The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-12 00:00:00

mukk••a.f•lt Parfet* ermined that • great and
seared work of the Hot Spirit of God was going on
amongst them in with this ordinance. and that
multitudes of the ems and daughters of the Ohuech of
&gland found in lithe turning point of their religious
ifmk Us found merlsrbere • great increase of intelfigent
loyalty to the Church owing to this mom Through this
orthethro Mang psmons o(both etexes passed into various
lines Lad prokenolm of life, seethed and blessed with
soberness, devotion, and earnestness, sad the Church was
• rowing wonderfully stronger every year in cue seers'.
Us hid borrowed • Pith of his lamented brother. Bishop
of Lichfield, end wished It to be noticed, to this
effect—that a 'operate answer to the greet question
In the great confirmation &ignite should be asked of 'Mr
candidate; end ho should be crestly obliged if eeeee
clergyman at whom house or school the swhimmtion took
place, would furnish the CkrisGan and surname of every
candidate in the order as ." mid in church, no that he
might call them in rotation.Tben after the." 1 do" each
should kneel and pray for the grace of God to keep their
vow, and for such purpose each boy and girl should be
furnished with an appropriate prayer. He adopted this
Man last year in Wiltshire, and he was spry that
wherever it was tried not only the clergy, but the cows"
satiates themselves shared his impression as t° Its rid" ;
had the Use, requited for the performance of the duty
hardly exemelot Huse or four minutia —Poring from
what he described SI his own **limited sphere of labour"
to the outer world, the Prelate mid there were • number
of subjects on which he should like to say • few words.
lissm wsm too many of conaiderahle impactions to be
touched upon now. One, however, had been brought
under his notice within the last 21 hours, which he could
not par over altogether—he meant the attempt to re-
habilitate the Diocese of Zululand, from the centre of
Utrecht. He did not mean to touch upon any question of
politica, but he was sure they would all fed it a great
comfort if they could be allowed to help in the
restoration of there mission minims which had been
more or lase relinquished during this melancholy
war, and to supply the means for • strong occumtim of
the smart' by the Church of England, when peace should
have been established. Let us afford to those brays
savages the mesas of cram with the same liberality, and
with the same sort of preparation with which we had
furnished arms to destroy their lives and their homes.—
The Bishop then proceeded to refer at considerable length
to the proceedings at the last Lusibeth Conference. The
mediae of 111fff exhibited a noble spectacle of union and
brotherly love, not only amongst our own Bishops, bat
also amongst those who were embattled from every stdo of
the world. The Committees appointed at that meeting
come to cenclusione which had not been publicly reported,
but from which great good might be expected to result
even beyond the sea. Last year the experiment was
sePested, with a view of arriving at more practical ran-
elusion& The sudden and unexpected death of Bishop
Selwyn kept many Bishop. away, and those who were
present felt deeply the lased those men. Still there were
exactly 100 Bishop present, including all the Enelleh.
Irish, and Scotch, 10 from British North America, three
from India, three from the West Indies, three from Am-
tralththres f roes New Zatalsad,one f roan Gibraltar,one from
the 'Whined Islands, and five from Shanghai. The Right
Rm, prelate pointed ought the great difference between
that Conference and a Vatican Domicil, where
thathonest coavictions of same of the prelates were over-
borne by the oda of the Pope. At Lambeth there was
nothing of the kind. The Bishops there represented the
Anglicans exasnunion all over the world. At the same
time each of than Was Perfectly Independent, "Mug his
own diocese, his own clergy, and his owe system of
freedom and primness, intellectually, morally, and socially,
and they
,had sally no gismos at • map of the world to show
how widely spread they were Nevertheless he believed
, that the moat satire unity characterised the meeting at
Lambeth • ant me of its mart saltine points was Itsln
diegosedanM. There was nothing of a Popedom or • quasi-
Pepedoen about It; but any one present Gould not fail
to recogniee, with deep thanidulnees to Almighty God, the
unity with which they were bound together. In fact the
meeting altogether was practically • direct antithesis to
the Roman theory, under which • angle pemonAge
dominated over the whole &molt —The Bishop quoted
toothsome to show in what reepscta. in his opinion, the
°anteroom was calculated to being good to the Church.
and claimed for It • htinsacy that was free from
ultremontante exclusiveness or tyranny. Having re-
viewed the principal portions of the prooseMugli
the Bishop referred to the alarming date of Ltd=
on the Continent, we Roma, instead of guiding
much of peaces. was gagging and impeding it to
each ea extent as to neesealtate a resort to represeive
measures embed the efforts of societies banded together
to overthrow long-eetsbildeed ranks of men, to &Mr.,'
property, to establish an impossible equality, and to
aboutbring a state of political and religious chaos. True
r was the mainstay of • nation; but he pointed out.
