The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-11-04 00:00:00

BISHOP ILLICOTT ON RITUALISM AND

CONFESSION.

The Bishop of Mousier" and Bristol tat concluded
his &irks of charges to the deny of his drone. One
el the most important aubjtate dealt with was that of
Ritualise. Wbat had been riled the Ritualises, move-
meat had now pared into • distinctly corter-Rofor.
=nen movement, and ward, whenever sullioratly
sustained by numbers and printed in organic 'eon,
reveal its animate alma with cleanses and decision.
They meet copper the morsmest Armly and on-
sistently, by quiet Pelleiliee moral fares This might,
perhaps hare to be seetained and supplemented by
sober lepistion. When • complaint was properly
made to hhs of to. nue by • clergyman of tech pus.
1ie.... bad been declared to be Illegal by re final
driers of the Court of the Metropolitan, then ha
should call upon the clergyman oomplaned of to obey
the ley. If be donned to listen to his request, ilea
he should par a copy of his letter In the registry of
his erre, sad while it so rearleed it would be
simply I.nocreibie for him to giro to. seal of the
diocese to those documents which • 121:shop might glee
or withhold. Revs, so acting at the present time Is
ref. renoe to two ears in the diooese, and so he must
continue to tot. Proseantor he would not be, hat
grave moral infirm" and dtito . line be felt solemnly
called upon sorrowfully to •a
At the Bristol Oathedral oo Sunday Bishop ?Vire
snarled oa the teaching of the March of Ragland oa
tin nbrot of Confreres of hue. Askino what Is
Barred from our formularies or the teaching of the
Obarob of Roglend ma the subject of Confrnos, ,
especially on easfeesiou to • minister of Cod's Word
aid ileormarte f be sold the rawer was found
ledirerly set forth in the aerial involved in the
Ordinance flarrive, and Neeee seperdally alluded to in
' the exhortation in ihe Holy emanates and in the
ewer al re Visitation ef the Slat. Proceeding to
earsfally amine Sb. IS..hiuglaeeel. of these important
Perneranse, his lordship come to thi sonolonon, Is
reaper to the aeries, that they distinctly egaladad
from the ronionssin Pesaro or Absolution, and also
Imilreelly disavowed say missallei ernmental boners
or elloweise ernered ether with the or or the other;
I. far, so the Upper Roue of Oonveettlea of that
Proving, had rightly declare', the Marsh id Ragland
kern se such term aa inoramestel Oonforkm. The
Ordinance Bernie was thee examined, as to whet
might he fairly gathered from it es to tlis meaning of
the assferedly sarearred sonualoolos—" Whose sins
ihres hist fersin they are forgives, aid whole sins
Ikea der rotor they are retained;' &ad hie Lad.
ship remarked that, preens r were the inestres
ia the genie% retries, as well as heriosareitlag,
adl wore the berme of the Won arse that woo
aldremed to the eardidatea, ars arias was to he
fried to Confession or to the reee:res of Oargession--
not • Use that could justify the unreserved appilestir
of the greet wards of the ernanision hi the duty af
hearing. hod, he asked, II the hearing of refeesions
were to form the great part of the priest% ohm, which
now they were told It surtaialy eaght to form, It their
people ought all to he urged to mien before revelries
the Holy Commerien, wan all the *Warr el all Wane*
I. such a weighty duty Is • ionise so eaplielt as the
Ordinaries lanky see of the wet Manna( and lee:-
=isaseose that raid he peosilily erlleed
holminieleatisse wee *defy alluded t•--tU Word
sod Derdse if Christ, the fiesranorta, sad Diseipire
—mid yet set ore word is Oseneasies. Nay, more;
did set the eery weeds to the esselading part et the
rierieholer, whim reed ia sessegloe with re remarks
stir words to the ashertalies of the Ornarries
Barer, added, he hollesed, et the lase retries—
" that, by the webtietey el Clod% Eel! Weed, he
may rears the bark ad Absolution •—earry with
them the Mao mind of the Okuret of Ragland Is refer
ore to the great roohaties from Bt. Joie whir found
Ile pros to the prier& asamatimiss. He rine, there.
fare, to the essehries Or the Were wards of the
Ordratios fierviee gar power lint to ezereles ageletnal
terrapins r the formalsoles might peorrilis and then
laws might easeiloa ; aresdly, sad la the spinal matter
of Oesfesdrs sad Abeclation—that they gave sarority
to dealer, publicly Oed'a peados to the pestilent—to
hilPfei privately by Rio selalsiry of the Word the benefit
of Asiontion to such as might be nessameaded by the
Prayer-book to apply for it, mid in the are of elekases,
and ender eater sieditier carefully 'prided, to pro-
misee" sad donate IS. Urethan this raid net possibly
be agerted err *rimed. Theo tame the querns, who
www thew, who were reernmeeded by the
Chore of Ilcaerad to arra their ars to
God's ministers? and in reply the preacher riled
whether the fadgmest of the Church was not fully
mirror in the words of olio of her wiser and moot
loyal ars Private gonfeadoo to be made unto
the inialeter-le neither eramanded by priest nor roses
tan to saintion." The Irk in body and the sink In
soul—ln a word a burdened socealenee—wkether
before approach to the Lord's table or whether the
flag! lano.""..vd:didiele).:bsdme:h:thieutueamighaonitybhtmeaserbeighilisiheredteartorrehlabswr,t ig*imingt'hua:(dfriblinew:arshojohnoee-
f the
Inward woe of • diet/rang, and perhaps desporrine g,
rod, and ic whir she allowed, and in the oar of tb
ink advised, the poured= of of sin to her authorised
minister. This, he unhesitatingly earrted, wee the
only Ca,.; ani be err prepared to go furor, and to
say that not only did their Church true restrict and
limit the use of private sonfession, bat that they
misht:eollers by lufareasi that she meant to restrain
and db cringe It la proof of rim contrition reproacher
pointed out that retain words, snob as " earinlar
inlierelon end "rafeerion," sad a rater allowing
• form of &training!' be hitseed to all private rolardoer,
whin appeared in former edition' of the Prayer-book;
wore deliberately roared from tbri rides now in no.;
and, fart's", that the placing of the forms of Panic
Confrere and Aboolaties at the beginales of the
sorrier was slaniflosat of a dirge that they should
superior the Private Oriefeenou and Absolution of the
first Prayer-book. He argued from this that they were
instilled la &sync that private refeesion, assign in the
OW Of a dereply.bardeeed aoreharse, was not only not
'retired by the °born of Rained, but even inferior may dbo,,,,ried. ail meat not (said the purr")
our dual and wirrowial jeditsent that all those who
are enplane general or haidtan eonfeenos, or who are
directly Of indirectly encouragios it, are ring
Walla the spirit sad mind if the Ohuroh of Begird,
and are introdnetng mars tria the most destrnetin
and dangerous orrarmistio of fie era and repudiated
system I

