The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-25 00:00:00

of Exeter, Cornwall, Tomes, and ilanistaple. dia eldest
son, the Venerable W. J P rip Us, is Archdeacon 01 Corn-
wall and litaiovel or of the The ..., iuchtles the
°Unties nit Devoit atm i'oinwall anti the *lll I lsitds, and
.• lle 111•• St rittenove in r nvian I. iOn made it 004. &)e tr.
On eel the dr) ant litstom 4...dia.., who live 5 F ye ire aim,
ito pi env e low yreotied no the .inner-eat Exeter as bin. Si
hi wherelile hilltop wit........ii in iv retnnved Iron. the
heneh a nom o• great isree of Chstanter, of emu-
insisting ain•lity, aid of km... Milted tpirtt.
Few men have spent more money tu titivation than the
niem•p of F x-rer. At nine hoe V in ii nil. C imt ad Exeter,
'ill* near held try hisitim "fro net the Miinj cx was ii a ad to
it) the Yin An...qt.-aeon Phillp.tts, Chai•ceilsr tif the
stet Bishop Flung ilts' ti,ttlstl..ll Ile it ttent that
ia vetoraltle fattier had ei,ent betwevro £OO,OOO and 1:30.10•0
It' I. gal gdooresings tor the purpose td preaerviist Isw mid
m der inn ilie ciihini,in, itud all tills lemon hie own pone Toe
InoN most oow .3coent no More avalatatiCe ii. that quarter,
but help thentselves.

On Sidelay morning there was a crowded congregittion at
Exe.er 11; it hedril, and Arch.lemon Fl retinas e•whill an
initirortiVO volltion trom Jo‘i v.. 211 •' Flom shrill go to thy
grlire in ajslj aoo, he Sc a chock of intro owth inn hit:No 0n "
too (Ito sermon the tiorti toot t to verses of
the nn• h Psalm were ming, the reo. in eaolier said that
in Minim:: Prayer, Fiat reeks it c. trim, it mid been his
mound to ',tee tilt are total I ir, oho I roil
name, which ...lASI.t, wroth' have its all Kew lit
that Kiln* it not before, that iii nry, Lori t•lidoto ot trust
.d• re-th woo tribes to tire rest. Th, Thrill felt li, ft thhil
solijt chi aml 1.. lug elsuhrlrsu when kings or ritreiell paasid
away win'd he felt by thoomv mita The arclideation
apodett to the vanerahle Bishop's great age and the fame
and honour attached to his haute. The congregation teemed
deeply afflicted

The Tinieehtte the following leader on the Bishop's
death
A. the leaf is beginning to fall, and before he could carry
out his premiss d resignation. Deny la all pint. drops into his
Wave, earning with him three generations of work avid war-
fare, several ittualied coutroverstes, ninth that is rentenibered
and much ntiare that is for_otten, and no imonsultrable
ahem tof repent and even atlection. He lived as long as
Matt can wish to live. When great men die young, tar still
in halms., they seem to bequeath laboars to be taken tap lay
othera—fauhtlatione to be built tipun, ideas to he animated,
pledges to be ralermed,—and they stall live in the Islands of
which they are the architects. The Bishop of Exeter a eat-
'ailed everything that attire made hint latilollB amid f nuistable.
Length of days briinght its Rains end its losses.
need, and, no dollin, learnt to regard with generous lowli-
ness the foes he reeisted or provoked, the causes he de-
nounced, the state,neu he defied, the clergy that retailed
against his discipline, the Primate he examatituiateated the
writers that lived by abushar laiaaa, aud the I order that
would not listen to his hare:mites. Ile coati all ad to pity
them all. It is true that mania them they kept Mtn at
barter; taint, even so, they were taken at their word, fiat
they kept Inn there very long. After a long and stormy
passare he drifted Imo calm, and for welly years re-
deemed the fruitless toil, of his mere puha.: life lay devotiog
himself es well as he could to a Miners° is handred and forty
miles lima. It might have been happy for hint if lie could
thus forget the past, and be illicoliSClOUS even of present
changes. But he hail giVeli pledges to fortune in an elnir• I
mous progeny at pamphlets and every outward firm of con-
troversy, scan:lWe, it is stated. nearly thirty pages of the
Catalogue at the istitish Museum. Ile wrote utn malty
subjects, and whatever he touched 110214t0n-ea ; but the touch
was tat at, and the decoration that of the funeral o
He wrote aim contended lar Church shit sante, for the high
Chitral. settee it our fOrniollw lea and Arm es, far the °angel
1,1 tolerai log in ankh e, Tor, tor the possii.laty of Herniae safe,
seturities, for the exc wove right of the Church of Euglauit
to the alecation of her children, for the mipopular rade of
every que,tion that has latterly divided the British I eiiple
Upon every thitig that he ever wrote of a political or polemic
character it might valiant, lie how inscribed that it was
written to ho phrpose. The jittigment of ntaukind, or ihniply
the curse of evehts, went ahe other way. The fireworks
were discharged, or the ni.onster Ordnance tired, and tie foe
heeded them riot. We have done, or are daltig, or are
nand Soda,, every thing that Hairy of Exeter said aught not
to he done on any account, as we would stalid the cense-
upience..
