[Tax-chick]

Merry Christmas, Homer! I think the Bishop of London, on the last page, is saying that his clergy are too High Church.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Merry Christmas to you, too. That makes more sense than anything I could come up with.

[PeterPrinciple]

Here is the Bishop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Campbell_Tait

Note the Punch commentary is “do what you want, but don’t bring your toys into the church.”

The issue at the time was ritualism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritualism_in_the_Church_of_England Don’t have the time to determine his position as to fer it or agin it.

This may have been his biggest sin, he was wishy washy:

Some who did not know him thought, or pretended to think, that he was a Socinian or a free-thinker. The world at large knew better; but even Frederick Temple warned him, in the case of Essays and Reviews, “You will not keep friends if you compel them to feel that in every crisis of life they must be on their guard against trusting you.”[4]