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it to reported that Mr. Ohm's Roll MU wassesi tie
kW Tiee-Cludoettor Maeda.

8.P.0. Duxes* 8/1111•118S•IT.—Tb. Mama
anniversary of the itooloty fir Ile Propagation of ihe
Gospel in Forrigo Parts mad el the far
Proseetieg Christian Iserrialgo wee held sit
leas Tbstriov. There was amain prayer Is Os
oatbedral at 8 a.ro., sad • seaead melee el ILI% whim
the Ito v. Dr. !laughs, preerhed fres Peal. sly. 10, 11:
lierukeo, 0 daughter, sad ooneider, sad Ise/ism this.
ear ; forget aleo thins own people, arid thy letter's
boos.; so shall the king greatly desire thy beitaty : Is.
he to tey Lord; and worship Ides his.' Bo sabreel
'he duty of tSe Church to offer her sob!est and whose
issos for work in the foreiga mission held ; said eoe•
tooded that the Church at bows would beems einem
In p:opel Con se bar Wauseon abroad was eateadod sad
deepened. Tlts oollootion %mouthed to £44
The prible ineetlag ass held in the Gotrasil Masai* at
330, the Bishop preeldiog. The attendatos was lartgea
The report showed that the remlttansos of the &awe
ad iladsbury to Our geseral, to the appropriated, mad I.
lb. special funds wore in seats else larger titan Is NMI
foregoing year, and were respectively to the aeaeral
Nod, £3,731 24 11d.; to the appropriated hada
(iar:luau the soots given to the Palawan 1111101thl
Fond), £213 1616 71; and to lb. spesial food.,
£l7O 17.. 101.. Inside' • total of £3,115 17s. 4d.
or £377 4.. 31. wore than in Ih7l. The Daubs;

