All that you have said seems reasonable in itself9 but this monarchical hierarchy seems so dreadfully opposed to the spirit of the Gospel which proposes Christ as the only Mediator.

Christ is the one principal Mediator. But He Himself chooses to dispense His mediation through secondary agents. There is but one king of England, but that does not deny the existence of officials to whom the royal power is delegated. If fifty officials act in the name of the king, that does not make fifty kings. Now Christ delegated His power to Priests and, as the one Mediator, acts through many channels. St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “Let a mafc so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.” I. Cor. IV., 1. In the Epistle to the Hebrews we read that the Priest “ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.” V., 3. This cannot refer to Christ, who certainly had not to offer for His own sins.

Radio Replies Volume 1 by Rev. Dr. Leslie Rumble MSC and Rev. Charles Mortimer Carty