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 REASONS 
 
 FOR NOT JOINING "SYNOD" 
 
 A LETTER 
 
 TO 
 
 THE RIGHT REVEREND 
 
 The Lord Bishop of Columbia, 
 
 BY 
 
 The Venerable C. T. Woods, M, A„ 
 
 ARCHDEACON OF COLUMBIA. 
 
 NEW WESTMlNSTMir 
 'MAINLAND GUARDIAN'* PRINT. 
 
 1877. 
 

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THE RECTORY, 
 
 New WFST.MINilTKR, 
 
 June 30th, 1876. 
 My Dear Lord Brsnop:— 
 
 A circular has been sent to me informing me tliat, "In accord- 
 nnre with Section 13, of Can n on Constitution of Synod * * * 
 the Sjiiod of the Diocese will meet for business on Thursday, 
 J Lily 13th." 
 
 Since December 20th, 1875, I have (as your Lordship is 
 nwnre) taken no part in the proceedings of "Synod," nor do I 
 intend taking any part in it as at present constituted. 
 
 I think it due to your Lords'iip's Office, and indeed to your 
 Lordship personally, as well as to my brethren the Clerg}' of the 
 Diocese and to the lay members of the Church of England, to 
 place in your hands a formal nolification of the course I have 
 adopted as well as to state some of my reasons, that so 1 may 
 (as I hope) stand justified before others, and that at least no 
 false impressions may exist as to the reasons for my action in 
 this matter, and that no complication may by and by arise because 
 of my silence. 
 
 I hold and have always held, that a Diocesan Synod would 
 be incomplete without the presence of the faithful laity. 
 
 But equally do J hold that thi^ "Synod" (so called) is invalid 
 because of the position and power given to the laity, and noth- 
 ing that your Lordship urged at the first meeting of the Conven- 
 tion (see pp. 16, 17 and 18 of the "Report of the first Synod of 
 the Diocese, &c.'') shakes my position, rather do the authorities 
 there referred to, go to sustain my views. 
 
 However, the question of the position and power of the laity 
 in Synod properly belonged to "The Constitution" to be agreed 
 
upon, and so in your circular of Feby. 25th, 1874, addressed 
 "To the Clergy and laily (.f the Church of England in British 
 Columbia," you give no hint as to whai this posiiion and power 
 are to be— but you disiinctly state as follows: — 
 
 "The first assembly will not therefore be the Synod, but 
 "a body authorized by the Parishes t^ agiee upon a 
 "Constitution, and then if tlieic be sixh agreement to 
 "resolve itself into the S\nud" 
 In obedience to that circular the delegates were elected at 
 Easter, 1874. In obedience to that circular ihey were author- 
 ized by the parishes 10 agree upon a Consliiuiion, and th;:n 
 (but not otherwise) "10 resolve"— the Convention— "into ihe 
 Synod," and in obedioace to it "the first Assembly" was held in 
 December, 1875. ^"< '^««'''- '"«■•'■ '"> dthate'in. t^a Cuus'sudon; 
 it was not even brought before v> uni.i! afirr ihefulioivuiy ir.<o- 
 lutton had btenpies'd: "We the Ijishwp, Clergy and by dele 
 "gates now assembled, do hereby declare oiirselves tie ; yi d 
 ' of the Church of Eng'and, in Bri ish Oolu;\.bii, and ^> 1 noy; 
 "proceed to the consideration of the Co.istit.uion, &c " 
 
 Surely here was a flagrant departure from '.lie terms of ihe 
 circular, on the authority of which the djlega'.es were elected 
 and in accordance with which we all — your I^orJship — your 
 Clergy — and the Laity — were assembled. 
 
 We were summoned "to agrei'. uvon a Coiiddaiio>\" and 
 only to "resolve" ourselves "into the Synod" should there be 
 "such agreement." 
 
 When I rose in my place as .Senior Aichdeacon, as well as 
 the Senior Priest in the Diocese, to protest against t lis departure 
 from the circular of Feby. 25th, 1874, your Lordship, as Presi 
 dent, over-ruled- me. Of course I submitted to your ruling, 
 but I mean no discourtesy when 1 say — I could not see its justice 
 —nor have I ever acquiesced in it. 
 