irifro;clble language, that the Romish religion, as tat
by authority, had failed to save Italy, France, or
It was the duty of the Anglican church to be true to herself
and to the great ormncipise of apostolic order; but her
• must not see the mysterious tokens and corrupt doctrinal
of Rome, nor intuit she, CM the other hand, coquet with
the puritanism of Nonconformity. There were, he thosieht,
at memat many hopeful signs In the Anglican church
the astonishing spread of colonial episcopate. In the
work of special madam of different kinds, in the devotion
of Christian women to works of love and mercy, in the
multitudes of young men who were inquiring in what way
they oould take pertin the multifarious opteadons of church
work in our various parishes, In the striking and unexampled
enemy displayed in the rumination of churches and cathe-
drab, in the great and increasing interest felt in mission
festive.* in their greatly multiplying Sucharistic celebm
Hoes, end in the improved singing of their choirs, as
exemplified the other day, within the walls of their noble
Cathedral. But at this point he telt himself checked by
the Yahoos inotances in which courts of law had been
Invoked, and judgments given had not always been
sustained, sad which to the minds of some of the clergy
were so Irreconcilable and opposite as to lend them to
encounter any difficulty rather than submit to them. He
felt • great deal of sympathy with, and more admiration
for, some of the clergy under these circumstances, and
he was reedy to admit, in the abstract, that • secular
authority ought not to interpose in matters of sacred
doctrine; but still he thought the wiser course would be
to submit to decisions when they had been once pronounced
(even though they pressed unduly upon the clergy), in-
stead of permitting them to he pointed to 'so signs of
disunion. The Bishop referred to the decision In the
"mined chalice " question, and qooted various authorities
to show that the mixed chalice was in use in the primitive
church, and that there WU nothing to show that it ever
, gave rim to superstition in the R,U14111 Church before the
Reformation. As far as he could see the um of the mixed
chalice had never been prohibited by Act of Parliament
or canoe, but still, as an adverse judgment had been given
In the Purchase case, he counselled his clergy, looking at
the Public Worship Act, to submit to the decision, and to
, refrain from the practice in question. Ha made a brief
passing reference to the Burials Bill and the Rubrics' Bill,
and while expreming some degree of disappointment at
the action taken by one section of the clergy in regard to
the latter, and regretting also that the time of love in
these matters had 120 t toarzet.tisiid that notwithstanding
the t divisions that and the great wilfulness
displayed by extreme men on lades, their prospects of
, unity were brighter than they hot over been in any
madam crisis of the Reformed Episcopal Church of
, Begland--certainly from 1.549 to 1801 The duty of all of
' them was to work, pray, and wait, resting assured that
"he that helieveth than not come to shame."

At ths conchal= of the Charge, the Bishop pronounced
Liaa Benediction, with which time proceeding:, ended.
Among tha accisoissUcal °lacers attending the Bishop
were—lter. Capon Broadlay, vicar of Bradpole. surrogata
to the Chancellor of the Diocese; Mr. Fitsherbort
Macdonald. register of the diocese ; and Mr. John Haasard,
UV. =very. of the charge the roll of the claw
wee called. and salons the rev. gentamen prcsout were the
following :—Rave. M. Penny, Abbotebury ; Fox. /Laker-
well ; 111. Wis, Atbslhempton ; Thorndyks, Bore; Benham,
Bintembe and Broad way; Towne, Bothechampton ;
Canon William', Bradford Peverell ; Bennett, Branksomo;
Leonard, Etridport ; Wilkins, Cattistock ; Highmors.
Ckittistock ; Guidry, Corn.; Hill, Chaldon ' • Barnes,
obartninater • Peos, West Chelborough ; Danville,
Chickerell ; Allen. ChUcombe ; Carmichael; Hooper,
Chilfrome ; Marriott. West Compton; Hobbs, Compton
Valance ; Stanton. Coombe Mitre= ; Taylor. Corte
Caetlo ; Harland. Corte Castle ; Plumptre, Corte Mullen
Lowter, Corscombs ; Jambs, All Solute, Dorchester;
Everett, Holy TrlititkivhDoLcrter ; Knipe, St. Peter's,
Havant= al ; Walker, • Dorset County
Gaol ; Rash. last Holm.; IL Monte,gMngton ; Handley
Motile, Portia:gift ; Osborn*, Christchurch; Sainsbury,
Frampton; Nantes, Eros= Vauchurch ; Pope, Godman.
stone; Meddle, Riot; Spancsramite, Klup DLI:11•11,
Killeoll ; Gossett. Langton Earring' Later.
lgetravers ; Williams and Law, I=fleet Kendaill2sl
Luhrorth ; West Lahr t Haaksy,
Newton; Compton, Ileppowdsr .• Fakeer and Mullins,
I/4.w Rama ; Win. blither= St. Andrew; Frampton.
Moisten; Yestroan, Netherbary ; Or.s, 0 wermoigus ;
Doginors, Parkalous ; Stroud, South ; Roper,
p. ; lacks, Piddletrenthide ; Lawson, Pools
Gaol; Pocock and Jones, St. Paul's, Poole; Archdascon
Sanctuary, Powastock ; Andry ; McDowell, North
Ppyrtop • Beam= Pertbutal iutzlistord. St. Peter's, Pert-
land;_ PM! CU ; Canon Rampialtain ;
Canon Smith, Stafford ; G. Mottle, Bcutnitrow Ge, Tyne
ham; Shirley =I Feltham, Stinsfoed ; Wickham, Stake
Abbott; H=o,oa. Rat Stoke Dien, Studland ; Start.
Baronage; Spencer-Smith, Swyro ; Vernon, Sidling St.
Nicholas ; Janerin. Toiler Poroaruto ; Canon Nash, Tot-
puddle;. Freeman, Turner's Puddle • %Mama,
; Ulm*, ; Hartle, aria Schuster,
ViVri'rnahitm ; Camwidge, Warmwell ; Shuttleworth, Holy
Trinity, Weymocte ; Randal% St. John'.; Brine, Whit.
church ennonicorem ; Worthington, Chideock ; Phllj
%nitrite Newbuigh ; Gress. Wintsrborns ; House, Win-
tarborne Anderson; Bun= W., Cams; Bernie,
Moookton ; Ludlow, Martanstown ; H. Dodington, Wool;
Williams. Worth Matravers ; Figen. runty'', Wlka
The clergy and churchwardens in the afternoon dined
together at the King's Arms Hotel.