The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-06-04 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY'S CHARGE.

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Amos( the Essay evils Uk.l to arise howl the
late Purge of the Bishop of this Diocese, we maul
not km eight of the disastrous idlest IS is likely to
have ow the greet Nescoalormist Bodies of our
fellow seeatryisea. They are act arestures of • day
—they have a &rims pest history; they look back
with jest frisosph to that unhappy day whoa the I
sion-mighted bigotry of the Men ia March sad
state, ifkilt 'akar sodsavoarlag to rods*, then to
the Mobs of ostiforesity, drove sat of our Ohara
may beadialla of her hest, nod herbed, sad lowa
pious Taashen sad Maisano they holt lash woe
add rads sdelialasi *NOD far Selssallas sad
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tessOi With ineesbeee ot their Marone' os the
Boob, h the Privy Oonsoil, ernisest in the Courts
of taw, in the army and navy, distinguished as
scholars and divines iii. hardly to b. esperitod that
they will tail to mint his lordship's intolerance in
speaking of thew as "lb. eirota" and "lb. deowni•
nations"

Tana are two separate caries of Nonconformist&
As in our own Ghana, there is • large bomber of
men, who are Churchmen only in name, and whoa*
Cbutolicoanehip only consists In bating and &booing
all who are not like themselves; so there is among
the Nontionformiste a large and most influential body
of men, who are merely political Disernars : to
them this unlucky Cherie will be • matter of great
exaltation : they will point—they Mee done so
already—to its extravagant pretensions, to its in.
tolerant spirit, to its perversions of Scripture, as
being tree and faithful expositions of the spirit and
tesehlog if the Established Church : and they will
ask, are mob doctrines as them, so utterly inoom-
patible with civil and religious liberty, to be sup-
ported by national funds and on this they will
ground their renewed attacks upon the Church. On
the other hand, dimmers among them many mealiest
and tray pious persons, who have ever been willing
to join heart and band with Mordants it every
good work who heartily Wish tree and spirited
Prosperity to the Church, while they bate and abhor
them modern innovations. But the oontemptoons
, Manner in which they are spoken of, as out of the pals
of the Church, may well make them thy of the
society of those who have an ecotone, title to
" regal and judicial powers." Now, at this para.
calm juncture, this is most disastaves, and displays
a want of judgment sad sound sense perfectly
marvellens in him who is the mese of it. With
error of every Maps threatening the very existence
of religion, all who are in earnest should be seeking
grenade fee imam, insesed of training anew lines of
demarcation, that were aluaidad elated« ego.
Nor is there any ironed for supposing that the
Oburcb is thus ecologies. At the time of the Refer.
mation, religious tolerance was unknown. Our
forefathers had an idea that every ocantry was at
liberty to choose its own trio of Church Govern.
meat, but that mob country must only have one.
So, while they were on the most friendly terms with
the Noo•Episoopal Churches of Frame, and Germatiy,
and Geneva, they would not tolerate mote than one
Church at home. Thie objection Was not acciesies-
tiod, but political: therb was Dolling of Apostolioal
snoanion in it, but simply an unacriptural and
canal notion of uniformity; and this feeling bated
for many years. Now, when toleration is granted
politically, eadesimtioal exolosivener is simply an
unseemly remnant of mediaeval traria:le.
Nor is this a gratuitous sad unfounded assertion.
Perhaps our readers are DO aware that worship
Is carried cas every Sunday In the Iletropolitau
Cathedral of Canterbery by • French Presbyterian
minister! And bow is tail? When the Frenoli
Protestants fled from Frew*, M the revoostion
of the Edict of Nantes, A.b. 1885, two or
three Cathedrals assigned theca • plate for
their worship: it is only used now at Canterbury;
and, we have reason to believe, although we have
never seen it ourselves, that the deed of gift, by
which they exercise this right, also gives them the
use of the CatAafral Communion T sills, three times
• year, to celebrate the Communion after their own
form. What horrible dseecrstionl Our forefathers
and their Bishops meat have been In delight/al
ignokande of the regal and judicial authority of the
Priesthood, and of the traniadoue mystery of the
sacrifice which they offer, and of the awful sacredness
of the altar .!

