The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-02 00:00:00

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Unions at the precent time are in bad odour : the
trquiry at Sheffield bee silenced the doubt. r 4 the
most pr,jinticed, or the most charitable ; value
.4 the most appalling kind bee been by. tight to light,
and the names t 4 Broadhead gad Crooke' will go
ml •Vni to posterity with than of Rorke, Hare, and
Palmer. The English Church Union is in a fair
way to share tie infamy of its sister associations in
Sbrffield, through the audacious revelati• ne of some
of its monition—revelations coming from smarm not
to be doubted, and containing matter sufficient to
rouse from their apathy that multitude of bury gout
people, who will do anything, or submit to anything,
if they may be saved the trouble of thinkiag. We
are seted of a want of charity when we charge
the Ritualists with wishing to Romanis* the Church
--let them speak for themselves. let. Mr. Bennett,
.4 Promo, in his letter to Dr. Posey, ways, "The
struggle is—let as Dot conceal it front ourselves, it
will nerve us the streamer to do nor duty—the
struggle is between Catholicity and Protestantism."
If nor readers doubt what that mean*, here are
flr Puev's own words in his addreen to be Foglielt
Chetah Delon :
" Churches like St. Alban's, Holborn, and St.
Lawrence's, Norwich; books like the Altar Manual, the
Priest's Prayer Peek, and the Church and the it nod,
fairly represent the most advanced poet reached by the
Catholic Revival in England. They are not the
ultimata goal. The final aim, which alone will satisfy
the Ritua.Wts, is the reunion of Christendom and the
absorption of niseent within the Church. Nothing
short of that adi be enough, but the magnitude of such
an operation is so gigantic that nothing less than the
application of enormous power can effect it. The guns
of one fort, however great in calibre and however
skilfully worked, will not supply the place of a whole
siege-train; the hardy veterans of a forlorn hope are
not enough to charge the whole army of Protestan-
tam in position. To do m. is magnificent, but!. not
war. This, then, is the thing to do. Let the advanced
poeta remain as they are. Let each of those which is
a little behind, and only a little, gradually take
up the same position, and let this procem he
carried on (only wi but haste or wavering)
i down to the last n the chain. A story is told of •
dishonest baker who kept himself and his family in
meat at • nominal cost by porches tug the very
leg of mutton to be had, and escheating this for the
next in size sent him be his customers, and repeating
the process until he had suoceeded in obtaining nearly
twenty pounds of most for his original six or seven,
without any one customer being able to detect the
fraud his own case. The cheating baker may point a
petable as the unjust steward has done. Where there
is only the ordinary perish routine, but where the
poaching is honest and sound, let a eradual change be
brought tn. A choral service, so far as melon and
condoles are concerned, on some weekolay evening,
vil train people to like a more ornate worship, and
that which began as an imouional luxury, will soon be
felt • regular want. Where there is monthly tom-
munion, le it be fortnightly : where it is fortnightly,
let it be weekly ; where it I. weekly, let a Thursday
office be added. Where all this is already existing,
candlesticks with unlighted candles may be introduced.
k% here these ere alreMy found, they may be lighted
at Evensong. it mi much is attained, the slap to
lighting them for the Eucharistic offios is not a long
one. Where the black gown is in use in the pulpit on
Sunday, let it disappear in the week. The surplice
will goon be perferred and will oust its rival. It is
easy for each reader to see how some advance, all in
the game direction, can be made, and that without
any edam* tubs.. Only two Wings should be most
°lll4lYd te obeened u • rid& First of all, nothing
should bilma____,7lafpga,Plain mid bank row
401111 to 40 1.. P••• , the innevatifte met
to be waxed at "Oro oorvino, rot ta/os
' tido rgir Palms."

