Asso- ciation will succeed in getting such an opinion from any com- petent Court, we assume that their ambitious project has come to an untimely end. We congratulate Archbishop Benson on not having fallen into the snare which the Church Association had devised for him, though he had at first, we stuspect, more than half a mind to walk into it.
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