The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-26 00:00:00

THE DORSET

illernelm I "Oh I bed" 750 .411 tan mead and my,
" yen lono na.er:ere mem in the
Jaw, hag MB may he
prop Pt a lielhallerdea isghlrf-the Width may be
• Earl ledy-ries nee meg mot
lb.? beememaroes-
=thrtrthere o. MOM' end there en Joie; sad if You
ranee le take theme inte merant-why, you imply readeace
the whole principle of pork sad the eagewthein el sonereete,
mad fall beth upon the eid system of • seeprity owners( It
mothers of rollilee. I speak to you openly sod eaaly t if, for
the mks el pace-11.1n ronoguluen of the daises of leaties-if.
homer Ohrth's kingdom is not of this wentr-if, 'opener
the injury indicted upon both by mixing up the Wasp of
Oar and "the things of Corr -if, for all thews roma% yea
are revolved to morn the Iweporol rithodi7 to lbw of
*Errs, and to con to the churches ton,
="vir'dedi end absolute direction of mieitual inatters-thae,
ain with you, besot and geol. But if, on the ternirsry, You
would make the moat great moverieed a mere droner'
queries, 1.. • gentian of sere spirt asst-11 you Meld
name it down ton sectarith whelks as molar the Mark
became yea rear deurelmos -if you Prim to Mbar le
the breed, clear, and only "the line of demarcation, to be drawn
1:1 our7Bilt Your FriaollAtie Of religious eqmlity sod freedom
acenersom to their proper {ogler rono.loo-.Uynu onwir,
through • blind nosratioa of the weir/tuna letter, lr.e.peotive
of the spirit, In melutalaiag the introduction of the Bible
durrifilhe moray hours, foe the purpose (ao you know) of
tench Chriethedlw--then, I ham little sympathy with
.7ou -
I wo rather accept boson dersominationiclos then lama-
thread hollow, alosted tinincterianlon- sad I predict your
ultimate failure sad the triumph of the denominetralist
party. I do mot know whether you are aware that the Ueda..,
when it was fret lartasd, eapported the Tiering of the Bible
without note or occenient." Toe ma, from your own feel-
ing., rummy the rtissetance which Mr. B. W. Ors, My
Mr. Crookiry, Mr. Holland, and other keerlieg Nonoomfornair I
Minister expereated in nen apparently and far • time
setting ride that Book In Mike a 0 their own hopes of la.
lonsortality and eternal Marmot en contained. Ist they
have been obliged to midair in and defend Ile ermine
esclulion. They know, however, that they ma miry intrust
It to the churches ; they saw, what you teapot deny, that
wimple Bible-roding will not eave • man, that U.S bare words
of Holy Writ have so virtue without the religion of the heart
and at you all except the declared denominstionalists,
have determined that dogmatic or doctrUer religion shall be
kept out, sad be left to the religlowe bodies to loeter and
saran ; they at length recognised the need for handing over
to the was guardimeitip and the sone melons advocacy the
peat authoritative emote of their doctrines sod their faith.
Here, and here only, situ. secure-you may beat about the
bash," you may trim. 700 .057 blink the truth, you Ruh try
to mg lip a religious equality, a encored liberty of conereme
but It will sot avail. You will simply play Into the demon-
natioesaild's hand.. Corm you love the holders, to terry
out your principle to its farthest limits ; ond whew you hen
the faith in Clod, tM belief in the divine cwigla of your
religion, and the trust in the (lurched to ...way your
erode that so woolly dui is rounred to maintain true
religion, and that, let prom and ruler do what they will,
it will never tail I my union ou have LAW bolds... sad
this totthdence, you will not sword in obtaining that freedom
and equality which you seek but will kayo the greet bathe
to be fought out, end the great victory to be soldered, by
your mom othightiesed, ecordent, and litho euctemora.
