The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-05-02 00:00:00

sounts for BUM Tom thinking. English Christianity animals, and it was mortainly very miractloast
never was la any groat peril from snob prastioss ; that monkey, for instants, did not tarn into an 70,7 en
eoolesiastical millinery or medinval antim never did, or • Froekirk, or a lecturer on Atiat Ale. iir-ioo°ll,
and never could, to any very hose extent at least, however, would have no hesitation. when deoh, "ea
imperil the religious life of this country. That it is the descent of man, and 41 subjeeta
an element of danger we frankly admit; but that the with, in sticking to the first chapter of f.; •"wii
danger is as great as many supposed it to be. or that it P 6611116 of David, and the Lord's pray
is likely to pass over with the ' Purchaa Judgment," as the one we have just referred to, iimus ,teti
is as little to be thought of as that the "bottom of religion is very likely in the long ran to tag
such practices will willingly yield up the statue and But to resume our more serious train of remark': 4°ltt.
emoluments of their national Murals. You will tad ara taunted by our opponents that not Mom' se
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abundant outcry against the injustice of the judgment; sciaitifiro enquirers chugestle with &hub, -„
tbs tyranny of oocissitatimi court.; the conspiracies °Milan rolirion, some of the 60 ..... t them,
Of ecclesiastical decision', (which things by the way tre we are told, beta etnanstsi from its oupposat
likely to haws uo inoonsiderahle share in t'i, Is I That there ar Col,naos acid Voyreyo oa
blishsent of the church). bti an• disposition to stunt admit, and also that the efforts of such meui art
In the white shat, with tic small taper of rem .r.,, i 0 subversion of the Choi.tiori B.:relation
the last thing to he thought of. To fight for the great. Ludy of Nonoonf 'mist ministers are ,ff coo" 0.
Catholics doctrine, to odj are the worship of the Pro infidelity, as was lately marled by a dojo,
testant Baal, and the image of Nobaohadneutr, even preacher of their number (I mean hr. spa,ttw4
at the risk of being thrown into the fiery foram are not only not true, but positively false. That
the objects to be sought with all the vehement earnest. some daring Writs amongst us, who "rash la
nese of man fighting between death and life. Nor oho angel' fear to tread," may be quite true ; but to
It be said of the evangelical clergy any more than of perfectly safe in Ofirming that the great beiyhs-r
Nsbuolladnossar's hirelings, that in Mating the foram conformist ministers, and the same may be walls
for their ritnalistis brethren (and they have managed large section of the English clergy, are foniamm,"
to make it tolerably hot at lost) they have aseaped being hound on, and attached to, the great
singed themselves; and while it it possible that not Christian religion, and are far
truths „re
from tta
even the small of ths fire may pm on Um garments of "scientific spirit," whioh is the predicted ,h .„
the latter, it is difficult to say to what extant it may future. Ecclesio, • Imoh 01 Essays, eramitnat-
not oven burn and dusags the former. If there be manifesto from some Of the NMI prOmjasai prew2"aa
dangers which Met our English Christianity, they of our own danominstion bear oat the aboo.
come from quarters Mar other than from Rousanising tion ; for one of the most striking ohuaineristleo' ou
Anglican Priests ; mas grand and general protest from grays, although the opposite 1,68 beer.
wetke
beiprOieTtelen..6ot pognieweepationawayof
theset eopedun"tryawasiorepayniaotaughei
irreiestwildrs,pioribno, hat
itenoEut tak„rinu,thise ttbroeattutoimossit
I, to beevangsliaal theology which their authors "vises, yt„
of the gm{ Babylon herself. That Popery
Mired. and English Ritualism osomod, is, to my mind, doctrines are mooted amongst as of doubtful tomZ"
likely enough
as and ths Milo will toms on by and by, snd that more or lam permission for so doing 0 sh--2
i and well r 4.1 tbe for and for all the Marches of by the Christian people to their minister.; thm oro.'"
this land calling themselves Protestant, if, by seal, by grave amid untbouglshof questions an earuattly-Q
knowledge, and by faithi_.thsy are found reedy for the elaborately argued; that mmllgestiosa moo at
decisive struggle. Theorkwh boot our English signifimant, have
_passed over what hither to 40 his
Cluistimity are denprs7=-lis at ones remote from ' doomed and all important doctrines; tam
her life and within It. It is only too trims that some rimy exists in suns quarters to relax the ismg
'of the higher tboaght of the age Is directed with • Mons which have hitherto been held on the sot
hostility mils mbammincis unpromdmatsd against Chris- point. of theology' that all these things are oirw
tionity. Salm has farm for it, and philosophy bra true we admit, but that there biaa beta say go:
amok bo maid to ba doing much to sustain it. Every. departure from the true faith, either on Mt pin of ok
whore. and by many ci oho "mum opiriu of thought, people oral the ministry, there Is 111 0611610 1,141.88
OhliStieliity is ellbsr politely ignored or cionlimptnously to prows, but abundant to disprove: It is on i fluor h
gepsdistod • and the evident hope of many is that Cams and argue in newspapers, sad to apeehha,
another generation or two will witness the final don books and pamphlets; but it is gaits another
ambajo, of a saparatitioa which tboy think has lasted for a body of Christian men ilelibsrstol- •-• "
long enough, sad ought now to vanish away. We old landmarks, and to ranoboo material
igtootanoortmoargu•urelaorywith- their
gat—p--"seamolgrePert°thanY itonSaishiy. tarryirmth
necaclgich ;thine IfocrreaVers,;solndfuwiteintyheinfre mama"' N.
