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364 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. xm.
clared from the chair that while he
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could never vote for
a resolution which could be construed as being a recom
mendation to the Church to consecrate a new Bishop
Dr. Colenso s place, he thought the general expression of
sympathy and fellowship was
calculated to give much comfort." l
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in
a harmless resolution, and
Bishop Gray, however,
thought the comfort rather cold, to say the least, and
wrote home protesting passionately against the whole tone
of the discussion :-
He had read it, he said, "with exquisite pain and humilia
tion. . . . The
Synod of the Church, expressly and deliberately,
after long time for consideration, refuses to say that the Church
of England is not in communion with the heresiarch. . . . What
a position does this place the Church of England in ! If she
refuses to cast him off, is she not implicated in his heresy ? I
confess that her act fills me with the deepest alarm lest her
candlestick should be removed. . . . She must, I believe, repent
of that her act, or perish. . . . This surely is the secret cause of
this sad act of the Bishops of the Church : they are not prepared
to witness for Christ, or to reject this new manifestation of anti-
Christ." 2
Chronicle of Convocation, June 29, 1866, p. 595.
Life, vol. ii. p. 278.