How is this? In it a life wasted In feint. and roanceuvres,
futile amid ins:haloes ? has it left poeitively tat mole meek
m, the age than the meteor leaves on the eky ? The theologtan
cannot mini at practical insults, lie does not write far time,
nr minims, or even for men, in their national capacity HO
deals with Hauge al...lute, infinite, natal eta pal. What he
soya is to be as true as ever and mach the name when world.
have famed away. But for that reason it generally has ho
special hearing upon the prenent emergency, aba no pits aro(
Multiunit; the actual c mrse of affairs CO a de-ired anti. Dr.
ehillpotts could describe with clearness, vigour, and grace
the difference between the teachiog anti practic. a of the
Church of Etiglatat and those of the Chunh of Rime art the
one stile and Das, nters and Low Churchmen oft the other.
He dintl prove to the satisfaction at the congenial, the in.
terested, iir the predispoasee that the Angliean system wan
right awl the t•then, tither ho dot:Dine or in praclica very
aria g "Ille matter its, If can be reoliteed to isa senstiele
or Mathematical tent. The lame is ailareesed to those
aha mutee mi first principles, awl the coualiani n as
that Bolan are right mid others Wroloit the aegis .
m-nehas so little necessary Teta relies ant nlawatraatia
beat lag at act any practical applaatima that ix in nit r
as masa ate hattaw, mamma, and burning alive as it as far
ii flicting a small flair or a tridi g daability it is qu to at
anal fir a crusade or a war at extra 11111 l att.) es at in fan
shutting a Papist airs Dissenter on of a corporation, a ti list, ,
airs Perlienient. It is qaite as ipmui liar aepriviiig Raman
Catholics of all property elle Ora r as liar endowing and I
establishing the (lurch at aNM all nu than ov r their heatls.
If an Opinion he fai.e mailer tag, a denial ..f Dlii .e hm nib '
and an bault tat onaratiedrisee, inettrahog .d
even 'Mal terdition, then there is no more or less in the
matter. The p il• laic has oily to rinse himself • n the
pedestal of hi', suhlnue conclusion, and p bit tia the truth On •
ante side, the triad on the atter It is when lie has done his
utmost that the Siatesmati and In three days, it must be
addsta pub in' iajahaaioaa came ii., anal have to deem.,
what is to lie done. The pint mic has hothitig to do
lath that quedian, absolutely nothing to say to it.
Even when lie has shown that the doct rite or the nyaem is ,
not only spirittialiy fatal. but alai point a ly danger.... he
has nothilig to do aith comport. u tut that danger with the
dames at pro- cribitig the doctribe a. d. pubi,liing all aha
avails it Dr Phillpotts then-fore, hail not onlyatistic a but
heces,ity to plead, whoa he said, in effect,—" This is what I
have watten, awl what I write still, for it is true; laai,
wider the circumstances. I recommend a sliffareio c .uree
ataxy yin canted keep these nemisken awl daugerous paint
nip id the litoUse tor tinder solar leel, make elicit terms wi
Ia
them at you cal., and take set:mattes for their goad aieltesioUr."
flan, of eon, .e, he hail to say On the Catholic niestion, and
what, in lair t,umi,le °panto., he ntight hate soul ma a I- sr
other sullecte, such as that of tatianal ethamtion Bum.
a hen the wily (western of immediate ',rimiest irilinOt item
remains to he taked mad Illoinfiroll after the connive...diet
has Mash. d lit. pamphlet and the noddle lead it, Mad when
the arisen him,elf is Wit the n an to assawer it, that deflates
the ',menace os the polemic. ilis ilace is that of the expert,
whose special ktioaledae of the suldent eii,aialcu tuna to de-
'erase mad comaare the doctrines umler diseussnin. It Is
cat his ileade what camp tttttt lees there ehall he
in the Mai relit tif taeaCa and 00,1 jnettee, hetweeil the holders
of the Until and the h tilers id the emir
but anecialities are apt t be disregarded In this country.
