The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OR SALISBURY'S CHARD&

The moeuneetneet that the Bishop of Salisbury
would deliver his triennial obarge on Monday draw a
large number of clergymen and others to the Cathedral.
The sacrament was administered to the attending clergy
in the chancel, which wee not opm as in former mina-
Mons, and the charge was delivered in the nave instead
of from the "Sanctum" as heretofore. People under-
stood that the Bishop would reply elaborately to the
renionstranees t.ha; have leaned from various parts of
his dime.e to the expression of principle. which his
lordship made in reply to the letters of Lord Sydney
Godolphin Giborne, and there was an unusual attend-
NMI of both clergy and laity. His lordship appeared
made to throw down his gage and confront his °peones ta,
Be bad written a charge which occupied, after very
m'uch of it had been skipped, over three bourn and •
quarter of rapid reading. A raised platform had been
prepared for him, aed the emblem which has been so
much gained, the piston/ staff, wm planted by an
attendant chaplain behind hi* chair. Before he
commenced his charge be called his chaplain and sent
him to iarite the Bishop's seed mother who was in
• Bath chair, to • Dearer and better posit! .n.
He began by exorneing thankfulness that he had
again been enabled to gin the "bread of life" to so
many of hit clergy. Since they had last met on a
similar oecasion to this, 27 of their number bad been
withdrawn from their oompaoy ; of these he par.
ticularised—bestowing a few words of eulogy on each
—Prebendary Moore, viers of Wimborne St. Giles,
Canoe °nitwit, of Calve, Bawds. Crosby Morgan, J.
H. Templar, and Sidney Lem, and the Right Rev, S.
L. Cotton, the Metropolitan of India. Ile had lathed
one pastoral letter for an additional offering cm behalf
of Foreign Miming, and he had declined one on behalf
of the Curates Augmentation Fund, simply homage be
had already issued one pastoral letter, and for no
other Having thanked all who lied assisted
bin" in the work of the diocese, he expressed hia fears
that education by tbe State would eventually Mom in
secular education. He bad received a memorial,
signed by 22 clergyman, 24 churchwardens, and one
sideamth, making Isla to hold his visitation at Who-
borne instead of Blendford, and the result of his con-
sideration had bees to postpone the question to some
future time, when, perhaps, be might own* to some
good arrangement as to the planes where be should
bold his visitation. The Bishop then proceeded—
asking for • Gala, equitable, thoughtful, patient,
°heritable eonsideratiom of his endeavour (whether he
ahoctld WI or sboosed) in ocreemendiog himself to their
Judgment—to emasider late events which gave him a
kind of penonal intend la his subject. Fie would speak
Int of one donna., other. being the subject of special
coetromeny each as absolution, of which be would
pregently. de spoke them of the power of
ritilliting and Isiodag, of forgiving or retaining sin —the
doctrine, to see a arommea imperial, of the Power of
the Rays. For the mite of greeter clearness be would
explain what that doctrlee was, First, it was held
that certain men had bad entrusted to them by God,
as fellow workery with Him, unnatural powers and
Privileges. second, God had been steamed to give to
these His ministers,the power of an altering the elements
of bread and wine, sie to make them the channels of
conveying to the pout for it. subdatenoe the refreshing
body and blood of Christ. Thirdly, ea Christ the
11 amended Lord is ever pleading, so the clergymen, His
ministers, plead on earth that which He pleads in
1 heaven. Fourthly. that God who alone can forgive
sins, bath delegated to them, His representatives, the
power and authority of expressing to those fitting to
receive if, the pardon of their sin.' in other terras to
um
the well haven words "Almighty Ood theirether of our
Lord Jesus Christ bath given power and commandment
to his minister', to declare and Fineman". to his pe.pie
being penitent the absolution and remission of their mos.
Sash were the doctrines which of late had been m mush
controverted ;and, if he bad thought it right for the sake
of elearness, to make this stateurect of them, he wre not
