The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-10 00:00:00

CHURCH INNOVATIONS.

Bit—My atteatioe has been rolled to • bit a pier&
sad spiteful "heel.," in the SAertarce Journal, called
an " sourer" to my letter to you respecting the Maws-
neat of the Mavis, et the Minster. This I should not
have condinnsadmi to polio, but for am Purr., of
sputa, lb. "peer leerider. the eltagrio of lading his
wonderful Widow eonossiMod to the waste paper
basket. And sees now I shall not strewn to follow
him In his malodour romperimas and ebservatioaa,
mash Ism to =ewer hit noontime I prefer hoots( it to
your modem I. deteradas whether he has really—nos
to say fairly—emmeseed any of th• matters of ohseryMion
ia feriae lerasr. The " poor eheriellee" evidently Is
no grammarian ; for 'hi whole of his Lae and
kw and dimiimid• •aprinsions only show, witratiblit
" RONA semillie," (0, Liadley Murray I hold m• op I)
that the "poor eborister" has mistakes innovations
of the servies for "renovation" of the ionitster ; so to
which not • word is used (it being manooseeary) in my
letter. Hews all his " leatherwater basketry,"
" minim* amoristioas," " tympaaani of the heart,"
uniudft." sad "bat-wets, Ana," of this
asoiraot to paldio fame This, with -all his low,
pltry ribaith7—pieleed up, no doubt, in some pot-hoem
or in the streets (and I am Wormed there is plenty to
be heard tiers alter the worries on " &today" irymtipp)
—I have to the church beadle, aided by oat eelebratwl
sweep, to oarrad for him. Perhaps the "post
eirarister" had better be more attentive to his notes,
miad his bare, mid, not, in future, get so sadly out of
hie gamma la amid ogiroa with him, I sea only say,
"Good by., Peter !"—I an., Ihr, your obedient
servaat,
A CHURCHII
March 2, 1963.

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wiag gametic's. ' ors% ea um mei eon, tssat
will lie ge next immovables 41 as Miaow at Winterise."
It was e fally to settee reek Peal adagi=aa ad It
may Weird inwary reefert, me mese
foe I few »web ie me widely demisted joaesaL
"Giterehaen eomplatas I"—That tie besolffal

orgaa waii taken down front its lofty position for no
same offence than obstructing the iuteirior:” Now, Mr.
for,pds that the wee foqe, the more items,
:he instrument rendered ; for prior to the " innostation"
one-fourth of it sres ridiculmasly passed half way up
the spire, throwtos away It. toms round the solid marble
work above, whilst the lower portion of the organ no
materially affected the architectural beauty of the
building, as well aa barricaded the congregation from
their leaders in the services, that the " innovation sem
most imneratively called for." Nay, the original poe•
Gun of the organ formed • mom of eoutinued ridicule
by all ornoible people. nablmiled by that imbecile
bigotry which now-a4ay no often perpetuates the eb-
sunhat anoinobes, etiuply bocause they are "old."
Why, with the mine sapient acumee, did not Mr. C.
insist that the imuietitate &alio° of axes and bammen
should restore the olden earthy door of the church, ,
arypg, and yeetry, in substitution of the comfortable ,
door not warnidester pipes nue provided? tot °nett.
itig the damp 'old' vault., emittatti fume., certainly
not healthy. Rut, I apeak with all revolter* on this
point, And, then, *by should he not again in big
affection fur things pristine wish the replacement of
the ere-engine and ancient leather•water-bucketry go
prominent a very few yearn age at the weetero pert of
our Church, to say nothing of old books in tlei library.
mouldering and rotting a. they on.. were."
" relunan's” obeervstiou es to "the obrfory Leh"
riotated by collection dues, for parochial if ad' tadisi-
dear debt...," is suds • rile, malicious, and irreverent
Imbrication, a. creates disgust end oondernation only.
" Moping the belLs on the lamented death of one, not
qf Royal tdood, aml flay in etioarsiing at half-mast"
Thai deterred triAiste, was. I mu proud te admit, ten•
dewed to the remains of • youth, whom, everyone who
knew him, loved ; whether, for gentle end kindly
bearing, or the higher attribute of •limffeeted piety : the
son, too, of one, whose cesseten effort through good and
eed report contribeted mainly, if not wholly, to the
Minster restorations ! Why than, this odd, harrowing,
and sowarttly allusion ton melaneholy event long passed
away? Barely it cannot be the fruit of our uuondarn
eburehntan's devotions at the Minster. Does it not
rather argue that (however lung his ears might naturally
mil the tympanum beats vainly to hi. heart.
The klalielvary Hymnal might surely vie with the
following, at page 13 and 13 of Liarrett's collection of
Yealmit.