The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-02 00:00:00

A 'BISHOP ON CHURCH LIMBIC&

In spacing • diorama runt cense at Well., last week,
the Bishop of Beth and Wells gave tenni reasons for
not embairtting to thn pressure put upon hum to omit
this year's session ; the chief being the Increasing reed
he felt for the support of the clergy and laity of the
diocese. He had no wish to sat arbitrarily even if he
had it Is his power to do so, but he wished the founda-
tion and walls of the Reformed Church of England to
be strengthened and preserved; that the civil and
religious privileges they had inherited from their
fathers might be handed down by them to their
children ; that the pesos and purity of their families
should be nesintained inviolate; that the link which
tied husband to wife and father and mother to child
should be unbroken, and not rapers sled and falsified by
the intervention of other and spurious illfill•OCW. He
wished the manliness and truthfulness and indepen.
deuce of the Beglish ohereater, which true religion
heightened and sacotiarrd, not to be exohanged for the
abject and servile attitude of a prieet-ridden woman-
hood, or the dark deceitful manses of thee. whoa,
consedeau and whou self-respect bad been sacriemid os
the altar of a vain superstition— the.:, hear). He was
ready to do hie lurk by Cod's help, to maintain the
Integrity of the Church of which he was a higher, and
BO NMI the vowe he made at his luptism. his online.
Lion, and at him oeuecration. Bat for any off ,rte of
his to he enceereful he most have the hearty support, as
he thanked God he bad had hitherto, of the clergy and
laity of the dLowee. He was ready. as belon.ed to Isla
aloe to go to the frost, bat he looked to theta, his
reverend and lay brethren, to support him from behind
—(hear, hear). it wee for the Church of &Wend, as
purified at the Reformation. and as established by the
laws of England, and u Interpreted by her Prayer-
book, that he asked for their untlinobieg end noway's,
rug support. Not for any narrow reot or party in the
Church of England, but for the Church of England
herself. She wee wide enough sad comprehensive
enough and liberal 'sough to include within her pale
many different shades of opinion end many divereities
of sentiment. She was the friend of freedom, and she
allowed and eneouraged men to think for theacelves.
le appealed to all, who were loyal to the Ohara of
&Iliad. DOS to break down or fritter away the
dot trine and discipline of the Church, but to come for'
war ito her support. It was not 00ir, he grieved to
soli *Wallet enentiee—sgainst those who 1•00/d rob her
of het revenue, privilege., and honours, and reduce her
to the level of • suet—that they needed at this day to
ran, ie her defense. Some who remained nominally in
her pale were really, with all their sleight, poSing down
her ,Retria • atom by stone, or %dog all the power sad
Icgoaccto widish they derived from their plums in the
Cnurob even to teach everything whieh that Church
repudiated. sod to build up everything that she
deliberately pu:led down. nece were much more
dangerous 0011131i0A than soy who openly renounced her
oommunion. But the chief danger, in hie humble
opinion, arose from this, that many she were
thoroughly loyal to the await did not see through the
dwaigns of theme tun. Ai not perceive the inevitable
result of their teaching, and so untleued to give theca
their cluntesance and suopoet The strength they bed
was derived from the adheres°e of those who did not
avidly gartioipete in their views. He appealed to all
thoughtful soca of the Church, to whatever eebool of
thought they belonged—whether they were what men
called High, Low, or Broad—to form themselves as it
were into a oompact body, whose motto should be
"Nolumus lege* rocleelm Linglicann rostari," while
they held fad the liberty which they had be the Ohara
me by law established, used It themselves and computed
It in others, were tolerant, 'heritable, and large-
hearted, let them net stand by passively while the walls
of the Church were being disged ,der before their
very fasse—(hear, hear.)