The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-04-21 00:00:00

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RMRITUAL AID. --Rev. A. (lopn presentertin7r7p.;rt.
The committee had numltly estinuttol that there were
about 25 eaPM of real imputing necettsity, where there was
a demand upon the faithful of the diocese to see that the
spiritual ttttt tistrations of the (Minh were more freely
supplied, lie adv•k•sted a body of miotionary clergy,
under the Bishop, to he ,ent into towns and villages where
the incumbents felt most acutely the shumant condition
into whieli the spiritual life of their parishes was falling.
Ile proposed another lloard for the purpose.—Prehendary
I'AT secontled.—Archtleacon SAN(IVARy ObjeetA to
starting anew iweiety. —The ilisitoitmitl if Ittihad a 'body of
missionary clergy they would all he altmrbed by men who
wanted to get away front their parishes. --Carried nem
die.

En= AMP UN PPPP OrRIATED CHURCHES tan riIEaCII
ACCOMIunATION.-I.arl NELSON presented the report. It
advocated open sittings. and stated the number of
returns requiring new and enlarged churches was II:
requiring re-arrangement of sitting*. ; of outlying
hamlets requiring new churches, 7; and outlying hamlets
requiring schools. or rooms for services, TJ. Ile proposed
a permanent two. Archdeacon SANCTI:ART
seconded.—A discussion followed on the value or othee
wise of the Cluirth Building and Church lJnl,,u societies,
and how far they met the proposed work.—The rhailOr
supported the motion. The existing societies moved as
hey were stirred to more, and they were stirred to move
according as particular parishes felt their need anal asked
help. This proposal was that the diocese, acting through
the Iraard, should look over the whole extent of it, and
see the needs, and appraise the needs, and see which were
groat needs, and which were small needs, and should then
stir the parish to 'mike a move, and not wait to be stirred
up by the pariah--thear, hear) -to make that movement.
It. ...all only say, for his own part, nothing struck him
as hieing likely to be more valuable than such a standing
committee—The resolution was carried.
TEMPERINCE SoCiertm.— Earl Nraing said the com-
mittee deprecated the vice of intemperance, but thought
it lent for indii idual parishes anal rural deaneries to act
as cirnmetatices suggest.—The Rev. If. BARRA moved to
estahlish a bioneen society with temperance the rule and
ahstinenre the remedy or safeguard The old teetotal
societies het given themselves up to the work, not of
reclaiming the drunkard, but of the coercing the teni-
perste ; and he deprecated their life-long vows and
promises.- Ater. J. PARIL - After sonic discussion,
the BISHOP thought the matter not ripe for • DioCCI6III
seciety.—Areloiciteon SAMTVART Mores] to relegate the
matter to the committee ; Mr. ICAIIMS see led, anal it
was carried.—Mr.-Itaings moved a 'edition to Parliament
against any ouch relax ition of the Licensing Act of last
"Weston as might have the effort of keeping lapel] public-
houses to later hours than under the existing law. The
oietnbers at that Synel were unanitoora against inteni-
perance, but they seemed to be equally unamnions against ,
total niatinem-c. and ho was not sure the battle would
not have to be fought yet. Ile could only may for I • • •If I
that he was not a total abstainer - (a laintli).—The Rec.
l'rebenilary dom.* sur led.—The Her nehendary TEAL,:
Sahli the Church of England was • great temperance
society, Mel the In..rs they brought out the fact in a
stricter observat ten id days of fasting and aletincnce, the
wore they would In. protesting agairat intemperance.—
The Marquis of Rini vtl that permiis above the
lower claiees, who were re•eiving a higher rate of wages,
were an likely to suffer as the working.cbese,i the/melee',
through the facilities they had of ohtaining wine and
spirits at the Answers- facilities all the nore dangerous,
Inasmuch as they acre within the reach id women as well
as own- (hear, hear). Ile looked upon the que.tion 111, a
matter of police anal not as as temperance questien.--
Prebendary EDDRUP moved that • petition lie presented
against flay relaxation
.of the Liceterad Act, and thia
amendment was Carried by 51 against W. The
Bishop And Earl Nelson thought the Synod didn't
mem, UAL aol Ar,lltiel6ooll Sanctuary said the same,
The Itev. PREDENDAUT MEADS looted -Thm IpelitiOns lie
1.....nte,1 to Imth House, of Parliament for the removal
of incessant tratratationi to intemperance." The great
difficulty was not the number of hour+, but the munber of
publichouses—Rwar. hoar.)—Mr. CLARK seconded, but it
• lest, —The Key. !I. B. itamyx tomll for petitions
against such a relaxation of the Lieetosing Act a* would
Interfere with the principle of that Act.,llr. BARRETT
seconded the amendment, helie%ing that the member.' of
the Synod generally objeeted to any alteration of the
principlem of that MOSIA.Ure.-- Mr. ISMNE's aition.huenr
*O5 enTri„i by „ majonty of 51 to 31. and the original
resolution Wa., ao amended.
