The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-02-27 00:00:00

HTIIIO ANCTINT AND MODERN.

rjs swam sho if we won closiiimot not to sei qua of QM
oonirovoroy. Zoo, Morro Criopionso—Hortes tholtev.
W. C. Templer apia.)
To the &Mors.

After the esarlesy you Waned use to the faß
maim of my tret Wier, I notes I was wholly
unprepared for the treetesont remind by my sesowel.
weds 7d, bare published ander my subeerlpties
reser last Woe, le sortainly what, I wrote, bid d
aensialy it is not the Isttor I set to you. The peeler
aid onalseks yoa taws gins to the pelello, Ills whale
body, Mclean of my argament cs the pent it'
whisk comas* them, you have jedged ft easnedent to
nesprese; this too, yogi bah dare as the pound OW
the omitted LA& was " addreweed to a correspandest
of saother jounial, with wbiall '(yon say)' we have
nothing to do."
I allow that it was owspetent for 705 50 refuse my
letter, bat sagely on to publish it in • metilated form,
withmMmy Immirleda sod soosent. This ko, I infer,
scold "4 bays ale, emn bestewed no seine is
' Comment:eat," morn sodas than I did as " Common
lonse," aid KM* notion oa "Old fishooL"

rooms for detain* to —owat-py—your We" w"
shy midi to your last amid oorraspowaswc I ibiak.
abash' be &emus, taU ha utters ors the sortheiww
his letter. "Old &hoar biausif canine (sad snow
Y 7 ware is his sztasustiow) Ito WI WM'S
is rants& At the ermouswootwat of his otigiti
last paragraph "Ohl &boor writes "no truffl I (irof
I most now coosieds, sad writs sortoraw. at the woo
ii..). that list Rev. W. Templar wadi do Intl& to
Dobbs himself to Bartow Itradolook. Ho law MOS
4111.11MNIS, but a st dial soars iiworoass, sad as his
woliwais ot is «wily is wow clthe tad^
(what tad "he does not always, on those
show to edesotase, his prom* hake (ass ;tont
"1. the rawness'. of mart, bat ossaiwd
whool-boy, ka, ha" With this opstiwea Imam sou
P 1 true or fan dostrine of 'OM
:late= writing. trot I bowed, is any TIV, to
reply to slats.,, sevoa-oighte of width was written In
his aro plattrat style?

"Old Ibiltatd•s" peopsnal pleatentries seespy throe
-
fourth' of • colas; ray serious letter, you lavalidate
as mach as, with a 'bow al justice, you eoevenlestly
ass, by suppreningl attire goitre, by omitting ~de
on which tho raosslng et a sts=ant sestonse
depends, and by destroyhts Its
You intissaied alio Is ywar istarsesien al February
thst with the rayly to whisk I inn mantled by the
laws of sewspeper eon , it woald he se well be
slop lb. disoundos. Not easiest wtth isuill•ting the
sower to wide* width lyoe own I was 'retitled, yes
FARM • 'sopa Patna by " Cosmos flesso" This
epistle, as it ipps.n is your edemas, looks like • reply
to lay saudladed War, but which rosily is • ropeers to
ray wood letter, published in &adobes joesnal. Hoes
you sot thy vieiaisd yew own principle as well as tbe
laws 1 newqmpor eostrovesq?
Under thew einutinienses, sad is your aortae-
Poltaret ("Oolasse• flesinn is waiting for as same,
will you permit we to say to hits and to your readers a
few farther venial

The diffenmei berme all the hymns which hme
been misread hoe Mesabi' Peeled* "My GM, and is
thy table sprawl,' " I. rand fidlowebip we
meek, sad sir hymns adduced (esprially the delin-
quent hymn from Hymns Laciest wad maim) menet
is my mind be axasperated. TM lOW, Hymns
Ancient and Modern, as,. that ear Lord "maker' tree
bread his flesh wad wipe his blood ;" it also owe that
Jeans at its hot Sapper " gives hitmolf with his own
heads," as that if the true broad be his limb, and It.
his Mood, "all who partook of what it. Lem
gre with his ewe Mods sr wisher of Christ. and
have eternal life." This, as 'have said, we all know.
sae not it. ow with the unhappy Judas.

on the contrary, and irlias is She hlwal
which "Common Sense " rya ignore—No. 411,
Meshes that " his (Christ's) people feed on him, •Si bit
leak and drink hit blood by kith." therefore (sad this
lii. scioordance with the estechisec) the outward and
visible sign, the bread and wine, may be reeeived by all
who go np to the table; that the inward sod mdrintal
grace, oentely, the body and blood of Christ, MI only he
verily and indeed taken and received by the feittful in
the Lard's Supper. Now, a man may take breed and wine
Into his hand or aamith, he can take neither into aim
heart by faith; the body and blood of Moist be can
spiritually take into hie heart and thankfully feed
thereon, and this be can do, not only when rating tread
and drinking wine in remembrance at CludeVe death,
bet at all Woes sod la all places. If them be ma re-
ceive the bread and wine without resolving the body
and blood of Owlet, as Jades, and reseive the body and
blood of Christ without receiving the breed and wine,
as the penitent tLlef, what biomass of tisaintbsisatia-
ties What becomes of It. subtle .osntsrpsrt, namely,
• rest presence a Christ In the Holy Enshartat, with•
out mention of that faith b which any spiritnal
promos of Christ can elone be • la say pines ix
ordlaimea

Bet says "Commix. Sense" "I do not think "Hymns
Ansient and Modern" oontaim a hymn that states that
we absolutely drink Christ's blood and set his lash In
our adebeation of the Oommunics." In this mateses
"Comoros Sense" shows his eisopplebensies el the
'ablest of the Lord's Supper—for
let, Kemble doss /Ism that believers absolutely sot
Christ's body and drink his blood io the Onmumaloa, in
a spiritual rommer by faith, by the faithful, and the
faithful only—but " Hymns hoolesit and Madera "
Mae a very differeet thing, namely, that Christ makes
bread Seth, sod wine blood wlrch can be partaken by
the unfaithful, the unbeliever. The differences imam
West* in WOril, it is immeshes is fact; which of these
two systems I would ask, by its spirituality *mats, sod
which degrades by its carnality, the blessed Seeramsat
of the Lord's Supper?

