CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9] — Page 102

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the Common Law of Scotland, where marriages are solemnized by- ministers of all Denominations -

I beg to express my gratification at His Excellency's intention to bring the pubject to the notice of Her Majesty's Government.

In reply to your request that I would inform you of my own position with respect to ordination, and of the Constitution of the Body frequenting the Union Chapel, F beg to state that I was ordained to the ministry, in London, in 1839, according to the forms observed by

Congregational Dissenters. In 1849, at the unanimous call of the members, I undertook the pastoral oversight of the Church worshipping in the Union Chapel. The

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of individuals of all. Evangelical Protestant Bodies belonging to it, and at this time there participate, every month, in the communion of the Lord's Supper, members of ive different sections of the "Christian Church. The Union Chapel is intended not to be a gathering place for parties of any

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one Denomination, but to be a house in which, in this distant Colony, Christians from different lands and of different denominations unted in the faith of the great doctrines of Christianity, might meet to hear the preaching of the wood, and to observe the Ordinances of the Gospel.

I have, te, [Hyned) Jenner Legge.

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