The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

ercltsiastical Initlligrnct.

Tilt Fes, Itiebard Gremlin, Areisdeseon of Chester
end Rural than, died suddenly on Worlacedsy
noon. whilst prodding at a miasiouary meeting at
Nails. Mb.
Di. CIAUGIITOW, Om Bishop of Rochester, was pre-
sorted on Tueedey by his fi leads at Kidderminster with
mwiersi stsff. Aloe, with the staff woo promoted a
and en widow..
Ti. Bine 130021nre—areat bail been tie week eoemn.
plist ed by the &Wall and Foreign Bible Falsity, and
smosideent have been the donations sad subeeriotioos of
its Christian supporter., hut it. statement which we
subjoin, opted from last week's Guardian, shows that
vastly augmented efforts must he pat forth before the
stupendous enterprise is sobieved to which that society
aspires : —The B ble tweiery in sixty years lisedistributed
some 53 millions of costs. of the Bible. It is calcelatod
by • writer in Notes owl Queries, who mien' biinislf
"Philubiblos," that it this rata it would tete 1,140
ism., and 15U millions of mousy, to glee • espy to
every member of the human ram, considering that at
' present there en twenty 00.'255 many Pen." Wilb°64
the Bible as there are with it
I Ti. Dun or CanueLn ox RrrOse.—The Day of
! haa preeebed a sermon in the cathedral of that
elty on Ritualism. If, said he, he believed with some
I foolish poople that the divisions of the Church of
I Reiland were only • alight squabble about • little
deeoration, about a little more mimic, a little more
I alleging, • little more dress, he should oonsider It as
"bay, strew, and stubble," not worthy of consideretion,
but he belie mid in the depths of his beset this thing ,
meant mush more. Why did • man going to the •
emnsonnimotable bow to the table? Whet we. it? It
wee because be believed the element, of based and wine
bed been turned into the body and blood of Christ; it
elm bees.., h. thought • merinos had been offered
them is believed that in all there thing., which
appeared to souie childish, there was a certain thrusting
out of a bad, which would lead by-sed•by toe flower
and fruit ; and the seed of superstition and darkness
moot be the result These risen were "musing division
amongst us." A void them I don't go near them; don't
to out of enrioeitY to see their bedizened alters Lod
their gorgeoue vestments. 111. ell superstition mai
Idolatry the whole of it. He condemned no man
lsdlvldnaliy; bat inasmuch as those who represented
that system reviled Protestsnism —told them that their
Protestant martyrs were merely polities' offenders—
laughed at the Prot. stantimm by virtue of which
Victoria sits upon the throne, and by virtue of which be
occupied that pulpit—he solemnly declared that he
believed Ritualism to be. deep-seated heresy, proving
itself to be so by its stretching out its hands to its
mother Rome, and to its sister the Grecian chards,
while it turned sway from Protestantism. Prete...sal-
ient was • protest against the very thing that Ritualist.
I wished to introduce. They asked for liberty; liberty
to do what? Liberty to introduce Popery into the
Church of England. They should have no such liberty
so far as all honest ministers of Christ could oppose
them, by fair argument in open court, and by every
means which God had giver, them.

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PeterMirrawr Conemtettan —A conference of
" Protestant members of the Reformed Church of
England" was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, at
Willis's Rooms, under the presidency of Mr. J. C.
Colquhoun, the object being "to give an opportunity
to the faithfel members of the church as settled at the
ReformatMn to confer together, with a view to ewer*
unity of action in the lumen% minis." The Rev. E.
Gimbel* moved the first resoluta:lo, the Rev. J. tlardsley
moooded, and it was carried, as follows —"We: are agreed
that the doctrine held by Om twenty-one clergymen
who &dile...kid the Archbishop of ranterbury, less May,
to the effect that in the Holy Eucharist the body and
blood of our Saviour Christ are present really, but
spiritually and ineffably, under the form of bend and
wine, and are offered before the Father by the priest,
and are to be adored in the Sacrament by the woe.
shipper, is repugnant to the Articles and fortnitlasia• of
the Church of England; and we are agreed that the
attempt of any Anglican clergyman to declare himself a
I priest with similar powers to those claimed by the priests
of the. Church of Rome (requiring or encouraging the
habitual practice of auricular confession), lean amunip-
tion contrary to the teaching of the Reformed Chinch of
England, and table withstood by sll its faithful members."
—The Rev. Dr. Miller proposed, tiir Brook Bridges,
U. P., seconded, it was supported by several alarmism
sod laymen, and carried. that "We are agreed that may
arrangement by which Vestment., admitted by the
Ritnaliatic party themselves to be symbolical of the
'Ambits of the Sacnfice in the Lord's Supper,' may be
allowed to be used at any times of their ministration by
the ministers of the church, tiller with the asnetion of
I• bishop or bishops, or in oomplianee with the wishes of
a congregation, would involve a departute from the
, Plutestant teaching of the United Church of England
I and Ireland." N. 8.-- A Memorial on this aubject has
been addreased by the Crewed of the Church Association
Ito the Royal Commission on RituaL The Rev. J. C.
Role, In • powerful address, introdueed the Peat topic :
—"Are we WIWI that an Appeal should be made to the
court. of law on the subject of Ititualistie doctrines and
practice? and, if so, are we prepartd to support such
appeal with the neoesatry fundsr A long and
animated converstion took place on the subject and the
proposition met the unanimous approval of the meeting.
After coosiderable earnest di,emeion, the Rev. Dr.
Miller moved the following molution, which was
'carried by acclametion :—" That a guarantee fund of
not lees than £50,000 be raised to enable the Council
to midst parishioners who may *poly to them for advice
and expenses of appeals to the law 0011411 undertaken
for the purpose of ascertaining the law on any point
involving Romauiging doctrines or Ritnaliatic pristine..
That every guarantor be responsible for the fell sum
to which he has appended his name, but that he be
tailed on pro rata at the discretion of the Council,
whatever be the amount of the gua.-antee fund,
as the expenditure tie be incurred may require." Me
Caainwas, I. reply We emotion. salld that the guarantee
fund would be applicable solely to legal expenees.
Mr. L. IL Valpy moved the North resolution—" That
legislative measures are necessary in order to provide
an effectual remedy for the serious evils which afflict
our Church, and that this session should not pass
without the reform of those courts which deal with
aselesiastioal eases being premed on Pasliament,"— which
was ably supported and finally adopted. The Rev. Mr.
Simms moved the 11th resolution—" That it desirable
that more energetic and systematic efforts should be
made for the enlightenment of publta opinion by the
press, by the circulation of publications, by special
eervioes or lectures, sod by public meetings or dis-
cussions contrasting the teaching of Holy Scripture, of
the Prayer Bob, and of the Reformers, with that of
Room:wising Ritualism." After oonsiderable discussion
this was adopted. At the afternoon sitting
Sir Herbert E tweed's, in a most eloquent address,
moved the following resolution:—" We are agreed that
unity of action amongst Protestant Evangelical
members of the Church of Ragland is most ma .stial at
the present time, and that ouch action should flow
through the Church Association in order to give it
concentration and effeeL" -Mr. J. Braithwaite esoooded
the resolution. An estimated discamion earned, in the
swum of which V• 6011. gentlemen representing kiedred
associations in the provinces explained the mode in
which their societies were worked, and asked for infor
'station as to the terms on which they were to basomi
affiliated to the association in London. The resolution
was ultimately adopted, and a committee was appointed
to consult and agree upon terms of union with the
Church Amoelation The proceedings of the conference
were then brought to • close by a vote of thanks to the
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