I'ATRONUIE. Prebendary P4YNE
misentel the report. The ouulLULLee considered
wdes of preferments called loudly for
legislative tutorial:m:o.-11w Itev• F. I Mzug:"3"

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SALISBURY DIOCESAN SYNOD. moved petitions to Parliament and Convocation.-
The Synod nest at Salinbury on Wednesday. About Ifio Mr. Reim, who seconded, expressed his belief that this
d habitual traffic ;n preferment which. as true churchmen,
attended. The 'Whop, in opening the proceeding.,sal
Le believed the Synod would he the means of promoting they so much lamented, had the effort collaterally or
that union which wan the strength of the Church o incidentally in demoralising some of their clergy. Ho
wi. atheta ersee 4 .
sli 1 to tine n 1 that he was not always in
England. Ile enlareml on the ihdirect 'mod of bringing
men together of different positions in life, of different Church Synusle. Ile was sometimes out with his berms
political awl theudeac il , - %lewd saying that by hearing and dogs, and took an interest in reading Thr Field news.
one another speak awl discussing clatters In common we paper. Ifermionally ho wee week enough to spell over
the advertisements -daughter). NVell, the other day, he
together, they were 1.r...i lat to feel there is • great deal
found that " a curate was wanted in a nice sporting
snore union at the Is.ttom .d our heart,, than they thought
there was-that, in feet, black is wit on ',leek, nor white nelfhbourhoo.t, where there were 600 acres of shooting, .
en 5,
•ny white - (laughterj It was in that union the which would form part of his n•tutineration"-(laughter).
lie at once wrote to the bishop, and enclosed the
strength if the I 'hurch of Endland is to he found.
i tit A reply was sent stating that it was the
SPECIAL NIISSIONS.- The Rev. A. CODO presented the ,
report, and said he awl others who had attended the n'aiseeertof'ea sheueperannuatea clergyman, who was in his dotage
ewl whose friends wanted a young curate to work cheaply,
ei,,,qal Missions in London haul returned' with their
Interest in special tnimicou deepened, and he believed that ant
a turospect of a title to orders -(laughter).-Mr. C.
I. ftssiterrr said that lawyers unfortunately had to deal
. two special missions, which where designed to he held I
u frequently with transactions in connection with the sub-
text year in the diocese-one at Sarum, the other he ;
ject lefore them, and he could tell the Synod' that their
would not say where-would h. held this year.-The ' -own feeling upon it was that they were disgraced IT
Rev. Itetimebn SMITH semmuled the motion, awl hail he
having any connection with such dealing., A legal friend
coneidered special missions a work of immense import-
', of hi. told hne that morning that be had been obliged to
twee. slot one essential t" the well-being of the Chmr"•-• take part in son. of those cleanups, awl he said it was per-
them, home Ile del not see how the Church was to
forth) asteundine to him how clergymen could take the
r- to tho- dio--i— whi'h th"). all d"lred t° '''a edit* they did. fled was the feeling of every churchman.