The an. T. Imre rid-The alert of our .0.41.0 to-
night, se he. lea stated, is to sign opportunity tor •
dimmer= and statement of the other Me of the reliance tram
the ere whin we, the ~o 1 01 the lagged adopt.
he.. thud, so fully expounded my views an the Itherthon
Queries, that I almost dem It neceseary to apologias kw
further obtruding nay pee sod sentiniere upon pod
But the fed is, our poeltloe doer not seem to have hese
clearly, or indeed In nay true lewd at all, undlthowl. sod
we ore anxious to r ter MOS further malaria= to-night.
And Ind let we remind you that the Logue does sot wok to
esdade religion or the Bible frees the schools. For ea that is
andeirreed hp our opponents end tad by them, It is
mode to Mae that the sewathes of Ike league are the norm
Perko to religion and ethereal leeching. I shell quote so
=its.* le tram mallow) that publi by the
its positionon the reitts dignity, and
wlll the. you to lay whether Its members am Mall to
religious ineeruction to the young. Let we In the meantime
Mil your attentlon to the feel, tbat the gentlemen, who
ameagat ue, and who I hops are prepared to edemas their
opinion in Ikb Conform tooled, who Moore Bible
eaiwithout note or come sent, hen not the credit of
soy mew ; that is the very policy which this
at int proctor, but from width by Orem of weather
=love been drivea, and I don't regret it ; it ow not
politico, and It WM well that it no driven from It;
but thane who manned to fleet hos Mane of palter on the
Cad the League, by • barefaced sad preannosd cissontiew
polity on thetir.ipart, have driven them to a truly
rep el and terrier than, ea which we are armored now
to rand and light na we conquer which we believe will not
be long. Iwe extremely anxious that those nehmen who
now. anxiously favour Bibie randier In the hope of molting
title "religion. difßoulty," should undentand that they are
VIOWIIIIOI2 behind their neighbour, end will e=iy
dheere that where others have been. compienely
there is but little thanes of tbeir suocooding. And now to give
you • few quematior from the isealhoto of the Lowe, on
the change of it. polity from Bible reading pure and leapt., to
combined ocular or literary education, opener .ti
inetructioa. Here In the tallying key statabeit
It is hostile to religious lisetructhea or that it deigns to
exclude the Bible from national educerno, Is unfoueded and
untrue." Further it mays-. We morns the duty of the
religious desionslostions to give roligieno instrachoe by their
own teachers. al their own cant, and at periods separate from
Urge devoted to ocular inetruentod" Does it not MM. thew
fore, something Ilk. • wilful latantko on the part of our
opera, to brand use seeking to exclude religion and the
Bible from our whore. se If we believed religion to be • curse
and not a hisseing / It is n:l4 asy moors to rooks • dies
tiaction so plain and ordeal as the Le.gue does, that while
religions instruction may be imparted In Nebo* by their
supporters at their own expense, It dose not therefore follow
that tier inetructioe is • right tide( daring the hours of
escular teaching, and by the agent, wham all partied whatever
be their creeds, agree to jog? The object of Urea who air
the cry about keeping or the Bible, is sunply to make capital
for their own denorainsUocia/ inhoole, afoot which I hope you
will keep In view when you come to vote on this rem/area.
Another objection which is tried agreed as is, that la
separating the water sad the nitrous element in education ,
we are Imply roderingpie farmer radium, and education
itself worse than ordem-polUvely tularemia And hare I
doll not occupy your time by retailing all the hard 1111=
whin poor Peening instruction, no called, bee bees
by our eery ports opponents. fixt I just MP to my this.
that if there io anythlog in tale pansy and unmeaning
charge, It is on. 1.. which Yr. Former is as reeponsible as the
league, and therefore our °parasol lied better Naar
amount. with their friar the Bidder of B location, before
they lay their claims wren us: For led rne tell you that that
Act, r completely in theory though sot in practice over. the
secular and the religious es the moot ardent member of the
League could dwAre. Is that Act so pert of the time which
I. devoted to secular driers ean ho occupied with religious
teerdeino. No money le to be pel4 for ',aglow, MIMI.. II le
to be relegated to a very eruborritnate place in the echooL It
Is Dot to be compulvory, mad the condienom so-called of the.
