The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-19 00:00:00

IVANGELLOAL CLIUGYIIIig.
To A. Editor.

I have read with mach siteetion the loam of
the Rev. 0. Bingham in reply to Kr. Bird's sermon on
his soesseion from the Chorea of England ; and while
giving Kr. Bingham fall credit for the kind feeling dis-
played throughout his letter, I email not help being
struck with the different ways in which different
people are treated. The lancetl judgment has called
forth two maroons from two clergymen in this neigh-
bourhood, both professing to belong to she Svaagelleal
section of the eharob. Sr. Bird considers that by that
judgment the whole chunk ii compromised and that it
is hie duty to sopsiate himself from It, and he is honest
enough to sat up to hi. conviction.
The use. judgment has had • very different effect
upon the Rev. R. Smith. IS ha. ad him to the convict-
tire that there la nothing neessierily Idolatrous in
Ibucharistio adorathn' that la, in the worship of the
broad and wine in the Lord's Supper.
The promptness with which Kr. Bingham has
answered Kr. Bird, ciumpared with the satire ideate
of hinted and his Evangelleal brethren upon Kr.
Smith's sermon, moat lead to one of Case tw, eopoe.
eons in the minds of all Impartial men. Either oar
Evaagelical Paton Utak a Sets Church with its
"loaves and fishes" of store Importaries thou "lb.
Truth :" or they lave lividly gives to their atheeion to
Kr. Smith's somewhat startling phase of Protestantism.
The °harsh at aria as,, or may net, be 06,aPree0604
by the Bennett Judgment: bat oars thing is very mortala,
Yr. Bingham sad his Evangelical Mends are seriously
isomprosaised by the assist witioh their ensues hal
CM SO Kr. Smith's virtual ooadonation of Popery.
t them settle their differesiora with Yr. Smith before
felling foal o/ Mr. Bird.
Al Oureinza.

Tat BROB3SION OP Tali BAY. C. J. BIRD.

May I bs permitted to add a few words to the letter
of Kr. Bingham, Is oontmon with whom I feel thet she
*bur& boo sustained a real loss in Kr. Bird. Were-
ever he le known be le beloved as a friend, and re-
'posted as • man of plait, learultg, and ability. Tine
reason. which be has pablialy given for the step whirl'
he bee now taken have entirely failed to satisfy his
friends. That be has toted oomeolentionsly I have no
doubt, but I hope he will forgive my toying that a
large part of his farewell marmots is rather a vehement
declamation thee • Wm, sober, and aciatirate statement
of foots sod arguments; and it appear, to me thst like
Kr. Kolyneux he bu entirely misunderstood and
therefore ham misrepresented the fasts of the owe.
Kr. Bingham with hie usual acuteness ham pointed out
the false analogies on whisk Kr. Bird rolled Lod +ma
have helped to mislead him. However, it is not my
intention to open the whole quietism, I did eie some
time sines to Kr. Bird himself. and more fully in •
letter to the Record, in whisk I oonsidered the attempt
made by Kr. Kolynerix to reply to the argument drawn
from Holy Writ against Secession (and whisk I hope
may yet see the light of day). I thereio showed
that exactly the Nappies of what Kr. Molynewz
asserted was tb• truth; I mesa eepeabilly—that lin the
011111 of the Jewish sad the Apoetolisal Churches, the
heresies by whist' they were Infested did receive wiry
pm* support f rook law, and from the highest authorities
be thews °bombes. which Mr. Ifolynesz affirmed not to
be the eitee—and that sotwitArtatiirig that legal rapport
giant to Aug. neither our Lard nor the Aputles
erivoetted esosseion. .

The other point was, that the heresies of Kr. Bennett
bad not bens legally recognised by the law and still lea
by tha Churoh of 'Ragland, on the itontrary the more
important of those had been comfomad bp as Cool,
whish had positively declared that it was unlawful for a
elergyenan to leach them Now, Sir, Kr. Kalman:
sod Kr. Bird have based their argumeet in favour of
smossolon no asomptions whielt are contrary to feat in
both these pi:native ; therefore their 000elludoo is
wrong and entire', oppooed to the example of our
Lord and His Apostles. I should not now have
troubled you oa the subject, had It not boss that °von
Kr. Bingham seems in one sentences to maks a non-
oadon which is not warranted by the facts. I mean
where he uses the expression "protesting &Pallet the
errors which the cArrol /mu smactioesd " I beg to say
that this is a mistake. The chinch has not scputioeet
the errors of Kr. Bennett, nor the seeptiolem of the
/mays and Reviews to which Mr. Bird refers (mat
unfairly I think) as a proof of unfaithfulness on the
part of the church. In both cases there way a pressen-
' lion for heresy and in both it failed. If it bad felled
on the ground that the church had sanctioned the
heresy and the infidelitys there would be good realms
for seemion, bat nothing of the kind took plass. In
partioelar, as regards the &moat Judgment, the
soitased was acquitted en the distinot ground that the
otago ran not proved with that cteerma witict
noviirsd by 1,A4 nature of criminal prometiags, and there-
for* the court gave him the bonsai of the doubt. It
might as well be argued that the law of England
sanctioned, tolerated, sod adopted sedition, or theft, or
perjury, basal' a person &ceased of those offences
had Oct bmoi auricled, as it is now assorted by
someday, that the church toloretee and sanctions
hetes), basses a prosautioe for heresy hae failed. If
Kr. Bird can and say seat or denomination, however
small, in which no evil in doctrine or pretties is
tolerated, I hope he will abide therein; but, inamsch
as be might as well try to live without air, I hope be
will soon discover that he might as well have remained
In the scriptural ohereb of his tethers, which the Lord
Jeans Christ is so far from forsaking, that He honoars
It by using it a. one of his chief instrumento for the
extension of His Kingdom in this Mehl world. At
any rate Kr. Bird will be followed by our adootionate
carrot and our prayers.

Rsont aLD Barr a.