The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-30 00:00:00

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your paper of the 18th. Of
the good or taste displeyed by this interference
with the affairs of another parish. I say nothing.
My object in addrsesing you is simply to draw the
attention of your readers to what appear to me to be
very grave inaccuracies in the letter in question.
Mr. Templar regrets that Kimble's oolleotion ban
been discarded, and Hymns Ancient sod Modern,
sabetiated. His regret inane from the, to him,
Popish ohmmeter at the hymns in general; and to
prove that this Popish element does exist, be makes
certain extracts from that book. First, he SWAMI
that the fourth Tern of hymn 84 cantina "an
idolatrous invooation of • tree." Supposing that the
wares in question were an "invocation, or to nee a
mummer word, "address," it la not neoemarily
Idolatrous one; ben the fat is the tree is described,
not tavoked. A referee°e to the hymn will show
that the third line of this verse runs "114 w bright
in purple robe it stood," the word "at" clearly
showing that the tree is spoken 01 in the 3rd person,
and therefore masa be said to be invoked. "The
23rd hymn styles Jesus the Sc. of Mary." This is
tree; bat the sis also doing is not clear. The
hymn is descriptive of our Lord on the Crow, and
in the verse (3rd) which ownsins the obnoxious
term, reference is mode to the fact that "His dint
-
pia forsook Him ad Bed," while we read that
" there stood by the orosa of Jeans—HlS mother."
The sopranos is therefore here peculiarly appro.
prisa—as much so se "Son of David" would have been
inappropriate—to this His time of humiliation and
sufienng —the same objection is made to hymn 163,
and the same answer applies. This beautiful hymn has
been altered by the Evangelical parlYi the °I PrMik'n
" Boa of David" bong substituted for "Son of
Mary." The hymn &di:Trams our Saviour as a suf-
ferer. When Sartain, addressed our Lord as "Son
of David" He was going from Jericho with " • vest
multitude," to mthe his triumphant entry into
Jerusalem (St. Matthew xx.., 29. to titt., 12). The
term flea of David" was applicable, as acknow-
ledging Has royalty, to Jesus at that time; but I
humbly submit that, in places where His sufferings
sod death we mentioned, that expreesiou is, to my
the least, very inappropriate. The 98th hymn is an
enlargement on the text that steads at its bead,
"No w tare Wood by the woad Jaws, His mother.'
How this can be said to approach Monolith-, I do
not sea I alma Bad say address to or invoostioo
of the Virgin Mary throughout the volume. The
entrain from the Times Review I past by; we are
death, with Hymns. Juiciest sad Idodes, not Dr.
Pussy m " Birenikos," though from what I reed of
that Review I did not gather that the opinions Mr.
Templer qaotes were &boa of Dr. Nay. The !
"capital crime" is, Mr. Templer says, °admitted !
by bytes 203, v. 3-4. It will be noted that there !
verses describe the veritable Iset sapper, not a tele- ,
bration of the tionionnios. Our Lord awl
"Take ea, this" (the bread) " my body," St.
Mark, 'iv. , 29. The Chinni of England towhee
that this is to be taken figuratively. What right
then ha Mr. Templer to swans that this hymn
6111110.11111 troosobstaatiMios, when oar Lord's words,
which are moth stronger, do sot I If be will refer to
Kimble's oolleetioa, bytes 411, he will find the fol-
lowing :
"In aura fellowship a meek
To eelebrabs oar Iliwiear's dee*
His blood we drink, His lea we sith
His people feed en Him by faith."
This, it will be observed, rake la • ladobrattsa
if
the onamantioa, and not to oar Lord's Int seggen
I do not *nib that words token litorsiii,bisaierwaild
more plainly Web the (loonies of trensablii•
' dna then do and in the sash abased Hymns,
AMINO and lldaders, I mute. dad Noy that do so