Opinion, to weigh well this airowel of tn organized
conspiracy against our Chtticht. We iutreat all Non.
cooformiste to look at these ominous words, "'lb.
absorption of Dissent within the Church," after the
teenier of Christendom. What kind of absorption
will it be? Will it be any other than that which
United Christetid.un pr..ti.v sglhit the Weld'
noses, Or the alisoeption of our Iteforibers when
last England and ;home Were united in the days of
Queen Met the absorption by Acts ef lTnifortnity,
wthdratval of toleration, floes and Iniprienomeotu
And bow is this fearful poter acquired ? Look at!
It. programme. cid the illustration—a system of
Cheating is well illustrated by • cheating baker. It
is bY the gradual introduction of Popish !Meal,
"uncial services, frequent Commonlott, iigbted
candles on the altar, especially ettra service& eau
any on. be so perverse and bigotted, as to shut his
eyes to this system, when its ultimate object is so
audroiiisly avowed' 'Ns laity now know what is
meant by these things, and what fruit they will bear
when they are ripe. People who listen to choral
servicee are now told, not by Low Churchnieo, not
by Diesenters, but by Dr. Pussy himself, that they
are only employed as a means to an end, that end
the introduction of Popery, with all it/ 100MillS•
tines, and all its priestly intoleraore into our Church
and patios, followed of =ON by the absorption of
Dissent. . . .

tbia takes place, what are the laymen
to do! Are not they to have a voice in the affair!
Oh, dear, on; bear Mr. Bennett, of From., as
quoted by S.G.O. in his last able letter:—

" Laymen must be incapacitated from their very
position and character from dealing with the souls of
men, and therefore from considering the bearing' of
this question (Ritualism) in its ultirnets tendency.
Being neither prieete sor confessor', they know nothing
of the sins of othere--happy if they know their own,
and they cannot therefore understand the wants which
arise to the soul in penitence, the thirst of the soul fey
adoration of God, the lunging desire for the acceptance
of God, which Sacramental ordinances fttrillsh,, and
through which alone, humanly speaking, the Church
speaks to her people in her final sell of radon anci
forgiveness" - June 20. /tr. Pennell, of Trome,
to Dr. Pussy. -It.frP.
tei, tierles absorbed Dissent, and silenced the laity,
these conspirators will have it all their own way.
It may be "they are counting their chicken before
they are hatched:" there is a good deal of anti.
absorption vitality in Dissent at present, • vitality
increased by theme oonspiraters' audacity. The
laymen of England still hare some ides of their own
responsibility, and will ere long, we believe she*
their power, but the animus of thew took;i•ssiell
Broadhead' awl Crooke's' ia the lam".

