The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-05-23 00:00:00

RITUALISM IN WHITRORAPEL.

For • quarter of • century there has boon so Evan
plical ministry at BS. Jude's, Whitechapal, and • lar.;,
tion of the poor of the neighbourhood. The
'Viaoteritev. it; J. Haynes) has lately introduced
ritualistio practices, and • meeting was arranged
between him and some of the people who felt aggrived
by his innovations.
Although the vicar had appointed the meeting, he
kept them waiting some time.
la the first place Yr. Sims, churchwarden elect,
endeavoured to elicit whether rile bishop's eminent had
been given to preaching in the surplice, but • direct
answer wee ended. Proceeding. Mr. SiMtil wished to
know whether he (the vicar) be/hived in the real
presence 7—The Vicar: I do.
Mr. Sims.: Did you when you first came to this
dwell 7—The Veer : I did.
Mr. &mei : Do you believe that you have power to
breve sins?
The Vicar: Yes; I do, and my authority for believ-
ing it is this, that when I was consecrated by the
Bishop, he laid his hands on me and said these very
solemn words, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Who-
soever sins he remit they are remitted, and whosoever
sins you retain they are retained,"
Yr. Sines: Did you believethis when you first came
to this °harsh I—The Vicar: I did,
Mr. Sims.: Then how is it that you have not let
your congregation know it before
The V leer : When I came bore I found that the con-
gregation held very low church views, and I consider-
ably modified mine to snit theirs, bat now I wander it
no longer neesseery to do so.
Mr. Cattail told Mr. Haynes that the raison he bad
Bed • larp number of his congregation was in *ones-
queues of the treatment they had resolved, and he
continued, why you told me sir, that the doctrine' of ,
the church of Some were damnable, and now you are
Introducing them In this eburch. Yon believe in the
real preemie, you say you have power to forgive sins.
why, Sir, Ws abominable
Mx. Bees maid that he bad been to that church ever
Shea it was • church, and had always been used to true
Evangelical preaching from the vicar's predecessors.
He then qeeeticeed the view upon • doctrinal point,
whereupon the wirer told him that he did not -know
what he was talking cheat, that he had better sit down.
Upon this Mr. Nees took his hat to go eat, remarking
that Mr. Haynes had done great harm in the church,
whereupon the Vicar, with great warmth, holding out
his hands clenched, told him he would have to answer
for that before the bar of God, Immediately the p
old man knelt and offered up • f II prayer. It
owed • very solemn feeling amongst at present,
amidst .61.6 Tho m 4
then left the room, the Visa remarking that the poor
Bellow was • misguided but very good man.
Mr. Elliott then asked what was meant by If igh
Mardi. The Veer declined to answer, upon whiah
Kr. Mee entered into • description. The Vicar,
beaming 4:aspersed, jumped up and exelinmed " Sit
down you puppy 1" Some gentleman argued that the
expressions the saaramentaliste adopt are only figure.
live, and the Viear frequently interrupted him, s
0.1 adjure you, by the living God,keep quiet," " remelt'.
her you are en holy ground," "be careful whet you
say." At last, his temper again overcoming him, he
ran round the table with his arms clenched, everyone
ezpreting be was either going to tarn him out or knock
him down, but the man, not in the had frightened.
Mood uadmintedly, whereupon the Vicar said, "Gabble,
gabble, gabble. you geese r
Thus the meeting continued some time, Mr. Harlem
exelancilog that no one had any right to question his
authority, and that he should do am he liked.
At last it was proposed and seconded that the offer-
tory should be solleited in plates and not in hags.
This resolution the Vicar refused to pat to the meet-
ing, whereupon
r. 81mee proposed, and Mr. Walls seconded, the
liellowing resolution :—"That this meeting, having
Weed the statements of the Bev. Si T. Haynes, desires
to express Its indigu
_anon at his conduct in having
ailed as an EvaoplLW minister for so long, and now
stating that be always held High Church opinions. and
that he intends Introducing them into his church ; sad
further, that • deputation be requested to wait upon
the Bishop of Leaden, with a memorial, stating the
grievances of the eoagregation."
This resoled= was pat and carried with only one
Aleesatieat, amid the andemation of the people, who
dispersed with the words "Woe to the Shepherd that
esadereth the gook."--004dease4 from the Eiger n