The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-23 00:00:00

.Rlritham's 111elonnzbe, Dorchostar, June 12, IR6&

lify dear Ward,—Perhape I argh-t-iave-been slow to
*rapt your challenge, to show wherein you had "gene
beyond the fair limits of the Church of Enelanti," if it
Lai been necessary for me to starch through „Your
publications, for the purpose of laying my finger, as you
imigrat, on the particolar menages which would bear out
my aasertion. Nothing would be less conic flint to me
than the idea of making you an offender for an isolated
-wined Cr exprecien, er of embarking in • detailed news.
paper controversy with you; but, after the unqualified,
and soniewhnt ersggerated praise, which you have
publicly given to that " finisle-d and masterly treatise,"
as you cill it, our Dimiesan's last Charge. I do not
think it unreasonable to pmurne that yen sympathize
with him in your views on the nature of the Clvistian
ministry ; the mode of the Snviour's presence in the
Loris Supper; and the power oi the acre in remitting
and retaining sins.
Against there visas, a. being "contrary to the
Fcriptural t aching of our Church. and utterly sub-
,. tiiva of her Protestant it ending and diameter," I bars
joined with a lance body of my brethren, both clerinal
and lay, in this diocese in solemnly protesting. Nor,
since that step was deliberately t ,ken, have I seen any
reanen wherever why I should modify my opinions, or
retrest from the brief. yet, I believe, cionelosive
aigu-
nine, by whioh they were suet iined.
But I grieve to be &cured that practically you have ,
gooe even further than the Bishop. H. as I understand
him, reeogniz. • the very principle. via' woe pro lege,
on which the bents majority on the Rituallatic Commis- ,
stoner. have based their second report; and, however,
'faintly he may have blamed the revival of obsolete
ve.tm.nts and praetiers In oar Church, still he pmte....s
(and, I am quite willing to allow, in all honesty,) that
he dies not sanction them. You, on the other hand,
sinless I sm greatly mittaken, have fully east in your
lot amon...st there Ultneeltitualists, whom avowed
cl.tert id to " nn.Pr itestantiso the Church of England,"
and one of whose number at Irina has gone not
much beyond many of big fellows, when he has
veneured to @peak of oar sainted Reformers as
"unredeemed villains." with whose it would disgrace
It beapierre, and Driton, and Yeast, and C .uthon, to
compare them. I f ency it is n s secret that yon hive
appeared an • duly.clad preacher in the notorious St.
Alban's, Holborn, on St. Album's day ; thus, I take
It, openly manifesting your entire sympathy with
a stare., which even that most reluctant and apologetic
of juices, Sie Robert Phillimore, has been obliged, in
a large measure, to madman.
If not altogether content with LW decision, still I am
not gine to become your public prosecutor, nor is it
hkely Gar, whatever you say, or whatever you do, I
!heal seek to "promote the office of judge" egrainst you;
but, nevertheless. I must claim for mewl( the right cd
To intaining my firm opinion, that the doctrines and
practices above inferred to are not in accordance with
the Ronk of Common Prayer, the bias on which our
bomb of England County School it testified ; and al o
of lily further right of backing my opinion by voting
egaina any member of the Council, who acknowledge.
bini.elf to adopt them.
I have purposely abstained from entering on those
coquettinp and eomplianoes with Rome, which you
have now admitted, because they were unproven at
the Nene of the County School meeting, and therefore
In PO wise influeneed my vote; but this much I
Moore you, that, wit I can discover that the
fermulariee of the Church of Eigland autborae the use
of iv...style-et holy.water, the crossings and genuflections
bet se a Popish altar, or even the eziatence of any altar
of sacrifice at all in her places of worship, I will notonly
retire from the Council of • Church of England
School, but from the Church of England herself.
No sophiatry. by whomsoever employed or approved,
will ever, I believe, upset in unwarped mind, the
simple historical farts, that her formularies and her
articles are, and were m mot to be, a protest against
Roiniala doettnes and Hoorah practices; that her
martyrs suffered persecution end even death because
they clung to that protest; and that ahe has no leer.
Tante claim on our allegiance at this moment if she in
prepared to "build egain the things which she destroyed"
when the light of God's troth in the blessed Refoinat.
Con, by Hi. great mercy, shone forth upon her.
I cannot, I confer, stall comprehend thia process of
yours of slapping the Church of Rome with one hand,
and patting her with the other. She has either erred,
as our 19th Article declares, and foully "erred, not
only is her living noel manner of ceremonies, but also
In matters of faith." and we are bound to tome out of
her altogether, and to "bate the very garment that is
spotted" with her uncleanness ; or else she is still "s
coegmeation of faithful seen," with whom it is our
duty to communicate, and in forsaking whom we have
sadly " trams:rased."
That the Lord may lead and keep us both in the right
way is Um prayer of
Yoar old and 111160•111 friend,
C. W. BINGHAIL j

