Excerpt from A Letter to the Editor of the Church, in Answer to His Remarks on the Rev. Thomas Powell's Essay on Apostolical Succession
In the autumn of 1837, the Bishop of Toronto (then Arch: deacon of York) found it necessary to animadvert upon certain proceedings of the Kirk ofscotland, in which the Hon. Wm. Morris bore a prominent share; and Mr. Morris, as-you may recollect, requested that I would permit his reply' to those animadversions to be inserted in The Church. I declined this request and gave my reasons at some length for doing so; reasons which, I beg to say, apply with at least equal force to the comments or explanations you propose to furnish in answer to a recent review of mr.~powell's Work on Apostolical Succession. Moreover, I could not possibly pledge myself to the insertion of articles which I have not had the opportunity of reading.
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