A Ritualist, as rule, believes in Bishops. But .he never
be- lieves in his own Bishop unless a Ritualist also, and usually finds a moral stimulus in setting him at defiance. The Bishops, rather -tired of this position, and of incessant lawsuits, are, it is said, going to ask for an Act giving a Bishop and a Diocesan Board of
• clergymen and laymen in equal proportion, power to try and settle disputes about modes of worship very summarily. We fear that would not work. The laymen, who are to be elected, would quarrel with the clergymen who are to be nominated within a week, and every case would be dismissed, as some cases now are In Ireland, because the Jury could not agree. Why cannot the Bishops be content with-an elective Diocesan Board, laymen and
• clergymen being equally eligible ? It will come to that if the .system is to go on, ana is not to be revolutionised by, a Bill like Lord Sandon'e.
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