parents and the children, ere to be protected by • mineable
u s:Lrellitioto bigotry in the erre of :a time tatds ma-
dame, hung up conspicuously in the ciao room; sod
further, lilt should be deternithed by any erbool managers to
exclude !religious wtheation altogether, they Pell yet he
theirs for goverment poste fir ocultr results. Tom win
we at once therefore tthat the Act, while it permit. religious ,
education to be smuggled in, at the expense of the ratepayers,
and to the injury both of their doll and religiose rights.whieh
the State Lt bound @acridly to regard yet no exaaw provision
whatever Is mode for it by the Act. The werlom_;denomina-
tins are to look rim it thaw/ave. ; and Hr. Forster bee
given them ample grant, to compete with purely secular or
Board echools. Lod hae In addition made it posit& for these
demoonnational echool• to hare their "religion" taught at the
express of the rotepsyere, And this I, called "religious
equality ;" but we mlt it religious ineqoallty in Its most per-
nthoos and Miners form, which we oe waking to overthrow.
The rogue be consistent in It. policy, Kr. Unger la not. For
while Users to throw the exposes of religious instruction upon
the denominationallabt theareireato be provided ler at eoperste
hours and by operate teacher, to prove their good faith;
Mr. Foram allows the two things to be separated. sad yet to
Involve al relish:manta In the import of both. This Le doing
evil that good may come, and rolatieur the great prlucipla of
Chrinan truth, which teach tie "to do to others as we
word they druid do to us.* Then as to that fart
of the objection which mean shout the degrading of secu•
tar knowledge. I canna 15w getting elk nod tired of this
them cant about adelarising knowledge. Do thy of you
primal dem it a degredation to sell your goode
ortthout end corm your customer to part of •
hymn, or • heir prayer, or without coaciading your ease by
the doxology 7 Is it a deteredahoe I lola to Wand to our
daily employments without toixikVlisem up with dietieseUve
teaching or exercise@ ? what gyms., In le thin
TirVichoolansider Meanie( mohe instruction wiriest
area metro them then is in any Mbar omptopesest I Let
, us look at the Meth" fairly, aad rid our of MI this
mot. Talking about religiose praleiken whether in reeking
Of ainaltlug era I cannot tamer my ory 01111110 martilaa
that this tares preform el mom, is sites waning in
psalm and reel Chrielladty, b doing at thie nomad wore
be lopre true religion and to drive people from it thee any
of as are at all capable of authoring. The reams' cry is that
people ere loud slough In their preforms, bet that they
an Pt real. The may seesdarist le the men rho
relgies ana yet Oils to do fair y and ftbteesely by hI. fellow
creauirm sArleilthi, se I =donned the anarer, ars those
whose raglan spathe end knervie in their aothea • men
may never eneatloo rellglon, may never emotion the same of
Joni., end yet kb whole life may be permeated by His spud
sod his example : whereas the man on whom lips the mem
of Jesus is never shoot, may have nothing of bin spirit, but
In every act of hie We gaily tom/Miming it. le Moab In,
the secular part of the beldam ; an now, patiemed I hope
you understood that the Bill itself to Imply • eitailar oneorith
an usJoet opportunity of doing weirg to the appended. of demo-
herionallem Theo the reed an extract from a letear:i
the Rev, John W. M.A., Jesus College, Oafc
Hoed Baster of the Cesminar Snook Bridal, iseedireintory
the new taken of the Act of Mr. Forster as a secular Act.
