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a revelation from God, of which the Scriptures are a written and
infallible record ? Or have we not received any such revelation ?
Is Christianity, as it has been delivered to us from the first, true,
or is it a lie ? Are we to exchange it for a new religion or not ?
Nothing less than these are the questions raised by Dr. Colenso s
writings. We must take our sides on these great questions ; we
cannot be neutrals. The African Church has taken its side, and
rejected from its communion this false teacher, and resolved to
send forth another in his place. It is for the Bishops of the
Church of England to decide to which party in this great contest
they will commit the Church which they rule. The real question,
which has yet to be decided, is this, Will the Church of England
incur the guilt of complicity with heresy, by not openly separating
from her communion one of whom she has declared in her
Synod, that he teaches doctrine full of dangerous error, and
subversive of the faith ? The whole Christian world is waiting
anxiously till she shall stand clear in the in this matter.
sight
of God and man
The Bishop of London to the Bishop of Capetown.
"LONDON HOUSE, 6th February 1868.
" MY DEAR LORD, I received yesterday afternoon your letter
of the 28th ult, and have since read it in the Guardian news
paper in connection with the rest of your correspondence with
the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in reference to the
consecration of a new Bishop for Natal.
"You will not expect me to enter on all the matters to which
your letter alludes. I would only express my thankfulness that
you have, as I understand you, abandoned the intention of conse
crating a new Bishop in England or Scotland;
also I cannot
refrain from assuring you how much, considering the respect
which I entertain for you, I regret that you should misunderstand
the motives under which, from an imperative sense of duty, I
have felt obliged on several occasions to oppose the course which
approves itself to you in reference to the affairs of Natal.
"
But you ask me a question which it would be uncourteous
not to answer. You remember that a similar question was
addressed by you to the Upper House of the Convocation of
Canterbury, and that the Bishops there assembled deliberately
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