The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-02 00:00:00

PARTY POLITIUI IN THE PULPIT.

IN tAs Aliter.

Sir—nt. Ray. Thomas Nears ham evaded—
purposely perhape—the question at Lem lii. not
I the capacity of your present correspondent aa an
author, but whether • preacher exalts his position se
a Minister of the Gaspel by giving • political lecture
In the pulpit.. Moet people will think he does no•
noises Mr. Nuys bring* forward more aniclusive
argutnente than he hm offered in his last letter.
Mr. Neave published in your nwn whams, hilt
sermon on Peace, awl in the hands of your reader. it
became ptsblo property. In 'bat die:manse he extolled
Mr. (Medd...me and Mr Bright.. being amongst •• oar
&Allot stateemen"—which nohndy for rm. mimeos
qn-stione-- chile at the elms time be denounead
Lop, Bescontlield se n rare Jevials nvioeitp Her.
&redisplayed Party P.ditice whi b cut h ...dig he sail
by any rieht thinking man to "race the Obrirtien
wienit. and which, if enunciated by • preacher of
I Intl woos on the ev. of an slogt., u, mi.,ht materially
: siff•ost the issue. The political preacher I. w rib his
weirht in roil to the party whom de be espouses.
1 Upon objection being raised to the intr Mani .13 of
party po ii.. n G blew Mr Near. •ays the
term, in a hich it is made are " pious twaddle." and he
will vouchsafe no answisr—firstly becenre "serious
guntrueerey wnuld be (h-own 111W4V." and sec ..dt.
bacon.. he hes no wish in "indict unnecessary pftin..
Wh-ther Mr IC•ave had no each excell.nt wish
• bon b. penned hie letter vu' readers mos. judge for
them... Ayes. If he hut only been at Pc UnilloUr upon
the ...tint when he rweschel the s•rm di, he certainly
wonl4 0.1 have etigynttiani the P.lO. Minister of
In ri•tncl at a rale Jo .ish CUri wig -an amension
which whether original nr borrow. I in out of place
in the pulpit, from which sh mil be advocate'
excl.'s:v.ly the ft of the Prince of ream, who
ems If imeclif of J•tri.h dem-nt.

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Mr. Name's t;nclierltable siijn s challenged,
npori which 15.1 rarely 1.11. yonr nirrespondent to hi.'
to " own liq• of thing '—in adult words to mind
his no. hauliers&

Sometime ago when Mr. Num, did venture upon a
"werious controversy," he scouted Ms opponent—mot
the pretent writer— 1" era. igno-anos," and 11010'
when a statement in Mt own pultlishe I sermon is
repodi.ted. Mr. Nesse save the objector Is "a self
elected censor of the Pulpit," and questions his ability
even to write a letter worth hi. answering I
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Mr Nesse lin speak ill,nuently and write glowingly
on " State Frw.dom.." But what about individoal
freedom? "Give me above all other liberties., the
liberty to know, to titter, and to awn freely,
according to oonscienor." Thus wmte Milton. lint,
says Mr Nears, " Keep to your own line of thing"—
a " thing " which by the by. has proluoed a Dickens,
a Bused', and =lily canny Scotsmen who have
shone in the w9rl4 lattsra.
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Leo XIII. of Rome is not the only Pope. Not that
Mr. Noce, Is a Pope. Against Mr. Reeve personally
I have not one ..,rd to say. 'To lys zealously affected
in • good thlog" is right. Bt can it be a goad thing
to betray in the pulpit the political p.rty to which the
preacher belongs. and then when querioned on the
point to saw, " Attend to your own lint of thing?"
Why were the &roans commended? Christ was not
a politician, His Apostles were not politicians—in the
Pal pit.
The position of the political nesschar cannot be
defended, and there is Mr. Neare's difficulty. " There
Is no case " said the defendant's attorney to couneel,
"abuse the other i 11.," Mr. Nosy* has accused
me of "pious twaddle." The Christian Minister is
the last man in the world to bring each a =arm but
this letter is the last specimen and is simply a further
protest, however bumble and unworthy of Mr.
Neave's notice, of the use of the Pulpit in preaching
Party Politica .

Yours truly,
W. H. Bauarr.
Dorchester, July Ist, 11178.
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WITMOUTIL

Jo AAAAA COOK mlets. -At the coon', petty motto= on
Friday. Jonathan rad summoned fur alloivieg one of his
donkeys to rteny on the bight:ref. Re meld the Naos
around O. field was hrokan.-Fnel lii. 'Detailing met,
Ti.. MARIN' 11017111 RiegilMS -We understand that
Moos Kr. Supt. Vickery ho got the constables to watch
tbe market p•oole who hawk without tickets the receipt,
from those ttekets bay* increneed at Meet 50 per cent.
This must he very rumour:ming to Hr. Rh... .4 the
other gentlemen of the analogues, who La. devoted no
much time to the imprisonment of the Market-house
m AAAAA rnant.l
D.Urnisis DOO. -On Friday, Jaws *yaw, wow.
' pirom nod to. keeping • dog without a liminse.-11. C
Chaffy, sr. two dors in defendant's maid. no Hoy 10
and bad nen them there for several month. post Delon-
' dant told hint he had only one dog: but on reflng into the
stables witness found the other dog, which 8y.... eald
belonged to. man of Chickerel, named Jas. When
normai with the surnovms, be sterol be Asti dreamed Mi.
d..-Fined In the mitigetral proilre
ItlitaTA.lllllLe? AT TOE WOLICIIGUeIe -HI. Boole.
Reath, • humour-is:, gave a very real enierralem-ut on
lhuriday evening In the old men's ward -A the Dolma.
hose. Are nest the ladle, and "enflames moml were
lb. Rm. J D A441.n sae Mrs *Adios,. Mr. and
J. Droves, Hr. ft Thom., Iffr. Walter Tom- r, 1. Mr,
R. Heath imitate:id • variety of Cobb. edaractars, afford
ins emit antomensint, and ho eh". meg mony inteovuoa,
lames Mr. lie*. no aseirnd by Um. R-aeh and IN-
RI...eh. llnt, o.f...sera whom ally matte! Teonysoe'r
41 Q •-is. ent Mies s iot sena heurf I oily. Al the
elor the R... I D A I,lms •cominseJ %h. pleasure he
hml felt and Me rw of the and:ones concern&