The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-06-29 00:00:00

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THE ARCHDEACON OF DORSET'S CHARGE.
Archdeacon Sanctuary commenced his Visitation at
Sherburne on Tuesday last. There was a good attend-
ance of clergy, the following responding :—Rev. H. H.
Wyndham, Bockhorn Weston; Revs. H. E. Raven.
hill and W. A. Bryan, Buckland Newton; Rev. F.
Philpot, Folk. and North Wootton ; Revs. James
Deane and C. A. Parham, Gillingham ; Rev. S.
Coleridge-imitb, Esat and West Stout; Rev. T. F.
Farman, Hut Melton Chapel; Rev. J. S. Woodward,
Glanville+ Wooton ; Rev. John Blennerhassett,
Hermitage and Ryme ; Revs. It. Burden and J. G.
Du Boulay, Haxelbury Bryan; Rev. P. Ken, D.D.,
Hilfield ; Rev. H. Worth, If °Meld ; Rev. J. Smith,
Kington Magna; Rev. George Thompson, Leigh;
Rev. P. Blathwayte, Lillington ; Rev. C. H. Mayo,
Longburion and Holnest ; Rev. Barfoot Smart, Mel
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bury Bubb; Rev. H. Rix, Marston Hague; Revs.
W. J. Goodden and E. W. Goodden, Nether and Over
Compt3n • Rev. F. E. Drake, Pulham ; Rev. P. M.
Phenn, Sliastnn, Holy Trinity and St. Peter's •' Rev.
G. L. Harkness, Sita.ton, St. James'; Rev. E.
Langley and Rev. H. Roe. Bherborne with Castleton ;
Rev. R. Sidebottom, ; Rev. H. Whiting, Stour
Provost; Rev. G. SouthweU, Yetminater and Chetnole;
Rev. G. H. P. Barlow, Chardatock St. Andrews ; Rev.
J. Goring, Hawkchureh ; Canon Woodcock, Chard-
stock All Santa
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The AUCILDUOON said: Not improbably they would
expect hem to say something en this meta= in refer-
mice to the bill now before Parliament which was
intitnled an Act to amend the Burial Laws. He would
thenfore pass ether subjects by, and try to piece
before them some of the considerations which arise
out of the circumstances in which the question of the
Law of Burial now stood With thar accustomed
kindness he knew they would give him credit for not
claiming to be wiser than his brethren in the matter.
and to give expression to opinions more or lees at
variance with their own. They must take it as inevit-
able that this bill, with some of its rosin features, will
be carried through both Houses of Parliament. Boot-
land and Ireland were exempted from the bill, but
Scotch Presbyterians and Irish Boman Catholics, as
well as English Nonconformists will have their part
in dealing with it. Speaking generally, they may
therefore take it that the consecrated churchyard
and graveyard of the Church of England are, under
certain restrictions, and with considerable exceptions
they might hope, to be made free of 1140•141 for the
ministration of any and all other persons. It had
been to no purpose that the clergy of the Church of
England claim as a right to officiate in our churh.
and to use the forms and ceremonies which are
not sanctioned by the English Church, and hive
petitioned Parliament that no such measures might
pass. They forbear to question the motives of
those in authority, but the clergy and laity
throughout the land would for ever cherish an honour-
able remembrance of the men who hal striven to main-
tain the ancient tights and liberties of the Church
against the hands of the spoiler. In that remembrance
would be held arrongst the foremost the names of
Christopher Wordsworth, the Bishop of Lincoln, the
Bishop of Lichfield, and Bishop George Augustus
Selwyn, the letter of whom before his death said, in
reference to the question—" I have no concessions to
offer; I have no compromises ti accept." He joined
heartily in the resolution passed by the Lower House
of the Convocation of Canterbury, and with it they
might say that "we deliver ourselves from all respond.
bility as to any dishonour which may be done to
Almighty God by the character of the worship which,
In the event of the passing of this bill, may hereafter
be offered in our churchyards." But to turn to the
consideration of the matter as it now stood. Ist, There
were questions touching the action of the State yet
opsn and =determined ; 2nd, There are questions,
ovenand undetermined, touching the course which the
Church must take when the Burials law wag altered.
It was known that not a few members of the House of
Lords gave their vote for and against the second read-
ing of the bill, reserving to themselves the liberty to
strive for its amendment, is one or another important
particulars, in committee. He referred to the two
amendment' of Lord Mount Edgcumbe, and one by
the Archbishop of York, all of which he approved ; bat
as to the one moved by Lord Salisbury he thought
they could hardly go back to founders and enquire for
thdn intentions 50 years back. He could not think
AA donors gave the land on any other condition than
that it should be for ever devoted to ecclesiastical
Tr:bln order that the same might be consecrated
ishop
Toamording to the e rites of the Church
England. have adopted Lord Salisbury's pro-
nosel would hays taken away the concession which
Led Just been assented to by Lord Mount gdgehmhe's
aftwidment The churchyard' have within these
log SO years been in very many instances—some 5,000
It wee said—enlarged by the free eft of land. It
secoas, therefore that this proposal, however lust in
itself, could again come forward as a practical qu.
thin. With regard to the character of the service, it
would seem to be enough that the person who ulna it
=dito be • Christian whether with or without
dogma or practice it need not be told. A
definition with km Bootee in Its terms Honed hump.
abi• of bags brought Into harmony with the principles