The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-18 00:00:00

Ecclesiastical intelligrnce.

CALENDAR._

Api 11 18—Easter Tue-sditYPrOPei:Epistle and Gospel.
19 —Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury; Epistle
and Gospel of Easter-day.
20—Thursday.
21—Friday; Cambridge Term begins.
22—Saturday.
23—Low Sunday;
Morning Prayer, Ist Lesson, Numb. xvi. ;
2lid, Acta Is.
Evening Prayer, lit Lesson, Numb. xxii. ;
2nd, 2 S. Peter ii.

Tex case of the Rev. Mr. Drury, of Norwich, who
has &some mixed up with the proceedings of Father
Ignatius in that town, was before the Court of Arches
on Monday.. The rev. gentleman bad formerly been
" admonished" for his conduct, and it was DOW pro-
posed to lib a monition on him to abstain from sunder
preetiote en pain of further proceedings. The applies.
tivei was granted, and it is underetooe: that he will also
be callei upon to pay the °oats of the suit.
CHDINCH ERTATI CONINIRAIONZBA.—The Commis-
/weer of Church Estates, in their fourteenth report,
hurt 'published, says :—" We have transferred to the
-callesiastieal Commissioners for England during the
ipeat year • sum ot stock equivalent to £lOO,OOO cash,
In respect of the surplus proceeds of enfranchisement.
•completed. The aggregate amoupt which has been
paid over or transferred to the amount of the
Eoclesiastical Commissioners is now £1,200,207 2.e. 2d.,
In addition to £130,000 in respect of interest which has
monied on the eurplus. We last year reported that
the transactions approved by us between August, 1851,
and March, 1864, were 2,516 in number, and that the
value in fee of the estates so agreed to be dealt with
amounted to about £9,960,000. We have during this
year approved the terms agreed upon in 122 cases ;
.107 being oases of sales of reversions and 15 eases of
purchases of leasehold interests, and the value in fee of
the estates so agreed to be dealt with is appsoximately
£930,000. The aggregate number of eases epproved by
us is, therefore, 2,638, and the value of the property
dealt with amounts to about £10,310,000."
DIPLORABLN CONDITION OP A CHURCH.—It is to be
hoped that there are very few parish churches in any
part of Great Britain which mower to the description
given by the Rev. James Ormiston, incumbent of
Wyibop, Pear Cockermouth, of his owe. The cherub,
be says, is small, damp, and dilapidated, standing at
the summit of a lofty hill, and practically inaccessible
during winter to the nod poor. Thera is no Sunday-
school room, no parsonage Louise, and the gross annual
/proceeds of the bene6ce amount to £5l. There are
no resident gentry, and the inhabitants are unable to
supply their own urgent wants. The communion table
Is • narrow board, supported by • moveable bracket
eoutelde the reading desk, and the vessel, employed at
the Lord's Supper are • Meese elite and a pewter pot.
:No font is provided, so that • somewhat novel
expedient has to be resorted to on the omission of a
baptism. The incumbent is endeavouring to raise £BOO
for the erection of a church at the foot of the mountain,
for which purpose • site and nearly 400 have bees
obtained, the Bishop of Chester, in whose diem, the
parish is ait,iate, being amongst the subscriber'.
CHURCH Music.—Mesers. Brown and Co., the Canal,
Salisbury, have just published • pamphlet entitled "A
Few Words on the present State of Church Music in
England," by the Rev. H. W. Pullen, M.A., Minor
'Canon of Salisbury. Mr. Pullen contends that in spite
of the alleged improvement which has taken place in
our parish choirs, there probably never was a time
when se much bad music was sung in our churches,
or so much ignorance displayed on the whole subject of '
eeclesiaetical music, as there is at the present day.
He eondsonns the present spasm of cougregational
music ; and contends that no • outlay of time or money
should be thought too great in offering up to Him who
is the giver of all art and the author of all beauty, the
most glorious services that we are able to conceive."
Be believes that good serviette multiplied throughout
oar country would do more to Christianise our heathen,
sod to rouse up torpid Christiana, than any number of
.sermons. He observes :—" I claim, then, for the Choral
Service of the English Church a higher dignity and a
more vast importance than the very warmest of its
advocates have yet assigned to it. I claim for the act
of public praise and prayer • precedence over every
'other act of the Christian's day. I claim for Church
music, no leas for Church architecture, that it
:shall be among arts—the most brilliant
noblest in design. I claim for
- the choicest WWOOl'OO4 of
up to the public at the
ElalL I protest against
, which are judged good enough
who think no amount of time
be spent upon • concert or an
Christians have noMore right
meagre song of praise, than the
I a maimed heifer or • cake of
r that our shabby unmusical
disgrace to us aa guardians of
k only more painful than
,of the churcheatin which
short of a positive insult to
peOfess to glorify." Mr. Pullen
' that the bald unmusical

Church
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Kietor

services

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say

contrast

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magnifloesos
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nothing

St. Aratcais are better— than- -
I the beat musicians who have
that the teat of antiquity, real
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aside and that of intrinsic-Merit