The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1855.

DISTRICT CHURCHES : THEIR ANOMALIES

AND ABUSES.

WE have had our attention called to a very glaring
anomaly, and consequent grievance, in our parochial
arrangements, by the report of a Church-rate meeting
in Ormskirk, held on the 7th inst. The meeting,
which was convened to be held in the Parish Church,
was adjourned to the Town-hall, where the Church-
wardens' accounts for the previous year were read,
,and passed. They chewed a balance of £9. 14s. 41d.
against the parishioners ; while one of the Church-
wardens stated that the amount of rate required, to
meet the expenses of the ensuing year, would be
L 165. 18s. 10d. Upon this, Mr. PART, of Wigan,
stated, in behalf of CHARLES SCARISBRICK, Esq., for
whom he appeared, that he was not opposed to the
Church-rate being laid, but to the present mode of
laying the rate ; inasmuch as the townships of Skel-
mersdale and Scarisbriek were paying-, respectively,
one-third and one-fifth more than the other townships
in the parish. It was accordingly moved and
seconded

" That a uniform rate of one penny in the pound be laid
upon all and every the Parishioners of the Parish of Orms-
kirk, for and towards the necessary repairs of the Parish
Church and its appurtenances; for defraying the expenses of
cleaning the church and lighting it with gas ; and also for
paying the ringers', singers', organist's, beadles', and clerk's
salaries, and all other expenses necessary for the due and
decent performance of Divine Worship."

This was met by an amendment, moved by the Rev.
E. L. BLENKINSOPP, who said that :
"He did not agree that the rates should be equal in all the
Townships. He did not say that he wished to keep up the
old arrangement, because Mr. Part had most clearly shewn
-the injustice of it: but he (Mr. Blenkinsopp) would also skew
that there was another, perhaps a greater, injustice, which
- this proposal would not touch. It was this : that some Town-
ships had to support two Churches, while others only supported
one. He wished to see some remedy for this. He would state
clearly what he meant. This year, three out of the six
Churches in this Parish had put up apparatus for heating, viz.,
the Parish-Church, and the Churches of St. Paul, Skelmers-
dale, and St. James, Lathom. The expense of that in the
-Parish-Church was defrayed out of the rate ; in the other two
by voluntary subscription.: but the same persons, who sub-
scribed money for the apparatus at Lathom and Skelmersdale,
also paid rates for that erected in the Parish-Church. The
consequence of this was, that Skelmersdale and Lathom
Churches had been heated in a-very inefficient manner, solely
-through a want of funds to do it effectually. And so,
also, the current expenses of five out of the six Churches
were defrayed by voluntary subscriptions, gathered from
persons who were paying rates to the Parish-Church.
To go no futher than his own Church : it was consecrated
in 1851; a large number of things were required in order
to the proper celebration of divine worship, as matting, has-
socks, and, of course, in a new building, a quantity of coal for-
fires to dry -the Church ; a considerable item, too, was the
draining of the Church-yard—a thing absolutely necessary
before interments could take place. The money for these
things he had advanced ; and he could assure the meeting
'that not a half had been repaid him. The Church was in debt
to him then upwards of £2l, yet he had to pay rates himself to
-the- Parish Church ! -Now, he asked, was there not a crying
injustice in all this ?—an injustice to him, and an injustice to
:the people of his district ? But this was not all ; the injustice
ended not there. They were aware that there was a burial-
:ground attached to Lathom Church, in which he was bound
'to perform the burial-service over those that were brought to
be buried there. They knew, also, that certain fees were paid
to the officers of the Church for the performance of this duty—
a just arrangement, as the labourer was worthy of his hire.
However, he was informed by the Vicar that this was not
law. He came down upon him, and claimed the fees. He
said, you must perform all this service, and be put to all this
inconvenience • but I must have the money. When he (Mr.
13.) pointed out the monstrous injustice of this claim, he said,
you may have justice upon your side, but I have right—[Q.
law ? Sutnnzum jus, summa injuria.—ED. L. S.j—and so the
money I will have. Was there not room in all this for

