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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.' SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929.
THE ELECTION FOR CONVOCATION.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE
CHURCH.
Two General Elections are on the ove of being contested in England to-day.
While political parties are clamouring to win public approba- tion for their schemes for the tom poral welfare of the State, spiritual politicians are vigorously prosecuting their campaigns for the General Election of the oldest Jegislative body in the world--Dio Convocation.
The General Elections of the Convocation have been held in un- interrupted succession for almost 1,500 years, and in conjunction with the Parliamentary elections since the Thirteenth Century, Until the end of the Great War they were rarely contested, and therefore did not disturb the pre- occupation of laymen. with, tem- porul affaira,
are
The heavy arrears of ecclesias- tical legislation which have de- manded attention since 1919 havé added the zest of party strife to the contest and the elections this being fought more your Rtrenuously than ever before. A party of prospective Proctors in Convocation has emerged inder the name of the Westminister' Group, standing in support of the Bishops and official laymen in favour of centralised Church administration.
In opposition thereto has appear- ed a party contrsting bureaucracy, and demanding that the ancient rights and privileges of the parish priest shall not suffer further curtailment,
Election addresses are being sir- enlarised among the clerical, elec- torate, meetings are being held and letters addressed to the Press, and in more than one diocese dis putes have arisen which have led to some bitterness of feeling.
Practice of Edward 1. With an interval of only two centuries since Anglo-Saxon times, the Convocation has sat side by side with the temporal body in the National Leglalature. It was an ntegral part of the Witenagemot, which was presided over jointly by the spiritual and temporal person- ages holding jurisdiction.
Matters of ecclesiastical law were there determined by the spirituni hend and matters of secular law by the temporal head. The voting of The freemen, was carried out on the same principle, the Convocation de
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termining ecclesiastical, affairs, the THE "UNITED REICIL” laymen secular affairs, matters of mixed import being determined by both concurrently.
At the Norman Conquest William I endeavoured to introduce the
WALDECK LEADS THE WAY
IN GERMANY,
Continental conception of the Em- The incorporation of the Free naror as the Court of Appeal from State of Waldeck with Prussia--- al other courts, and the Church rea form of expression preferable to sited him, Consequently the Con- the annexation" of Waldeck by vocational system was for a time Prussia, as reported by Prussia's eparated from the Parliamentary enemies leaves the German Reich In the reign of Edward 1. how with seventeen federal States and ever, the two systems were reunited the hope, in certain quarters, of a in order that a Great Council of the Nation might be held, consisting of seventeen into the parent body.
xradual
of all amalgamation fon Houses-the Lords Spiritual
Waldeck has gained consider- and Temporal, and the Commons ably in importance, according to Spiritual and Temporal.
the Prussian Premier, Dr. Braun, Ta aerdanra with the practice by pointing the
way for other adopted by Edward 1-which has federal States to follow. He is ever since been followed-the King optimist enough Lo say that will despatch a Royal Writ to the Prussin herself will be entirely Archbishop of Canterbury as soon willing to give up. her Individual as the date of assembly of the new identity and become. Parliament has been decided retinguishable part of united Ger- questing him "by reason of certain difficult and urgent affairs," to sumany once the other States agree mon the Convocation to meet on the to follow sult. This is the de- mocratie ideal in Germany to-day. same day in the following terms: The trouble is that South Germany
Royal Writ.
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an indis-
fears that the unfted Reich would represent one vast Prussia in out- look and ideals.
"We command you, entreating you by the Faith and Love which
The Waldeck celebrations were you owe to Us, that having in due manner considered and weighed the rendered easier by the fact that premises, you call together with all Waldeck's original flag bore the convenient speed in lawful manner present Republican
colours of
na to
all and singulur the Bishops of black, red, and gold. The sight of your Province and Deans of your this, beside the Prussian colours, Cathedral Churches, and also the was netually soothing to Wal- Archdeacons, Chapters and Col-deckians. Half Germany's pre- leges, and the whole Clergy of every sent inner political troubles are Diocese of the same Province, to due to such trival matters appear before you in the Cathedral which flag is suitable for special Church of St. Paul. London...to occasions. Local ⚫compromises treat of, agree to and conclude upon with civic bannera cannot be 'em- the Premises and other things nieyed an all occasions, which to them shall then at the But the economic and financial!
been same place be more clearly explain- problems which have now ed on Our behalf, And this as you solved in Waldeck are those in- tove Us, the State of our Kingdom,dicated in the last report of the and Honour and good of our afore- Reparations Agent-Goneral. There said Church, by no means umit" will, it is being argued over every beer-table, where the On receipt of the Royal Writ the German
societies meet-every Archbishop of Canterbury will re-debating quire his Bishops to summon the German club is a debating Boclety whole clergy of their dioceses to-be no peace for the other seven- elect "discreet and learned" Proc. teen Staten till they have Tallow- Lors to represent them, and enjoined Waldeck's example. And then, them to attend with the elected re-as the happy coincidence will not presentatives at the appointed time reeur again, the flag question will and place....
be solved by something in the The elections will be carried out nature of a star-spangled banner, early in June, within a few days for the design of which a national of the Parliamentary elections, on prize will have to be offered. the proportional representation system, the dioceses being the con- alltuencies.
The new Convocation will meet in St. Paul's Cathedral, in ac- cordance with ancient custom, on the day that the King opens the new
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