And while I ant on this part of the subject, let me oak you to
note the kind of religious education you aro likely to get mar
the operation of this Act. Hoe Is se extract from • ghtaderd
mediae (Burn%) adapted to the mob:oasts of the Code of
M .I. limy Mesita hove devoired churn at various
User since the age of the Apostle; but none ever profiler
one &redrew results lira there which arms 10th. Penning
of the lath century, the follower. of which are known by the
cammon name of Peeler/at" (book v. p. IN) Luther is des-
cribed "so going on step by step in his WON %WO career.' It
I. rased that "The long reign of Illisebeils wee • period of
great temporal prosper', y for inglod. But we mum remains
her that the promerity el the wicked is often the greatest
ruse Goo ma ialllet ups thom They are spared hen
bemuse they are to be purred bender. bld
The good old timer ihigiseed" wen the timid" when Wry
worth* the throne, and . gashed's soar are Sought that
the "hour is sigh' Moo-

Agan ;bell lag promoter sweep.
Through Uneoin's dater
=dull baiter, RN. eed ape.
through Ai inosered ales
" And SIM and norms sad mar
Sall each hen s
at holy
A theirct.i.ty.
Lad the ngelu
ithal saistly time the day.
" Balsa of Santa I this pea will dawn,
But sot without the light;
So come the soma are it sty,
Lad God data the right', Book v. U, Mi.
This I. Um kind of iducatioe" which is gives under
Mr. Forelas BILL ad ran whkh the comelenem of pima
or. protected by • (01104400. .11.11111 I AM yOll prepared fee
ends Making nitrate education? Are you prepared to
aria • death dow toMelleformakie, the leaden of WA by
mein Of our oppasta aracancans...l by epithets ad I
shell od even name I A. you prepared I 4 • deadly dank
an your Protaelonian, Wan a deeply wounded Is the
home of its Mad.? Ars ma 'nand lor Use se of
psis mcrat, ad the return of mote &rims days of old Zag.
kud, when to he • Proanat Ira to a • herdic, .04 10 son
yourself from the Bogota wa to recent. sad believe le the
Nal Pressed I Are you prepared kr al tar ? For nothing
more or len tan this is Involved in this daily Leonia lot
loch it 1 oci both awl' If you are the Falun or th• future
„rillsot g.g •bc Sagami of to-day ad our calcine vii Sod it
harder to live in it than we do now. lam no alarmist ad
I do out oiL unduly to mat the power ad Warm of the
prkgshua of this cant,/ I for onall I believe they all be
sad ignominiously driven from the Said; out I
unak I agi, dairy enough, Mat Gas are something like tbe
intends wt la are being staked on this vast ecu,rgA,o..l
cootronny. Tare le moo-tar latter a winch I anta yto
• word. We havo been siacieroaly repremotal ad:,
to thrust • " Galen kamation ort the ige." Mow=
res to rad to you how we ste danseterted trig
the
lanentor;° I mean Mr. Bloom bolt le wok dui.
thir vimbrssra. on this eiloomks
ouedloe, but who in realty but lan, so you mu us.
agen I mere oho following bdoas Tat Tido h .ay,
of the supporta" of the LOW. programa, "It would be.
great natake to suppose that Mom who object to as Bgbie
hewn mid Po religious do so Bona opposable to the
Bible or Indillersece to religitiwhoilLla. GI .1, wall Whoa,
—for such I lake It to be— MUM odaaalos unmitigated
, mobs teateing from permed dilate( In Me Uhf., and
pains enmity to ale. n limed—Shen de, no doubt, gg.
each, but three to whoa I rekr an ad such. rya oppoithan
from the solemn lospartare they ram& to
=T'Mbeir mensal for the Bible, ken the nal
airilualitgt
Randy or Lb• parka: of Its dationrise the
pasullsay of ite leadags rallood°,theClui4 lad
reanapave work. and from the visa they adman of the
ate of Wed sod hien required is those who are to 101111
and handle, to think sad spa. id al" lair° lad °land
tamer. They do eat sonsider tat the comma day school is
the Moos fur sod sogspesente, Sae leash., theft the
=lto ocaduct tam ; sepeciellY 49 V 441 1"6". th" °
C.d
has devolved the duty a the aura mid the wed,
▪ to the one • Y.• my lambi: odd to Sao olawrs
bere, hang up your 'MMus is tie Burton ing aimed.