The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-26 00:00:00

AND TRI BISHOP OF

SALIM:MY IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Thu slabs of this unhappy Ammo ham awns more
boss brought Wore Set WlllOlO omustry. On Ifndey
evening lost Lord Portman prowetod a petition
from throe dimmed roso living in the diocese,
tiomplainisig of the late oberp of Um Bishop of
Salisbury, and pireyiag fur some inexpensive
tribunal, where eburobinen might bars redraw in
these mama W. 11,. his lordship's address and
tlia Bishop's answer in another mama Lord
roan simply szprawid the feeliap of tbe erbole
bed, of oberohniso, with a few eroapteme and the
Bishop's mom saffiaissaly illustrates Ma lam
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Interrupting Lord Portman, he said, "When
‘graplis were rosily balanced by others 'come-
; altar, it was busily fair that one should be
raid without Ms Miser." Not a bed deseription of
the charge • the system of basso% is prevalent
through lb. what& nos in one paragraph black
is Minna to be whilst in the next wears entreated
So remark that black still remains black. Tb•
presence in Me Lord's Supper is defined in hingltag•
that cannot be mistaken, and then ills balanced by
a declaration that it is not Traosubstantiation, but
an ineffable mystery. Balancing and joggling
I have always been near neighbours. But if Lord
Portman was hardly hue in quoting oat para-
graph of the charge without another, what
most we think of th• fairness of th• charge itself,
which quotes, again and again, hall • Pluscr•Ph
hem, the Marsh's formularies, sod omits he latter
ball? and that, where there was no balancing, nor
juggling; but whore the latter half explained the
former in • sense directly opposed to that in which it
was quoted ? His lordship's mentory is truly
•Pku•Pali
Bat the Bishop stye "he continued to meet with
every Ina& of wpm* end dutiful arctic* that •
bishop mold erpsct from the people of his diocese."
What expectations may be we Nona
tell, but from • comparisso of this assertion with tb•
stets of the diocese we should imagine that they are
masa Will his lordship tell us what be oremidare •
mark of disrespect? Is it • mark of disrespect for
clergymen to dacha* to partake of the Lord's Supper
at their bishop's hands ?—it has bean done. To pro-
tat in the planted manner aphid his lordship's
charge, ea inoonsistont with the tosohisg of the
Church of Englancill—it Ma been dons, at Bridport,
at Dorchester, by ninety clergymen and two hundred
ohurthwardso& Are these marks of dutiful respect
His lordship's inspectors have, in some instances,
been refused admission into th• national 'Ascots;
this perhaps is "dutiful affection." We have beard
it rumoured that one of his archdeacons has been
warned that he will not be permitted to administer
the Lord's Supper after his next visitation in •
certain church, unless be repudiates all sympathy
with the ineffable mystery of the objective premium.
And even at Salisbury some of his chewy did not
hesitate, I. the preesooe of the most influential
matting ever assembled there, to tear in pieties the
flimsy sophistries and garbled extracts of which
the charge mainly minims. Have such things
taken place in any Giber diocese? Did they ever
take plow in this, before the present year It is
true, those things have been done with as much
courtesy as the OW permitted; but he most be
wilfully blind who mistakes the cold courtesy of
indignant protest, for dutiful respect and affection.
His lordship's cool assertion in the Home of Lords
may Mach some of our overscrupulous friends •
useful lemma They will me that there are 'owe
minds on which all courtesy is wasted, their only
thought is how to use it against the individpals wbo
thew it. If Mire proceedings be marks of dutful
respect; we most try and find some way of showing
our indignant abhorrence of that Jesuitical obliquity
of mind, that enables • man to think himself right
in doing wrong, to look upon himself as • martyr,
when in reality he is the offender. We must try
and find scent way of 'hewing in • manner so plain,
that even the Bishop of Salisbury can understood it,
that the people of this dioatia have already loot all
confidence in bins as • teacher, and wilier. loog lose
all respect and affection for him as • man. Let us look
at another passage from the bishop', defence. " He
had offered to give every new church • suitable oorn•
mutuon table but he had done this in the simplicity
of his heart, and had no idea thereby of introducing
any any new dootrine • but to his utter surprise
he found that thr.iughout his whole diocese,
he believed, there was • pampAlti cir-
cu'ated warning people against accepting
these oimmuoioo tables, sod he should he perfectly
content to forego pressing that offer. Be poitested
against dealing with great principles in an unfair
way. This going from parish to parish, as bad been
done, be thought a most unworthy oon•se." In the
simplicity of his heart I How truly pathetic I Now
we have the pamphlet bet ire us, and • very well
written pamphlet it is. No balancing in it at all,
and unfortunately it shows that these tables, which
the simple-hearted prelate presented to each nee
church, were all of one pattern, all of one ins,, all
according to the pattern of the Directoriuse
A agliconvet ; all intended to symbolize • doctrine,
not new, for it ha• exiswid in the Rocnish Church
for nine hundred years, but new to the Church of
England, having never bean taught in her sines the
Reformation, until the prosiest time. As Arch-
bishop Manning said at Leeds last year, " • large
number of the clergy of the Chunk of England
have taken from Catholic hands the labour of oon.
