The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-14 00:00:00

ealniastical Intt[Harm.

Tarn clew and laity of the county of Durham view
with alarm the Ritualistie tendencies of the sic sad
I have presented a protest to their Bishop against the
intro Auction into sertain churches of doctrines sod
ceremonial observance* which were rejected at the
Reformation. The Bishop, who has on more than one
occasion soundly rated the Miceli,* heartily conearred
in the protest, and eberreed that the disloyalty of
email bat noisy end unscrupulous party within the
Church had been prodactive of most serious evil.

IRITII•LISK AT 81. Al.l•l'll.—A letter Asa been not
to the Bishop of London by the promoter in the case
of " Martin e. ethane:tog that he
intends to thpeal from seine parte of the decision
i lately given by the Jutg• of the Arch. Court, for the
following reasons :—h has now for th, first dine sines
the Reformation been judicially held that "it is
lawful to place two lighted candles on the
I holy table during the time of the Holy Corn-
munion, for the signification. that Chrial is the very
true light of the world." The learned Dean of
Argils' Wall this his reline on • constitution of Arab'
bishop Reynolds (A.D. 1322), "temper. quo misname
solemnia wormier sosendantur dna candela,vel ad
miens no. ;" and once injunction of It !ward VI. per-
=Ming "two lighte upon the high altar before the
Sacrament." But In " Weeterton • Liddell," in a
portion of his judgment In no way toneli_ed, as it seams
tom., by the appeals In that ewe. Dr. Loaliallea tcidi
"I hold the ordinance of Archbishop Reynolds sad the
injunction of Edward VI. to be utterly inothipitible
with the doctrines and rites' of the Cherubs of England."
That distinanithed jags showed that the onlinance of
Archbishop Reynolds " referred to the oelthrstion of
the mass." "But," be argued, "lb. maes is gone root
and branch. Tlae asentery is extinguished with the
prithipal. Were this otherwise, what would be the
result/ Protestant worship would be mixed up with
Popish rites. The lighting of Sues wadies," besmear*
"was intimately athaeoted with. rite of the Roman
Catholic Church." And, as to the Injunction of
Edward VI., be whs. " Where is the high altar now I
Abolished, and • magamenion table established In its
steed. How can lights soon the high altar apply *oth.
present oommunion tabi.r' And be interpreted the
expression in the injunction "before the fisoranient"
to mean the math, mid not the administration
of the Holy Oommusion." Here is high anthority
that, if Sir R. Phillimore's late decision should
pass unchallenged, the result would be that,
• Protestant worship would be mixed up with Pooish
Mee." And, my Lord, we know too well, from
recent publications by eminent advosates of *stream
sternmental views, that in practise this is so sow. In
the teething of that school, the use of two lighted
sandlot on the table during the administration of the
Lord's Sapper is avowedly primed aa an important
symbol of the smarted objective preemies of the Ron of
God, both in his Godhead arad manhood, looalised in
the oonaeacted elements. Even were this not so, the
Church and the nation of England surely have a right
to know, at the earliest possible date, to which of lbws
two judgments, so directly in sandlot, they are to
look as law. Bet further, the judicial permission
now given to any clergyman to kneel during the
prayer of consecration, although the Rubric, as it
has always been reed, directs that he shall
stand, and the painful extra-judicial hint aa to the
possible legality of mixing water WWI the wine owe
aided for the Lord's Supper, if only it be done before
the service commences, coneed•—ss I venture to believe
and hope trroneousir—pointa of far too vital import.
ince to he aogni.rovd in. For these and other weicht,
' reasons, with which I used not trouble your lordship, I
ran entertain no doubt that I owe it to the Church and
t the interests of religious tiuth to prosecute an appeal
1 tram the late decision to the fullest extant that my
learned counsel shall trivia..