investigation?—for inquiry? The Church-rate was originally
intended to provide for the celebration of Divine worship in a
Parish : then there was only one Church ; now there were six.
Why then should not all six equally participate in the rate?
'Would any one say that Divine-worship was celebrated pro-
perly only in the Parish 'Church 2—that the district Churches
-were unworthy of support? Would any one gay, that it was
a just and right thing that the people in the districts should
have the burden of supporting two Churches ? There could
be but one answer. He asked, therefore, for investigation, for
,a report, in order to some better arrangement. He begged
leave,,therefore, to move the following amendment 1—" That a
committee be formed, consisting of the Vicar and Church-

wardens of the Parish of Orraskirk, the Incumbents and

Churchwardens of the Churches of --ha= St._,Tames.
.Lathom ; St. Paul, Skelmersdale ; Holy Trinity, .131.cker-
staffe; St. Mark, Scarisbrick ; with power to add to their
number, to inquire into, and report upon, the present mode of

!levying and applying the Church Rafe of the Parish of Orms.

order-fa-effect a more equitable atljustmeot of the

-Game."

While the elistente of'the ells, so ably brought
forward by the reverend gentleman, was readily ad-

witted, it was shown that the meeting had no power
to remedy them, their business being to allow or reject

;the rate, which was eventually carried by a show of

}ends.

All honour, say we, to the inhabitants of the Parish
of Ormskirk, who, though acknowledging the exist-
ence of injustice, under which many of them actually

smarted, would not avail'-themselves of the power
which they possessed to 'refuse the rate Not

more than three or four hands, we are informed,

in a very full meeting, were held up against it. We
are glad, also, to be able to say, that, upon the
motion for adjournment from the vestry to some
larger place, the determination, by a large majority,
was against holding the meeting, In the church, and
in favour of the Town-hall.
But the portion of the business which principally
claims our attention is the speech of the Rev. Mr.
BLENKINSOPP (which we have given above in extenso),
Incumbent of 'Otte of the district churches in the
parish, who certainly made out a case of grievance of
no light character ; both as regards his own position
as incumbent, and that of the people of his district as
ratepayers. We have now a very much clearer per-
ception of the considerations which may induce the
refusal ofa Church-rate, than we had before: we can quite
understand how some very faithful Churchmen may
'have felt the present law of Church-rates a grievance,
and have absolutely voted against Church-rates alto-
gether; rather than submit to the grievance. The
state of things described by the reverend gentleman
as existing in his own district, is, without doubt, that
of hundreds more. These district churches have all
the duties and responsibilities of old parishes, but have
not the privileges : in fact, the district church, in many
instances, is a burden rather than a privilege. Then,
again, these district churches. were the origin of pew-
letting ; a thing unknown in parish churches, until
imported from -these anomalous excrescences. We
need not stop now to prove the disastrous conse-
quences of thus introducing mammon as an element
into religion,: it is sufficient to say, that the evil we
have mentioned has been stereotyped, and made
part and parcel of the regular order of things,
by successive acts of parliament ; each succeeding
act confirming the wrong, instead of attempt-
ing to remedy it. By the system of appropriated
seats, the man who is too poor to pay for one
for himself and his family, is excluded from the benefit
• of the district Church; while he is still called upon to
pay Church-rates to the Parish Church, which.. is,
perhaps, at too great a distance to enable him to
attend it and besides this, with a refinement of
cruelty, the Parish Church itself is so taken up with
close pews, that there also he is shut out. If of set
purpose means had been taken to alienate men from
the Church, and make them disgusted with it, hardly
any more effectual could have been devised. Nothing
..can demonstrate more clearly how utterly unfit Par-
liament is to deal with the affairs of the Church ; how
incompetent to understand her position and her
_interests. No doubt, it intended all these arrangements
for the good of the Church, and the advancement-of
her interests : nay, we remember that Sir R. PEEL, on
occasion of his resigning office, mentioned some of
-these measures, as a proof of how he had studied to do
her good, and to legislate for her benefit : and he
really thought so. No further proof is needed to
shew how incapable a mere statesman is to compre-
hend the wants of the Church. As clearly must all
see that only the Church's legislatura can understand
these things ; it is only the Clergy who so feel them
as to be able to suggest the remedy. Had Convoca-
tion been in full force, no such anomalies as these
could have been introduced. Its members would not
only have had the real good of the people at heart too

deeply to allow such grievances as these to be perpe-
tuated, but, being themselves daily in view of them,
they would have both seen the evil, and supplied the
remedy. , •