of C arches e.mittAng was al, r, Wipe' by 40—lisa
li, 1871, sod greater by 27 than Is say previous yew.
TM Bishop urged the doing of natal mono/
work, and hoped the "plea to be midi:ti*sk a
Deeembrr would be generoully responded to. —The
likhop of Nova Smits stated that the people of ble
dices.e were too poor and too mattered to do settleut
the moiety's grsom. The toenabers .1 11. Church el
liegland Is him owe diatom only itomborad • sixth
the populat'oo. People went indlemitninatel to keg
any Presbyterian, Baptiat, or Methodist who
to oome along. They thought they might juts as well
hem one sub, other • and uedoubtedly there was reams
to he thankful dual:lst was preached where they bad
not an opportunity of Readier Chalet of ZagMael
clergy. Bat ought Buell • state of Mange le be matte-
fact,ry to church people? Ilia lordship expressed Isle
approval of the principle of giving the laity laireated
power in the magagemeat of Month affair'. The more
the laity took pen is lit. administration el sistrek
effehs, the greater would he their attaMment te, and
the firmer their love for, the Cntirolt of Reiland as is
astabllsitment—(epplease.) le the United States, lias
laity had ad Mom beds voice Is March ustatters, amid
the result wan almond aalveresl hansom mad premerlds.
—Areithiehap Glover spoke se the sumer *4 111 Sesth
Milers Murat, under the Me Beim ef Cameos&
Wises the Btelerip lest met eat there were only 13
clergy; when be demi there were 132 —(applatue.) The
ourater of seen had also Storming from mem ale 0r.,...
He believed ttat the taros PreePortiou of the eoloared
people were ladies a. eonaimeat end se Christina 1f,..
ito many of their Cluistiae fellow men la Saglest
(am bead). ridiculed the idea of the claimed,
supper:ll6g their ewa ebereltee, "'Moe bee pow sad
seathered they were. Ili his own parleb, white was
120 ml lons, be Otille upon an Bogliabeam who had
lived there 30 years without having seen • Clergyman.
Ile himself once rode upward, of 100 miles to is •
poor mut who had led an evil It., and who hid
seeideatall) halm .1. 11. firs The people of &stead
little tame what the reisainsaries had i• do at the Cu..;
while he believed It would be found Meat the peep',
ceetr.bated more in properties Mewed. the sappers el
their ministers, aim wee submitted by the generality of
people Is Sogland—(mplemset). lie know ose parish
with only six eminstinioanse who eontribitted OM a
year ; and I here were many other parte elver", a
proportiosately large sum woo gime, omideriag tbe
poverty of the peepla—Mr. J. Moyer, M.P. mid they
must all mime with whet had blies fresa Mork
reeposted and beloved dimmest oa that eseesioa. There
me one point on while be himself iwpooiaUf 'agreed
with him, vs Uwe they ought mit te mem there to
make spembei mesely for the maks Cl =skim them.
They *mid rather ems I. bates I. Owes who were
able to give them informatles, es the meeker" who
had presided Ma dem, feria their ewe knerwleit
and expertmes of the werkellteps of the i
Merest paste of the world. Having. bowevt, .e
feera
ailed taro by Um Bisbee hie meld not refuse to girt
a:presides le the atteshateat be felt beth for the
Promgetion Sootily sad the Christian K mwheige
Sowy, the seelidesoe be bad is the prineeples apes
whisk they worked, sad the latsreet he took is tbe
work ebb* they peefermed-..(beer, bear). It wes
pas Mae that, in asMnaMng the skims of the ter•
seekethe apes their support, they mast leek, and leek
elaielly, 1011, fruits they boo.; to the work they did
L. 514. seantry in promoting the is... of Cbristimity,
espmially moue the poorer labouring claret; aid thee
to their work Is unreeling the goeprol la our Wont'
gad among the heathens in Mee surrounding leads. We
could not, however, throw out of oonsideration the
claim they had upon us in the feet that when they
were ant ertsblished there woo no agency whatever of •
patine kind, expepting, of sours*, the =Limeades:is eta
Church, for spreading Christianity even la Via oonetry.
Par marl, 100 years they were the arty two societies
at work with that groat ohjeot, and they ought, there-
fore, to oommand lire:melees to the earnest support of
every Murohmen—(hear, bear). Of mars. it woo me