limrsal Nebo.
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Thu Bishop of Peterborough (Dr. Joins) has had a
severs attack of illness.

Btu R. NAPIER arrived on Thursday at Sue; together
with Mr. Chusuiroo and Ostlers' ntarshty.

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Tea overseers of Cheethant have declined to plate
women on the prlMmentary reed.,
Ma. Lonormow received the demo of llooorat7
Doctor of Laws at Cambridge on Tuesday.

MIS/ BUILDILIT COlll/11 has had • picture painted at a
cost of WO guineas of the Bishop of Exeter, i. his 90,1,
year, surrounded by his six sons.
A new cougni for the training of young men for the
ministry In the Independent denomination was opened
at Nottingham on Wednesday. The cost of the building
Is £5400, and 1:3700 bare been raised.
MIL TRAIN *petered on the Liverpool Exchange on
Wedne.day for a few moments, but such • storm
of bolting end biasing was directed against him that he
bun iedly lift, and, taking refuge in a eab, drove off.
A raNscr is said to be air font for holding • great
demonstration at the Crystal Palace on an early day in
July, "as • combined public manifestation of all classes
on behalf of the Scriptural faith restored to England at
the Reformation."

ADDITIONS or. not always improvements ." for
instaooe, tune was when good tea was readily obtainable
—pure wholesome tea—Dr. Samuel Johnson liked such,
and most people seek snob now. John Chinaman
knoes that "English merchants like tea good looking
the Chinese are not slow In Boding out that • coat of
minersloolour disguises brown 'Tearless autumn leaves,
al colouring ell qualities alike inoreases their own and
the merchmes profits. The expellees* of upwards of •
quarter of a century bag proved to Homiman and Vo.
that a luting preference is 'soared by impoi Cog only
the choice spring growths, that have no brown wort Iless
leaves to be driguised with powdered colour i—this
every Englah tea drinker admits is " • real improve.
ment," as Horniman's tea Is always fine, strong and
cheap. It is supplied only in packets through agent.;
for list tee advertisement in this paper.
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TFIRODOIN'S CROWN/ AND lis;gint—The articles
brought from Abyssinia by Col. Fraser, as • prevent
from the British [crass to the Queen, are somewhat
splendid. The crowns—one for state wear, and the
other for oommon uwe—are made of gold, and the State
OtOWN I. so heavy that it would task the endurance of
an ordinary MAN to wear it for any length of time. In
height it M about 18 lashes, and the gold is inlaid with
modals stones. The commoner crown is lined with
dark silk velvet, but the oolour is much faded. There
ere alo two robes, worn on State occasions, being made
or cola tinsel, worked in goes, and lined with brown
satin. Tbs other robe is not of so assay a description,
and rumour avers it was intended as a present for our
Quseo. The seal, which bears the name and title of
Theodore, is sunponed to have been manufactured in
London. In 'nation to thews Cr. the Royal slipper%
which are covered with gold missies, a (belies brought
fr on one of the chunks*, and the crown worn by • high
priest.