The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-05-02 00:00:00

LECTURE BY DR. CONCANON.
"LArana AID His Taus."

The large attendance at the Town Hall on Friday
evening testified to the interest shown in the vital
miner@ which formed the subject matter of • lecture
delivered by Dr. Common, who is so well known as
such a formidable opponent to all doctrines and
customs contrary to the laws of the Protestant
Church. The Rev. T. W. Knipe occupied the chair,
and on the platform with him and the lecturer were
the Rev. R. Ludlow, Rev. &rico= Hobbs, and Mr.
E. Pewee.
Prayer having been aired by the Rev. H, Lndlow,
The Cllalhathie expressed his pleasure at egoist the
room so well tilled. He only wicked they could have
got someone elm to ham eccapied iii. chair, as he thought
If they could have had an Indusutial layman it would
ham been better for many reesons. He had lose his
best to try and get some one else who would fill it, and
he was led to hope they would have had Kr. Pleydel-
Mantel. He bad told him, however, he would have had
great pleasure in attending but he was on ths point of
leering Zugland for Ids health. Passing n t epode of
the lectors, Kr. Knipe said the lecturer had wad for
his subject that evening • period in our nations history
full of the most important reminiscence c awning both
our Church and our country. Hs would not occupy the
meeting w.th many word., but he knew there were tome
In this place and elsewhere who were a little frightened
by two words that stood at the top of the bills that had
been circulated through the town—words that implied
that this meeting wee formed under the auspices
of the Church Association. Now the Church A.eocis•
ton was established for the purports at maintaining
Protestant truth In the Church of Inland. (Applause)
It was not established in order to wage war against
Imaginary enemies, and it was not the first society that
had had distinctive objects as opposed to others within
the Church that was so established amongst us. About
ex years ego an repetition wail formed—the English
Church Union—and had begun Its perilous and dangerous '
work amongst us, and eserelly it was still working and
doing intone mischief in our land. If there were some
there who might say " Let us have done with all them
=societies," be for one would say "Lt there be so
Church Milos," no "Fraternity of the Blessed
dasmosent." no others with uncanny letters sod mysterious
purposes. Let us be what our Church was la the days of
our fathers—the prod old Protestant Church of Bathed.
(Applause.) Then again he bad heard It and " Why have
meeting, of this kind, there is no danger, we have no
extreme ritualism about us hem, and why renege subjects
of controversy r If be was not blamed with such kind and
good neighbours as be was happily biggest with in the
eumoundirm parishes, and U any of them hid adopted ex-
treme ritual he should personally feel some little diffi-
culty In 'getting up a meeting of this kind. It would be 1
against the grain on that account. but if they were far
from extreme divergence on points of ritual and other
things in neighbouring parishes, so much the better, and
they now rained up the
_good old standard of our
fathers' faith, and the Bible faith that our fathers
f bled and died or. The Reformation they were sometimes
told La these days, was, assuredly and indiewtably, •
return in many respects to the primitive practices of the
Church; and he had been told by a man one would
not charge with any extreme views or erection, that it
wee • Peat mistake to say it is Protestant, and they said
It was not Protestant at aIL Now this was quite a new
Idea, for he had not so read history as to find that any.
where till the present generation, and till these morn
Scelittiet Imam They Noontimes spoke with morn and
oaatempt of what they believed to have been the est and
deed period of the Marsh, bat he believed in the days
of good Osage 111. if any young peer had got up In his
place in the House of Lmds and said "You know, my
lords the Church of Upend is not Protestant at all
there would not have been a single bishop on the whole
bench whose wig would not have been awry with
surprise. In three days in many respects they were
very much more alive than they am in then dare to the
unknown perils of the Church of Rome but than some
men said " This Church Amoeba= is elitism's society, a
tins society, ant we are weary of them law snits.'
persecuting some of them arguments had weighed with
him, and partly through their halm= o he wee led to
withdraw from the Apoetation for some years. He
thought there might be a better kind of meal= raised up
to supplant it, but they teemed to him to be doing
nothing while Popery was coming in like a find
upon se, while theme great troths for which our
fathers suffered and died are bein4.deaccillomi inch
be inch, whilst the Church of was return.
lag to the samidotal system, with fa priest and the
altar sad sad the lacrifire of the altar, he did not care
whether under the mine of name or Anglicanism. 4.
he hadealdinhispalpit a feegandayeng therewasa •
lion of the sin of Korth, Dam., Gad Their sin
was tablas upon themselves the pri•lthood, arid necifnthe
the daft that only belonged to Aaron sad the
Under the New Cermet we have no priest but the Lord
Josue Mein, and if any man spoke of the priesthood, the
alter, and the sacrifice of the altar, be assumed not the
ciao@ of Aaron, but the office of the One High Priest of
the Christie& Much, who offered Himself once for all
for the sins of the whole world, for our High Priest is the
Divine Founder of our Church. the Lord Jesus Christ.
We know no altar but the Cross of Onriet, and we know
no escrificiag priest but the Lord Jinni Christ (Applause.)
Give up this, and we then open the flood gatee of Roman
error, and we roll back three centuries into the debases
and dangers of that time (Applause.) Caucluding •
Powerful nod telling 'peed'. the Fee chairman referred to
the 0840 of the Rev. Kr. Green. of Hiles Platting, who
was now in prisonifosrathijsw Church mottoes. At the
Synod the other day our wasp mid as id he w not at
all sure Hr. Orem ito tome out of prison, sad the
Meteak°9 Tod Jaws ow, -14. Gress Is lispdmed,