The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.
DORSET PROMITANT ISOCIATY,
PDPNNY AND THN CONTNIINIONAL.

In commemoration of the Tercentenary of the Motor.
illation uniler tineenileabetli, a Leeture woe given al
the Onlkiltall, NS'eyninutli, on Friday evening week by
E, Harper, i., kleoretary to the National Pmhstnnt
hoolety for the liiSfusien Kiel Maintenance of Protestant
Prisielpien. A very nuinsroue twill:moss oseensbleti on
thy oueowlon.

The ROY, It. S. Lyon took the chair, and In come In.
troduotory remarks, said they had amembled to cone
incarnate the merely* vouolisefed by God to this
country at the period of the Reformation, and to be
reminded of the dangerous and soul•dentroying errors
which then biooded over England, and from whloh God
lied inereifully delivered thls lend. They were met
glen to hoar a word of warning, loot any should be drawn
Into the net of gondol' error. It was also neoesaary to
advert to (Abet dangers which threaten the elittrali,
namely, • too goat liberality with reargd to religious
truths ; thus le Weed • fearful danger, but the most
alarming is the Cherub of Rome, which is, as she always
was, anxious to regain her old asoendency, and draw 111
grimy from thou; truths with which we have been
blessed for three hundred years.

Mr. lIARPNR then rose, and entered on along end in-
teresting description of the enoroachmente of Popery,
her errors and unocrieturel doctrines, and also referred
to the recent Attempt at introducing the Confessional
into the Church of England. Ile said it wee about this
time three hundred years ego, that the dynasty of •
Romieh Queen terminated, who had spread misery and
desolation over England, when God raised up the Pro-
testent Severa Elisabeth to arrest the attempts Riede
by the Popish queen for the suppreseion of the Refor-
mation, and to throw a shield over the protestant' of
the eountry—a period when to profeos Protestantism
WIN to prepare for the dungeon and the stake. In order,
however, thoroughly to understand the nature and pro-
groom of Popery, as well as of that insidious eyotem
widelt is allied to Popery, it might be necessary to make
• few observations relative to the pre-Reformational
era, It would be almost mperfluous to remind so
enlightened an audience that Popery is something more
than an erroneous religious 'Totem. It is vastly more
than that—it ie a great political oonsplrivey, not only
'chime the religion of Jesus Christ, but Rashid the
rights and liberties of mankind— ageinet the liberties
and welfare of nations. The Pope of Rome claims
universal dominion, not only over the Donis end bodies
of men, but over sovereigns, nations, kingdoms, and
peoples, Popery 14 a aystein exactly in accordance
with what prophets and &Nellie' foretold should
collie to pees in the world, for shortly after the
establialtment of Christianity by the Apostles
end their musicusera, the error, of Popery began
to creep into the church, and oontinued to in•
ensue century alter century, until dually this, as well
as every country in Europe, wal clouded and over.
shadowed with the dark and terrible corruptions which
rendered the Itoformation nomesary, Mut In ell ages
there were many faithful witticism to testify to the
Instil , and against the 'bibulous intoning in upon God's
(Muth
_f In particular, John Wiekliffe, the moiling star
of the Reformatieu, eitone forth with reeplentient hrib
honey and warned the people against the errors and ours
reptions of the Papaoy, The loiterer then ;Mailed to
the inariluiu of Ridley 11111 i GAMOW', giving extracts'
front eW'm Merfirodocc, descriptive of the triale end sixes
outdone of thou venerable prelate* at Oefuni. When it
was ouneldersel that KOMI. Noah 44 thou were elitioet of
daily menurettee itt Mary'. reign, the overthrow of moth
a syelent of tyrreny and perestoutien 'night be recorded