content to leave it thee. They must bear with him
while he gays them their separate and proper form, and
supported them by their proper authorities. Thom
troths related to the Church of Christ and no hypotheses
could receive • proper consideration until • sufficient
revelation had been made of the mysterious relation,
saberisting between Christ end the Church. The Bishop
then entered into an elaborate consideration of the
tepteriee of the Incarnation. The Godhead and the
Manhood, joined in one peter, formed one Christ—
" Very God and Very Man. Well might Bt. Paul
exclaim, 'Great is the mystery of Godliness." The
bridal union between a Divine nature had fulfilled the
ordination, that man, through the hairnet. Soo, might
become partaker of the Divine nature. Before our Lord
left this world He had formed a risible society, the
members of which were bound together, but they were
to be bettered by &union with Him and with one another.
The "ezpetheney" of His going, tones his own words
("It is expedient that I go away"), was that he could
mine again in the Spirit through the Holy Ghost. The
relation of the great Mediator to his Chan* wane great
mystery. Bat God had leen pleased to speak of it in
Imagery, and the image which set forth most vividly
this union was that given by St Paul, "Peru the body
is one and bath many members, and ail the members of
this one body, being many, are on. body • so also Christ." In this passage the peat apostle lamest that
when they contemplated the body with its eommilet
organizations, they had before them an earthly material
construction ; but when they spoke of the body of Mutat.,
they spoke of an organization of many members. H
next point was, that this body was • visible and an In'
visible one. Oar greet Heed, the Lord Jesus, M
The Holy Ghost ism invisible present person;
Lb. powers of this body are invisible; the Heine
members of this body who are still among us an n. I
to be distinguished by the eye of man. The large.t
attribute of men, his soul, is invisible; still man is not
• phantom; and so it is with the Church, I hat
company of men who have been grafted into ti •
Holy Body, and give tokens that the Spirit is training
them to become members of the church triumphant,
Is a visible company. The ministrations end the
sacraments are all visible—they appeal to our senses.
We may, therefore, in speaking of this body, reproent
it with sufficient aceuraey se visible on this side,
invLible on that. He purposely 'misted on this,
bellieviee that many of our diffiirdties arise from
forget ins that invisible bodies set through vi.ible
meths of grace. The Bebop, reminding his beaten
that Christ is filling His Mies as Prophet, Priest, and
Sing, argued that in discharge of the functions of His
office, Be was invested with the prerogative of making
His disciples in the church. which He formed Wore Re
left the world, partakers of Hia fulness, and that with-
out intruding upon or interfering with His prerciatire
a• the one only Mediator between God and man. The
Bishop then proceeded to
hood Christ had beetowed= thateri upon h
en,ofwit PriiSht
dare not deprive them. He insinuated the Jews a. •
meetly people mid referred to the laying on of bands
be the Priest in the blessing of children sa an ordained
instrumentality for conveying his blooming. Re weed
that the Christian Chnreh is the continuatiim and
development of the Jewish Chants ; and if the ROAM
to the Gelatians towhee us that in the latter the
ordinances of Judaism' have been does away, the
the Hebrews show
ymass. they ere shadows
of geed to
Wags to some. Shadows, typos, tied symbol,
have been taken up, and transmuted into subtheme.
He maintained that there were Show who, in the first
days of the Gospel kingdom, had received in a very
special and peculiar way from the one Prophet, Priest,
and King, spatial power, sod the power committed to
the Atielpalea„ wee transmitted by them, in the name
of Or Lord Jesse Christ, to other mob. At groat
1.4 A the Bishop prooneded to answer the objections
that bed bora raised to these doctrines. As to the
objeetioe that the &Mistiest of powers was ineonsiettat
with our Lord's Personal preetioce, hi eggidaded
the' the Apollo inn alloyed to omits thus
pewee, ilia they wars bat um. Apia, it woo oda,