her attain, without this partieular egener Th n sea, at '
---"- ' -, - , ' The Rev. C. F. HYDE strongly condemned the
the present time an a ~,,, unt of spirit ua life and seer'''. . •,:orkimiaeal te„.ji,.......ehe Ker. A. it. eon" ,iaid it was
in th • Chttn.ll such a. never existed before. lie '''u"l 'ON lug to the fart that in Ireland advowe.na were in the
Slut eon. with those who teek a dark view of their pad-
, ! hand. of the Crown that the act of ulisentahlishment there
tem. •I'le:re were s• •
maal ma° wh° am° filwa'r ' WiDicarried out. Ile, therefore, lookol upon advowsons
creaking :mil j.intine. to this evil Mel t 4. that. They u
.4 a I as a great security against distextablialattent, and thought
pointed, ..n the one side, t. tie, t t .-f
-' ---",""-I'"'- ' - "'"l''''"' ' that that was ali important point which ought not to be
rationalisn.--which was indeed a very deadly evil. Others ,
overlooked. llic Bimini...aid he should like to add a word
pointed to what they believe I to be an excess of medhetal
in the tutiluject of the abominable sale and traffic
superstit• . W. It he dad not deny that they were
; in ;ono,. things. All England was full of it. Ile was not
e er
or tw
gee, et 'elle e huh Ltidlts: ,ishe'tt_ini° the a''''",m'is, ,e",'k, me going to enter tide sp.-We instance., but he would say in
teens lowly lia the lace, lair still litaisatailitrl tiles teem poo..hut that he hae a neat „f wireedaeat in hi, own
tea. an :teemed of spirlteed life sea ,:tieri.:Y in the tinlech diocc.e, to which, he dansl hay, there were gentlemen
of England at the pnusent Hew fur uhiiii (ley hail the
"'resent who could point their finger, and whel he had
deepest reaeon to thank Almighty that - tht,ar, heart
somewhat ehecke.l a little. It was a case which had been
lie woalgl just refer to two great (mt., as illustrating thet- for yam, a growing sin in tho diocese of Salisbury -'(hear,The "no was the day of 4414.14 prayer -et apart by the hear). Ile Lel, thumbnut, no stint in referring to its It
billets, of the Church for the Messing of Gml upen the
was to be howl the legislature would be able to ilo home-
work of fie eign "Meshes. What woe's' Jelin Wesley and thing which wouhl lee ud great usefulnms.-The motion
lileor,.a. Whitfield lies, 5a4.11. if they 45.411.1 hate witweseul
~ was earn.' tmaninoessly.
what we had seen in our dayS -the bishops calling liPo“ pAßociiiAL I.IIRRATURIL -The ReV. C. H. f'neuir.i.ur
the whole I itunit to I lute itself lefom Coul, and te set ~,,,,,,iiteul a repert stating that, SO far as they could
apart a week Ihay for united prayer fur the etitimerine of •
oldain informatien, the eirenlation of wholesome
Giel's 111.1)' Spirit and the extension of 4 ,hri -C," kinki"ln exceeded the circulation of unwholemine literature in the
antougst the distant he:Ohm' f Why, lie belieaud they ,iinc.e.
would have leaped (or joy ! Hut while we rejoiced in the e
should LAT It RPREseNTATIVES IN Tile SYNOD.-The Rev. fk
seemert 4.f foreign missions, were we not to look at lioeie / COOP 'ed, " That previous to the election of another
Wuld see that the I %larch of England we , not greoing
lit Diocesiut 53 nod. the Inslem be requeetml to reconsider the
England is it might to he ; we should take Hole 4 h 4 te
rsiatise minder of lay representatives to be elected by the
fact that external to the means of grace there was a vast
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dense Mass of heetheneen, that in sir great rine,. there r_.„l7. lel 1.......;,17. —,
were tens of thousands e bus never attended any place of "'"'
THR CHURCH 10.FINCE IRSTITUTIOR.-Mr. C. RAIIIRS,
worship. Ile read in one of the reports of the Church
14.1 , moved: " That this Synod desires to direct the
Pastoral Aid Society that in Lambeth and tioutherk C
attention of members of the Chureb id England In this
the number of working men who &Handsel Divine service n
diocese to the action of the Church Defence institution,
on Sundays was only alaeit two. per cent. on the whole
taken &trea that which seems to desenc their coaddenre ant support.
number. That was e most lamentahle state of things.
Ile mid he had no pre dice in his heart agafftst noncon-
Ilow was an impression to be made anemia; this dense
forminte,
i for ho numbered among them some of his
repulsiveness of beetle:then I It could only be done,
.learest I rends But there were dissenters and dissenters.