Nor are these the moat dings:one enethiei we have
They kr3 backed tip by Mu who have too much
sagacity to make themselves conspicuous in their
satanic work, but who are, nevertheless, working
incessantly, and with great 1000Sel. ill pushing on the
Homeward movement, Of thus the Meet 111)*eankott
and nnecrupelons is Samuel et Oxford. With his
character before the world, drawn by no unoertain
hand, in the pamphlet we noticed • few weeks since
(,he position of Dr. Samuel Wilberforce), with the
knowledge that he was speaking
,before
.men ;that
knew him well, be had the coolnese to 'newer totd
Shaftesbury in the tfouse of Lords in these words:—
The Iffidoe ef Oxtord : The noble lord opposite has
Ilene me the honour to specify my name as one to which
he objected, on the ground that I am a pence of
extreme opinions That commission has been appointed
mainly to examine, report upon, and if possible, adjust
the diffieult questions which have a.r.leen as to the
extreme ritual. Now, I challenge the eoble earl igh4
face of the house to pon roduce e single element of
for the aseeition he has jut made—that I am, Mr e'rer
have been, en extreme Man 14 theuatter—(ieir, hear).
Mv action, and word{ ere befit. the Church. I have
done all in my is 61(4 lc 'emus them extremes, and I
have giver: my charges, and have published, the
TPAPINIA why I endeavour to repress them. I have dame
more. I have been atioceadui in repressing them and
whereas in other dioceses they have broken out, in ths
diocese of Oxford there has been a remarkable absence
of them—(hmar, bear). It is very easy for the noble
earl to attack me, because I de not take an extreme
view. He himaelf ironies's.' that he lean extreme man.
lam not an extreme man. lam one who holds altM
middle position of doctrine in the Chord Of Borland
*lnch Richard Hooker held, end for which, as long as
he lived, he was teset liy the Puritan faction, and for
the. holdihri time maintaining of which he has, since his
.P.eto, been universally esteemed in the Church of
fingland -(hear, hear). These are my opinions, and I
challenge the noble earl to make good, if he can, the
words he ham so rashly thrown out in your lordships'
presence—(hear, hear).
He himself is not an extreme man I Not • man of
extreme opinions. What is a man's opiniqn ? some-
thing expressed in words, we suppose. Well, it Is
true, that his Lordshipir opinions have always been
moderate, eciinetitne Protestant, sometime' Evangel-
lice! . but, strange to say, his opinions are not worth
a straw, for this simple reason, that his actions have
always luta directly opposed to his opinions. Tiros,
having a few year since publicly declared the
difference between • cross and • crucifix, when the
former was objected to, we now find him praising
" the audacity" of &clergyman who had just restored
his church, and placed an alabaster crucifix over
the altar : " My actions and words are before the
Church." Did not Mr. Broadhead, at Sheffield,
denounce publicly the outrage, which he himself had
privately contrived? Did be not offer • reward for
the discovery nf the perpretator, whom he himself
hail hired ! The diocese of Oxford too is "re-
markable for the absence of extreme cases." It is true.
but why? because the generalship there is soadmirably
exercised, that the whole dinoese is gradually ad-
vancing, independence is crushed out : but one or
two clergymen are left, who dare protest, where ten
years ago there were more than • hundred. It is
there, in that diocese, where there are no "extreme
cases," that the main body of Ritnalitte are to be
found—men who in London are e9rll to be found
bowing down at S. Alban., and S. Margaret's, but at
home keeping step wi,l2 the diocese at large and
this candid and conscientiously Protestant Bishop,
the " Richard Hooker of the day." We well re-
member a gentleman who wee supposed to be rather
artful in getting husbands fir his daughter., orna-
mented with the title of "the Judicious Hooker."
The Bishop of Oxford has bestowed the name on
himself, with a vanity which is amusing, but with •
comical amount of truthfulness, not likely to be
forgotten.

--Rut there is one other tenter* in this oonspirsey
which ought not to be overlooked; its abject defer
oboe to Bishops, who favour it; its mooniest daisao.
of them when they oppose it, sod heaven knows they
oppose it meekly enough. The Mod' Times
eulogising Mr. Bennett's letter to Dr. Pussy, says:—

" On the awtbority of St. Jerome the writer boldly
remicds the Right Rev. Bench that they have no
it,deteasible right to the pre-eminence which custom
has conferred upon them; end " that the Church has
power by universal consent, upon urgent cause, to take
it away if thereunto she be constrained through the
proud, trannical, and unreformable dealing. of her
Bieber. IL will be a disastrous day for the Right
Per. oench when they succeed in impressing this view
of the matter upon the only people in the world who
have the will or the inclination to defend the institution
of Bishops at all."
A pretty plain menace from "the Party of Order."
Rot at any rate the whole affair is now placed beyond
a doubt. The name "good Chinaman" can no longer
serve to conceal the Popish traitorl Additional
services are no Mager neoeunrily the result of
eupsrior earnestness; they may be a part of Dr.
Pneey's deep laid plot. Musical memos@ can no
longer be regarded as things indifferent; Dr. Posey
says they are not. When will men see this, and look
the danger in the face, and crush it in its Infamy.
We have ONO the proosee,marked oil by the Doctor,
repeated many time% and in many places, always
with the same result: sometimes it is interrupted
by 'clergyman's death, but the intention is therm*
in every toss. Rome is the goal, to which thalamus*
must lead,if persevered in. Men bate to be conviooed
that they are being deceived : when they and it out
then:wolves, they are always indlgbant With their
friends for not telling them before ; whilst, if they
bad done so, they would only have been abased for
their pains. Al any rate we have done our duty, in
calling the attention of the men of Dorchester sad
Dorset to the meet foul and dangerous oonspiracy
that ever defiled the pages of our church'. history.