matter of suiprise, sal certainly no matter of regret,
thst in • church whore law was not only cite of lore
but also of liberty, that otter *secedes and other asee.
Mations 'boreal hare been formed for the doing of work
of • similar Menet r, but still oovert4 ground that
was not eitogether crimpled before, ad for satiafilog
Ike Neilson and the mpirstloos of them for whom,
perhaps, the older rocletiee did not ontnely provide—
(bear, hem). The best that condi be whiled for that
we. that they would all follow out the some great per.
pose that their managers and ropporters would
rementher thin they belonged to a oemmon shush, and
that they would endeavour to miry out the priaciples
of that church to all their haloes@ and integrtty—
(tem, hear). This was pretty well all that he deeirmi
to sip, and yet there vu... other thing to which I.
would very betray ailed.. In this &Mow there bed
been many moutons on which they had horn brought
together and reminded of thi ir prwition and of their
duties as churchmen. They had lately, 1. rough the
egettions of their excollent dioomen been brought to-
gether ha conferenee more especially upon matters
effecting the church In this eountry ; sod there mg
'pulsating most Invigorating and refrcahlog in flak
haling been mo—(hear, hen). Ills greet wish and
desire, thee, wai that they should not be limited to the
mope of the two great "mistiest whom claims they mem
advocatleg on that neemion, but that other societies
formed upoe church principles, and acting under the
gulden°, and direction of those who, under Provides**,
were timed at tie head of the Church, should ales
some in and join with them in this enterprise—that
they should at least once a year unite together is •
service as the Cathedral, so that prayer and
might rise up from all members of the ober& It the
deems who were teemed in this great work, eves
though it might be through afforest agenda"— (op:
pia..). They had been tad that day how that min-
triple, if carried out in a round spirit, would reset lalerit
the geed sad prosperity of the church at borne, and be
mod not meld them that they had it upon the !liked
authority, that Is *proportion as their owe stens 6
the as.. of the gospel mow the effort" of an nulled
people, those "SAM mead be blamed by the truth
being made knows throughout the world ee
(br, hear).
he
I. mid at the Maiming.
, bad se with te campy the time of the m
but having been called upon he mold not
from bearing hts humble testimony to the value and
semidries .1 51... two great soeietiee—(applaime).—
Areltdosoon Bletenteth also spoke of the duty of Munk.
rola Is moneetion with missionary work, which he
viewed from two points—lts upect abroad, sod lie
serest at hoine.-11•11 Nelson pointed to the special
temiihnoey lately neelved, net from mieshouarles, or
what =tett be gelled "religion. men," but nabs,
from pAtletans, as to thee wonderful semen of the
work In ladle. The testimony of sir Bartle Prom was
of the lateteet important* and no also was that of Lord
Needier, who had lately returned from the Government
of Mmtraa—(hear, hear). This was all the more yaw
derfal when they remembered that the arat bishop was
smuggled, se it were, Into India. and that the Games-
meet threw obstacles in the way of titles and Mime
sesimies Illehop Cotton sated for more bishop' from
time 5. 54.., but **reply at the India-olio* WI/ "No I
you will do more harm than good" And yet M this
year, 1873, tbey had a Stale paper from ladle to the
Gmenimeat at home, and put forward by the ladle.
tam Mariag undoubted testimony to the emenee
whisk bad attended ear efforts, and the Wooing whisk
Palatka inholosaries bad been la the good goverameed
of Indie—(bear, bear) Tithe thread be • otiroulos to
as to tureens our 'Tatiana—Alta some oeselading
remerbe by Meantime the meetlag ended, the sollellitet
emauatioTls Sla lie. 41.
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HUNTING A PPOINTMENTS.
Otttlitook Naiads—Tuesday, (Mb day), Barroalsa.
Doroiestm ; Friday, Noy. 71h, Opearao liouso—at
10.110.
Boat Dorset Houltdo—Wodataday. Paataidgo•Mil
Frkity, Molbury Abase —at 11.
Mr. Radelyffea 11oua4a—Tharl4ay, Nov. 6, &ad
Gr.—at 11.