Le believes', by means of special 'elusions, carried out
had disut in
The object of the Defence Association was r.ot to defy
that spirit of faith, love, and energy tin. i,,,, ~i,„ply to &lend the Church. It hod
no
politic.. .A
guisbed those which heal d,' Owe ; end a hid', belonged to no party. Amongst its bitterest opponents
according to ' 'creel testitneny, had brought together
were those who conducted the Agricultural Labourers'
large numbers of portions elle never before engaged in the
worship Union. The organ of that society was inspired by thosworshipu( (eel, 4hut many of whom had since become
regular worshippers. ra libetionists.-Archuleacon SANCTUARY seconded.-The
Lei AGENCT.-31r. ELIOT brought up a short report litsithe said n Lila-ration
whe a Lila-on Society was Pet tip in •
nu •
Ley Agency, which stated that Sunday school Deems hl h I • •
nem mu um it was quite necessary to set,,p a Defence
Amociatien ale'.; but when the necessity did not come
had been formed in the rural 'leaner),',. of Chalke, first
A very near them, he dill not like associations of an
portion ; 'ceche-stew, amend and third portion 4 ; arid .0.1.
emistie kince-Mr. A. M. Leceifen mill last week in
five gentlemen
NVyly, second portion ; and expresses(' satisfaction that his istriet an agent of the labourers' union, whlressing
in Itridport, second pertion, and one in the iohon
Wilton, had leen set apart luy the 'Stahel, as Lay Readers. rene pointed to the church and said, "You will
n r • h I those last th
get your ng ts as long as ose ; e parsons
-The committee thought it dextral I t fst ..e .0 .--e some par. eve.
• . , . . are tee men that eat your fond," and so on. He replied ticular branch of lay agency, as a specie. wore, awe try to
to him that his rector had only .ClOl from the parish, and
give it an impetus. They deceleul on taking op Sued% that if he had started in any other profession he would
Schott' work-in the timepiece, because it was a wor
r have been much better remunerated by this time. After
epay acceseible to the majority of laymen ; and secondly, some further reply, the agent gathered up bin reins and
because it was a work if presning import:ewe in the
arried unanimously. c
present state of religious went off. The motion wen
education in the country. In Time AGRICULTURAL CHILDREN'S ACT. -The Rev. A. 11.
seeking to increase the eflicieney of those who taught in Btu praiawoi -"That, the Act of Mr. C. Read for the
Sunday Schts.ls, they thought the hest way was to point
out to t education of agricultural children, though excellent in its
hem that luy confereuce be:ether they might gain general principles, it fatally defective in the application
benefit from each other's experience. The enprovemeetene
of S thereof, unless it further provide a public officer, who
Sunday school teachers was a work of the greatest
shall be responsible for carrying out It. provisions ; and
difficulty ; they could not admit them by examination : that the Parliamentary Committee I. requested to con-
ing, could not insist upen their heving any special train- hider whether such an addition could not be made to the
ing, and yet the work they had to do was one of very
said Act."-The Rev. R. SMITH seconded.-Mr. FOWLZR
great difficulty. But by getting them to meet together, strongly- opposed die motion. Ile remarked that last year
awl by havitig "uuehul eleven " taught in their presence, the Senod named a resolution in favour of the bill, which
• great deal might be .lone to hotruct them and to had stiles eei„ene law, and now they were asked to say
Improve their efficiency ; rind with that object, the coin-
mittee ha that the Act would be futile in its effects unless a public
d sent out pamphlet& and instructions to every prosecutor were appointed. Was it not somebody's duty
rural deanery as to how them associations and %Minns
were
at nrerent to see the Act carried out! lethlic officers were to be formed. As yet, however they lied not been • • luxury--shear hear. an
an enetve , d a laugh.) The
taken up with any amount ef stiecem., The report exp
out h clergy, as managers of the school, ought to have sufficient
ow many had linen formed in the diocese, and the
c moral power in their perishes to carry out the Act' and
m 1111 l ilk.* kill hoped tunny more might he formed, as he would ask the proposer of the reeolutiou if he wadi not
they were in other parts of the country, with very great
ga rather pnenature in the matter-(hear, hear.) The Act
mest,. Ile thought a further advantage might be had been much discussed, and this was the first time be
obtain,,'.! by extending the basis of the unions, and hail heard a public prosecutor was wanted. Ile legged
admitting the teachers in the elementary schools. 'The to say the farmers were • law-loving, law-abiding
latter woubl give tile benefit of their training and ex.
