The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-12 00:00:00

OPEN COMMUNION IN THE CHURCH OF
ENGLAND.

In the Upper House of Convocation of the Previte@
of Canterbury, on Tuesday, the Bebop of ltrcie.le
presented a petition from the English Church
reciting, " It is said that, after a di•to.ct and pera,g
invitation to be presont in Henry VIZ'. Ch•t el in coo.
nestion with the revision of the Old and Neer Tt.ti.
meat, the Holy Communion was sclioinurerrdin
Bishops and priests of the Church of
iniennieg ad without distinction with members of its
Eetablished end Free Church of Scntiand, sod
almost ev,ry Nonoonformist Church in E i.nl. with
Independents, Septum', Wesleyan., and en.tiriste
The petitioners said " That the most sacred privi.eie of •
Church Communion should be conceded to dersoni ate
deny the Church's charticteristi: doctrines ;
that it should be conceded to S.scinians, aid be;eg
Socinians, and without any difficulty being rai•el on
the part of the Church,—this we feel to he • dish .coar
to our Lord and Saviour of the gravel: and u It
emphatic character. We runt earnestly pray 'Olt
right rev. House to take such steps as may I,ste
expedient to relieve the Church of England from s
ealainity and • scandal so fraught with possibilities of
disaater."

The Bishop of Gloucester said the petition WM
fund•mentally uncharitabli-, and in many repents
utterly mistsken. The Dean of Westanieter di.: n..t
send any personal invitations whatever. They wei.t ec
Christian men to rewire tbe Holy Commuoion of the
body and blood of their Lord and Master, to strengthen
them Ir the responsibilities of their great work. Wib
whom be knelt down on that solemn occasion be did
not care to inquire. Those who knelt reverently round
the tomb of Edward VI., did not trouble themselves
to ask Pharimaioel question• about who might be
kneeling beside them. The Church of England 411 not
require • man to ask who was about to receive sub
him ; such a course would mar the whole principled
communion.

'the Bishop of Salisbury said he received no invite.
lion to ettend the celebration alluded to, He Lams
into London in the morning, and went direct to tte
chapel, where he saw only two or three people ehns
he knew. He thought it was perfectly unnecessary for
• communicant to inquire who his fellow communicants
were.
The Bishop of Ely said if any Nonconformist Ire.
sented himself at Communion while I. was adini.ir
tering he should certainly not object to him, because
he had not yet learnt that Nonconformists were not
Christiana.

The Bishop of Bath and Wells said it would hsve
been going ter beyond the limits of the Church of Eng-
land if members of her communion were repelled unless
previously excommunicated. _
. _

Th.. Blitiop of Winchester lamented that persons
directly opposed to the teaching of the Church should
bare joined in the Communion. _

The Bishop of London expressed bis regret that the
petition had been presented, on account of it. un-
charitableness. He also doubted the correetness of the
Law which it assumed.
Ths subject dropped.

TEI Lamed states that there Is nothing in Mr.
Childers's Woes. to interfere with his activity in the
public servioe for many years to some.
Attach") MAneLaUGHTIIi —The magisterial inquiry
into the charge against Richard Spooner, of the Globe
tun, Trades/lir' for the alleged manslaughter of his
wife, ems brought to • close on Wednesday.
The evidence showed that the prisoner wee in
the habit of ill-treating his wife, and that oo the night
before her death (the 9th of Jane) be was seen to deal
:ter • severe blow on the bead. Dr. Brown, who made
the post.moriess examination, gave It as his opinion
that death resulted from inch • blow as that deposed
to, and that the donned must have been perfectly
unconscious for some hours. The prisoner declared tbat
his wife enslave and well between eight and niers
o'clock on the morning of the 10th of June, sad died
before ten. The megistrates committed him to Nike his
trial at the anise on the charge of manslaughter.
SITR•ORDINAIIY IUPOCTUILI EXPLODIDI—a.g berm-
TACT QUISTioN BOTTurm.—lnnumerable efforts bare
been made by mathematicians to square this circle. It
is now admitted by rational men that no such thing te
possible. A question of the same sort, nearly, is Giles
propounded which, for the moment, may puzzle a man
of slow wit, but which is By seen to be in-
capable or solution, likewise. It is this? What would
be the consequenee of an irresistible body ooming in
contact with an immoveable one? Very little coespierl.
lion is required to enable Oct. to discern that this is a
contradiction in terms. The closest approximation to •
categorical answer that we ever heard of has been given
by an eminent pathologist, Professor Eloilos ay, who
has proved beyond all question that his estraordinerf
pills and ointment ere irresistible in their effects on
diseases which, under every other treatment were
abeolutels immoveable. This is no empty boast. It is
true. We court disproof. Hie medicines, essay, are
the greateet remedial meats that scientific genius ever
invented. "Pshaw," some contemptible professional
stairvling, or disappointed charlatan may explain.
" what is it all but quackery l" Ignorant, or unthink-
ing people may be found to re-eello the charge. But
stop. friends. Yon do not bear in mind tbas this yen
cry of " gunk-quack-quackery," which is as frequently
hind againat the Inn thing as the false, siren itself
of the greatest quackery. Besides, an imposition
cannot lest for ever. If Holloway's medicines are en
imposture they are the most gigantic one that ever
darkened civilisation. If they are an imposture, they
have effected more good to humanity than thousends Cl
ostentatiously benevolent verities. If they are as
imposture no other imposture has ever originated like
them, for they are the result of the Most profound
physiological investigation and pathological skill. If
they are an imposture then it is an imposture whist:
the world has been thankful for. The moat emneet
medical men of the age have testified to their Up'
paralleiled effects as ilanttive agents. pnoses and
Potentatee have bori,e voluntary testimony to their
virtues. Nobles of nature's making (as well as ended
of man's mains') have alike ackhowledged in terms Cl
deserved eulogy their extraordinary powers. There ut
scarcely • newspaper throughout the world, which his
not willingly made itself the medium of oommuneating
to the tublie the astounding cures whieh then medicine
have effected. In most ouuntries they have attained to
• patronage, the extent of which is perhaps eithoas
precedent when the comparatively brief period of their
introduetion is taken into account. Professor Hollow.?
can produce almost countless numbers of written
acknowledgments (from every clime and in every
language) of their efficacy, forwarded to him unasked-
Where then is the imposture Let us awes a few fang
of greater interest. "Itis of paramount importance to
use it II
tpishrliedirtalve tehuettlbeltrhaothieintaohnreb":np.rithiiopalcon nisolditrifffneitabrd when Ii
Holloway,. pas *leer the Wood of all (=parities, said
linden • healthy condition of the body. His ointment
acts an harmony with the pills, when applied toexternal
sores, both invariably bud to this result. SI ens assa
Is comae stereo, 'i wand mind In • wand body."-"
Sunda, Carom