3 io CHURCH OF ENGLAND 



The Church in the Empire and Abroad. During the last four years there has been 

 great activity in the Church of Canada, in consequence of the enormous influx of English 

 settlers, especially into the North- West Provinces. The first service of the English 

 Church in what is now the Dominion was held at Annapolis Royal in 1710, and the 

 bicentenary was marked by the opening of a new Cathedral at Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

 To meet the strain of a rapidly growing population unable to provide for its own spiritual 

 needs the Archbishops' Western Canada Fund was established in 1910 for the provision 

 of men and money to meet these needs, and the Rev. W. G. Boyd, one of the chaplains 

 of the Archbishop of Canterbury, went out at once with five clergy and four laymen, and 

 others have followed. On the whole, however, the response both in men and money 

 has been disappointing. In 191 2 a Mission of Help was sent to the Province of Rupert's 

 Land. In 1911 British Columbia was erected into a Province, and in October 1912 it 

 was decided that instead of one Province for the whole of Canada east of Manitoba, a 

 new Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario should be formed, to include the Dioceses of 

 Ottawa, Algoma, Huron, Niagara, Ontario and Toronto. There are consequently now 

 four Canadian Provinces. In Australia the serious " Question of the Nexus " arose in 

 iQi2. Distinguished counsel have stated their opinion that the Church in Australia is 

 an integral part of the Church of, and in, England and that it is bound by the judgments 

 of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. A powerful movement in the direction 

 of independence has been set on foot, but considerable opposition has been manifested 

 to any disturbance of the status quo. A more local yet important disturbance 

 of harmony was caused by a question of vestments at Sydney in 1910. The 

 only churches in that city in which vestments were used were St. James's and 

 Christ Church, and the incumbencies of both fell vacant within a few months of each 

 other. The Archbishop of Sydney refused to institute any clergyman who declined to 

 give an undertaking not to use, or allow to be used " the chasuble or other vestment in 

 any church under his charge until, in the judgment of the Archbishop of Sydney for the 

 time being, they have become legal." In each case this requirement caused a long delay 

 in making an appointment, and the incident produced a serious division of opinion in the 

 Diocese. The first portion of Brisbane Cathedral, which when completed will have cost 

 some 200,000, was consecrated in 1910. A Mission of Help was sent from England to 

 New Zealand in 1911. In India the most important subject which has engaged the at- 

 tention of the Church is the position of the Eurasians, whose education has been greatly 

 neglected. Roman Catholic and Nonconformist schools have provided for large num- 

 bers of what is now called the Domiciled English Community, and it is thought desirable 

 that this leakage should be reduced. Accordingly special funds are being raised for 

 improving and strengthening the Anglican schools in the great centres of population. 

 In consequence of the intended removal of the capital to Delhi the Provincial Synod of 

 Calcutta has prepared a memorandum suggesting the formation of two new Archbish- 

 oprics one of Madras to include the Sees of Madras, Tinnevelly, Travencore, and 

 Colombo; and another of Delhi to include Delhi, Lahore, Lucknow, Bombay and Nag- 

 pur. In 1912 a native priest was, for the first time, raised to the Episcopate, the Rev. 

 V. S. Azariah being appointed assistant bishop of Madras. In South Africa a new 

 Diocese of George, taken out of the Sees of Capetown and Grahamstown, was created in 

 1911, and in 1912 the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman, taken out of the Diocese of 

 Bloemfontein, was formed; in 1912 Khartum Cathedral was consecrated. In 1909 the 

 Missionary Church in China constituted itself under the title of " The Holy Catholic 

 Church of China," and in 1912 the Church in Japan took a similar step. 



Miscellaneous Events. During the period under review two important events, one 

 affecting the discipline, and the other the doctrine of the Church of England, have 

 occurred. The first turned upon the interpretation of the Deceased Wife's Sister Mar- 

 riage Act of 1907, and led to the suits of Banister v. Thompson. The plaintiff married 

 his sister-in-law in Canada, where he had no domicile, under the Colonial Act before" 

 the passing of the English Act and was refused communion by his vicar, the defendant. 

 The Court of Arches found in 1908 that the passing of the Act of 1907 validated the 



