The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-07-29 00:00:00

TRIINNIAL VISITATION 0? THZ BISHOP OP

SALISBURY.

The Lord Bishop of tiedebary oomeueeed hie
trieaaiel viritatiou of the elergy *ld Earobwordese of
the aloe's* oa Tuesday at the Cletheirel. The Holy
Oommusloa vu edseloidered, tad the ealllog of the
Gluey wee followed by tate delivery of his lordshlie
otterge..

The right rot. prelate rummenosd hi. ahem", which
was of great length, by referring to the 'rootlet period
which had elspeed not only to the history of Europe, but
in that also of the Church of England, sloes his lut
visitation. Since that Male many men of deserved
repute in the diouse--mea whom they could Wiper.
had been taken to their rest in quiet. In North Willa
they bad loot Prebendary Popham, Mr. Hume, litr.
Pearson, Mr. Evart, and Mr. Wyld ; in Dorset, Pre-
bendary Watt', Prebendary Foot, Mr. Hogartb, Sir
Erasmus Philipps, and other" Hs also referred to the
sudden death of bie dear brother sod neighbour—a
friend of 47 years' eluding, Bishop Wilberforoe.
Referring to the work of Unruh restoration in Me
diocese, his lordship said it had proceeded satisfacrtorily,
and there had been a perceptible increase in the number
of o,lettratione of the Holy Communion, although be
recretted to say that several loeumbnits bad not nude
returns on this subject. There hul also bole • Goo-
sidereble lacrosse In the number of communleaote. Bat
tits most Important diocesan event of the past three
years bad been time establibuteet of a Diocesan Synod,
which he thought fully and fairly reprmented the
Church people of the diocese. He only regretted the
opposition of a few—a very few—honoured men, who
from the Mot disapprov.-d of the movement, sad pre-
vented their fellow.p.rishiosers from taking • part in it.
'He regretted it the more, because there had been
' satire brotherliness at the meetings of the hyood, and a
total Mono* of that party feeling and party soadiet
which was originally teed. But while he recognised
the thoroughly representative eitarsoter oftbe Synod,
Lad the eminently friendly toot of it. discussions, he
(rankly acknowledged that It wee not 000struotod uoon
the model of the media ral eynods. The Synod had
hold three susions. and at the close of • fourth, there
would be a fresh elution, to the result of which he
should look forward with no small anxiety, is an eel-
donor of the feeling of the laity on the matter. The
Synod did not claim to have ions greet thlap. It had
no power to legislate; It had no desire to do so; but it
chimed the power of dlsousselag measures which the
law did not settle, but which affected the interests of
the ()batch In general, and of that atomise In par.tiolar. It was open to then; to present petitions to
Parliament with regard to the.. tillOWlllllll ; but to the
Synod Ault no petty vletory us. partible. If the
synods-men were scything like equally divided on
the question, action was deferred for • time. it
was better, however, to move slowly, or not to move
at ell, than to snatch at an apparent party advantage.
Some things the Synod had done. It hod brought
together 340 um manliest members of the Church
of Bogload la the diocese—men of almost' every
reek to life, aid of different political and thee-
logical opinions and it had led to laerueed
unanimity sad sympathy of feeling between the nin.l7
and the laity. Many persons feared that it would be
otherwise, but for himself he never enterteloed any
mob fears. Raferrbog to parochial onuicills and lies:ming
lay readers ia the floosie (subjects which had been
dismissed by the Synod), his lordship said that not •
Angle parochial cannon load been instituted, and that
he had bees called upon to llotiose only one lay reader.
He regretted the practical collapse, for the present, of
thou things. He should like to see the drat tried by
incumbents generally, and the licensing of I.y readers
become more ciocarnon. He also wished for the mink-
tratione of faithful and devoted women in nursing the :
mok, attending the orphaba, and raising the fallen, for
which works they had speeMl gifts, but the opinion of
the Synod had been too divided to admit of eat 'Wog
being done by the diocese generally la the matter. All
ection had been left to separate Individuals Is separate
plows. He highly appreved of the desieloa of ths
Synod in regard to epsolel moiseioos, and said be hoped
there woeld be "Hospital Sunday" throughout the
diocese in the source of the coming autumn. He
next referred to the Elementary Education Act, acid
remarked that although the clergy dtd not lore the
Bill, they had yet endeavoured loyally to carry ant
iii provision.. He expressed his satiefulioa that
the state of rdeostion It the Moose* was an
high that It had been considered necessary to
establiah only one shoot bord—at Salisbury...
and there not bemuse of any debater:4y of asmommoda.
tion, bet because of the perusal with sod rote of the
nujority of the Corporation. Efforte had been made,
by the closing of aohools, to create • deficiency, but
those efforts had been met by the erestkm of a free
school, in *high the sensitive inflectionalee of those who
objected to public money finding its way into the (node
oflor"desponaspialtio.
0.r% al
strongly in
favour
awierimpialigiowlettesebilther
In school., and referred with malefaction to the Mr
remoteness that, in whittles to the roaming of • Cuadra!
had of £1,700 £30,000 had Woody been spud hi
the
Siloam. Woos Us* proslag of the AB6. to inalaiala
naellios Ohs various A. 4 ism

