The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

etclesiastical inttilizence.

'SANITY AND BRECIIIN.•

When the first feeling of terror and alarm after the
explewion in Flerkenwell had began to subside, men
looked at the fearful devastation that bad been caused,
and tried to find out what it was that had ben the in-
strument of this cruel outrage. They knew that a
barrel had been unloaded gaunt the prieon wall, and
this, e en. hail net Are to it, but the question was,
elat we• in the barrel? Bits of the cask 1101411.11
preens e, t I with p• troleum ; on the akin, of some of the
gun Powder ; and that is
nIl ai't"s eraePeern;"kndotwine. mW".'khat'esfeer it was, it erds • very
nasty composition, and we hope that the earn that made
it, And the men that used it, may not eseepe the
peini.hment they leo richly deserve, In the month of
Many lest great consternation was mused in this diocese
by the delivery, or expleriion, of a Charge by the Bishop.
People ran hither and thither; they protested in public
Reel in private ; the mischief it had done was self.
e.ident ; but After • time it was •sked, what is this
Charge made of ! It was shrewdly suspected that there
wee more than one hand in the eompoeition—that it was
Cat genuine Strum. Some thought they detected •
large second hand snpply of medieval saltpetre ; others
we re confident riled the Charge was impregnated
with a certain infiammable, though apparently in-
fluent.", oil, if which there are large and productive
wells near Oxford ; but all their doubts have been
Pet at rest ; the Charge has been submitted to
an expert theological chemist, whose analysis has
resulted in detecting the fact that there is little in the
Charge except real Scotch brimstone, which may
account for its being so exceedingly offenaive. Bishops'
Charges have hitherto been looked ;Tone the original
opinions of men, whose position gives them • large
insight into the state of the chinch, and as the Inuit
of deep study, and eat net thought. The Bishop of
&Rebury has done much to disailate the deletion ; he
has chews us that It require., eery little wisdom or leans-
ing to oone•ct a Charge ; it only requires sufßcient
audacity to take down the hook of • brother hi-hop and
copy it out sentence by entente, misprint., blender.,
and all,ore& invertiog • paragraph, and introduc-
ing expressions calcultted to give an air of originality
to what en nothing but gems plagiarism. Three or four
years ago the diocese evas indebted to Mr. Gladstone
and Mona. Gnixot for the theology of the Charge; the
Es-Chancellor of the Exchequer. and the Fieneh Philo.
.plier must have been emceed at finding themeless so
largely made use of on that occasion : it was, however,
a pity that the borrower sill not ask the lender who his
friend Count i.e Maiere was, before he commended
"his solemo words" 10th. attention of his Protestant
clergy. Now, on the last occasion it is Dr. Forbes, the
bishop of Beeohin, • man whose Popish doctrines on
the lord's supper were condemned by all the Scotch
bi.hope unanimomly. But what is too strong
for the &nehmen's palate, may do for English
stomach', if hashed op again, and si we have
• second edition of Wearies delieered at S•ru.n.
We wonder what his lordship'a eh•plain would do if he
should find one of the email tat-s for Holy Orders, ,•
during examin•tion. mile: from • brother candidate, I
or from a Cr h! Surely, heneeforth, such offenders
will he leniently dealt with in the Palma of Sall•bury.
But the mo.t amusing part of the f•rce is the adulation •
of his lordship'. admirers. The Guardian speak, rf
the bishop's learning and the pains employed, of
- Charge itself as • learned disgrudios, and the Rev. W. I
P. Weed, to whom, we presume, cense imsoines pew
miralsiii. calls it "that Bede/led and meagerly tre•the,"
anal p edict. for it "a place among the classics of the
church." We do not envy those individuals their
Feeling., when they find how egregiously thee bay•
been deeeive4 . • bet to some persons a bishop's Charge is I
..ya !tamed, a biahop's dortrine always mend. . . .