... had as power of workieg mirselm, end oiers
had not. They had not the slightest emblems tbat the.
power to work miracles ceased in the time el
Apostles. sad if we admit that that power had base
deviled, it would involve the power of preaching
the Gospel. which our Lord socessanded them to go
forth and dc. It was elear there had base frost tlim
Art a ministry with delegated ponere—meognirecl
instruments, mid agents, to administer that beeline
balm of the impel, which alone can give hie.
Pa-sing by altogether tbe argument'. en to the poi.
phstioal power bestowed, he Proceeded with Meat
minuteness to dwell upon the °files of the prima
the Holy Reshot-Pk referee' to the injunction" is,
the &Awe on the Tried, to consecrate the Bread and
Wine and if there is too little to tionseerate more
and if there is too mush to take it to himself, a.
evidences that the Church considered this • time's-
dons mastery. By the blessing the bread and wi
become a a.
'wenn inward life. Outwardly it remained in warintenes
what it was before, but still by eenementioe it bed
been ms-is
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become. the
blood of
"atondth.thineyctwrwebmos.clakameSt: alDethenre Lp"hemui,:te.:4ol. the .rcaca of
morn ee.pt,atic
declaimer of justifying any pies that could interfere
with the automatic power of God. 'There was a
time for "peeking, and • time for 1311• Dee a
time to past by and • time to be osepoken.
lu bin opinion the time had come, at any
rate in this dimes" for the latter curie; and he bad
without any meatal reservation, Gad knew, acted
on that conviction. In bearing his testimony with
them this rev. bretherms who had received the divine
commission and grace to discharge the offices of the
priesthood, and to exiled,' legal authority over
the members of Chrim's flock), be eonld remind
time that everyone who received the doctrine in its
apostolic and literal meaning, " This is my body ; this
is my blood," would almost instinctively pass on to
unite himself to thecae, Itedistorial set of oar Lord and
Sariour. With retard to the Hegel power of the priest-
hood, he did not forget that it was a skim that stirred
OD great opposition. As long on mem thoeglit of the
Oh rola as • mere bans* lnettisMon—e seem 'tub, be
could understand how wily it coshi be stripped of
much of its influenee, but hi wee eertsin that the MOM
they recognised its true funstioss, the reedier they
woold be for the admission of pebble discipline. His
lordship than referred to • memorial which be bed
received from Itt of his clerrymen, reminding bile them
it is the bounden duty of a minister to AOKI,* the
ordinanees and principles of his church. It seemed tc •
him that without intending it, their words soave's&
that some onelhad bees dishonest enough to receive the
pay of the church, whilst they acted towards her
e:th disloyalty. He felt sure this was not antipode& If
that, was no. thing more hateful thee soother to Bushell.
men, it was dishonesty, and they must excuse him if he
felt somewhat sensitive as to the right meaning of the
words used. The Bishop was proceeding on a long
inquiry into the effect" of the rubric on the doctrine of
the Basement, when his voice somewhat failed, and some
of his auditors manifested • little ...mimes. His loni•
ship therefore mid it was a very long argument, and he
weld not hope to keen up their alt .ntion to it, bat be
proposed to send to each one of them a oopy of bit
charge, when printed. Pursuing the subject • little
further, he revived the digging interest by laying
the next in the question of ritualism. He admitted
that men's minds were differently eeeetitsted, and
whilst one found greeter comfort in • lower fore of
worship, others thought in this Me of beery, the
services rendered to God could not he too isegnificest.
The question was, what was the proper and
antboritative ritualism of the ("lurch 016cent:id. But
it was a legal question, and what theausser should be
be was too rumble of his own want of judicial learning
to offer an opinion on. Referring to the opinions of
varions classes on this subject, be spoke of ions who
might claim ooneideration at their hands, and be camomile!
forbearance, and that they should try to argue and con.
Tinto them who differed from them. He believed that
the doctrine of the Real Presents, could sot but tend
to raise the standard of worship, and the qiimtiou
had been started whether the Church of England could
maintain be place without ritualism. If parliamentin.
terfered its the matter as some suggested, he could not be
• consenting Party. Of 0012/11 the appointment of •
Royal Comeniesion was • perfectly different thing, but
he could not wooed with it any hopes of sem. se. He
did not believe le szsy diocese there had been few,
attempts to make holey and irritating changes than in
his own, for there had bees only one pariah where ext reme
ritualism hat been Introduced, and that certainly
without any sanction from hie. After referring to
the death of John Hobbs he reteword to the question
of the memorial', and said if be hail dope &craw
to justify the uncharitable view of his conduct, ic
had done it through infirmity. Holed ever advocated
the exhibition of a forbearing spilt, but be should
deem himself worthy of their contemn* if he did not
act with • determination to sectors tie fellsemen of
justice to his clergy. It wee also him purpose sever
to allow anyone to bops he could mMetsin his ova
rights by assailing any of his, and he eboald allow
nothing to be done without a faculty. referring to.
a proposed &dime to himself, the Bishor. expressed
his dialike to all this kind of addreems apex oohed*
of controversy, and he hinted in ooneindeig, elme
he had
come private imeimonicatios called he attestion to
them. Is bringing his Charge to a conclusion, the Right
Reverend Prelate appeared to labour under considerable
emotion as he espremed his belief that if he bad not
bees deemed faithful to his duties and loyal to the
Church, he late and mach revered and veserated er'-
deceeror, while en his death bee, would tuner base re-
commended him for the high and important °See which
it was his privilege to All. The Biaboo then, bolding the
pastoral staff in his left head, and raising the right after
the manner described by Lord 1 nbnroa is one of his re-
cent letters to the Times. pronounced the " Actortoliesl
beeediction,” and this portioa of the proceedings was
brought to • sloes