that
their
and philosophy iirs more iiholy to extends, there his been very little of the Lash
bow in adoration of Obrlstianit than that Chris. Religion, in all its grand sad distinctive festoon poi
Mit, is to bow la adoration of them We do not withstanding the MU talk of Moore and revision, W a
begrudge the many groat and splendid Inisllasts mite to-day as it ever was; the faith the *harsh lo
which are at work is all the (root nada of the old, old story hos suffered no diminution, mad ar
horns, tor...tied., oared, rightly obraood; they future, Instead of witnessing its decline, is, we Moot
are (our eo-worksrs) • we silkily join in the destined to achievements such at no put period ala,
Wawa whim with ;riga their mamma dboororlea church has witnessed. I for one, un hopsfal fa
are hailed; we are saps to boar testimony to those present is not. tome, • time to be lamented eo. 4 N
lofty endowments with widish they are so greatly eared; it is a vigorous age, and not to be despiimis
honoured; we rejoin in the manifold worsts and pro. hears as many signs of hope and blessing for time
mom of mature which, by their unwearied labours, as of dread and calamity. We are, therefor., polio
have been brought to light. If thus be one element posed to sit dolls end weep for the 74'04 inue d
of sadness in the nutter It Is that minds so generously peace now departed, and to bemoan with him trom
endowed should vssaarsha so Milo their author ' • that the day. of wallet on which our lot hal (Ma No
gifts so brilliant Amid be so frogamtly divorced from unless we greatly mistake, every day which malt
dm semis, of the bottom of them, and that the such oonfliot is a gain, • gain to the Christian then
wisdom, skill, wealth, and wonder, with which the whose position thereby being more fully mid cleat
universe teems, should so often fail to convince the defined, • gain to that union of all trim thmitt
beholder of them of the existents. and glory of that whether scientigs or religious by which, we belnit
Being who is th• eternal source of all. This almost this conflict if sore to be succeeded. If it ma
nalvend neglect of God with which actioutillo origniry posaibbi to formulate the amount of Mag. whisk Cs
Is Ming con acted is one of the saddest features of our manifold discussions, speculation., and coatroom
age, WA predicts tither for seism or religion some hays occasioned not one of no, I believe, but shosld
hi
vest gismos,. and when it shall fail I. 60 no no matter greatly surprised to learn how very small it is, Mho
of doubt. Believing, as we do, in the creation of the very little, if at all, it effects the grand central, Ms
universe as the work of • personal and solf existent we deem them, imperishable doctrines of she Carina
God, and believing, moreover, that mush • conviction I. system.
almost universal, we sea no more resign ourselves to The Rev. F. BRCIILIT said the income of the Duo
tbs belief which so many entertain had confidently Association of Congregational Churches Itot y•
=ht.—that God she 1.1 ultimately utterly diane amounted to i'256; bus this was an exceptionally lop
and ignored—Mat we can suppose that humanity sum, in consequence of one or two large donatiot
will dopy it. own moral instincts and Its fundamental having Nihau into their Mix The usual locus...
laws. That sahatile mat should be anywise hopeful about MO.
of oath an and Monti dream of dsmoostrating A collection on behalf of the Association faad as
the world's existents, and ma's is well, without the then made, after which the Clianwhir pronounced is
creative sot of Geog, Is natural enough; for ths natural Benediction, and the meeting separated.
06•11 reosivath not the things of the spirit of God. and On Wednesday morning there who • meeting lar
through faith we an that the world whatrunsd pinto, sitar which the ministers and delegarm
by the word of God, NO that things which are soon assembled to transact the badness of the associatiee
wire not made of things whisk do appear ; but Mat In the ensuing the chapel who crowded to hear • mr.
they are likely to smosed is about r probable as that moo from the Rev. lir. &nosy. The number salmi
human Mars will mem all Its polosat laws and avowal passages in the Epistle of St. Pool to tea
modes of operation. Lod, although they have sodas. Thessalonians, capon which to found • fervid, MN mak
roared to satisfy themselves that between their "chinoe and impressive discourse. Aftnrwaris 'lir Cos
sad our thristianity then is but little anima, and that monied W4l celebrated, the Kr. J. Sims', of 711 a.
