The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-05 00:00:00

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from the lid named • lb. Jewish order ea tiff
knew, was sitinot; .a.l lisp order of Melchisodite
ended with Christ who ever ling at the right band of God,
and through Hint they were told to come boldly to the
throne of grace to offer their petitions. Ifcia the:. tlit;
ritualists had no basis' for titer elti
P
stiendoing Bat thee said Yorau kneel, and
stand. and bow at the name of Jen.. 50 You are
ritualista." Of worse they were all ritualisti in one
Dense. The Cletrob Association did not modems the
regent and Orderly observance of public workshlpi but
only estranged ritual—illegal ritUal, snob as Siw
practised in the church of Mr. liaokonochie. Tel If the
only question between the Evanplioal Party and thts
ritualiats were one of • little more or a little less demi,
the wearing of • white surplice or a black gown, he
sboald have warmly thought the Churtch Association
important
necessary ; bat there was an principle
invoivrd in the matter. In doctrine the ritualists were
one with the Church of Rome: in their devotional
manuals was found the invoeation of gents, prayers
to the Blessed Virgin, &orb:mbar confession, and transub-
stantiation, all promoted; while Protestantism was
spoken of in terms repulsive to Christian feeling and in
every way oondennatorr of Its ellstenee. He could
respect the Roman Catholic priest, who conscientiously
held the doctrines he taught, however deeply he felt he
was In error ; but when be found men in that Church of
England teaching 2.omenist doctrines be felt it to be
duty to protest against them. Tracing the Proems
of truth through Adam, the patriarchs, and the pro-
phets, be observed it was folly made known at
the corning of the Lord Jesus Christ, and is now
revealed by the Holy Spirit. He condemned coin' hook
to the eorn-oat symbolism of Judaism, for we were
now living in the light of the But. of Righteousness,
when each men may go to the Lord Jesus, having no
other mediator bet Him between himself and God.
"Stood fast, therefore, in the libels, wherewith Christ
bath made you free, and be rot entangled again with
the •oke of bondage." In conolusion, he urged that
the Choral' Association was deserving of the support,
the sympathy. and the prayers of the Christian public.
It was said that this was a perseostiog. or, at least, a
Prosecuting society. He protested against it. When
false brethren bad crept into the Gourds of England.
and were teaching doctrines contrary to &ripens, and
ruining the souls of thousands who came under their
sway—Men whose practices had been condemned by
the highest tribunal of the land as Illegal, but who
still, in defiance of the law, continued their course, he
felt it was the common duty of all to oppose them.
He noticed the miserable evasion of the judgment of the
Privy Council by Mr. Mactinnoehie, who being admon-
ished not to raise the pane above his head, elevated it
to the level of his head, and he appealed to any who
looked fairly at the feats of the case, whether such
conduct was not unfair, illegal, and un-Bogliah. If the
Clbureb Anoeiation had not been established when it
was, be believed that by this time the people would
have become so indoctrinated with ritualism that
much mischief would ban awned to the church, sod
he considered that the nation was indebted tO the
Church Association for ezresing the principles and
alms of the ritualists, arid teething the people to dis-
tinguish between practice. and doctrines essentially
different Some deprecated tiontroversy, but when It
concerned • matter so vital as the doctrine, and articles
of our church, and the discernment of the true from
the false, it was most important and useful. Under the
old dispensation the service in the temple was not
joioed in by the people—for them it wad • spectacle—
the priest performed all the functions ; while noel we
had oor honk of Common Prayer, and the clergyman
did not pray for but with the poeple—they were to
present their petitions to the throne of grace, not
through the clergyman. but through JOlllll Christ our
Lord and uaviour. He had endeavoured to put before them
certain suggestions on this subject which might induce
them to go to their Bibles to see if those things were
so, and if his addrees led them to Indy more and more
the Scriptures, and to speak about them to their Mends
and soquaiutanoes, his sinning weold not be in vain.
Finally be urged them toe intend earnestly for the faith
ones delivered to the saints, and et the S.M. time to
sneak the truth In the spirit of Christian love—
.,
(applause.
The Rev If. Moliti, !XI Moving • vote of thanks fo the
lecturer, took the opportunity of expressing he &death.
moot to the principles of the Church Association, and
his admiration of its work, for he did value it very highly
for what it bad -already dons. As to the formation
of soother institution on the ground of mote strictly
Evangelical principle% it seemed to him not only utterly
unnecessary. but really mischievous. The persons who
had undertaken it could be little aware, be thought, of
what would result from suet, a course. He had once or
twee been at meetings of the Alllooiligloll in Londe'',
and had had a good deal of intercourse with membere IA
this part of the country, and he was certain that
Evangelieel principles lay at the foundation of all that
bad been done and all that It was intended to do—(hear,
hear). It had been quite tureemary expo.* Romish
pradiese in the eh rob, and that was almost the extent of
the past proceeding, of the in.tiertion; but the great object
waste set forth end to snored the Evangelical principles
that prevail throughout the whole of our services—the
liturgy and the articles of the Church of England; and
he felt very grateful to Mr. Weldon for putting forth
' that prominent feature In all our services, and in the
whole spurn of the Church of England. of the looking
to the Lord Jens as the atoning scierillon, the all-pre-
, veiling intercessor, and the one mediator; and he did
sot hesitate to jay—though be had often bees considered
oneheritable for saying if, because of the argument. in
favour of sacrificing priests nut forth in past times in
this Moons—he 'did not hesitate to gay dot persons
I could have but little real faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,
and His one sacrifice once offered, who thought the
I clergy amid repeat In any form whatever soy part of
• that sacridoe. In conclusion he exhorted them to the
1 early of the Scriptures.
, The Rev. X W. PUSS said that the Rev E. Ludlow
and Mrs. Ludlow, and the Rev, Reginald Smith and
I Hrs. Smith would have been present, bat they Were
obliged to he out of the county at that time. He had
I also remised a letter from Mi. Tburrnei, of Wer
mouth, who was sorry he could not be there, but be
; had sent a contribution to put in the plato--• very
good esernpl• which he would sage-st to others who
could not attend. Mr. Swine, of Cone, was absent
through having met with an accident. He was pleased
to see some from the country, and should have been
glad if there bad been a larger attendance. He trusted
' that those pretest had not been disappointed. Int.
' Portant truths had been put before them in • new form.
' With regard to the association, they must not be sot..
piped to bear it called • persecuting society. Men who
• were breaking the law had not the least objection to
other men being honest, so long as they did not inter-
fere with them (bee. hear.) So they found, that
althouxh it was I policeman's business to keep the
' peace, be was sometimes °Miami to break a man's head
In fulfilling his duty. The great object of the Church
Association was to keep the peace and maintain the
ohnrch according to the law ; and if men broke in where
they had ro business, and go the Church Association's
legal staff about their heads that we not the essocia.
Ron's halt, but their own —(hear, hear and laughter.)
It was a peace-preserving society and soled on de only
principles which could maintain pease in the church
or in thiatioun'n
The ellAllll.lf, In olefin, the meeting, pointed out
how essentially opposed to the doctrines of the ritualists
is the fuddle to the Hebrews:
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The doxology was sung, the Rev. C. W. Bingham
pronouneeti the benediction, and the trseeting separated.
The oollection at the door amounted to L 2 teL

BL A NDFORD

lib LIIMTORD La ILICULTO sac Soarry.—W• are
requested to date that a general meeting of the
membered this society will beheld at the Crown Hotel,
on Saturday. April 23rd. when it is expected the pro.
vsnaine will be arreueed for the ensulnir year.