SALISBURY RACES.

This aristocratic, and particularly enjoyable Wiltshire
I reunion commenced under the most favourable eircum-
stenos' on Thursday, the weather being truly delightful,
whil the attendance was Me largest sod most fashion-
able ever seen at this favourite tweeting. The only
untoward circumstance that mould in the slightest degree
isterfere with its complete success was the fact of .lash-
ing with the Doncaster Spring Meeting ; the only ap-
preciable effect, however, was in the enclosure, where
the company was somewhat thinuer than on former
anniversaries, The various events Prolueed.rd Gelds,
lied the Wiltshire stakes and fialisbroy es proved
imperially interesting rases, Use drat-named semis bring
on by • head wily, sad the latter by a each. Four
prime out of the ea eoutested were carried 0( by the
deservedly popular Marquis of Hastings. Lag, indeed.
as this part of the country is the stronghold of Dune
bury, backers and bookmakers always calculate epos
that stable being in great form hare. The (Wareing is •
return of Thunday's running :

ma CRAY= PLars (Flaodiesp), of 50 eon. /I'm
farloogs.

Tumbler, 3 yrs., Sat. nb .
Pantaloon, 5 yrs., eat. 7Th .
Freemason, 3 yra, Ist. Tlb
Eleven ran.

.1
.2

The SALISROIT STAZU 0110 SOTS. sash, with 50 added,
for tiro year olds. Half a mils. 35 subs.
Marquis of Ranting'. Lady ',limbed' ... I
Captain Day's Lord Palusaridou .. 2
Mr. Wyndham's Maeda ... 3
Twelve raa.

The Cm BOWL. vials* 25 50,.., ofdad to • Sweepstaks•
of 5 eon. each. Mee furloop.
2
Cleopatra ...
Tam. . . 3

The wzusurits sructs (Handicap) of 25 lOve. each,
with 100 edded. Two miles. 69 subs.
John DaVig, 6 yrs., Set. bib. 1
Douro, 4 yrs., 6st. 71b . .. 2
Ailsebury, 3 yra, set .. 3
Six ran.

A Sormwrsicis of 5 son. enh, with 25 &Aida. Firs
Wings. Brno Baba

Colmmo ... ...
Southood ...
disposer... .„


1:: 5

roe 01.77 CASTLE STAIIIIII, a Free Handicap of 5 IDYL
/cab, with 30 added. Osa
lied Ribald, 3 re., Gat. 4117 ... 1
Caaard, 37 m, fat. • 2
Diatar, 6 ym, set. 10lb ... 3

The card on Friday produced eight hems for deeision
which resulted in some very interesting entseetars:
The majority of the prime fell to the Dumber, stable
(ea on Thermi•yl. Tamil:4lr mond • mooed victory in
ths opening event, and then the Martinis of ileattniont
seecesses were ushered in by the ClWtoo in Me Long-
ford O&Mle Stamm The Bermebecire Plats was the
most exciting toads of the day, there being • double
deed best. It swami In the invinsible IlLartteie
off the stakes, the owners being obliged to roa off the
Anal hem, as the winner was to be sole.
At HABDICAP PLATS of 50 swim Thrsevquartors of