class --(hear, hear.) They were a loyal class,ile
perienceiould iu tern have their religieue knowledge
..._ and he trusted the clergy would not ding it in
epenel a: slndd w
improVed ; each Clam Would benefit toe
o their fares that the, were any ether rlaaa_taa, floe
ther. The c time were in great hope that the unions
wo A. to the earning out of the Act, the late Government
a uld by-and•liy be more thoroughly understood and premiere! that the inspectors of brickyard's and workshop,
ppreciated, and would 'more the :mans of stirring up
and e and also the inspectors of schools, would do what they
ncountging that most important branch of lay work,
, a e
could to enforce the Act. Now, 1 the late Government
S lay school teaching.
MAT . promised that, what ntight they not expect from the
TEILS I'ARLIISIENTART.-Precentor Lima preAenteut present (;,,s- (laughter)- Mr. Read himself being
the report of the I •ontleittee. In this they congratulated one of them t Resides, the poor people themselves were
the Synod on the reelect ttttt s 01.4411414 thin Serision of Mr.
...IliegT inning to know the value of education
,anti be hardly
Morgan 's Burials Rill, and Mr. al ialls Di.estallishment thought the act would he wanted at all. -The Marquis of
Alen-ere. They expreened themselves deridedle
.opposed ..
: U supported the ..plawition to the ntotion ~ • and the
to the Itilli for mime :ding the 25th clause of the EMlCataott Hey. J. F. lltgargsGEß spoke in favour of it, and in reply
Are awl for compulsory attendance at school.
.. to Mr. Fowler gave an instance in his own parish, where
EDLCATIoN. -Lord BATH pr 011044,4, and the Res- ,tr. lie had leen unable to get a boy to school under the IN•oric-
Iliffeles as:untied, a petition for allowing a return to the .hume Ilegulatiou Act-The Dialler thou put the motion,
Voluntary System where district., firearm! to revoke the
. and it War lost.
appOilltlatent of School Boarils..-The Ilfsitoe mill if toe Tim LAW or aIORTIItIN.-Yr. C. 11. BASSETT moved:-
design of the tide" """rd. Act a.'" geedualit ii,elle" "That it is .I.a.irable that the law of mortmain should be
the system of School letanle, until it coverm the whole relaxed stt far as to enable church trustees under the
extent of the land, no .I..taht the Act wit, well designed. c Lurch Bate Alsilition Act ..f 1105 to hold land or rent
At present a School Beard once
.was a School Itoanl b.r charges ; anti that members of the Synod being members
"v"r' " l'''''',"l ''l'' "ff'''.'""c . If the °hi."' waa 4 44 either House of Parliament should be respectfully asked
"'intuited awl imitates extinetion " of the Voluntary
... to introduce or support a 1411 in Parliameut for that
SY.tm" (1""fl•Mr1 -a" that it 'l"ahl "IleutlY .Ii. 1111. purpose."- The Veli. Archdeacon SA:Nat:ART seconded.
!nen the late • the Act was the way to .10 it, and in that ~,,„1 it wi. ~„,.,.i,.,i.
ton:Z.', "f ''''fa'.l"ll,ll).:lYihg "w;',l "°e° they -, taM"4l,_ll., 11 BURIAL CUSTOMS.-The en. Archdeacon Ss.n-rusur
-,e oe W:l4l ellal•ae44 10 ray 1.414•1,1 eau mey one ovii.ii
prepoised . "That a •ttee be appointed to inquire
Lows', and that ees a harnde.„„ „ne _teat was in into, and to comailer, the venous neatens prevailing in
Salishury. Ile said. then, that nothing war done, alol
, routteetiou with Christian burial. and to report to the
nothing wa. to he diiiir. Awl nothing had (wet, tlone. an. Melte'. (with a view to the presentation of the report at
n"thin.‘ wmMi l'' 'lmm• But (hero it '4.""'l. soul UR*. the next Sy usl) whether an their ot ti tt ion any, and if an
could not get rid of its-- The reetlu(ien sea.. agreed b..
, w- hat, change. in respect of ll.l customs appear &enable.
