The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

eccitsiastical inttllignut.

Tlll Brat public meeting of a society to iniprove the
tempirai eondi,ion or curates in the Church of England
was held on Friday, at Wilha's Rooms, under the pre-
eid•oey of the Arebbiiihop of Canterbury. Tbe senate,
after 15 year.' mireioe, is to be ensured an Income of
MO. hvarly subscriptions and donations to the
amount of C 12,000 Mimi been promised.

Tao AROIII2IIOIII Or CANTIZZOIT and York were
waited upon on Thursday—the one at Lambeth Palace,
and the other et Queen Anne's Bounty Moe, Dean's-
yard Westorinster--hy deputations of lay and clerical
members of the Church, who its Lesions that action
should be teki-a to pet down what they drearlbe tithe
"present Itomusbiag innovations of the Church."
The Archbishop of Canterbury expreseed hie strong
disapproval of the introduction of novel vestments,
immese, and other Ttomiab observations, while the Arch-
bishop of York, in an slaborste argiunent, endeavoured
14 prove that these practices were not only bad in law
bat inexpedient for this intereet• of the Church. Beth
dignitaries ermined to lithe measures to suppress the
matters oorepleined
Till "SIGNS ON me Tuns." Dr. Cumming
lectured at Halifax on Tuesday, on the "blies of the
Times." The lecturer did not claim to be • prophet.
but expressed his belief that them were solemn sad
starthue times, and that the world was on the point of
past event.. The great lines sif prophesy seem to
intersect the year 1907. The world, he believed, weak
not he destroyed, but would endure for ever in a -none
purified end etched state. Though he was unable to
elphon the increase of Romani= in &gland, he be-
lieved the heart of the country was still true to Protes-
tantism. In 1792 there were 5,000 priests in Paris,
but, though the population of the eke bed doubled
itself sines that time, there were now 900 priests oely
In Paris. He believed the Saturday seeming of the
world was very nest, nod that an • Sabbath of a thou.
Nand years, which was at head, there would bee san-
dals trbiet would espertenee no western deelensioe.

A Cginca WrT/1001 • Ctl3aTll•ll.—ln so* of the
districts of Elesderiarel, that at All liehita, in Meek-
wesisiostli parish, • most asosietetie etete of adage
4111-ia, The iseaseleest ad the perish, maw • as sous
MO se 0000 pestle, Is the lAsr. 8. lassiselk IMO

-wihr.appeared in the Divorce Court at the snit of bin
duties tripoli y. For some time put the whole of the
count.. Thlrlta llstd"uned by, i
ti. „ 111`,T. Kr. Bennett,
nicest 00 isses. has or mom we. in Dean
hero made for earrytiell that time no proviaiou has
the aervioo The Arai two
Sunday moroings the eamilci.-- ossesbt,
one, waited fm a long time for a 4,n.ter. b., no..
appearing a Sunday-salted teacher mad • portion a tit,
prayers. Last Sunday morning Iv. parsons 1ib..1 ere,
present, and waited in the church, but noon. appestud
to conduct the nervico. Tb• elinrob is • bandoedp,
stone building erected only a few years ago, and to,
present occupant of the lining, a comparatively you.,
meat, is the only clergyman who has filled the oellor.
Tim lining is worth £lOO a year. R•Proontations are
about to be made to the Binhop id Durham in order
that some steps may be taken to remove the present
lamentable slate ef thinga—liancheater Examtilwr.

HMOsUsß.—The report of the committee of Convo-
cation on ritualism, which I. to be presented this week
represses the opinion that, within the limits presteribeti
by laer, great consideration is doe to the wishes of the
congregation•, and, in the ease of new churchee, to the
intenton• of founder. ; but that
bond to consider not only what may be most edifying
to its-lf, but what easy be wet eesdnaive to the peace
and influence of the whole National Church. They
further suggest that some distinction may properly be
allowed bet-eon country pariehe. in which there is only
one church accessible to the inhabriants and huge cities,
in which there ore many. They think that in large
cities • onosiderable variety of ritual msy be wisely
permitted (provided only there be no violetion of the
lac), believing that whilst to some • high ritual is die
treating rather than edifying, there are those to whom,
devotions it is an aid and ineitemeet. With regard to
the use of eneharistie vestments, the committee are of
opinion that in parish churches their use cannot here'▪
as binding upon the consseenees of the clergy,
and that the use of the surplice by the parochi.l clerg7
at all times of their ministration is • seat:tient compli-
ance with the rule of the Church of England. On the
subject of altar lights, tie committee observe :—" Upon
the whole, the use of altar lights is not without pro•
...dent in the Church of England since the Reformation,
although it la • use which bee not beet, geeerally
adopted at any period since the Reformstion.. On the
subject of inoenee, the committee are of opinion that
incensing of ministers and ornaments is inadmissibie.
With regard to the simple used Moans the cotomittest
think it sofficieht to remark that it should not be intro-
duced without the sanction of competent ecclesiastical
authority. With reptol to the practit• of elevating
the elements after eonsecration, they state that it h.
been expnwisly forbidden by the First Hook of King
FA ward VL, end discountenanced by the usage of the
English Church ever since. The committee think that
while the attendant* during the celebration of Holy
Communion of perches not intending to eontmunioate is
not formally and dittinctly forbidden, each attendance in
contrary to the spirit and usage of the Church of Eng-
land, and should not therefore be encouraged as an
ordinary practice. The Rev. Dr. Hersey Goodwin,
Dean of Ely, presided over the deliberations of the
committee.