Maims" and sublime Laos are incompatible with those bornlit_offiaatlng.
rf the other, sad Ms fasts of seism may On Thursday morning, • public breakfast was re
seem f
to demo/omme the will of Joao Wogs vidsd. About 70 ladies and gentlemen sat down,
written in the Bibb and • rod la by us, yet our After Ms repast, and • hymn having beau sung,
gagEog and um mmaidaam is, that before ammo, has The Bev. 0.. T. WOODWARD, of Shaftesbury, debris
adransoid in its illustrious Germ (and we bid it God an address on "What are the ohms which inked*
speed) its noble Mamas will ilissaras a hansony and with the spiritual results reasonably to be Latiotpui
misiststioy between its laws had the laws of religion, from Sunday School Agency, usil how aro they to
is striking and complete as the former antagonism was munterseted Ile divided his subject into two
supposed to be, great and irrosonsilabis. Ws are not —the omits of failure; and the MOMS of sums"
I.
draw amouos, nor at any hots whim; Nature at., dealing with this first part of his subject—the 06611011
dlsaloss ; that God in whom we trust Is the God of failure—the speaker said they (the Sanity SOW
mature as Of revelation, ma oar arm porautairat b. timbers) were to blame, and he urged them to Mrs
that there is a perfect harmony between both, and 011 their minds the thought "Like all schools,
that the imam we approach to God In the one, as in Sunday school must, under Grid, owe all its Inflames
the other, the move distinct and evident will that and usefulness to Ire teachers," The mean, of cuss
harmony appear. Not more, certainly, did the opposite were—oneness of purpose, earnestness, wiadiw,prsie,
workers at Mont ChM Tunnel arrive at a common end personal religion.
centre than will Om different investigators of wham The Rev. W. Lunn, of Weymouth, then "WM
and religion if they had bat faith in each other, and the mooting, referring more especially to the ganna
were contented to work on patliantaly, ultimate, retch —" Bow can the Sunday • school but proem,' ang
s 4 06.1668.6m0L10 666816 What religiose odateetkon fur the young." In onionthe*
fear lithe spirit of materialism, width fails to discern Sunday school might be raised to its proper mins' li
any other Matins, than that of matter' which racists was necessary that they (the teachers) shook be is
to acknowledge the spiritual taste of life whiati pranged with the idea that the Madre° belongs& e
are as conspicuous as the facts of nature; and which them; that they should make iii mittor of MOS
by confining Baalf to ita labnraloriss, can see God no- and prayer how boot to mivanoe their interest. ia is
whets man in obeinimil Sa We should nday school; and should be rawly to lay their WWI
ass eirtainly be pleased*, te
• =llldisvoutness in the before those who had the management of she whir.
'Went of nacre, • more reverential grits etch, The speaker met some of the objections nisei Kass
littleegt‘et etweeekedwid the NAM= sad winos of Sunday "Moot tomobors being antrastad into el
the past, names iho lass ilinstriont la thee Mid of Mum spiritual education of the children.
than Mans of tandem lams, and whose MOM minion The Roy. B. GRAY, of Blandford, delivered an sibs
was, and wee felt to be, to "think God's thoughts on "The future relation of Sunday shtols to w
after him"; bet that to s religion is ultimatel.l Elementary Education of the people, and their set
le be teterged—te Salts :=ldeetworkd oot 01 the relsirl, and moral wellbeing." It was the @tin
question—by its efforts. Is not for • moment to be of the Council on Itiaostion to ram •
drimeted of. Them as basis in man's mature as truly standard of Munition to the highest pomible pith MI
rellious and hniefflehlele, as there is one physics' and complexion of Sunday schools had altered ommistif
sod Mtn you el* reverse ar revoke as the result of more liberal education sins OW,
amenity, you sus so num overthrow religion, or original formation 'and increased nssponolbilit'ss ems
ream it Petrettem someg Men than 704 can *hand, rest upon Sunday sobool Washers tithe ts
masotigmed alandthopiainkarsiewbis
sant
ilw
toorn in. ono am pas—,„„olne of the Folumnuary Eduoat a ocussequem
ioa Bill.
ace other, had, A rots of thanks was passed to the flov. .
therefor*, so far from dreading the of science BIIIIRY.
at at all likely to result In foundationswosheall Addresses of a practical character were dorm',
of religion and mortality we boll It as certain to have he delivered by the Rios II:. Waxing, Bee. Mr. Burn
very opposite remit, and as tending to load additional and Dr. WILLIS-Ms.
Weight to the argument alroady.so strong in its favour. Another hymn having been sung, hod ;wars 01'14
41 all emote whatever be tha futon in store for by the Rev, T BM"'
the
u"."" was brought WI
Christisnit7 in wonasetiag with Mem Gm.
