. Australia's greatest need : with an introductory note by the Archbishop of Brisbane. Australias greatest need liberty of conviction which we cherish forourselves. When the Roman Church in 1845appointed Dr. Folding as Archbishop ofSydney and Vicar Apostolic of NewHolland (the original name of Australia),Bishop Broughton made a dignified pro-test at the intrusion of another Bishopinto the jurisdiction of a lawful Bishopof Australia, according to the canons andusages of the Church. We are veryglad that he made the protest to preservethe claim of catholicity for the AnglicanChurch, but we can ha
. Australia's greatest need : with an introductory note by the Archbishop of Brisbane. Australias greatest need liberty of conviction which we cherish forourselves. When the Roman Church in 1845appointed Dr. Folding as Archbishop ofSydney and Vicar Apostolic of NewHolland (the original name of Australia),Bishop Broughton made a dignified pro-test at the intrusion of another Bishopinto the jurisdiction of a lawful Bishopof Australia, according to the canons andusages of the Church. We are veryglad that he made the protest to preservethe claim of catholicity for the AnglicanChurch, but we can hardly blame theEomans for setting up another hierarchyto shepherd their own people, who numbersomething like a quarter of the popula-tion. The most important non-episcopalBodies working in the Commonwealth arethe Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, theBaptists, the Congregationalists, the Sal-vation Army, and the German Lutherans. The Presbyterians are very strong inthe towns, but not very strong in the ministers are generally well paid andwell educated. All forms of Presbyter-. Problems and principles i6i ianism, as well as all the Methodist sects,have been welded together, so that thereis now one Presbyterian and one Wes-leyan Church for the whole of Australia. The Wesleyans here, as elsewhere, haveshown a wonderful capacity for the towns they have commodious andhandsome churches ; over large tractsof the bush, by means of their localpreachers, they are very often able tosupply services when other churches areclosed. Their work is often extensiverather than intensive, but they have donevery much to keep the flame of the Gospelalight where other Bodies have failed. The Baptists and Congregationalistshave not expanded very much. Their lackof cohesion, which follows from the firstprinciple of their Church idea, is felt evenby themselves to be a drawback tonumerical progress. Still they have someimportant churches in the towns and fillup many a gap in the more se
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