The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-12-05 00:00:00

No. VI.—REJECTED (SYNODICAL) ADDRESSES
IN THE DIOCIIII or LArun..

110 W T 3 MAKI A DIOCISAN SYNOD PCIANANT. UPON
DtaN EVANGELICAL CUUhcll rhINCIPLES Ely the
per. .If,e. altiniey ricddile
It must ho • great satisfactioe to al good
illarchrued to fiud thit our excellent and
learned Bishop has determined to call together
sod place on • permanent footing it Diec,ssn >n iii.
Nothing can be deviied more likely to eteui the
advancing tide of democracy and innevation, and
strecgthen the bulwarks of our church against her
external foes. lot this, like every good woik, in 9
have great difficulties to ounteuil with, arising nit a
much from diversities of opinion that are era. inin.l
by members of the Church, as from the iujudieieus aml
narrow-minded bigotry with which modern Weir... insist
on their own theories of religion. The remedy therefore
Is In our own bands: sell as ell Rom Churchmen will
gladly rally round our Bishop on this and every other
suck ocaution, it is important to ascertain el. rely how
we may effectually help, and not hinder his Loreship.
First a all let us we the extent of our differenoes
and the more we look at them, the more insignificant
do they appear, in comparison of the advantages of an
established and endowed church. Some of us from
early education and amociaUen have adopted that
" phase of thought ' usually termed Brame:Mel ; I
confess that I sus one of that number, and run deeply
attecesel to all those Important Doctrines for whieh our
Martyred linkmen so nobly bled. But while reveto
leg the memorise of Creamer. Latimer, and Ridley,
almost to idolatry, I trust I am not so narrow-minded
es to exclude from the true Church such earnest and
able men as Cardinal Wolsey and Sir Thomas More,
or even Bishop &moor himself, for let us remember
how kind he was to his aged mother. Others of us
again sigh over that Reformation as a mistaken and
disaster, and speak of those exesilent men end martyrs
as "unredeemed villains." Here at fint appears a vast
difference, but if we examine it we shall dal that there
Is nothing to prevent hearty Church 00-operation,
for these diff.rences of opinion are only part
of the different theories of religious truth,
of which a Na,lonal elliursh ought to allow
the greatest latitude. Again, some of us believe
In the Holy Trinity, oths re are, strictly speaking,
Unitarians; some iii everlasting punishment, others tat
eneibilation, or universalism. Some believe that
6°,1 is a :Spirit, and they who worship Him must
worship him in Spirit rued in Truth :" others practically
Ignore th,s, and think that the more noise and show,
the better He is pleased, and the more the audience is
edifisd. I think no one con say that I have ignored
•ey of our differs...is: hut what have we here to pre-
vent as hour uniting heart and hand in defence of our
00111111011 mother the Church, in whose well-being we
have so deep an intone-t? The great and important
matter is for us, High Church, Low Change Broad
Church, and No Church to find some common platform
on which we can steed agreed. We must then get rid
of all doctrines end theories first of all, as mere bones
of contention. And is this so difficult? Wheu we
are permitted to take our plain at the table of one of
our rich neighbours, do we obtrude our doctrines there
Would not they be entirely out of place? Can any one
tell, when he meets a clergyman at a great man's table,
to what school of religious thought within the Church
be beloogs? Certainly not, it he id what all clergymen
ought to he, *gentleman. What then wears all in the
hetet of doing for the sake of enjoying the elegaccies of
good esairty, we can surely do for the sake of the
Chorale and only touoh on these points on which we
are all alined. We all, therefore, believe in the
Bishop—the church would be a nonentity without •
Bishop : we cau therefore all unite in supporting the
dignity and splendour of the Episcopal Office. Again,
we all agree in the importance of an Fotablished awl
Endowed Church. If the Church wee disestablished
and discoslowed, no gentlemen would send his sons
ioto the Church, and then what would become of tee
poor enrol psrishs a? For we all know that It is not
religious doctrines or thrones that are the real becefii
to teeny rural parishes, but the foot of a gentlemen and
• gentleman's family living in the midst of them. It
Is this that clvilien them and keeps them from sinking
into barbarism. Here then we have common ground
on which to stand, and something worth contending
fur; and for watt of some opportunity of setting this
forth men have lust sight of the unspeakable advantage
of having anion; them as clergymen educated gentle.
men, who 04.1 impart to them by example polite
behaviour, without being themselves tainted by the
rustic vulgarity of those among whom they live. If we
neglect this opportunity, and leave our excellent Bishop
to fight this battle alone, we may live to see the
Church overthrown, ani our beautiful pal-gouge houses
and our pulpits occupied by comae-minded men, who
think themselves qualified to be olergymen simply
because they know and gen preach the Ocepel. Absie
mwelf/