, hitherto, at al
least, It his suffered but very little from contact with
It, and opposition from it. It has not quite managed
as yet to sap its foundation, or to lead man in any largo
numbers to to rejoin it as worthy of credence. That
there is a gnat Mal of infidelity amongst on, and that
lataaaa or the Meshing of ssisatifie men boa done much
to
mfostsrgeniet,ral ail m tar from denying; but that infidelity
inen7 affirm; or Math is in xol •
lively or even yto the Undessoiss sOlLiiilic
tho9dhtt the timitallior the mai will not warrant as, I
sarging. Infidelity will be found to have
as (militia a sour*e In our unreal MUM& living as in
Mentifie sposulatim A files lift is the strongest
segment against Oisrlatiaisity. That our own country,
for the most part, Is soundal rumba
Yeligicassoiralwnhuhs piarinalhalaitilassustruziestheandegplZosr=snoderCitaaodurristianin.ltutt.
sufficiently prove, la ths whisk took place
on the question of National Edststion, and which ham
Wm bean revived by the Motion of school boards,
"Ideas* ste en intolitestablo character of the strong
hold vbiob kith in 0
whom. has on the insiatrtr. e ispenastatal
abundantly fnmiuthr. wimAiler the PeOlis, has Ma
they adopt the wisest
in°4ll°‘forliteelmtleg stiligion Is mother matter, and
Is not lobe giemmed wiseektims it is safilaiant for my
Vert"' to &atm that faith in as • divine
power. has as yet at least, suffered b I very little
diminution in the Maria of thee Reels: people. Bet
U Minos had dons as awash as many of its apostles
affirm: or if it were likely to accomplish what they
anticipate, a very different stelae of
Witmeed. The truth Is, the groat body of
have
heel thy!.
people know 41414 of.saihd ears lees f , the theories of
miontilla men, barialt2 mr•rtaid to religion,
and seism meet ho
me
7 popularised before its
offset on the pee* is likely to Ma to any appreciable
extent. had bums omit a gay sin some let us hops
that
the leading "title easamntay hame dissovarl
a truer harmony Mimosa their =ha d our Chris.
tisailty thus they Macias* to have:lt& If, more-
over, we are able to mavineo men, we. may boldalb by
our doctrine and life, that Christianity
sinity alo la"
them " to make the best of both worlds." 21=4' we
ugsy rut assured will have but a poor ohms. Veal
nutty of thsegiantifla emissions of our day, or rather
we should eV' UwerOor, but for the brillisot names
with which they Mad mansolod, would andoalotedif
Mk into oblivion, aesssog Nam mum do, at lease.e
in the futures F jto tipp an et to intelligent
public for tits approvalroval a Miry which lAMB Mat
mails descended train a hairysi.
turad
VIM • M and poipted OM. *boreal la its
Illtt?le:d bitailimiti of i'Voirworld, tim only
be omongli,_oa behalf of the
Wham anis were gals, boy reth Or
=tEdWlte se sow be feud in Shomilbili, or the
gordoma—martossly to :ammo such • Misery,
amd to how. for sny sempare of amptams for it, is to
wpm each an SIDOIee ci oralnlity sal folly on the
part of ordinary folk", as not emn Kr. Darwin, "who,"
as M. Fronds says, "is looking gravely to the tom*
ship of moths and butterflies, to solos the probtook• of
the pries of man, and prove his dement from an ,
African baboon," can safely swum it, and tulles, the
brilliant naturalist has intondad his theory a little
amusing reading. Mid • relief be the more prolsouni and
astrale passages of 'his work,hs is WWI to be answered
with an amoont of
wow skin he kiwis= end Unbelief mash
omi the assonat of Adam and ffi:esrlismosidiP"l tolinekNor
will his 'Pedal Pleedisg, cibekail of hi —I so 7 his,
for although I have no wish to digit
my poor Mahon;
I am erily newillirm to imam the number by the
mildition of the ape mossiral relative—mast help him
mg his dignity. It may be TIM trio that the
wild baboon likes Mr, and that when be lakes too
numb Its has has • Mamba WM muting, and relishes
=cif • witty reviswer:
eximellPleamailtallPs° wst
1 j it may
also balms that the ape sae slag beautifully, go ma.
Mir through his maim and kit the sorriest intervals,
NMI ma may even have proved himself wiser Shan many
ass, in !Musing to Mash apish after laviag
Mewed binuall to bums Msd wilds too mash
if it. mehmelog in abort, ilia advanced orbseinals 01
ok=oewoort.wish the enwipthig that at some petals of
Mem is an opyligat Ist ustios dons to
mg we rim My my tlmi it le not "so
musk tir worm fox ohm hate. wit_the WM for
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