The Archbishop preluded this Conference by advising it not to
attempt too much. It Certainly has gone to the length of encouraging free churches in -all the colonies, deciding how to keep them in communion with the national Church, and even sup- porting a Synod by which the National Church itself would be spiritually overawed, though not legally influenced. This is pretty well for one meeting. The Bishop of Capetown can also boast that the amiable Primate, who appears to be a creature rather of impulse than will, has given his sanction to the Natal schism, and has subscribed towards the salary of the schismatic bishop that is to be. A few months ago the Primate positively refused his sanc- tion, and even opposed sending out a new bishop. But the pro- pinquity of men of narrower zeal than his own appears to have • brought him round.
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