Nor do I think that the opportunity afforded by the
Synod should be lost of oxhibiting in the most striking
mintier to all the country the glorious fact, that now
after years of ountentir n about such o ouparitivi trifles
as '..loctrino and phaoe of thought," thu wisdom and
forethought of our excellent Bishop have suco,edeti to
restoring peifrot baruainy •itbin the boiona of the
church, of oourso with the exception of a few unre
able iudividuals,whom one incur meets in goo I society,
who are wild ..tivugh to considor trials as vi more ice.
portaace than 414 wwtldly advantage. I would wieb
that for their own silt. II they ovoid be indueed to take
r ammo; but if they will not, they mast be left
to who' hem...rived with tho approbation of the vulgar
not ignorant peoplo. But sur.ly the Synod might be
mule the ovens .f • grand deluoustrution of churchmen
neited on to cou.mou ground of Litahope, tithes,
;arson 'go housep, and yp utility. I would venture
thirefure to auggcit that dicing the sitting of the
Synod, a grand bis tar of useful and ornamental work
should be Lull, sapplomentu I with rsill is, and other
innocent ecclesiastical ainuonnente, the ',rowed' to be
Mehl.] bet., in the Kitzlisli Uoion, and the
Church Ateociai ion, and Mr. Voysey'a fund; the S.P,G.
and Choi oh Missionary S ,ciety ; Curate'. Aid and
Paatoral Aid Society. And on such a solemn «nation
perhaps it would giro an eoclosiastital character to the
aft sir if tho stall., bosidee the usual mediaeval lodise,
were superintended by c!ergy men to full cult:mi.:Ws and
vestment...l. Whilst such a demonstration would greatly
tend to on,, et tho harmony insuguratod by the synod,
the poor Diawnter4 would contrast with our happy
union their -two .lu.rreln and biokerings. and I doubt
not ronoy of Cum would h. ha to wick within the
bosom of tho clvireh that whieh they cannot find in
their own denomiu•tion, namely peace and plenty with.
out ductrioes, thanks, or any other phases of truth.

SIR CHARLES DILKE'S ATTACK ON TIIE
ROYAL HOUSEHOLD.

At the dinner of the Chipponhaut Agricultural
Satiety, Mr. It. N. Fowler, M. I'. for the Penryn and
Falmouth Borough; offered the following oommenta on
Sr Charles Mike's roma& speech :—By whom was the
attack made? It was made by a gentleman who called
blturielf Sir Charles bilks, baronet. Now, how
did this Sir thistles bilks gel hi. title
Either centuries ago, or by • long devotion to the
ettuutry'a evasion ? No ; his father was one of the
great,st toadies that ever lived. (sheers). By hanging
on to the tails of the Court, by being ready to tlttter
It soy extent, Le suoocetlel in getting a baronetcy ;
and the sun of the man who by mob atts, not by
devotion to the public screwy, not by • long and
huouu,•hie sour*, of Parliamentary life, but by mere
toedyoui, got a baronetcy— the son of that man, he
tad, had the baseness and ingratitude to tuin retied
and attack that sovereign to whom ho owed everying
(cheer.). It was upon toevery man to be • Ripublican,
but if there Wei any men throughout the leugt't and
breadth of the country whom decency ought to have
reattaied from avowing Republican opinions and
ut.k,ug • permuted attack on the 3 ivoreign, that man
Wee Sit Charles bilk., Bart.