The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-21 00:00:00

DORCHE:STSIL

The Bishop held his visitation at All Saints' Church,
Dorchester, on Saturday. At 8 o'clock morning prayers
were read by the Ven. Arehdeacon Braim. D.D., the
rector; at 11 o'clock there was a celebration of the
Holy Communion, at which the Bishop officiated,
assisted by Archdeacon Buckle, Archdeacon Brum and
the Rev. H. B. Williams N.D. The offertory amounted
to C 5 4e., and is devoted to the fund for the benefit of
the widows and orphans at the clergy in this dimmest
The sermon was preached by the Rev. IL C. Pigou, of
Wyke Regis. At one o'olock, the visitation was bold,
and portions of the charge were read by the Bishop, before
the clergy and churchwardens of the deanery, and a
numerous congregation of the laity.

PRCrTEST AGAINST nil CHARGE.

Immediately after the visitation some of those who
had attended it amembled together, when the following
memorial to the Bishop was drawn up, signed, and
promoted to his lordship :

To ad Lord itisitop of Sal 46W7.

My Lord—We, whose names are appended to this
paper, having given our most earnest attention to your
lordship's charge, feel ourselves compelled by our
unwavering attachmeut to the Church of England, and
our eirlousy for the purity of her teaching, to take this
earliest opportunity of protesting. in the most solemn
manner, against the strange and unsoriptural doctrines
set forth in that charge. We rote! t whist the
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper being 'of • memory
made a sacrifice." We protest Kunst its efficacy
being ascribed to the sacerdotal act, instead of the
faith of the partakers. We protest spinet the doctrine
evidently intended, although °bemired by • multitude
of figures, that the bread and wine become the body
and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ otherwise than
sacramentally and figuratively. We protest against
the assumption of regal and judicial powers on behalf
of the priesthood, as &Woof from the whole congrega-
tion the faithfuL These doctrines and statements
set forth by • Bishop of our Church, we declare to be
contrary to the plain and recognised beaching of that
Church; and we most solemnly, as in the sight of God,
pledge ourselves to use every lawful means to prevent
the introduction of them into our Church, by whom-
soever that introduction may be attempted. We
know that we shall be accused of seeking to make
divisions in the Church, and of interrupting her unity:
we therefore at once meat that we recognise no unity
as characteristic of the Church, except the unity of
the Spirit, which can only exist in the bonds of
Christian truth; and that we believe that the doctrines
set forth in your lordship's charge are utterly incom-
patible with that unity. We earnestly pray that the
Great Head of the Church will enable your lordship to
see the dangerous tendency of these strange doctrines,
before it is too late, for your lordship's own comfort
and the peace of the Church.
Rev. rtule, vicar of Fordington.
Rev. E. W. Pears, ILA, rector of Dorchester St Peter's.
Rev. T. W. Knipe, rector of Woodsford and Tincleton.
Rev. Reginald Smith, rector of Stafford.
Rev. A. H. Bull, RA., incumbent of Oerne Abbas
Rev. C. .7. Bird, incumbent of Wert Fordingtoa,
Rev. H. P. Mikes, curate of Cherelbourne.
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E. Lidi:w7vic:7;rilaiiiii,Tt.;-.---
Itay. J. Burt, curate of Broadway.
U. Ounce, Mayor of Dorchester.
O. J. Andrews, churchwarden, Dorchester St. Peter's.
H. W. Hawkins, churchwarden, Martinstowu.
J. Lovelies, churchwarden, Piddlehinton.
Isaac Byrnes, churchwarden, Porteaham.
W. 811, cburshwardm, lluckleford.
&• churchwarden, Unoombe.
C. Hest, churchwarden, Dewliar.
B. Hynes, churchwarden, Piddletrenthide.
T. Brecombe.

T. P—;;si.
J. Bak .huroh.*rden, Warmwell.
.1. O. Foot, eburehen, Bucklend Newton.
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