But, to mite farther down some tbittp years ago,
Stan Bishop of our Church, we believe, signed an
Wilier of congratulation to the Church of 0110111T/1,
on their ter-etiotenary, with au acknowledgment of
the good work that Church hadsooomplished. Where
woe Apostoliesi Semmeion then t Where it ought
still to be—at Rome. We Churchmen owe it to our
Nonconformist neighbours thus to Mortify on our
own behalf, and that of our Church, our utter dis-
gust at the revival of these silly nod unchristian, as
well as ilitimed Myth". To tit tilers is something
unspeakably ludicrous in hie lordship stentliag
and with "Apostolic Blood tingling in his veins,"
epeakiog of men like Robert Hall, Carey, Ralik and
Williatne—men whom mass is in all the CIRIMISIS,
I " the sects," sad " the denominations." M. lord-
ship should know that sectarianism is peculiar
to no body niUbrl.tianaj end, while there see
Baptists, and Weeleyans, atid Congregationalists,
perfectly free from it, he, in his Charge, Us evidently
shown that he hoe never rhino above the pitiful
motatisoises of an tpietiopelien. tiers ar7 e we
know, very many able Illoisters of "the seeta," who
• intbsoribe to our Articles and Liturgy more
honiNtly, sad preach the doctrines of our Church
more faithfully, than any one of the Ritualists, from
the highest to the lowest

'Magni for • gnomon his lot hip brought fees to
km with one of then inferior sectarians and cam,
pilled to dimme tin Scriptural grounds of his Chirp.
Images. his oonstersatiola if one of " the deaomiaa-
tions" wore to 011011300 t 4 alik Lim —my led, what
Vlarraet have you for sayiag that the Jews were of
old "a kingdom of priests"? they had the
promise of bang so "if thoy kept Use Oomeant,'
bet tiny did not do so. What mown could hie
lordship oak.? mime "lb. Apostle's blood in hi.
veins" gives him a warrant to intarpre. Scripture
ea he pious& Your lordship mys "we toolity that
all Christians are, as the Jews were field, a kingdom
of priest.," that is, they aro not priests at all rtboy
have had dm promise and failed of tho maditiona,
and if, in oonsequesee of that failure, a serrate
order of harem priests haa been established, as the
Levitical priesthood was, whit lama forfated the
privilege, how are we soarer God than tho Jews
Again, you take for granted, and speak all • socoessor
of the Apostles, of Molohnerlek "making an
°Sontag of bread and win.?' whore do you find that
sistamout U 7 lord, if yea wont to bring back
Noncoeformists to the communion of your
Church, it is not by Ritualistic absurdities and
priestly assumption& supported by snob mespolations
of Scriptore ; one ray of Dias. truth, one winds
of tin Apostolic Spirit, has more weight with
Cbrlitim Nonoomformists than all the .dpootolical
Blood that ever was felt by a bebop, odor Use
transesedental feelinip of newly (loaned lawn,
running in hi. vein&
It is • untter, therefor*, of the highest importance,
that at the pressut tirm all homiest laymen of oar
Murat should disolain", as openly m pourable, all
sympathy with this. razoleave opinioes. Tho hour
may he nearer Una men of us imagism, when
'vs shall be compraled to open yids the doors
of our Mutat for th• fres admimion of all
tree Protestants, as the oaly way of getting
rid of Um iambus of Popery. whether Italia&
or Aogliose. 1111 is our wisdom then so to
act and speak, that we may bare in tin hour of
need the Ortbodoz Nomomforinists arranged on our
side for the truth's sake, and not spinet us, from
irritated feslinp aid jest rossatinent Malik God,
they know well enough that the Bishop of Salsbury
is not the Church of Begland—tbs. his Chinge is
nod: Mg but his own private *Mon, and whin it
expos* the hollownem of his lordship's ohorchman-
ship, it will, we balms mid hope, be tha means of
gram good. It Miscalled forth • vast amount of pada*
Protestant feeling; it will cal forth • great deal
soot.; and, before nag. we shall woe the spsobaole,
&ever men IliDO• Bishop Goodman's days, of a bishop
Isolated in hie superstitious worship of his own
order, and an objest of pity to all thinking men.
whether Churohmen or Dissentme
We haws so feu for tin Church; she is 110
lboooesbly Scriptural at tin bottom, that every
storm that peals over be& only serves to di her
woos iscuroly. Only let at remember wham that
seoerity his: not in Asts of Parbaussot —not in
Apostolic:a emosseion—not is Convocation—ant in
her endowments, bet in her open and plain appeal
to Holy 1304ptares is th• ow rale of faith. ais
lordship bids the laity ass the Prayer Book a. their
guide in the May of God's word the Church in
her Articles basun eue7ththll to the lee* of
Scripture. Hare isms wisdom:sad ad:ft : lot es make
the wiwle Bible, toed Nothing but the Biblar, our
rale a thigh let ps &wand of our clergy that they
puma nails( Mei us tall them openly sad
plainly that w• will mot Idebrit, or let ossr &Wren
ttiomi to my $ll6ll dm led ipea. we doubt sot,
" obsess e'er the gide of Oar doewa."
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