The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-05 00:00:00

Calmiastical Entillignut.

Tits Bishop of Bath and Will, has exposed him
on Um mitehlel arising from eanen of ritualism.

TEM Guardian of Wednesday morning states that
Dr. Consmiag. whose name tram pet do at the
Atha/mom Club on Monday inning, was blaekballed
by a large tuabrity.

Tag A rehbishop of York bae replied to the memorial
against Ritualism presented to him some time since by
sixty-live of the Liverpool clergy. He protede &oust
the changes which are being made in direct &lanai of
the biabope, end soselonme the wags of the Morale
Hoke in so far is it opposes the bishop? authority.

Tag InCILIASII OF 11111 ENSOOPATI.—A nunierona
&petition, beaded by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
waited span the Berl of Dube on Thursday to ash hie
lordship to take stone to increase the episcopate
Sentient. The Karl of Derby listened very patiently to
the representations sheik sad avowed Mimi: In femur
of the proposed ettenelo'n. He did not think, bower,
the °averment could interfere in the matter. If.
Permissive bill were iotroduesd he Ihorild not oppose
It
Jonowarr ban been given in 1b..... of the Rev. I'.
Barney v. the Bishop of Norwich. Kr. Berney who
wee the motor of Bream Ash, Norfolk. *is amend of
inimoral conduct towards the wife of the Rev. J.
Cumming, the rector of the neighbouring parieb, and
her sister. and hit was sentenced by the Diocesan court
to eu.penaios. From this senteoce Mr. Berney appealed
sod air W. Erie, in delivering jedgment. said the
inoonsistericies i lies. Cummines evidemte were of
seal • &rine thareater, that their lordships did not
*wielder the Merges had been made mt. sod reversed
the mamma of the mart below, but without out..
TUB BOILIAL Bentrrog.—Tbe vide! of All Belo*
Hereford. the Rev. R. Underwood, has given grid
offsees to be parishioners by refusing to reed the burial
penis* over • woman who bed notoriously lived an
immoral life. Mr. Underwood was asked about the
nether at • vestry meeting. who. be " The Amide
fads of the matter were three—• poor women (sowed
Harriett Matthews) died swidenly in • brothel; her
friend, waled upon hint to read the burial service of the
churtib oar dud poor woman, but hie oonseienee wonid
, not ails. Win td dd It. He lett it deeply, and had
newer haJ • more painful thing hi his Iffe, but he maid
not belte his own feelings.

Atreuurrattag or Bintinoge.—A rehire bee be..
issued ef the proseediags under the Lord Chutes Wee
Augru-statien Ass, ORM it wag into operation on ths
lot of November. 1883, up to the 1911 elk The whew-
eons sold under the dret soheddlt Were 78, god under
the 23rd session, 10. The total motet of pm-e Lase
mosey of advowsons gold, wes £lBB 469; b. sin
;mid into the Bank of England, £180,109 ; aniZ,
smonat gestured by rent thanes or for which land, Be..
was asuptod, £5,450. The amount moved from
viols isles, Nader the 93rd and 24th sections we. CD,
and ditto from Wes in this return. £ll,llO.
amount appropriated for augmentation and pasts for
Pustinage boatel, mg in creeks' Mats, was £11,881;
for ...emaciation under goisuoss of February, 1888.
£79,003; ditto for . bosses, £l,BOB —aaggsuo-
priated triune', £13,880.
Enna UM 'Thesed::nrisnat of • ritual will
~.then the ail of the people for the ral-
which it is, in; 10 557, th• flower. Nontsequirm .
the "a reigioo burdened with many egtrusentes adieu
mew so it more stoongly thus • religion whigh hoe he.
few." This be attribstes to our "natural propensity to
things le which we are seatieually employed. We
eettainly are, more or lees, ersateres of habit. To the
usulttitsity of the rites of Its Hebrew religi. n .•
may. with rearme, attribute its steady hold on the
seaturet people professing it. So it was doting the
setflating proper of the English Reformation; thus srlt
had "no tern for eontroverey clung with Onto roomettes
to the rights and worship of their earliest associations."
ttarinnut to their customary rites, though ustebined
with error so much ignore/woof shah intended and original
bas always proved • serious. °tubule to the
sewer of the Christian missionary. Often hag that mis-
sionary met the native half way; often hers be, br way
of umpronsige, permitted the orielsolion of the old-
world rites with the understanding, however little
borne hi mind, that their object wee Do longer the
game. Thu the merit of the cross to the Breton
"mashie tun stone, pillar— aunpunteled of "men,"
stook and hir," long) gave the seremonige of which it
was the 'nitre the sanotioo, or rather ts • oonelYance
of the Ottriatiu priest. At all enrols thus surd be a
satisfying areolust of ritualistic wares. to tale the dare
.4 thou to shish tits toovert has hewn asenato-oed.
No wonder the ininionaries of the Chords or Is.
hod templets of the onatteastiunoes of her saber
servireg whoa cleared to the 111104. imaihntove a
utitalds, net to say the wilder, families of run ; ne
weeder they say that, if they are to soot pee hopefully
with the gorgeous ritual .4 Bonita Christians. in a..
tempting to sugoleast the Isatiosting horrors of gather,
superstition, they meet haus full sups gin a on
eistplas the expeesilos al the illeee is the

