The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-02-13 00:00:00

ARTHEJIL HiLL&III ELTON.
Moved= Operl, Feb, 7.

HYMNS ANCIENT AND MODERN.
To ams &Moe&

• Yea Uwe WAIT lethested pear nudism to isseet Is
=paper e reply le the valises attack. which have
nide is myself as well as is soy published letter
ow "R7Ol itseleut and lifsdetis." For this I Omsk
Tnsad silos sioss not peruses! roan:Noss, bet enlists
est truth which was "nose delivered to the ',shahs "
may ebstseesrise all 00100,101.01401511 00 the ablest.

" A Bridport churchman " mad yoar eorrespowleat
" " ..111 mot, I bon, thick I tree* then with eon-
'rent If I nodes tritt point in their lettere Who.
Its, or a leak at tea hi Oda:dad, Is it mit the duty of the
&tenor to gin the slam, though ia on doing be may
ship into soother uttn's boon or b-rtli 1 " neer of
mod thumb musk oakum that Yelpieelindy beautiful
"AIM. will an," would aloe. immortalise the
hymnal, " Hymns Dollei and Madera." Dom the msg.
Minot "Ti Deem" Maned in Roaasitunierielin hark
any other men than to make the Week 11.111101 her darkness
UN MOM apparent " Commas seen" somparee
which are found in hymns admittod by Kenble
alth "daintiest Irma," 203 in " Hirano A mint
111 and 'loans. He 09 siss that no oltionnon In Like.
to tin former, and a•nan that than Tenn from the
" ilortykeral 'Unable, takes is noir literal mask
Mare trusioabstantiatioa " snub more Snarly nazi
. . . -

by... loft le ;7ifyisaa- itool;st--a-acl Moir
I reply, to my salad Ikon Is east Memos between
the tesAbq of " 8y... Assoieot sod Modern' sod
leeiblesoousottos, both absolutely sad elrossurtaa•
day.

The former oolleeno• (" Hyman Amilest and
Models ahoolutrly *Snug that our Lord at his last
noon "Owes Hies*/ rite 174 oua Honda, and senni
ergot broad Eris Jrieali, nod rise HI Noel"
The lanes alarms. not thia Arne giirstaaything
with Hie own, in say on nail Nada Not that He
makes Woad anything, Or nen anything, but that
Jesus sashes • "fee* ," ' nob haspast of his lent sad
Mood," and Keehn pate up • prayer that nab soul
may isa, sot tits Wend body sad Mood of Christ, but
" insane,* sant seal that "ha.. Its owed notes
Isehre If Christ gave" Rime, with RN ova linu4o
all who rresired what Aran gave at the last now,
toad hare *tarsal fit.. This. we irsev, an not the
sa sh. gakappy Judo.; len sash to the dilemma
La whine its elm ellabinibeili Inoska "hymns Aselest
and Moideas" " gasiblit." on the other band, teaches
menhirs is his hyena hook, tin an, who. ism ,7„4,.,
neelos eitst Clain pre with His ova barns, or with
the heads don, orie elm% roans* Christ Ithassn, but
only thews, "His people.' who "feed on Him by faith,'
receive Christ sod hare eternal his "Rynras Annan
and Modern" %soh Man Christ Himself is giros end
, teemed is the Lord's Sapper, absolutely;
' Mashes *et Christ is unshed only In ths Lord'.
' rawer, easeintinally. "Flynn Minna sad Madera*
ttattlist Chain Himself is glow and ranted
, sabstaannif, sad otratrall
lesehtis that fibrin Is resolved la the Tare. supper osly
" Hyman Amend and Meanie leash that
rwtssegi.
to the Leers Table us yaitaitain d Chet*
.swenin, ; ti Kangas* Wedibie that QOM we
taboos of Oki* bin ihorn abet bens,* in Mita,
whirling thigy go to Ito Lord's flapper or se.

ml' thu aloslifir ellietwo NS
atrio; •' Nor ' hr 1114
• Mamie ••I Tiod
th•eeu TOWN.
I;b.t slew • " T•file." 'Altar • *Obi •
ish•••••1•1, sad emporia wages sd sb••••• ;
Talk • Null oossisocossity• al • ismiles arid

eomewlsere rite. Altar imples • repetition ol the
staid* whroever the Ait-r is used; Table implies
remembrao. e by outward sod risible slims platted
th.p., 01 g which has bees offered awe, aod
onus oaly, and which is Defer to he repeated. Alter
implies the possess of a priest In the moos of litind
aserilee ; Table relairee the proposes may of • milliliter
or .errant. . . . .

