The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-16 00:00:00

SHE RBORNE.

THE work of doubling the lines of the Salisbury
and Yeovil railway a proceeding with very great
energy, the contractors, Messrs. Brassey, Ogilvy,
and Harrison, having a large number of workmen
employed between Semley and sberborne on earth
works. From Yeovil to Exeter the line is doubled,
with the exception of the piece between Sutton
Bingham and Crewkerne, where there are some
springy pieces of land, and the work is being pro.
ceeded with leisurely. Between Sherborne and
Ml'borne, and Gillingham, and Semley, the work is
proceeding fast. From Smiley to Salisbury the
double line is laid. It is confidently stated that the
double line will be opened this year. When the
works above referred to are done, there will still
remain the considerable tract through the chalk
district from Oakley to Salisbury to be doubled by
the South-Western befoxe they can boast of a
complete pair of linen from Lcindon to Exeter.
Constant travellers will be glad to hear that the
Salisbury and Yeovil line is about to be gravelled to
remove the main complaints against the dusty con-
dition of the road.--09Aerborius Journa/.

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41
THE BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND PROGRAMME.
—We have to hand the programme of this meting
at Hereford. The Annual General Meeting takes
place on the 7th of June, Lord Taunton presiding.
The agenda paper Comprises the annual report and
election of President, N'ice-Presidents, and Members
of Council.
.Dr. Gillett is to propose that no
member subscribe less than £1 per annum, and
Mr. Duckham the transference of the Bye-Laws
regulating the admission of members to the
general laws of the Society. The financial state-
ment is highly satisfactory, indicating a balance
of funds of £7,460 4s. 3.—The half-crown days are
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, sth, 6th and 7th
of June ; the first devoted tci open judging of
stock and poultry, and the implement, arts and
horticultural departments from 10 to 6 o'clock ;
the second day to these several departments
(9 till 6) with steam plouglia and cultivators,
mowers and reapers at work (HI to 3) and the
third day to all these, besides horse-shoeing
at portable forges, the annual meeting in the
Council tent, and the annual dinner in the
Pavilion (at 51. On all these days the celebrated
band of the Royal Marines (Winter-bottom), will
Perform in the Show Yard; but in the latter A per.
formance of concerted pieces will be given by the
bands of the Grenadier Guards (Godfrey),
and the Royal Marines (at &SO). Thursday
and Friday are the shilling days, and the
Grenadier Guards' Band will alone perform.
Amidst the unequalled scenery of the Wye, in the
orchard ground of England, a more attractive meet.
leg than this has never been announced even by
the. Bath and West of England Society, and we
always regard their shows are magnificent files
charapdtres rather than anything else.
VISITATION OF THE ARCHDEACON OF
SARUM.

The Visitation of the Vii. Archdeacon ffony IFRO
held on Tuesday, at St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury.
Divine service was celebrated at 11 o'clock. Prayers
were read by the Rev. Preb. Renaud, and a mermen was
Preached by the Rev. R. B. Bourne, rector of Donbead
St. Andrew, from Romans kw., 5,6, and 7.

