Sequel to Remarks Upon Church Reform With Observations Upon the Plan Proposed
Sequel to Remarks Upon Church Reform With Observations Upon the Plan Proposed
Edward Burton
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In the first place, it is absolutely necessary that the patronage of ecclesiastical preferment should ( 44 ) be taken from the Crown, or at least submitted to some control. I shall speak out upon this subject more plainly than Lord Henley. He says, as I have quoted him at page 19, that " the time is not yet arrived, when we can hope for any legis- lative enactment respecting the mode of disposing of the Crown Patronage. " I say, in answer to this, that if the time is not yet arrived, we may spa...re ourselves the trouble of discussing Church Reform. If ''the influence of politics" is to be prevented, which Lord Henley justly describes as " that fertile source of jobbing, ambition, secula- rity, and scandal, " ecclesiastical patronage must not be left in the hands of mere politicians. It is more difficult to point out a plan by which this patronage shall be administered : nor do I feel called upon to hazard the arrangement of all these details. A writer, quoted and approved by Lord Henley, has proposed "to vest the Crown Pa- tronage in ten unpaid Commissioners, members of the Church of England, and chosen for their known devotion to it.
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