as 111011 than en earthly pruetiuding, and the hand of
God WU plainly vielble In it, When a Prolutent pries
elle asunded the throne it meld seemly b ealuuleted
what a °hence 01111111 over the ipirit. of 411141 nation.- when
light, liberty, and heppineat eueoeteled misery and
slavery—wben alt einanoiletted 1111011111 r 011• 411100 ill 6
single day, die then Alluded to the prosperity warm
Mg to tido country (min the wise ineasursie of Mitabeth
—when Engimul, eu powerless at her 11001711111011, before
she was consigned to the lamb, reeked among the Mod
In the wale of nations, After fume furtherliolorical
observation's, lie said 1— Butt Mere is 'mother dangerous
flonsplraey in the heart of the Church of Engleudlteelf.
Wa Imace twenty Ilinuensid Prolealant minlotere In title
Willem. These teen in malty pikese ere able, learned,
and (dome, Mit there ere 11111111 re fuming the needier,
who ere untrue to their prinelpiu, end who are dolor.
mined to bring us hack to Rome, One or two hundred
of thou, ether Indoetrinatutg the people in Runtish prim
olplee Mut gone od, showing titemselvie in their true
coloto, There still remained In the uhurch those wino
Ito (the Widmer) believed to be ea much l'apiete as the
Pope of Rome 111.naelf, These men were eudeavottritel
to Introduce %%Neu eorruptlinie Into our Preteolent
Church, and trying to induce the (cop!, to wept levee
M 10111111,114 111111111 W of twit and leading them to worship
the elements of the beeper, and hi pray
ill mints end angels, as well as for the soulo of the
departed. But ainenget the riotous corruptions they
are endeavouring to bring into the church, the Codes.
sitmutal is among the prinelpal, The danger on tide point
I. not at all unsientood, Many student men tell no
that Pureylain is dying out, and If left alone will ewe
be all all cid. But there was never a greater miateke,
It is a true saying, thet the founders of error are more
earnest in currying out their ideas than the prologues
of truth ileelf, and this is precisely the case with these
him. Front the examinations ef their writings and
tracts the ideutity between Runtish works and theirs is
somewhat eatraordlnary. Keen the " Garden of the
South" le made the model of several Traotarien
pninphluts, and on an analysis of these, the doctrines"
will be found so entirely Runtish that It requires a
greet exercise of charity not to believe that the writers
were Papists at heart, even at the time they subscribed
to the Thirty-nine Articles. An Illuotration of whet the
oonfeulonal he may be seen in a recent twee at Bakens
head, where • Priest plaintiff, and a young woman
the defendant, charged with obtaining money under the
pretenee that on receiving 7 ors pounds her ohild should
become & Inman Catholic. The Priest, whose name
wan ROl4, when asked whether lie had not violeted the
seal of the esonfeulneed In some public] etateauente he
mole, said he did not take the statement under the seal
of the Confusional. It wee p etiotement made in the
Confessional, but not under Confession. Thel was the
prieot'm jog ie to gut out of the difficulty. But the Callus.
lice build on the fact, that the Choreh of Mucland auto.
tions storey Lit the Confaulestal, and Mr. Greeley,
whom name bas buena NA notorious la connection with
the Confessional, professes to quote from the Canons of
the Church of Englend In support of the saute argument,
but lie omits several pumices which qualify tho emplane.,
thin. The Canon states, that if a person makeups his
crimes he the minixter secretly, he le not to infbrm
against that potion before the authorities. Title Canon
was made at a time when it wee obligatory on ministers
and chureltwardene to present the authorities with the
num of *Widened obareotero and predicates, and Of
CILDOR provides that if ,any of thew persona eonfeleed
their oriole ge the minister he was not to divulge their