At the oonclusion of the service, the clergy (of whom
there was a good attendance) assembled in the Chancel,
and their names having been called over, the Van.
AItORIMIAOON preeeeded-bo.deliver-bis Charge:- .He ob-
*creed that in the two yearawhich had elapsed since he
lest met them, many things had occurred in the Church
to cause sensation, anxiety, and fear amongst ite Mem-
bers. The events no doubt had been 'serious, but be
was not one of those who took a desponding view of
our position, for God might cause good to arise out of
circumstances, in which, in our short-sightednen, we
saw nothing but evil. The controversies which had
taken place, painful as they were, must not be regarded
as unmixed coils; and for himself he preferred the pre-
sent state of the Church, agitated as she WS by tests of
doctrines of great importance, to the peaceful slumber
which she enjoyed during the last century. When the
truth was ensiled, the faithful were more on the alert.
and' he trusted it would come forth more pure and
glorious for the trial. He also hoped that any defects in
our Church polity, not hitherto observed, would become
apparent, and ieue in reform. This would apply to the
recent decisions in the Ecclesiastical Cour( s, and in direct-
ing attention to the question-of reform in the Ecclesiasti-
cal law, he said he had read with more than sorrow some
of the ohs, rvationa which had been made in reference to
recent decisions. For himself, he believed the judges of
the Ecclesiastical Courts administered justice with the
same uprightness as the judges of other tribunals. If
the law was defective, let it be amended i bet it was worse
than puerile to say that those who adminstered it should
give judgment contrary to it. At present the law was a
Masi!. f vagueness, uncertainty, and complication; and
in many cases where the legislature had stepped in, they
had only made matters worse.—As regarded the Court
of Final Appeal, be had not yet seen any plan proposed
that was free from objection. For instance, he could not
approve the proposal to eliminate the lay element, and to
substitute the clerical, for the recent divisionniu Convo-
cation furnished a proof that if the Court consisted wholly
of Bishops we could not expect to find _unanimity.—
Referring to the Colense case, he thought we might
hope that the recent decision would prove of the greatest
advantage to our colonial churches ; and we might, more-
over, hope that the church of this country would ere
long reap a reflected advantage from the example of her
colonial sisters, and adopt a polity more in accordance
with Scripture in its primitive uses.—The Van. Arch-
deacon expressed his approval of the Reform of the Lower
House of Ootredtaidon„audnigek3d thatasClatirchwithout
a synod Was an anbinaly. A lack of interest, however,
ee evident from the sixual number of its members
who thought it worth while to give their attendance,
when the Queen summoned them to meet. Of the 146
members of the House, not one-half had ever been
present in the Jerusalem Chamber. The same apathy
was manifest in the oonstituencies, for out of the 130
beneficed clergymen entitled to vote in the election of
proctors in thin archdnoonry, not more than 20 had
ever attended to exercise their franchise.—He was in
favour of admitting laymen to Convocation, a plan which
was said to work well in the Episcopal chureh of the
United States, and one which he believed would create
;rester coefidenoe in the proceedings of snob a synod
in the Church at large. Some of the changes recom-
mended by the recent commission in reference to Relax-
ation of Subseription sembed reasonable and moderate,
and calculated, it might be hoped, to relieve those
tender consciences -which stumbled at a declaration of
unfeigned consent and assent to all that was contained
in, and prescribed by, the Book of Common Prayer. It
appeared te him that the oaths of allegiance and supre-
macy were toe strictly And nnnecessarily repeated, and
be approeed of the clause in Sir George elrey!s New
Bill dispensing with attendance at quarter sessions for
the purpon uof qualifying. It would, he thoebt:,,hp
sufficient to take the oath once and for all at OrdinatiOn;
and he qnestioned whether there wet really Int
necessity for continuing the oath of supremacy at all,
or for substituting any other in its place. it IVO!, in
fact, not an oath of supremacy, but of non-snpremscy,
for. while it negatived the supremacy of the Pope, it was
silent as to the supremacy at' the King I—Referring to
the recent Enoyclicial of the Pope, the Ven. Arohdesson
said it was one of the most startling documents that
had been presented to Christendom for some time. It
taught us. what it was clearly intended to teach, but
what some of us were slow to believe, that the motto of
the Choral] of Rome wee Semper Eadem : that its
doctrine. were, in fact, the same now as in the dark
days of the Papacy; that she clung to them with Oh
unflinching tenacity of a death-bed grasp; and that& ii
reality„abas waamow altogether the same as in tbetisues
fel Hildebrand. The horizon, however, was brightening,
and this ignoyolitel of the Pope was cadeulated greatly,
to promote the reformation , that Was going forward in
Italy awl elnathere. Abed the Prayer-boat:
were now beim eireethated 'dine antpiteedied
been excited, not Unit wisylidnotbeliese the esgslas aft
the Chivy* al, Itornewbut thgtiwe believed so much in
oeratittitelrith the 4tgians
.thipnodves. They must all
do whee,t,h9Y could tervorooke the tslisn reforrostion,
for it would be a gloriege tbilig to eiie the

throwingolf the errors by which the glorious Gospel I
I heel so long been overwhelmed. Our duty was to make
clear the principles of the reformation, and to refer to
, primitive Christianity as the modal to he aimed at. The
• matter was exciting great attention in Italy, and
amongst the higher Beeledastice of the Greek Church ;
, but in the effort to bring about unity amongst Christine,
• we dared not saorifice one atom of Divine truth in the
hope of affeoting it. The Encyclical showed that no
' concession could enrol from Rome. What, then, could
,- we concede? "We cannot be one with Rome." once
said Bishop Denison in a 891111011 at St. Paul's; "while
the claims of Rome remain as they now are." Imitations;
of the Chtiroh of Alia& did not deceive Romanists,
neither did they reciprocate the feeling. On the con-
trary, they had a contempt for imitations. Dr. New.
man had said that he regarded such imitators as of the
"gilt gingerbread sehool," from whom ha expected little'
good. These imitations led to the alienation of many of
many of our own communion, for the logic of facts was
more powerful than the arguments which were employed ,
to prove their innocence. In hundreds of cases, lie
feared it might be said,. they had led to a forsaking of
the.puril faith oLcimouin.Church for Use werruptioes.of
the Church of Rome. Let them beware, then, of foster-
ing in their bosoms, or encouraging a mere religion of
the imagination, as distinct from one of the intellect
and the affee,ions. It was this whichlml Coins it) yearn,.
ag they said, for,something more than our Church af-
fOrded them. But what was that something! Not
more of gospel truth, or more of holiness, but a more
gorgeous ceremonial to please the eye and gratify a re-
ligion .of sensation. His reason for introducing the
subject at the present time was that the Encyclical had
-led-wet° review-ortrposition,- while the leaninfin many
.of nur own inriehea towards the practices of the Romish
church, required a warning voice. Strangers who
attended some of the London Churches might well con-
clude that they had mistaken thar place of worship,
and it was to be feared that the burning of incense
and other practises adopted there, were 'type to•
wards a return to that darkness from which we
escaped at the Reforination. Some persons, again,
delightad-in.naing..ropish terms when others would as
well, or better, express their meaning, and it was found
that rosaries and crucifixes were in daily use in many
private houses of professing Protestants. It was our
duty to be more fully alive to the niagnittide of the
danger. As Rome continued to protest against Protes-
tantism, we must continue to protest against Romanistn,
and against those who sympathised with, and imitated
Romanists in their religion and practices. The Ven.
Archdeacon concluded by expre•sing a hope that they
might live to see the day when there would be witneseed
an increased purity of faith, and holiness of life and
practice not only amongst ourselves, but throughout the
world.

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