iioOlioaaor Val* Folhosoda—Tsooday, (Wm
day), Pies Brides ; Tburoooy, Nov. 4;1, Ocoooh-lull ;
Friday, lih, Gaudio Illarals--st

BI RT HS.
October 20, et Grove House, Yeovil, the wife of
J. Wtithy, of &daughter.
Oct. 22, at the Grosvenor &rens Hotel, Shaftiobary,
the wife of Kr. W. H. Moyle, of aeon.
October Zi, at 38, Trinity-toed, Weymouth, the wife
of Mr. W. J. Barker, of. son.
October 24, at the Tnrk's Head, Weynsoath, ths wife
of Kr. Charles Gedeall, of • sou.
October 27, at Baurnesoutis, the wife of Kr. Sidney
Holskift% oil 03°.
• MARRIAGES.
Oct. ZS, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Wimboras, by the
Rev. J. Leadheater, Kr. Josiah Lnoktiarn, Kestiose's
Rotherham,' to Sarah, eldest daughter of Kr. P. J.
Meader, of Wiceborar.
October 28, at the parish oburoh, St. Pates and BA
Peel, Latslotook, by the Rev. If. Keith Bermes, MMus
Barrett, fourth sou of Mr. Aifrod Barrett, mt." to
Illary,thtrd daughter of Mr. James HO and, Cstsistosk.
Ootobes 29, by special Louise, at Longford Osistie.
Salisbury, by the Hos. and Rev, Bertrand P. B)sverie,
soloed by the Rev. 4. herr* Capt. Oevid llastlead
Makgill Crishion, grenadier Guards, to the Lady
Margaret P. Sourer's), mooed daughter of the Bort rued
Counts= of Radeor.
October 30, at Tarrant Hintoo, by the Rev. C. D.
Saunders, Robert, eldest eon of Kr. ItJgerv, of ChM*
to Emma Berger, daughter of Mr. G. MIL.
DIATEIB.
October 20, at Bpettiabury, George filpiasey Keyaer,
oily eon of Mr. George K.iynen aged 26.
October 24, at Boareectoutb, use Hannah kooks
ag01.21.

-0(h-4;1;er 28, el Bourcemoath, Yr. Mary Iteemaa.
aged IL

-04-ober 27, at Blasdford, George &sob. alma No
of Mr. Jaws Norman, aged 15.
Ootober 27, at Whitseberrh, sitars few bean MUNN
Mr. Jobs Va•olter, aged 48 years.
October 29, at Blaridford, Mary, wife of Mr. MMUS
&mine, aired 57.
Noveeabse 1, at Bromley, Middlesex, NISI, Ike
beloved wife of Mr. notate Voss, Jeer., Oats Si
Dorchester), aired 20.

primed iiiid pabbobod, M 8, Ellib-4mM Weal
Dombomw, by AL'S= Amok of Um Parish a
2,18, Tribute:4yr sell sad so-proprietor.
, November 4, 1873.