secrete bit the civil ptiWele, Those Nell the only
Nellie the Uhlietill 111611111.14,11$ ull4 pot lilt appointed
Hanish? lila II elleellietie Ilio authority, he leellirer
then read No *me mitre from " tiremitylt rillnitnee of
Uonfeadun.li " Look as cloudy all you tele 111141 your
past life, veer by year, Month by month, and week by
week. People here beet, ahle to resell that each and
sash it deadly ein was emimillteil Ili Canal, twice In the
week, or even dolly, 111,,k0 atseh an average, es nearly
cc you can, tor seek year ; take amount 4 the periods
longer or shorter, Miring whist, you were free. Thus,
the penitent is to strike an reerege of MA sins, mid if he
bes committed, sty twelve Nine elle inmilli, and ela
another, lie la to etrike an average of nine for the whole
period. A true confession won'ti be, during els, nevem
and eight rein of youth, I shrank from ell manner :1
diem.
or punishment, and told • lie whenever I w 4
tempted (or almost always) to screen myself from either.
Rut then not to opera 'hems, it would be beet also to
confess suoh as lies moult upon tho oonscienoe." "In
the confession, it is beet for the most port to follow out
eaeh elii as it developed Heel( through life, rather than
confess the sins of any period of life oolleotively. If
other sins emu book lo your mind Afterwards which you
would have confessed had you remembered them, they
should be centered afterwards, because the confession,'
is conditional upon the completeness of the confession."
He recommended the following singular cures for a mari
tormented by evil thoughts. "let hint be direoteci ho
arose his arms upon his breast, end extend himself as if
be were lying in his ooffin ; let him endeavour to think
of himself, as lie will be one day, stretched in death. If
such solemn thoughts do not drive away evil imaginings
let him rise from his bed and lie on the floor, or pray
until • hitters pirit email upon him." He (the lecturej)
thought Mr. Greeley himself had better try the exper •
went of lying on the floor 011 a frosty night. (Loud -
ter.) After a caution to to individual responsibility and
the duty of persons nut placing their consciences in the
keeping of another, Mr. Greeley oontinues " This eau•
tion is needed ; for there ere persons, females wrecially,,
who have brought themselves BO entirely to yield their
(mum:donee to the &Milano° of others that they have no
will or choice of their own, and it in ober that if such ,
persons fall into the hands of deisignlng private, Hui ,
might be mmle the tools of much iniquity." In eons ,
doting the objections he 'Aye, " It has been allege
that the intimacy arising between the two sexes, an
the circumstance of speaking on exciting subjee
has led to evil reeults, that profligate priest. hay
made the Confessional the means of pandering
to their pistons, and that artful women hal
beguiled unwary eonfeesore. All this I feeris inos
true. Beten has eontrived to poison the uses of Ohl
most important ordinance an lie has many others. Le
the eonfeulon take place in church and under einem
ctnneel of solemnity. Let elderly orients of staid dm
rioter only be hemmed to hear the ooafeeelon of female
under a certain age, .In the Cireek Churell such onl
are lieensed as ormfeesore," Boeing than there laden
ger to both parties in the fjonfeselonal, Mr. Greek,
might very reasonably be asked whether it would not be
better for both priest and women to remain at hollle
altogether, (Laughter.) "Titers I. a remarkable pre.
Judith) in the English mind against Auricular tiunfeesiuct
—that is the wlibipering into the ear of the priee
through a hole in the COnfewsional, and there perish;
Noah a mode of confession is net to he recommended."
Thus Mn, Grealey's 01111f011111101 was nut on principle but
14041140 of the rumerkehle prejudice. Long mica the
prejudice continue and increase, (Fleerdlear.) Tim
next limitation MU from a treat called " The Futuntalit
for 11nelealinees," " Is, you the soot is little—butt e/1111
did It Wet Juollill to inatitote It? Nu leo than Itle agtit
end bloudy sweat, No lona than the nourging, 11,4
grown of thorns the calla, the Aellll4, hie pasoluns, hla
death, Will you let him auffbr all MIN In vain for you? I
;the Confeasionellieyours of right. It hee been pureliaae,
for you by the death of (lout," He (the lecturer) ha,
reml a greet deal of blasphemy in )011111111 00110110 worka,
' hut never anything en liorrlble am title ; yet each traete
PM thou are nattered thruughout the length situ huitiloll
of ProteNtAnt England, Ile then referred to Mr,
Liddell, who had brought Itlineelf ;imminently before
the inilille hy liiii letter to the Bishop of London In de,
fancy of the Confeeelonal, Ile say' Shut tile functions aa
II oilideter are threehilil —first, to offer sacrifice ;
soundly, ill remit and retain sin—which limillee the
Ilmifeeolonal I and thirdly, to blew, the people In Itle
pariah. In roger,' to the Ant article they appeal to the
Prayer,hook ; hut nettling mid be foetid In that hook
with respect to nffnrlnn a saorilloe. It says Ministers
ere to preach the ' thews', 111111 to feed the Nook
of Christ I not to oiler sacrifice. 'Phe one freed
georilloe woe offered up eighteen hundred yeara
ago by our Saviour upon the arose, and it is nut
In the power of Mr, Liddell or oily one else to
01for another real ellOrlllmi In this world, Neither la
remission of elm a part of his olllce—thel is only to be,
done by the nevionr, As to his blessing the people, the
lees mild about that the better. Such • minister wet
Anything but a blueing to the people of 11111 perish. dor
Hr, Liddell semi boldly to hie Hiellup, that 1111 Is ready'
to hear the ounfeselon of any Immune who some to him,
and quite ready to give them absolution, Tile lecturer
then gave • description of the ceremony witneued at the
church of tit. Osorges'mlii•tiomEart last year. Mr.
Liddell preeclied this munion, Ho mitered the pulpit,
turned his bask on the people, And said, "In the seine'
of the Father, and of the Non, and of the Holy 01104t,"'
precisely after the wanner of Roman Catholic priests.
Ile went to the same church on Thursday lest, to see it
this fearful heresy had made coy programa during twelve'
months. At eight o'clock lie Want the sound of the,
organ, end saw enter the church two boys bearing baui
iterate, on one of which was • red emu, just the seine
as in AOlll/111 Cetholla chapels. They were followed by,
forty or fifty choristers, and afterwards acme the
clergy, to the number of about twenty. From their'
vestments, one (weld not believe them anything
but Rumen Catholic prieete. After saying hymns, end'
prolonging this ceremony, the envie. comineneed. He '
noticed that the prayers for the Queen and the Royal
Family were read In so hurried end garbled a Manner,
that they were scarcely to be understood, And be could
not avoid feeling that these men owned no allegiance to
the sovereign. The following is • verse of one of the,
hymns from the book in use at this church 1—
" He took me on him nhoulder
And tenderly he kind me
He bade my love grow bolder,
And uald how he had mired me,
And I'm sure I heard him nay
Slily soul., oh, to come near me
My cheep nhould never fear me, ,*
'teen the Shepherd true."