" COOllllOO Seine" portioned', "Mr. Templer rya and
rightly that the true gamin:to a ' whairath the Lord'
Let him read St. Mark xiv. 29 and interpret the
hymns he complains of, ill the same rummer, a he does
that mem and I think we shall agree."

I am glad when I can agree with "Common Sense"
for be writes honestly and earamily, bet sot soundly—
most cordially do I agree with him in Use prime
authority of the Scriptures. I. both his letters be
refers me to Mark xis., if be will allow me to add the
versus from St Iderk, which with the 22nd verse givi
the smiptaral aecouot of what hymn 9311 (Hymns
Ancient sad Madera) gives its aceoust, I wept his
challenge with the greatest pleasure.
"And as they did eat, Jesse took breed and blessed
aid brake it and gave to teem and said, take eat, this
IN sny body, and hi took the sup and whew be had given
thanks He gave die them and they all drools at it,
led He said unto thous, this is my blood of the New
Testament white Li shed for many."—(Kark xiv. 22,
23,

Now, if aosording to St. Muir., Christ made breed his
lost; his.. asereding to St. Mark Chelan made not
wise, but a imp, hit blood. The very Setiptere then
',Mob "Common Sawa" adduces together with its
sabesenest soetext. certainly dart not beads whet
Hymns homiest sod Modems. certainly do. St. Mark
&farms simply that after taking broad, and after giving,
not leak, but bread. Christ says, take eat, this is my
body, and after taking sot the blood, no sorb.,, even
wine, bat the rap, Christ says, This I. my blood,
whores' hyena MI (BymiaAscisst and Modern) affirms
not that Christ says anything, (-bleb eight
pomibly be interpreted *acceding to the inteen
of the sayer) but that our Lord does mar
thing, re and does somethieg more than
eke breed and give it, something more than take a coop
and give it, it alarms that "H. maketh tree bread Me
Sash, and wine His Mood.* I repeat thereto,, my
queatioa, what is this bet traosubstantiation
herald doctrine of the marilice of the mass and elevatioe
of the bait?

I do not refer tin mittgke of "Caputo* Seise to
Triyal.perreitios or roigiaterpretation of Scripting, hot. . . . .

I do to Me misapprebation of tbo very test on which
be bnfldi knetber with the context Tbis by Goose-
Timms involrei on equal misapprehension of the trite
eaten el a Sacrament. His mistake springs from the
vain essay to see spiritual truth from a carnal stand-
point.
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Christ aria he dkreereed. st!ither 1.216 esartfuent, Dor

in any ordipanoe, but by AWL Would we all had more
faith in the Sou of God, who loved an and gave himself
(oral. I assure you that I foal I bays mond of faith, so
such as all and rash ot my opponents. "The honest
dog will bark while the thief is in the how," but here
for the wenn I bike leave of them. I bear some, if
not all of them, word they have seal of God, certainly
okanteCtdebatesi, in my manna "not wording to

If they have tbs truth on their aide, I trust they will
estsblish it, bat if not, that they will net deem ma their
enemy, because I bare told them the troth. I have
rvplied ea tars. in me lay to the question at Imo.
There are some oirsomstwetials whit& I may poesibly
have omitted. To these minor points • brief answer
will imam. It was my opponents who drew from, not
myself who segpstod in, my fret letter that Dr. Posey
was owe of the Virgin Mary's rots:tea whom idolatrous
thermometer now Mande at "Co-Redemptreas" point.
Popish printbtg is not a Trensebstentiatioo of the
Literal Letters but • Medieval Amusement of them.
is that Capitals are Made to Rivet and Fix the Atten-
tion pa minor rather this on more important points
On the eircasmetentiala of Salvation tether than on
&Intim itself. I/ bidding beads is to be averted oily
by the accident of mu or garb, judging from the vest-
ment. worn In many polishes by the Mercy themselves,
it is an inseam bulwark.

I beve rho mid there is s. mints Popish menet to
the whole amortment of " Hymns AIIOiODI sod
Modern," aped from some few white from their
evangelleal quality dismiss the same. My opposieste
have rather ocialkated time distipbed this opiates
Communkant irro says be bolds juetillostion by
faith as strongly se Mr. Templer bismelf. I mil
it is little use to bold it in • pulpit et • new,
sad deny it at the Commission table, or hi the choir.
Seine am Ins said "5.1 me make the alp for the
people. and I owe not who makes lb. lows. do doubt.
hes think the lesralts just sew. "Let es snake the '
hymn, tor the Church of Kneeled, and we care not who
makes the sermona" I believe however that no mita,
and no eimmis Is at the very tattoo ef the mimmasey,
bat that the pest eamey of num sad of the &arab, bee
laid this of evil ander the wine wing of the Chez&
ol to be bashed.