These remailis haw; been emoted by the recent
pub ication of • psyriphlet, entotled " Strum and
Beech*" by the Rev. C. P Phinn, Rector of MOW
Critehill and tong Critcha in this county, which no
donht his lordship will welcome "•s another mark of
dutiful affection and respect." it will well repay
any one who will purchase end read it. In the present
state of this diocese it is the very thing that
went-d, as it will tend to allay the fears of some, who
think that the Church of England is Rome to ruin, or
to Rome, which it fir worse, because one of her officers
chooses to be unfaithful. It will chew them that
men are sometimes plaited in positions for which they
have not on. single qualification, that what is called
learning is oftentimes nothing more then an ex-
tensive library, with a good index; men, who are
conscious of their own utter inability t 3 uphold the
authority of the office committed to them by their own
unaided powers, will always be found leanlog on others
of greater mental powers, who are not always over.
scrupulous in the one of the influence which they
posttest.; but when it is necessary to mak+ a public
ditplsy of learning, then awtsy to the index ; or, ratter
far, to the last new thing in theology; with a little
disguise it will make a moot tear:tad display. So Sarnia
borrows from Breenin Brectlin from Posey ; Pusey
and all the lot of them from the worjurors.
But we will give a few instanter' a this appropriation
of the Bishop of Breehin's ideas and language ; and we
shell see that the little gasps ttf learned lore, that
appear in the Charge, are largely borrowed :

The cardinal doctrine of the Charge. te expruesd u
folios!. :

Bums.
" The lunard part of the "Our Lerd's flodt.
60and
Sacrament the Lord's Sup- Blood, an I therefore p. ,
per Pt ehrid's preciou• and sob by Fir.llo t hy-
sod blood, and •, by shim, pot union, our Lord
4.f the otypotstio Union, )(twat I , the inward part
Chriat Himself." (P. 63.) of the Lord's Supper.'
(Pef p. IS; setup. pp. 16,
06, SS.)
Thu Real Pretence is thus defined
Noses. Remits.
"Our Church tritneems "The Chorch of Sentient]
that through Consecration towhee chat, for the

the n. 4;
bn,ome end!) preloc t, att.l by been galled ' the Rea/ Ob.
ti.l. I mean prement wit/tout jective Pre...nee ; ' Itt other
' and n..t only •i n the soul tronl. that the Body and

,4 the faithful -'receiver or, Blood. of Chrl4 are piweent,
to taw soots very familiar to objective, i.e., vrithout on,
you, my Rev. Ilrethren, the not subjective only, In the
Rod) and Blood of Christ *re soul of the faithful Rather "
prewot objectre. ' and not (P. 136.)
subj. dl.f "nly," (P. 74-1.)
We lind the wino . greement between Sarum, pp. 79-81.
and Brochin. pp. 1.16-141. Ex gr.

Basra'. Basalts.
We not only ttak that our "We do not pray only that
b wiles and mul. may be our bodies and soul, may be
elea,..ed,but that we may meat cleansed, hut that we may so
and drink the Body Anil 11l out oat and drink the Holy and
of Chrid t at our bodies and HI, dof Chri4 that our bodim
...M. mar be cleansed. by that and w id. may be cleansed by
holy ana that Blood--..r. eel That Body an.l That Blood.
stotad my, we beseech our . . Tbi• I. Just the mme
ol that the res Seerontonfi thine as mylair, that the Res
. .

way put forth it.. oirfus to Surrenunth puts forth a
.tlengthaling and refrruh• °main l'irfus."

Int."
•Ital.e. not by the

" Einto died -herein the the. "In other words, In the
°logy S. Augmdine and language ,1 8. Auzu.tine, and
the Western Church, and so from him, of Weetern the.
trrate I the naerament ,d the ology,—the Roeromentens—
I...nre Runner under the three the Rea Seeramenti—the
head. c.f the Sorrentenfuns. Virtsta Satrantenti."
tic. on Sarramenti. and the

Satromenti.".

At the clove of the pamphlet we have a list of all the
quotations that avrear in the Cbargo on the subject of
the Eucharist, ooenpying four pages, and of thorn only
seine half .dozen are sot to be found in Breabin. Now
if there lion, thing more than another, which require.
labour and study, and pains, it la the collection of apt
quotations frost writers of importance. and authority;
a good cetena of sack quotations gives an air of
learning to the document in which it •ppears ; there
cannot therefore be a greater impo•ii ion on the credulity
of the public than to produoe such • (atm., as the
eriter's own, when it is simply stolen 11,,in another
We think after trio moat dainoging exposure, made in
Ito nitwit quiet and delic .te manner on the pert of the
rev. authov, but overwh-lining from its calmness •nil
scruoulimo ex•c•neoa, his lordship's claim to scholarship
and I. arning will follow hi. loyalty to the Church of
Hogl•nd ; and it will now be aven that the Churoh
would probably survive if his lordship was to treader
trimoe.f and all his learning to • more congenial atinos-
there than that of the atilt Protestmat Church of
England.