itnirelioan Prayer-book ie accordance with the mini of
that particular people oe whish these ideas are to he
inetalmted. Thosieh, however. the more copious and
cooly • titsal is in its symbolism, the stronger will be.
prehatily, lie bold on the people. yet it should not be
inferred Hist the luxuriance of a dival is as index of
the life of roligion,—that 'high ritual" is, as it were, •
bigh-yradm math in regard to the depth and strength of
the tide of devotion.—The Ciurchnsies Shilling
Magazine.
Dasoookeekk—A conference of those interested in
the a:Lundell of the female di.conste was held on
Tuesday las; at Ely-house, lhiver-or et. Loodon, under
the presidency of the Bishop of Ely. There were
preterit the Dowager Duchess of Draftee. Lel, Tam).
lady Tre.ely•n, Mrs. Tait. the Bishop of Olneeester and
Bristol, Lora Lyttelten, Lieutenant-Colonel dshbarn.
I haw, Lord Joiselsne Percy, Si, Harty rrrrr CAptain
Teeny, Canon els.rapneys. Canoe Norris, AnAdearon
Rae Dr. How-on. ke. After prayer by the
R. Y. Dale, the Bi.hop of Ely read letters from the
Earl f Demon (she h.d been prevented coining by ii
summon. from Wilmot), the Archbishops f Coiterhuey
and yolk, and the Bishops of Lichfield. Lincoln,
Rochester. Norwich, sot Bath and Well; Lord
fiandowne, Ac, ezprensitsg eympathy with the object.
of the conference, end regret that they were onside to
be le-mot. The Bishop of Ely said that befit the
greatest interest in the extension of the female
diaconate, basin,e written s phamplet on the sohject 14
years age, hoping that it would be considered by
Convocation. He noticed that in the early Church the
organic d work of women was most beneficially
employed, and onncluded by hoping that by menus of
wise invasive; the ministratii nof women micht he
restored to the Church. Ile then called on the Rev. T.
Pelham Dole terries an amount of the off in maido in the
dine se of London. Mr. Dale defined the drooonee to
be a woman holding the 111-hop's commission, which in
the diocese of London runs thus —"I authorise A.
to act as a deaconess within my diocese whon called
upon to do so by the parochial clergy." Ho then gave
an amount of the method of training pantie,' at the
London Iniditution. The Bishop of Ohmmeter and
B islet, in the absence of the Bishop of Oxford, then
mowed the first recolation. to the effect that it was
desirable to extend the movenniat to other dioceses,
observing on its freediins and capacity for adaption to
serious localities. He ended by c•Preciainfi hot 40061
assent The resolution was wooded by the Rey. Dr.
Howson, who described, in a most interesting speech of
some lenrth, the progress towards deaconess institutions
In the diocese* of Chester, Ely. and Norwich, alluding
to • corresponding movement in the Episcopal Church
In America, end rooted the Mallon of Toodoe's cheep.
in which the pressing importance of this topic is set
forth, and that the time had come when it must be con-
sidered. Resolutions were then propose' by Sir Harry
Verney. Arehderedi Emery, LordJoadyne Percy, Rev;
J. B. Edwards, E. Jackson, A. Gore, gm, Kr. C.
Bushnell. It VW then agreed that the following be
requested to form s rommittee to take practical steps to
extend the mosement—.in.. the Lord Bishop of London,
the Lord Bishop of Ely, the Lord Bishop of 'limiter.
Lord Joeslyne Peres, Lord Lytteltoo.Rir Barry Vertlel
N P., Archdeamo Emery. Rev. T. Pelham Dale, Rey.
Dr. flowlon. Rey. T. k. Birks, Rev. Canon Choupeeys,
Rev. Canon Norris, Rey. 3.1 Edwards, Rev. A. Gore.
and Rev. E. Jsoksors