•
The faith mentioned by "Hymns Assient sad
Modern" in roar:roe with the Lord's Supper, Is •
faith the mortar, of the bread having Wen mods
Orb, and tie wise Wood. The faith of Setoble's
Hymn-book is tbe faith by which (ha believer spiritually
eats and drinks the Ark sad Wood of Christ. not oily
at the Lord's table, but elsewhere ; is ether words, feeds
on Christ by faith with thanksgiving. "Hymn
Ancient sad Modern" leech transubstauttatioe, latish
Mel. to Idolatry, /Lamb's's millectiou teaches •
spiritual apprehension of, and spiritual nourishment by,
Christ. which lend. to true worship.
duck is my opinion on the merits of the two books
rsspectively. IL on the wintery. lam Werke°. and
"Kimble" may be made to fork what " Hymns
Ancient and Modern" unquictioaably teach, let
Ilemble's 8011ft:roe, by 01 means, be suppressed, but
lea aat its place be rationed by • hymnal Old certainly
teaches raneebrantietion, and, by consequence, other
false dogmas. I behave that whoever, without preju-
dice, comer= the two Woke, must corrids that the
one is as Popish in its general masts as the other is
Protestant. Thus msok I Moe wires hi dolour of
what I deem • good squad hymn-book. I am aware
that whether it be or not, Is not the qurtioa Wort
es. To say nothing of gemble's hymn-book, cur Prayer
Book Itself, instead of being worth the British martyr
blood, which was shed so frosty In defines of Its Pro-
testant troth, would be deer us gift, lilt can be made
to rub transubstantiation. "Lint God he true sad
every man a liar." The question underlying all ahem,
Is, after ell, not, what dor a hymn-hook or • prayer
book bath? but. "Whit ssith the Lard?".

_
I [We omit hem seersl folios of E& addressed to a
isornispoadoet of soother Issue' with while we hove
nothing to do.]
I regret, thee. that thaws is no mystery Is egmmeswo-
' reties the death of the Son of Vas. The stySery of
which lb. Baal*, the Prayer-book, sad Homilbe spirt,
I. in His inoareation and Meth, not in the seleliestio•
of Saber. So there is gnat mystery la the origin of
man -the mast mine% philosophise, I believe. &iota
on thia most subtle point These is mystery. then, a
MID% birth, WI some whatever I. kelpies his birth-
day. So there is the res 4 goblin's myaistry is the is-
atrnation. life, death sad puniest" al the Son of Gerd,
but there is none in adelsating these sayMeries. This
ig what Isis Med, sod what I repent. This Is ao hair-
gelatins. hot a tens important and radieal dissittesioe.
What God is is • myeery, what God has told us to do
I. plain. Union with (AAA or ealvatioe is a mystery,
the way of sabratios Is "No soma cometh unto
the Father hut by um."' The Father to whom I some,
sad the Son by whom I coma. are inoomprebeasible.
way by whish I some to the rather sissy time
In say ordinanee is plain. "Rib... in the Lord Jesus
Christ, mid thou "halt be saved." Rome is plata in
stating her fin .r-is nt edditines to dm salvation of
God, mad ssysterioua in her statement of th• way of
salvation; that is, she ill plain where she ought to he
sleet, sad mysterious where she ought to speak
plainly.
I. for my part, affirm that Christ Is not present In
any mess, either is the Eucharist, or in sty other
Ordillllooll, either with an hylividnal, or with • w
/ogee, essrpt oa the supposition that the individasis rte
the sossreption beast. In Christ with the heart nate
riehteouaeets (Romans—a. 10). &appose • minister
sad • agegreration, say of three, dye, or any ingsaber of
persons. celebrate the Holy Qmesnasima in ttre name
approved forte, and aupi-o•• that neither Webber nor
people be real believers is Chris., this villa.; owe bet
• Papist or • Romanis, Mi that Christ wee "really
present" at, or to tho nnordinance. Jades tgartoot of the
breed sod wits. Wet he • partatter of the Leh sad
blood? Judas partook of the outward and trieihis sign.
Was be • partaker of the inward and spiritual grace}
Them last our Catechism teaches ere the body and
blood of Christ.

T. pmelthion, I beg to inform all my °opposed that
time and piths make no man either holy or unholy; •
man may be opal* in • pulpit, or is • Mussel, and
holy in the market, at an section, or while couvistieg •
prlsoser. Transebotentiatton, sod ail imitation of it
are most enholy things. The Press, therefore, is most
holly emiloyed while striviog to drive it eat of the
Cherob. While thus engaged it is not the Press which
pollutes the Church, but the Marsh the Proms.
Further, if the expression, "Son of Mary," moths no
more than "lion of Man,* why put words into the
months of Rio dissiplee which ear lewd never took hobs
His crux. Christ, whoa maniferties His humanity wily,
Invariably mills himself "lb. Boa a Nth," and never,
on any occa•ion, the Son ef Mary; I believe became He
entiaipsted the temptation to make Mary, His Mother,
anrot of worship. Lantly.let mother that I bath saver
eel the Lord's Snorers "tables. visual ;" I othid, I
booth, die rather than do so. This most rightecias op-
4•Nve I bestowed, not on the Communion a olorG
sod His people at His table, but on its base tmenterfeit ;
sot on • spiritual few*, but on • sorest festival, with a
priest Man alter, ion morilleing and thes presenting to
poor i•loletors • god of his own leaking. This epoothele
I nolled • " tableau vivast ;" bad I rolled it • " tableau
wort," or • " Pantomime," the term. I. 'Wolf an.., bad
not borth too strong. mi. species& is certainly pro
meted by "Hymn. Anciimit sad Modern." I ham 'a-
rmed It to view in order that it may neither be rebeareed
before, nor exhibited to, • congregatios I dearly love, of
which I was • member, possibly, before either of your
therethotodents knew of its oilstones. and of which I
woo afterwards, • most ginworthy but willing servant.
I am with apologies for the Nagai of my letter, for
which tha import...beta blbeyintfost la my plea,