The Gems hymn is in a oolleetion published by the Bo•
man Uatholio priest Faber. In this book occurs the
following verse respecting "only souls in purgatory .
" Bee how they bound amid their tires
While rein and love their spirits all,
Then with self ermined desires

—.—
Utter sweet murmurs and Ile attn."
After 'amid he went to look where the communion
table should be pissed, but there was nothing of the
kind visible, only an altar decorated with all manner of
tinael and trumpery, in imitation of Roman Catholic
ellipsis. Some ladle' who were present exclaimed
"Dear me how pretty." But to him it seemed any.
thing but " pretty" Be «mid not but be alarmed to
see the Mende in the congregation since he last visited
the church, but these things were making progress
while those who should be watchmen in the towers of
Zion are fist asleep. Finally he urged on all to pro•
cube the maintenand of true Protestant principles, and
he Khould be pleased if he could stuccoed in raising again
the old war cry of the Martyr*" No peace with Rome,"
After Immo appropriate obeervatione from the Chair.
man 111(1 the Kluging of the National Anthem, the meet•
tog anointed. A. collodion made at the doom amounted
to £3 lie. SI —A torhiperlfrons Ow Minorite Aisne&

EiflZltauttes. —Singular atos.—An inquest well
held it the }Slack Horse on Monday, before the °or&
nor for the Liberty of Shoehorns, on the body of
Catherine Willis, en old married woman, aged 04.
who mine by her death—how we think our readers
will Agree it is impossible to say. On the 10th Nov.
she wee crewing CheApetreet from Newland oorner
a* the Doroliester nog Mlle by. Being very deaf
and partly blind she neither saw the lamps our hoard
the vehicle. and although Mr. Uludell, the driver,
called out and pulled up as hard as lie onuld, she was
knocked down, the swap above the left eye out open
and her knee bruised. Alm waa misted up by Mr.
John Brown, who happened to be miming, roil her
win helped her home, where Mr. M. White attended
her from the 10th until the 20th, at which time the
bruise bed disappeared, and the wound in the soalp
lied healed. There wee no oiineussion, and every.
thing mewed to imply a favourable termination of
the emu, On TnesilAv, the 23rd, she told her bus.
hand that she hail had a knock in the other leg, but
hadn't seen it before, and showed him how bleek It
was. The husband said " Twasn't blank, t'wini green,
and he didn't like the look of it." tilie it
would all be right —a pennyworth of ointment would
soon iwre that. Mlle went to bed and About two
complained of a pain In her beak. Her husband sent
her daughter down to make her some gruel, gave it
her, put her head higher up m she desired, Anil say.
big "that would do, she was very comfortable," she
expired within An Wier. Rome of the Jury thought,
under these oirownetanem a postwiortem examine.
Mini of the body was requisite, eopeulally as e rumour
hail got Abroad that there was lonia little altercation
with-the husband. The huoliatid deulared he hail
never given her ell Miry word, but &twitted that
he binned a dispute with his daughter in his wife's
present'''. At the uoroner's request Mr. White went
and examined the left leg, and on returning tleolAred
that timer. wae no wortikation at all, but the marks
of an injury more recent In his opinion than the oar.
rev, &outdone. Two of the Jury held that a poet.
!tortoni examination was wore than ever newisiery,
as no aationwtory reuse of death had been stated,
but they were overruled by their fellows, and a var.
diet returned of "Died by the visitation of God."

Lr nit—Colonel Pinney at Lytac.-1.0 the Mayor.
feint at Lymu, Thursday, Colonel Pinney In respond,
ing to his health sold— If we looked at home we
should NO improvemonts in Lyme. The town looks
liveUer--the streets are improved—things in general
look much better than they did lad year, and he w
Owl to hoar Hutt during the pad summer the,. hal
been more visitors. But they must keep pace with
the Improvementa of the age. He yesterday earns
down by the Bridport railway for the tint time, and
he could not but think that that railway must greatly
alfoot Lyme. And now they were to have a rall.
way at Axminster. He ow nothing to daunt their
spirits. With reference to politic)/ there is something
looming in the dletanoo. fle had been asked If he
had found out in London what is to take plaoe.
Surely if Lord Derby at the Mansion House did not
let hfe manta out, it could not be expeotod that he
(Col. P.) should know what they are, It is said that
all small boroughs are to be didranoldeed. n that
vase their own important constituency would have
to be dealt with. (Hear,_ hear.) Looking over the
lista of boroughs he found many not so important as
Lyme. (chem.) There are p4oes at which elootort
are very little More neinerotui than those of Lyme and
which now return two members, such so Honiton,
and other place.. He thought that they might pare
down some of those boroughs before touching Lyme.
If they wanted a small borough to practice upon they
would ilnd one in Ireland with only 86 dectors—a
numbs? mach led Shea *aim