The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-12 00:00:00

THE REV. C. J. BIRD' BEC/8810N.
To tio ilagor.

1112,—1 have read with deep regret the annoanaemeat
in your laM pew that the View of Weet-Ifordiagton
has abasdosed the Ministry of the Chureb at England ;
'sad, wools se I symthis• with him in ide feeling. et
astonishment and pain, at the latitudinarian Judgment
of the High Court of Appeal, I eta pauset meant to
the names whioh he gives far hie &footles. That be
should protest against that fatigusost ; that he elsonki
labour to obtain he reversal ey mean, of legialatAcin or
otlsereleo eppeare to or. most right and neturel ; bet
that be should be cit:ree by It from hie home, and, what
I. much more important, from his pulpit, on mmeant of
It, I cronies' I am hardly andereland.
I believe and lam isellesd I. think that Mr. Bird
believes, that the existence of She Munk of legiand Is
:Arai bienniag to the °mushy. With ail its faults •
or inseparable from every
taimitutioe tbes4"l".lB•VworiPadty human sgeaey —I
believe,
and I think that he believes, that be destrookiee.ou
be as laminae and irreparable lom, If not to au larger
towns, at any rata to our rural populetioa. I leek
armed ; I moire late the mate el thiap I.
doeskin where the support of religion is left to "elan-
W., efforts, sod I am 'stilled, after the most =does
ioneideratlee, that there is so visible ageasy obleh
would preterit the greet mass M my fellow-ciountryasen
from 'lsolate heathenism, if the istabliehad Chars&
were disendowed.

What, Urn, is to be my seam of presorting, even
when I Sad that, in soon &notions, and al a onion
period In hot history, she is not intolerant of onl !
Shall it be to fetish. her; or to plus toysoll in Inch
a position m to weaken my own lagoons*, and to
Gnome *ay own role* withla beat or shall It not rather
be to protest from the most prominent plass I out coin.
coned, against the errors which she hu sanctioned, and
by my practice. and my remonstranoes, and my argu-
ments to condemn thorn

If it were possibls to organiser • secession on snob •
male, se, for instanos, in the Froolilik of Sootleadois
to make it really fait to bo solaria proton!, and thee
to bring the nation to reason, such • courts might be
well worthy of coosideratioo ; but. just to drop out of
tea Churth of England hers and there and to fonske
the fortress baron there may be ashore within it,
moms to me to be imply &bondman it to our enemies,
and sacrificing ouroelves for nothing. WUlluely, I
would I oast myself into the abyss, if I thought that
doing so would aloes ; but I will not 'soot the part of
Cers, simply that I may afford my foes • triumph.
Yr. Bird's very text, eel read it, points, not to
seosodon, but to reformation. The EpWisiso Cituroh,
no doubt, was praised for Its Ishii:ranee of evil; but It
wasi occasioned in that it bad " left its int love ;" and
what was the Divine Master's charge thereupea I not
" sende," not "mm. out of her, my people;" but
" remember, therefore, from whoses thou art fallen,
aid ropent."
I might, too, were I disposed to be 'Miss!, lid fault
with the pertinency of his Illustration. If the
physician amordand with an ignorant gum* in •
hospital, were to withdraw from it on that account,
would not the simple res..ilt be, that the Icor Patinas
would be left altogether in bad band.? No, I faaoy it
would be better, to protest, as loudly as I dared,
against the quack; to maks my daauselatiim ef him
kaolin, as far as possible ; but to was. as many
patient. se I wield from his entreats, and to eadeavour
to sure them myself.
So to, et to the Coalition Goverament. Doss not
this Ulan:salon also rest upon • islet analogy? If Kr.
Bird were a inscriber of lb. Gown:meth of the churob,
I :mold quite agree to hie refusing to tarry it Os upon
the false principles of his :toilsome. ; but here hit. aot
amongst the riders bat, to a oertala extent, the relied,
and bolt he and I have sometimes oosiseated to be
=1 by most unsatiefastory Govern/an, without
It otosestry to Inn the country.
Ives yet, I would hope and pray, that my good
Mead will recionsider his detensiostion, and see his
tray to return, if not to the same, at haat to some more
resueerative, and toff eential post 111•10rigst us. He is
sort of man that the obareh io our days, as. NW*
as ord to los& —honest, antic:my kind, large-hearted,
a Poomplished, only perhaps with • little toe mush
sobtlety (at has berm surmised of the protest Chained:or)
for the good of the shank and his own toting&
Circomstaasse, aid possibly a little Isaias of nervous
anxiety, have withheld um from holding any private
comotaakettios with him as titia most pelnfal subjest ;
bat I trait that both he cad your readers will panda.
say intrusloo in this matter, wltioli has now become a
publie one, and, though, with an Increasing dislike to
itheicrotous letters, I affix my name will still absolve
me flea the 111111111111 liq 01 farther contiroversy.
Believe me.
Yours faithfully,
C. W. IntiGH.LIIL
Disattent's Moore* Nov. 9,1871