Cut items aeftees• DECIARATIIINS.-I'nl NU'S." .'"' The Areltdeacon said he had not thought of cremation.
that the synod would hi,, mrry ti . see the I hicharation now but his hie.. referred chiefly to the customs of funeral
required to be inade by elturchwardeil. iii die Court of upholstery and so forth. Many things used were un-
the An-haws-on made. with t soine very sawcial reason, necessary and even indecent, awl could not be called
latf..re the lie• 1111 l bent or Rural I k•an. Arcloleacoll
SA litre:tine, and they led tog great deal of expense. They
NCTI-IKr ointl it was pr0p0,..1 to deal with Vinitatien haul lie-art of burial societies. and burial 4,00141 s; lie didn t
like cutting off the head of a lunneeli 4nel leaving olalY ~„). a heth,,r they were good or bed, but they were amongst
th" imn'a "'it'll.'" "-a' .1"' l'av""m . '""' crest 'MY the things the mouteittee might coneeler. -1,,..i lIEVTILS-
in the year when they his4l au oppart 111 l ill of ...fling 110-111- DURV cerdially seconded tlair motion. Funerals should Ise
14.1%,,,ee right, ik i-,11;n4 " very liberal.,, 1.111"°Pt. "f f"'s as Ample and as plain as poesible, sail all those things
Ai • Isisotion, ono nor egreelairlit Wits, Sir Joons stn.* which were forced upon one by the undertakers Much as
that when the cleareltwaelen.iliol 044 at tanel %Illation, d 111 l ea ao," weepor,e lie atouel lien to see 'wept, away.-
and an extra be iii Is, 44,11141 lie eliareek thet it should jlhe nmolution Was Carried.
not lk, 44410441.14441. Rev. W. 11. die Sin .aid lie was ,
t,Lose oil, Till SlllOO.-The BISHOP Congratulated
Insfzurted. es Sornerate on such measioad VD .Iclatsn.l a
the tionuelotwit u sun what they might call the
fee oils for I ,elf, wllich he never took, awl another -• • I
lie,iiit ill tersiona on .. Its ta I ll ' last iii,sion. There
Is. for the Rugi.trar,whicla he never get I 'li tilighlret i',". i ~.. n ~,,,,,,,,n, ,i 7 ss. nod"... ~„t of a toed
After a few rentarks from Sir Jsun.. riiii.i.irs the re....m.
ia‘iiiiih,rvof le Slow came the question before the
ti 111 l O,lii earri.,.l, the Itishop intimating that the Synod
'diocese., ar to how far the first tfywel with its feta
had expremed the same opinion in this mu atter as he Lad
mot to the SeenuLery. .essions 11.1 to-cm,natisfactery tst them • how far del they
, ...leader the experienee they haul had oi the Syuod during
ri.:Kr. -nli this itahje. t there ww. a long and 'i.e.)* ~ hI 1 • .1 • to encourage the
Mese three years at been mut i as i
di.."""i"" "I"' A 14'4 "'I ..I.l".r'fr n•P"ri "/' the I. . d'ocese LI continue iii Ile iambi not help feeling that
tittle, --kir. Fecoveit Si,P., ',rupees', :eel Nlr. Eliot , , , ~, ~._
tit nice the memos performances of the Synod, SU far as
seconded, a reiollition for 3 lahle t 4 Foes to be drawn up i'. ' ' I I I d,were not many, the If ey you . pet t tem own on . Y
end boned meter anthoritY of the Bishop. awl wrote- %...., not Ile•ollskleralile, &WI e could quote several
mended for use in the diore.... Rev. Mr. I in, Lon' .
'ma:tem.,. ill which he thought they had been of consider-
Bath, 'tee. W. Jono% Sir E. Willimue, Rey, G. Southwell,
'ld im urtance and benefit. But lunch beyond any such
and others oppoeed the suggestion.- Mr. BRINK, of Chard. e.io.eto g.no
onit act. pooooe. had been the renanteraide
stele eel an iiinen4lisielit which pros...l:et hillehler. e.-
benefit that haul leen dune to the dement by bringing
l'rebendary Leir another, and Mr. Smithwell a third, but
Heinen together in the way they had been brought
after a clear aellnit ion by Mr. Rase err of . " custom," awl
gee
tlZt.r th four semions-thear, hear), They had had
seine remarks from the Bishop, the resolution was lucre . tti f leery sort of opinion, he
iere • 1111 l rigs tent Men 0
accepted, with 4s slight verbal amendment, as were .
eit. ined, both political and theological ; the one within
resolutions for referring the D•port kw!: to the Committeet !
thi.:4'Constitutioli td' England, end the other within the
with a request that they would draw up finally a Table . le 'Barnett doctrinal I' 'to of the Church of khigleticl.