more would require to be spear, crahig tat the unhappy
Cooper-Templ• elattee of the 114 s Tbill People lad
made 644114i0 +6 10 Oroof 10 ciao', with tho
of the Act, rod he though*. they hal a right to stria
that tlie •ilating settlement distill not be dirturbolL
Ile turd the clergy to maintre, in the fattest eget-
t nay, their religiose *shoots, belseviar the, if try
wig nously hell their ewe, toe yempert before them
was not ea deft end unpromising 64 some oe,plie
imagined. After elleding to the religioui ineseetion of
rune:e and the ciboria prise slime (which be .41
was Isiereaalngly useful in the di seer), and appealing
to Um pubic on boh.ll .4 the Traloiar toted, ice
I.l.shop prose Wad to de.' at length with Ilttnosses
and auricular hoof. lesion. Ao Is mere Ritualism,
be thought the services of the Couroh &got be
uerfull made more ornate than they •rsamonly were,
Ti..; were apt to be Wank mad bare. The very boss
hod should be devoted to God, whether in church
siteotare, decorat:ou, or mush.; but there should he
no *overt titration, or latroduotioo of desiring alien I.
the Anglican Growl. Nothing shoeld be dame that raid
not be upheld by the law of the Chores aid MN law if
the lan:. It was intolerable that ledlrldsals should be
at liberty to introder things work the law ald ito
authorise, and which the sethorltallire delieloos of the
'were had forbidden. It was istalerobie that trope
should be any sort of fritter will-werehlp in any
dietriets or ',whit, sod that mos areeld Wender
innovations in which they related to be following the
of the Church, bet is which they ere really
following a law of their own selection, if not of their
own Imagination— utterly regardless of obed.euce KI the
sominimiou of the Church, beyond which the had uo
right to travel, and treat:rig only to the anearria
! espeoilveneas of the law to leave there orriorred in
their milldam. As to eoefaselon (a subject which wee
dealt with at great length), the Bishop stated, generally,
that It was permitted ia the Church of &turd,
subject, however, to ciortain rieeevatioes. Thaw change
mane at the Reformatloa was this—that whereas /DM
1215 the practice of auricular relearn had bees made
compels, y eters err; Christian, the irrittaUce was then
by the Church of Ragland, put into the hands of thil
pealteet himself. tie had • rive to unburden his salad
to a lesrued dirreet minister of ilod's Words, bet
11, having received abloluthe ogee, be applied for it
again, a wise pastor r,uli e:e4..01y disc infest, hie wish;
be would show him that in the p,imi.ive Church It was
not allowed to be ro.o,ste ', list (1 should be meshed
by the ; tl.st 'he ordrotry daily 40f 4‘044 of the
Cb .ff I r.l it t_r b m acreorling to the degree
and Truth rf his Tnnaniouos ; an,' rh•t private 0011.
fes•ion, 'hi b applied only to • distre.ri oce.eienee,
did not bar ha direct a:ress to God Is swore% ftrt God
roe* 000ld know the state of hie bears, awl it wee Gad
alone who *said filly fusgive. A clergyman wend
ant, perhaps, be brooklet; the law of the Church by
bearing coalession from limn to lime, bet be theeglit IS
would be soling In the most eaprees soetraveatiou ef
Its spirit. To bold thvt each °Delirious were
necessary to an approach to the Lord's table) was, be
one.idered, a breach of the law ; it was binding the
yoke of the losterao Connell upon them which was one
of the heaviest burden. of the church of Rome ; sad
that not by the tyrseey of tb• Church of Restated, but
by the tyrsuny of Individual and unalhorised priests.
As regarded communiestLug faatieg, his lordship soli it
might be wrest', but he did not consider it neereary.
He we. shocked at the smelting that It was a mortal ale
to receive the seorameat at ter taking nearer:7 food, or
washing out the mouth with water. Such teaching was
as unkind and cruel as he believed it to be untrue and
unauthorised.

At the ocoalasica 0 the eksrge, tlie benediction wee
pronoucoed by hi. lordship.

ACCIDENT TO MR. R. ZUWAILDS M.P. FOR

WEYMOUTH.
We regret to sasegnee aa amides% to our I,llnend
Member. Mr. H. Sdwards. Thal hon. ratlines, wee
out riding os Thursday eiciralag last, when Ms horse
fell with big., sod ho received • severe shakier. We
Sr. Lumpy to learn by telegram this (Meader) afternoor,
that Mr idw•rds is sow gait* resovered from the
effects of tbs assideat.