The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-05 00:00:00

THE BL9HOP'S THRONE.

Common IMMO has, we hope, been too much for the
preporterons proposal to upend £l4lO on a throne for •
cleegyman of the Church of Christ. We noted the
appeal from Btourpaine vicarage • short time two, and
now Mr. J. F. Messenger writes • pitiful appeal from
Farley. We give an extract :
" It seems sow perfectly clear that the Bishop's throne,
which has been erected co the Cathvdral at • cost of LW
will be only ma put, tbe gift of those who have been
ordained by Bishops Denims, Hamilton. and Moberly.
Merely £375 have as yet been raised, and I illy twcvilairds
of them to whom cirealass were sent have made no
response. The honorary secretaries deeply regret that so
large • deficit mast be supplied from the general restore.
has fund (every penny of which is seeded for other
necessary works in tie Cathedral). or by tit. Cstliedral
One is curious t, know what are the '0 other
necessary work. is the Cathedral," with which the
erection of a Bishop's throne is worthy tube compared,
toe on. cannot bat suspect they are as needle's as Is
this arrogant defiance of our Loris teaching to His
miolitare. With Bishops assuming earthly titles and
having thrones erected to them in the booms of God,
what weeder that coldness and even alienation
characterise the feeling of many of the working chums
tower& religion, and that cultivated thinkers too often
me nothing in stregiffes for the cluirch's progress but
'OlOO4 to ad canoe the *nit,' of the priesthood, and
no
;ffy off into the' dressiness of the egsastic hope-
-11111111011•L But the Christian shouid riot tall to
groclaim*at It was our Lord who cams to earth
humbly to ho,l earth's woes, and that Ile, who
onesorted with the poor, clearly prociainted—" The
lisnipla Ii net above his master, nor the servant above
Ms Lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his
Master, sad the servant as his Lord."
We are thankful that some of ear clergymen have •
truer idea of the spirit of Christ. and we quote, with
great satialactkm,Rev. H. C. G. Monies worsen, and
ask what likelihood would there have been of the
accepting the bumbling menage, had It
a6rirlt
given under the baleful shadow of a Bishop's
Thiess ?

1:11Z DTING PKILO6OPIIIOI TO TUE aIIiJATIO.
As minoner gram for vernal rain
My soal la thirsting, lo.jln TM,
For truth of pardon :inaka it plain.
Know Mdse. a lithe. I kith. we.;
Weighed the plaseum they run,
And felt the pulses of the ass;
Hews conjured from their ancient sleep
Iliad *earts af the purple deer,'
And such in rucipbuilt mountains keep;
With Mad upon the mind have wrought,
witching*u mars of mei and thought,
And worshicgoodsll things theuth-fraught
All things with toasty fraught, saw On.;
And noes the lights of time AM does;
slow, slow, the last lifa affronts run.
The eternal ray is on me Dow.
The omniscience of the Judas loon.
ADA (must meet Him; tell as how !
Think not, because this mind bath striven
t7nweamed, that I &nun that heaven
Is as. student's guesting' given.
The mind r.asy soar; but underneath
Conscience both felt the stings of death
And now —1 &sir $ falling breath.
Being, not knowing, makri the tIIMI
1 have not tarred my lialee%, plan ;
I tem his everlasting ban.
tit ITle lie not let uses.
Make simple what I need to keine,
Aye. •aiple : pitch thy doctrine low,
I. rhetoric Might ! no glirious dream'
We bberallemeum of a Memo
Mistimes o'er the law supreme !
Inetrust a helpless soul defiled;
Prythee, be slow, be Arto, be mild,
As to a cessears iyiageitlld.
I ask fur Christ, my gain Is lair.
y Intellectual mid is dregs
Teach ins the donetne of the erase.
H. O. O. Komi, In Susay at Wow.