Fees.
Ittey had men of Var4ollll notice of life ; and it had beim
Lonl Beni 4-aiul he haul no nport to potent (rota
the 1. t and pride of the Synod that they Were. With the
the Committee MI liteloWell 1i..120014. --An Itosy
exception of one or t Ivo, all elected. That seemed to hen
withdrew is proposition relative to the 110144 represents- to he the point of 4,rangth of their Synod- (hear, hear)--
tion of the Clergy in I 7.invocation - : hut a iwtition to Con- they h..t a _ •
right to say. when they adopted this or that,
Vocation on the subject Was agreed to,
- it Was the ulbseme of Salisbury which had adopted it. It
wax a great thing to he aide to say that. They now hail
444.1140 (.3 testing plant, wbetlier the diocese would con-
tinue to send members AA before. Ile should look with
coasidenthle Interest, and a certain quantity, he would
not deny, of anxiety, to Nee, tint Or all, the elections of lay
repreeentative.. An far as he was aware, he thought that
Mermen forty and forty-set en peri.hced-Iso to call them-
in the diocese did not elect lay minesse • misdates on the last
occasion. Several id those places were hardly to be
counted in such an enumeration, because they were
exceedingly small, or they were under circumstances of a
kind which rendered it almost nufeissible to hope that
they would return representatives. Again, there were
some parishes which were under the inaltiodiate and
entire influence of laymen -nolulemen and others-who
had from the tint dineeproved of such a thing as this,
and had practically forbidden it; and that accounted for
a certain number of parishes that had uot sent repre-
sentatives. There were also certain other parishes where
the clergyman haul taken a distinct tone of opposition,
anti had thnovn himself more or lees into opposition
to that sehich they haul done ; and where, of comm.
its was not unnatural, ley representatime had not been
elected. He should like to my with respect to that,
that of course they always sent to the clergymen
and the churchwardens to direct that they should take
tomseres for the election of lay representative,; but he
did not iwteine it depended on either clergyman or
churchwar&na to prevent any such election. If in
any parish the clergyman was against it, he did not
see why the laymen should not meet and make an election;
he hoped they would do so ; he was aware they had in one
or two instance., and there were certain other instances
where they wished to dolt, One parish not her from
here, which haul not been representeck would he, he
thought in future. One or two laymen of the parish had
told him they were very- sorry. they had no representatives,
and be said to them, " Why in the world didn't you meet
and elect ionic r They notlied they didn't know they
could do it, and he said that as fez ash,, knew they could.
They (the promoters of the Synod) bed gone to work the
other way-the orderly way-and had written to the
clew and churchwarden', awl hoped they would do it; ,
but if they would not the laymen should. After errand- I
lag that the next Synod should meet the week after Easter 1
week, he said one thing was clear, viz., that all those 1
Brol'hecive of which there were mane, that they should
quarrel and light and fly at eackother . throats-(a laugh) 1
=and that they shotald try and gate power for this or that
.t. in this or that pony- all those had been abundantly
5" ils' . II fsl 'tied -(hear, hear.)-Mr. RoOKE remarked
ant. olla Y ^ .
that the layinen in many parishes were t not aware 1.1.2:t
they cool., elect representatives witht,au,.. coou-operation
his
of the dergY"lan of
the
ratr. i'hla,
e mr" he
icootrdn.""The
ionlship hose that migh
.klicate matter to con-
Ilt4lloe replied that it wes a . • .
..
reports
vey officially, het ho had no doubt the netw,
a Viertrhae
would call atteetion to it -It was. •
election of syliettelnen for the next syntel should take
n Oct.. . lace i her -His LORINIIIP then pronounced the
p
bensqliction. and (ho Synod separated shortly after Are
o'clock.