tending for the chief principle of the Catholic
doctrine, via, Tranimboantiation, and have left
them in the peaceful end happy oompation of reip-
ing the benefits." His lordship will h•noeforth
forego preenieg the offer ; perhaps be has heard that
in some cases it will be declined, no doubt, with all
"dutiful affection." If them modern altars mean
nothing, Why does he speak of them as implying
great principles? And no doubt he doss object to
the going from parish to parish, but be will see a
great deal more of it. If them be little ipso
ritualism in this diocese, it is Messes the laity
will not submit to it; they have, thank God, been
warned from parish to pith, and we promise his
lordship that not obe parish in his diocese shall be
oniig.4 or overlooked; and if not prevented by
timely concession, the whole diocese will e'er long
utter such • protest es shall make itself beard, even
in the Episcopal Palma at Salisbury.
"These persons had come to Salisbury" Me his
, lordship, but the people would not Betio to their
accusations. His lordship must sorely live in an
atmosphere of itelf-oomplaosocy. We can assure
him that the people did 'item very attentively ; and
the protest of that meeting was rendered doubly
important by the fact, that in the oatbedral town
not one voice was raised by any inhabitant in
opposition to it. "The Council Chamber was refused,"
an act of individual finokeyieen, which in no way
represented the (major of the inhabitants. Not
one wod i has been mid n answer to that meeting.
Why if" them persons" who wane to Salisbury
were such unimportant disturb•rs of the paws, and
if there was no jest cause for their meeting there,
surely the whole city would have rung with
indignant protests against that assembly. It would
hays been easy to have prevented the meeting, hot
the hot is, with the exception of • few interested
individuals, the whole city sympathised with it. It is
but • specimen of his lordship's • simplicity of heart"
that be should treat as unworthy his notion M.Po,
noblemen, rural demo, prebendaries,olargy men, magin
tram—in fact every one that presumes to differ from
him, and thus speaking of them as • man might of
• party of strolling" players, and altogether ignoring
their authority, should justify himself in proclaiming
the universal rospict in which hei. bid& So with
regard to the protest addressed to the Archbishop.
That has however done obe good thing: it has
compelled his lordship to tenon**, all authoritative
decimation in that charge--aod well be might.
Now that it is koown that a large portion of it is
burrowed from Om defame of the Bishop of Breohin,
it is high time that ins utter want of authority should
be known.
As for the Bishop' of fit Davide and London who
expressed their sympathy with his lOrdship, they
only show, what we have loos asserted, that any
real odors of the Church, or the Emlesiestical
Courts, mast not be expected from the Bishops,
However they may differ. oa other points, on me
they are all agreed, with one or two bright ex-
ceptions. namely, that the Cherub is intended for
the glorification of bishops, sod that no reform is
good which doss not increase their power. The
thanks of all true churchmen sot due to Lord Pert.
man for his manly singlehsoded protest. It is not
lost labour; it will opts the way for direct legisla-
tion which most come sooner or later. If it comas
not before the reformed Parliament omete, all the
worse for those who obstruct it. In this diocese the
bishop may be sanorod that be will continue to
have many more evident... of "respect and dutiful
affection;" for the people of the diocese are not
in the least degree disposed to let the matter rest,
while they feed that their own and their children's
faith is in danger, and while they mg their neigh.
hoer and blonde driven from their parish churches
by the Novelties in worship end doctrine which are
intoodased by men who Maim the bishop as their
bead and upholder, nor could his lordship have
given to thesis who live in this diocese, and know
the Mato of it, a bettor evidence of his consciousome
of the false position which be occupies, than the
monograms admixture of affected simplicity of heart.
and haughty contanni: for all that differ from him,
abash is to be found his mower to Lord Portman.