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THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. H3
ces'e, should represent his order in the General Convention ; he might require the division of orders and veto
all the doings of the Convention. Such a disproportion
in the representation as here supposed is of course only
supposable, and not at all likely to occur; we suppose
the case, not as probable or morally possible, but only
to illustrate a fundamental principle in the Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States.
Thus the clergy and laity, as such, have a negative
upon each other, not accidental, but constitutionally provided. And since the House of Bishops and the House
of Clerical and Lay Deputies must concur in all legislation, each order in the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies has actually a veto upon all the proceedings of the
General Convention.
Thus the bishops, the clergy,* and the laity, have
each a veto power; and the concurrence of the three,
as separate orders, is necessary to all legislation in this
body.
The observations here presented, in connection with
* It is possible that to some minds there may seem to be no propriety
in recognizing the bishops and clergy as separate orders, having a reciprocal check upon each other. But he must be a careless reader in the
history of past ages, and a poor philosopher, and very much unacquainted
with the facts in the case, who does not know that (so far as the different
orders in the Church can have separate interests) there is a wider distinction between the bishops and the clergy than between the bishops
and the laity. In the event of undue authority in the hands of bishops,
the clergy are always the first to feel it, and the most exposed to suffer
by it. In the great majority of cases (and we appeal to the history of
the past, and the reason of things, and to present facts, for proof), the
laity will be willing to give power to bishops when the clergy will strive
to withhold it.
| Title | The comprehensive church |
| Creator | Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard) |
| Publisher | Appleton |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000117 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. H3 ces'e, should represent his order in the General Convention ; he might require the division of orders and veto all the doings of the Convention. Such a disproportion in the representation as here supposed is of course only supposable, and not at all likely to occur; we suppose the case, not as probable or morally possible, but only to illustrate a fundamental principle in the Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. Thus the clergy and laity, as such, have a negative upon each other, not accidental, but constitutionally provided. And since the House of Bishops and the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies must concur in all legislation, each order in the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies has actually a veto upon all the proceedings of the General Convention. Thus the bishops, the clergy,* and the laity, have each a veto power; and the concurrence of the three, as separate orders, is necessary to all legislation in this body. The observations here presented, in connection with * It is possible that to some minds there may seem to be no propriety in recognizing the bishops and clergy as separate orders, having a reciprocal check upon each other. But he must be a careless reader in the history of past ages, and a poor philosopher, and very much unacquainted with the facts in the case, who does not know that (so far as the different orders in the Church can have separate interests) there is a wider distinction between the bishops and the clergy than between the bishops and the laity. In the event of undue authority in the hands of bishops, the clergy are always the first to feel it, and the most exposed to suffer by it. In the great majority of cases (and we appeal to the history of the past, and the reason of things, and to present facts, for proof), the laity will be willing to give power to bishops when the clergy will strive to withhold it. |
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