Dr Phil p attn was mit only a thealogiati awl scholar lad an
Btaglislinean and a citianii fie Was from yiaith a Arcing Ina
Mau, mad if that lie thought imoroper In a man whit was
vvrY vorly intended tor a derived cmiiver, it must he eosSl-
sidered that his lintlergraditate life at °third, which, by the
I. .easit as the eat In age of thirtem, exactly c 'melded
with the guest Frei oh R v dation. 'he quii k tempi, linii
Hary spirit of the hay, hi, itatiacts for Jamie., end truth, his
burin g iam,alenaatiamla, and his wonderful pawers of atatrehma
Mon and retention, all conspired tat make him the rolinot
Emlahinon at the peliael, the most terrine aria exciting
pa'thmtil is highiry. The world then grew a c adary In lair
yeses, and no doubt young l'hillpottia mind kept pace, not,
with it, but with the reaction llie saw in the general
crash and anarchy the natural cruichision of all agar..
Mae or subversive systems such ea he deem.' Popery.
Dissent, and whatever tented thereto. Any arcuthent
whate,er was vat 1 agoinst that which Was certainly had,
coal when the friiit was already seen there could ta ho quarter
with the plant umat Mare it. Church and state having to be
supported ay any means, the 17hui oh mast be that which haii
the anithialty of the State, and the at ite which had the
sanction 01 the Chnrch a and it is hanily tn be expected that
th, Corotiatton Oath sheet.' then reaeive time • imams C 01.10.1-
tOli mai sesame it is 110 w adinttted to bear. The titles at the
g Chiachman's early puhl c itioas create a Mile, for
Nothing armee to Olin° amiss tam !UM Wthtn :oviparity alai
order were au he vital ic ded. He was as read it m slims a ibmwmi
at! aims iniM as to lay penal Vultures 6.11 a 11,1Staken
tot, in comnean ith other Ito Ms, he saw in the Smote
d Church 4,1 this realni a sanity at once ',Athos' and
sacred, whence It followed limically that Nolleoll-
- and, y was only a shecies of treason and sedition
hot rimy a civil mina hilt an unholy thing. All this ...Y.
•erni alliance 110 W. and Ars liver null in a Inall who far natty,
yearn of has life scare to have lasyeil hate car at well in
worldly matters. But the proini-hig youth, with his re uly
wit lii, locale pee, his pleasaiit tongue. and his warm inipalees,
fell at anon into hiah eactesiatical hands, had his watt: given
him and his andatian at once fed anti st-natal ded The story
of his preferments anal promotion, nay he read with admira-
tion, not to say envy, it. these days ; hut it was, he ota ttttt
if
the age and the distinkuished pinralist had man) less deeerv-
Mg hot as nnseerSllll Colnhetitoolil.
It is a comfort to he told that a Bishop, who with all his
faults was a true Englishman, has olone his proper work well
Cranmer made a wrool anairt)r when he amid lio Imager help
it, atid when Or, Phtlipatts banal himself chained to the
remote capital of the West he aid his duty there. Ile kept
his eye on the citrates anti youhger cleray, snit made a Min-
s:lons lase of his patronage. Notaitiatauding the in-
creasing infirmities whiah compelled the Bishop latterly
to do his work by officials and voluntary coadju-
tant, the Immense (limese is said to be a model of
administration But Wesley and many others were
there before ehillpotts, mid several sects mat Dissenters have
not only numerous adherents, xml stole as well as zealous
preachers but even the prescription of Buie in their favour.
Whee Dr Prollipotts pet forth in streams and charges the
. xclasive preteheions which had charmed the reamierd of his
early lainphlets, they roamed a nest of hornets that wool.'
have embittered Ids life and shortened it lint for the pleamare
he tank in stinging the hareets in return. It was not a
pleasant or a seemly cot flict, but it lasted many yens, slid
the public took it as a nattier at contrse Henry of Exeter
Was mat od the perasmages of the day, and imly did what
vem•yhdy expe,ted au him, though sometimes a Little hi
exams at himself.