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Excerpt from Life of James Green, Vol. 1 of 2: Doctor of Divinity, Before and Dean of Maritzburg, Natal From February, 1849, to January, 1906
Bishop Gray had been educated in the traditions which had come down from Constantine. Through all those ages the Church had been in intimate connection with the State; the conce tion Of the Church moving freely in the kingdoms Of t e world, disconnected from the civil power, now so familiar to us, may be said to have been at that time in an embryo state, undeveloped into shape. In addition the Bishop's mind was strongly conservative in character, so that it was most difficult for him suddenly to realise that his Letters Patent gave him no powers; and he leant upon them to his own hurt: but the trouble that he suffered on that account was overruled to promote the welfare of the Church.
These words of Dean Green were spoken in the ful ness of time, nearly forty years after the trial of Dr. Colenso. Bishop Gra had passed to his rest in 1871, and the Dean felt, as e last survivor of the men who, with Bishop Gray, founded, out Of the apparent chaos of legal perplexities, the stable order of the South African Provincial Constitution and Canons, that the time had come to deal with past events in their true historical proportion.
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