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orders of the War-office, while the Civil (or Colonial) Chaplain is regarded practically like any other Colonial servant of the Crown, and is under the orders of the Governor. Indeed it is stated that one of
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my predecessors in this See (unconsciously) gave effect to
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practice the theory of the English Church as held by Henry VIII, (that is, the complete union in the Head of the state of all Civil and ecclesiastical authority), so far as to take upon themselves even the
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regulation of the service in the Cathedral, including the prayers to be read, and the hymns to be sung.
For my own part,
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I am free to confess that I have no intention to follow the above curious historical and ecclesiastical
precedent. On the contrary, I am fully sensible of the anomaly of the Clergy of an Episcopal Church being practically free from the jurisdiction of a Bishop. Whenever a Church Bay is instituted here, the Bishop should, in my opinion, hold a position
analogous