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CHURCH. 
Those minutes clearly revealed the desires of their framers, 
who, however they might conceal their real principles, evi¬ 
dently showed their determination to avail themselves of every 
opportunity to shackle the mind with the thraldom of the 
darkest ages of the Church. One alone of that bench de¬ 
clared to the public, his sentiments were not in unison with 
those of his brethren, and that solitary individual is justly 
esteemed by his diocese as one whose feelings do accord with 
the age he lives in. 
At home, Church and State are united. Nationally we have 
acknowledged our duty of maintaining the worship of God, 
and made it a part of the law of the land to do so. Never has 
the British empire so signally prospered as it has done since 
this has been the case. 
But this law is now confined to the parent state ; it does 
not apply to the colonies; there is no established form of 
worship, or any national acknowledgment of God in them. 
In New South Wales, it is true, Sir Richard Burke’s Church 
Act provided a Government maintenance for ministers of 
every denomination, Jew and Gentile; but the enormous cost 
of this multiplied provision, has already compelled legislators 
to put a restriction upon it for the future, and in all pro¬ 
bability, every denomination will shortly have to maintain its 
own ministry, and the increasing infidel part of the community 
will furnish aid to none. 
This is the case in New Zealand. The Government has 
destroyed the connexion of Church and State, or rather has 
not extended the law of England to New Zealand. Govern¬ 
ment has done nothing to establish the worship of God in the 
imposed, would be tantamount to a new article of faith.— Resolution of the 
Clergy of Australia. 
The Australian Bishops, &c., have attempted to narrow the terms of com¬ 
munion, &c.,by their formal gratuitous and unnecessary dogmatical declaration 
on the subject of Baptismal Regeneration.— Resolutions of the Laity of South 
Australia. 
We regret, that after the decision of the Privy Council, and two Arch¬ 
bishops, your Lordship should have allowed yourself to regard the views of 
Mr. Gorham and Tract 90, as the extremes of departure from honest cohesion 
to the Articles and Liturgy, &c. — Address of the Clergy in Van Diemen's 
Land to their Bishop. 
