The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24 00:00:00

c4pqN KING Q RITUALISM.

Monday c 4 't
Preaching on mg a A an an abas
Church, 'Oxford, at one of. a-series of special cervices,
the Rev. CanonAina: Ilegffin Vrifinice of Pastoral
Theology, and a ttlosMi in of- eines& hifitiince in the
ifiliversiir^ =id that inctooking back on Ilftt great
events of the year which bactelaeped sides' they last
held their Distil*** 14stival fisfethioticeil the
grs.
_w..giozate Ire .71.494
of littuit It 14,1 eitt,iiu, of a j;reat
eternal eif tbadiMiie, f ie lion4r4of toti•Fration,,
eArAkr.itinbe4.3oll(ll.
rtimptt- t4at was rirdil m
itself? For his own part lie regatleif "its- strolvth as
part of a touch wider movernent which was taking
plelit;*it tri eetigfird; 'tint Intll4 world at large.
‘Vben•they camo to look at the increased facility for
loomtiotion arid iverespondence, at the"erection of
statebe palaces, at the advance of stlence and art, it
was really only 'hist to arlibit that the churches should
not he excluded from the general teivancetuent. Ile
reicivettliwthrEk that iu the increasi4l 'de6iration of
(;0141.13hcuieo, and in the advance or ?kind, they
were:paying tribute to the Aboighsrin!eefttess for the
natural beauties which he tsar, peribittnel them to
acquire. flirt ritual WWI tile if 24 general
increase in spiritti...l life, and i, a more fervniit realklV
ti..lll.iT Ihe cireusintances of 'worship. There hail been
latteAy'a sort of tiatioMal gitthiering lit; of. all spiritur I
foreess—proeer, meditation, 'devotion—and torn had
come to feel that religion WAS nolobger to be an affair of
a decry Sofrelavniternoon. Add he would say, lastly,
that they wereretneningtei the life tPdbctrine of the
Pritn - itive Claar (la cl—to the ir' tainental mind,
and to the ancient spirit elf sacrifice. to conclusion,
he urged upon his' congregation the sokinti responsi-
bility they Incurred in participatink "a ritualistic
form of worship.
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THE CAMBERWELL MURDER.
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itaisfollowiticletter. ownson tosi *Stove. *Sias trobeileiltiy
his fotserm-t.w.•throncli Sir sty, the solicitor who' de'
feuded him in the late, triaL Tao letter was Penned vattlain '
a few hours of the time Copken was ethcoisal,;—
'.llintenumgenlane Gaol. Out. 13...liv•o'clock. My
Dear Father, _Brother, 'and 6ister-in•LawrieFor the
last time On thia earth_ I write a few lines in you. A
few hours hence and this hand, that is now so full of
life, will be closed in death. Now, my dear relations,
will you not accept the warning, and seek your God,
that, when you are called, you may be prepared, for
we do not know when the hour cornett'. Oh, my dear
• father and all, I feel the Lord has been most merciful to
use in allowing me so long a time to seek thegforgive-
nese of my manifold pains. ille-ord'eteth all Stings
' for the best, when I think what tnikht have been
worse. If I had continued my wickedness, and have I
driven poor dear Emma to tniserytnid despair, so that 1"
she would have forsaken her Heavenly Father, and
cut off from His Divine grace, I might have followed
my wieked My* and am* withisnudden death, with-
out having an opportunity of asking the foriiiveness
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh I dinth frierids,"ithen
you read, this will you not, study thin.sand stop avid
SAY, am sl prepared to meet. Miro whe. het Igo 'glib
called in.
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