The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-02-11 00:00:00

ELOXHAM,

a large village about four miles from Banbury, where
the ritualistic practices are " as far aa they con go." and
where, is pointed out in our number of August lage, a
rtese alter end crucifix have recently been set up, the
poor give a similar account of how they regard
insovstiona.

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The language of one is,
you went to see & Church like a concert or 6 pkqlsouse
so to ours. It snot religion and the sinner bumbling Masai(
before Ood. Why it gives you your beet t, make not what
they be raying. I remember what on • Sunday, the church
used to be crowded, you would have hard wort to get • =la.
It is not now • I don't go now, and a good many besides
ens don't go. , who would go to hew those boys In
white stair= bawling es they de.i To see the ministers running
about from pleat to plat, one reads a bit In one pate, another
reads a hit in abother place, then he turns his back to you,
then hie face. It is all ROOM% Catholic, and that Is wait they
wont to bring Into the Chureh. Isn't it," be mid, turning to
a byetafider: " sts well nigh like it as It can be," wee the
reply. But Igo to the Wale's.= now they ham begun this
Ronan work."
A third said,
"Our Church is so like • Roman Catholic Me that when I
reb, OS I dill occasionally do, I cannot tell what then son =JIM.
I remember one time to me our Church crowded with tanners,
but it is not no now. It is a ereat pity, but Ii you cannot Join
In the service you might.. well stop at home
"A. regards us oil oar," add another pariehioner of acne
position in the village, "of coons all our vicar or any other
man could try to do would never Rom-nise no. but then it is
the young west. Afraid of, we art afraid it will arrupt them.
When the new Wesleyan Chapel is built here, from whet I can
me and beer, the old Church may shut up.'
But statements of thin kind made by the villagers of
this place might be repeated ad nauseam There would
appear hardly a dissentient voles to the genera Irowlitlit
expressed in them. The population of this living is, as
dives In this ChM List, 13d& Of them about one,
hundred attend the Sunday Morning Service. At the
mid-day communion on Aug. 4th, the cammunicanle
were It two of whom were members of the choir. Upon
another Communion Service attended daring the week,
lb* numbers were four, two of whom were from the
vicarage and • third a little girl.
W. most, however, beaten through • great many
villager through whieh the writer passed, and In which
similar observations to those we have extracted met
him upon every side, the people generally giving the
churches the name of a " ooneert room Or play•hocum,"
and testifying to the general defection of such of their
own close is were independent enough to follow their
own convietions.
" The navies now,' said • parakioner of
WANT•OII,

after »ming out from reorniseservies, "is all core.
monies. 'warn** and formality, I met tell where they
are .." ' I will give you your heat to tell where yen will
led them," mid 'mother, "for I can't tell what they
are saying." "We rise lip when wise. other, rising,
sit down es others do. Tb. boys does it all,* was the
general testiniony of a neishbonring Alma
"When oar minister lit the candles, he said it was
to signify the light of the Gospel ;" geld mother
parishioner of Wastage, but, ha added, "Th. Gospel
wants no light. It la then light itself r

where there le oleo • high Ritualhtio Servlee, with the
sonoothaniment of bowing to the Communion Table,
Candles, ho., the testimony of a villager wag as
!billows :
" Religion Blr, is ithing of the hart, but all this outward
show that they are bringing into the thumb, makes it more
like a mnoart-rnom than a dam to worthip God In
I me rearm' to the Church, and to the um of the old
Praymßook," end another, "nod continued to go to dsureh
until they began to introduce their emus and their undies,
and all thin One disting. Übe* left and went to chapel, and
Isam continued to go, but the nth. &maw, being late for
menet, I said, Wan, go to the old church again : I went,
and I ware you I gave up trying to fellow thaw boys ,• Mr
you to tell what they no. saying, you may catch an odd word
Of two Mrs and there to some parts, became you have been m
need to theta but in the Psalms, you might ao well be ilmoilay
to some fallow in a foreign tutu. To ten yes the truth, I
we. glad when It ma over, and In coming mt. I end to myself,
wan, whoa I am late for eb•voi aPla, I'll stop at home end
nod my 13thla thit will do ma more good than gulag to
church"
With this living isastde of the effects of. Ritaaliatio
, girolos, in e few oat of the many villages viaibed, we
(does oar priosst *strati'. The brief soliloquy of the
old attondant of the old parish rhumb, as again, for
ooneoienos make, be mato away the &whited associations
of a life, speaks with power soda torts that is utterly
wanting to the fameifal complalste of the unposed
" Uliterste soLlier," introduced to u by the writer in
th. „ °moth awl the World." There may he defeats
in our beautiful Chitral of Busload Bermes, bat if so,
they are not to be replaced by Ritaslistle autaipalciticma
or sarpbood Iliserisbers. The been of the bulk of the
who cure for soy amok k din with the good old
cherli of their Whore and lorriattiora Ritualistic
'noontime will adroit none at least of their member,
whim yy,a7 are driving away the hid awl tzasst
.0.0 'him The elzuglit of the Eok Ohara
11.., we balky% hi its serotoes. Simplify thus, lf
Viteves yet nor* to the capacities of the poor.
t until they oak yea. At provost her wriest
lie esehuised Is .C." °1 the deeper reprises of their
=Allls. no while will ellseimilly &spire
bair trussionmatioa to a Muslim*, type.
• The Morse will hold at Matt ON people, WM, Wawa&
t This impl
does sot speak highly hi lb.sweeig al
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