 Here, then, I maintain is enough to invalidate this present 
 "Synod." 
 
 But I ask your Lordship's further attention to this circular: 
 We were called together lo agree upon a Constitution, and if 
 there should he Huch a(,reem<'nt. fo re.«)lve OHrselve!< into the 
 
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 5riiish 
 
 Ipower 
 
 bd, but 
 fpon a 
 :nt to 
 
 Synod. On these terms, and on these terms only, were delegates 
 elected; on these terms, and on these terms only, the Conven- 
 tion met. 
 
 Your Lordship saw fit at the last moment to invert the terms 
 of the circular, i. e., to set aside the conditions on which the 
 elections of 1874 were conducted, and on which the clergy re- 
 sponded to your summons, and you called upon us first to 
 resolve ours uves into Synod ar,d then to proceed to the con- 
 sideration of the ('onstitution, the condition of agreement 
 bciiig abandoned. But even admitting that you had a right 
 thus to invert the terms of the circular of Feby. 25th, 1874, 1 do 
 nut .see iiow you could claim a right to set aside its conditions; 
 a; id so I ask were those conditions adhered to ? Was there 
 ucli agreement ? DidiacUy nut. 
 
 h; I'oistituiion (p.p. 25-28 of Report) contains XVI. 
 Aruclct, of which Arts I. II. & VII. involve distinct (Jhurch 
 
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 l^ iiicij les, and and on no o/k; of tlie.ie Arddeis was there agree- 
 ni lit. ! he VIII which involves no principle, merely declar- 
 iiij ih.' ma.xiinum number of delegates, was passed, it i.s true, 
 wuho t a dis.,e.itient voice; but no one who recalls the painful 
 .SwCiic when a detnand was made by your Lordship for a vote by 
 oideib on that Article — when all your clergy kept their seats 
 silent y abstaining from a conflict on such a question, and all the 
 Liiiy urged again and again that if the vote by orders was pressed, 
 then "oyiiod" must then and there have come to an end. No 
 one, 1 repeat, who recalls this, can say there was agreemenl 
 here, and I would remind your Lordship how easily I could 
 then have brought "Synod" to a close, had i but given a solitary 
 "Aye" in support of your demand; but I felt that while ready to 
 contend f ir a principle to the very utmost, I could not accept 
 a mere victory. 
 
 There was then no such agreemenl as the circular of Feb, 25, 
 1874, laid down as the condition on which "Synod" should be 
 called into existence. 
 
 My conclusion, then, is this, —This present so-called "Synod" 
 is not a Synod according to the true constitution of a Synod; and 
 even supposing that no exception could be taken to the wording 
 
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 of its constitution, yet there is that in its origin which deprives 
 it of all claim to the name. 
 
 My position is— not that I refuse to join the Synod, and to 
 work with it—but that there is no Synod for me to join, or to 
 work with. 
 
 I hope that, after 16 years of cordial co-operalion with my 
 Diocesan, I need not assure your Lordship of my unaltered 
 and unalterable reverence for your Office, of my respect for you 
 personally and my ready obedience to you as my Bishop. 
 I remain, my dear Lord Bishop, 
 Faithfully yours, 
 
 CHARLES T. WOODS, 
 Rector of Hcly Trinity Church, New Westminster, 
 
 And Archdeaconof Columbi?. 
 
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 A few words are ncccssarj' to explain why a letter written in 
 June, 1876, is not published — if it were to be published at all, 
 till January, 1877. 
 
 I thought it well to await the jjublication of the "Report" of 
 the piocecdingb in July. That "Report" did not reach me till 
 the 6lh inst., and to-day 1 place tiie letter in the hands of the 
 printer. 
 
 It may be a matter of small moment to my brother clergy, 
 or to tlie laity ol the Church of England, whcHher or no 1 lake 
 any part in this so called "Synod." 
 
 It is not a matter of small moment to me, tliat my action and 
 the reasons for it nhould be misrepresented or misunderstood. 
 
 To avoid such misunderstanding or misrepresentation, I 
 wrote the letter. To correct them — knowing that they exist — 
 I publish it. 
 
 C. T.W. 
 The Rectory, 
 
 New Westminster, January 8, 1877.