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

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biveiwoni stood in the Chart* .14tatared him
protest; wild. elinrobve*rdems nermimottaly
adoptad a • tiondesiiidtion Of the Charge.
We Socafitesd in his lords6lo etlicebiail *twit
' the diactiewoo which accompanied the adoptiots of
tbet tnamnrial : he will see that the I.ity of Dorset
are no longer a set of uneducated boon., ready to
believe all they bear, but are capable of judging for
themselves, and that they can in firm and clear and
temperate language otter their pr.test !tiring these
Popish Innovations in doctrine fpr rl;tutl. Hs will
see that tie laity Will tat sa;•!dre for ever to ha
mocked and treated with contempt, end that theirs
is a storm brewing, the result of which no wan can
formes. _ .

At Dorchester, within an hour after the charge
WI. delivered, protest was handed to his lordship,
which appears elsewhere in our ooluinne signed by
clergy and laymen, which declares' in very plain,
' though respectful terms, their fixed abhorrence of
those dootrines.
It may be said that we ought to wait until the
I charge lain print but we have It before us la print,
every word of it, faint the appendix—the identical
print from which his lordship read it, and do not
want a month to make up our minds whether the
awe is Popish or Protestant! whether regal and
jtidloial powers of the Priesthood are Anglican or
Homan.
Hit lordship Cannot coubsal hi@ indignation at
AA &teeth& dull have been wilds to resist the
inroad, of Popery; he point to his own diobese as
• proof that those combinations are not needed, and
speaks of filse aooosations and unfounded charges.
HAS his lordship no connection with that, not
defensive, hut suressive association, the Chard'
Union? Has be not on one occasion hesitated to
institute a clergyman in consequence of information
reesived from that Union 1' Sorely then he eon
with an ill grace blahs others for contributing for
the defame of the Church as it now is, nor can he
object to such combination if his attachment to that
Church as now onostitated be sinners.

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But our spas will not permit us to go further.
We can only add that the allusion to his predeomeor's
wish that be should be eneorieded by the present 0000
pier of the Bee, is as remarkable evidence of the die.
estrous °misusese likely to scorns to the Church,
if Bishops ware permitted to nominate their sac-
siserse. Apo&lcsl secession, we are told in the
=eis kept up, just as under the Jewish law the
' weee laid on Saha& of the victim before it wee
slain, which meant that the we. of the person who
otitis& were trandarred to the victim. According
to this, Apostolic& secession would imply the
triusferring of all the sine, folly and superstition,
of all the priestly predecessors of the present
generation, and to judge by some esbibitions, we
Sr. almost inclined to give our adhesion to that
unacriptural doctrine. But we mast iimielude. And
we will do so by entreating our brotber churchmen
to look for their religion in the Bible, and the Bible
alone, as our Church directs, and not to believe that
the proper exponents of that book, are daily gravies,
or the Prayer Book, but the Divine Author Hun.
self; then, whatever becomes of bishops or priests,
or churches, they will know the truth, sad the troth
will make and keep them free.