The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-03 00:00:00

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ecclesiastical Intelligrnce.

Itrraexitrero Dixitauggclga.—" The Cantab." thus
address the CAtircA News :—lt seems high time that
something were done to restrain the extravamuit vane-
tie/ in the external devotions of the laity. It Ii •
common thing to see, especially during the Nicene
Creed, co great a variety of usages, as cannot fall to give
great cause for soandal to the Protestant looker•on. If
some learned Ritualist would put forth a small manual
of directions for external devotion after the ancient
English me, it would be of great assistance to m•ny
who are now much perplexed to know which are right
and which are wrong.

A WICSIZTAN DIOOT DUCE.—" Cantab." in the
Church Tiasss, gives his idea of bringing over and gat-
ing over the Wesleyan,. These are his qualifications
for disciusing the question :—" My slabs to be heard is
this :—I am a convert of some years' standing from
Wealeyanism to Caiboisc.sm. I ins thoeughly
familiar with every phase of the system; I was born in
• Wesleyea (may, aptieed in • Wesleyan chapel, and
edeuted at • Wesleyan collets!, have taught in their
c
Sunday sohools,met in their and preached in their
pulpits. Moreover. u a mathematical honour man of
Cambridge and a candidate for orders, I think I am not
likely to speak without thought or to rashly pronounce
an opinion on such a matter without anxious delibera-
tion. This Is the own:lesion at which he arrives :—" I
• thee, that It Is slated impossible for the Wee-
luass to be united to the Church until the Catholies
have made good their standing, and have become what
I hope end believe they shortly will become, at once the
most learned, most powerful, and most earnestly
religious body in the Church. Crush out the life of
Catholicism, as the Evangelists are madly attempting,
end union is utterly hopeless. I am glad to perceive
that it is the Caiholim who are moving in the matter,
for I am finely persuaded that we, and we only, are
likely to bring it to a favourable issue." He then shows
to his own satisfeetion that the Wesley' Led Dr. Clerk
were good Anglo-CatholieL
Tee 0110ICH AssocianOir. The third annual
meeting of this Association was held at Et. James's-hall,
tondo'', on Tuesday, under the presidency of Mr. J. C.
Colquboun. The ball was crowded, and bet Gee feeling
seemed to animate the vast assemblage. The opening
address of Mr. Colquhoun was redolent of the same wit
and playful satire which sparkled in his speech on a
similar omission last summer. Then Mr. Walpole and
his solution of the Ritual Commissioners were the
topics with which he entertained his =diem*. Os
Tuohy the Bishop of Oxford sat for his protralt, and
supplied the Chairman with ample materials for
exhibiting the tortoons subtlety of Anglican Catholicism.
His concluding remarks on the literary morality of the
Ritualists were admirable. The exampled of garbled
quotations he gave, snob se tbese relating 'to Bishops
Wren and 00x, were sew to • peados &adieus, and
Maimed • telling teeth Mr. Borden, M.P. for
Liverpool, mewed the aria resolution in • manly speech
fuU of praekkal good sense and sound Protestantism.
His pointed remarks on the wily policy of the Ritualists'
were both striking and inslasetive. They began by
exalting the Prayer Book and dwelling on the
Importance of rubrics. Bat they gradually &dumbed in
their unrest until they came to represent our Liturgy
as e disfigured }tarnish breviary. Bome Anti-Ritualists
were, in his opinion, sedating the enemy by demanding
a revision of the Prayer Book. He exhorted them
to beware of mull *hasps, for there were some
who might be marching with them, and, echa! a,
carrying their colours, but who were in real ty
traitors to the Church. Mr. W. Morley seconded
the resolution u • represulative of Manehester,
and made some ratty and pointed remarks on
the passixi crisis and the idolatrous tendency of
Ritualism. um the deep feeling el the mating we. not
discovered until Dr. M•kleile roes to move the sewed
resolution. Rh repepUOC WU so sutbeslasths, that it
might well be oherselerlsed 1111 as ovation. fitsuding
upon bleittlerul, his fine, tall, mealy fern erect, as
In the of youthful vigour, the silvered leeks of
"the man ekoment" told the tale of nearly ferby.five
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raptions of Christianity. It was some time before he
was allowed to speak, but when his voice was heard,
stall strong and clear, it was to counsel that earnest
seriousness without which no ebullition of evanescent
enthusiasm Gould avail. Ho pointed out the need of
controversy as a necessity of our fallen nature, and, in a
striking climax of illustration drawn from the husband.
man, the physician, the lawyer, the educationist, the
divine, and the Christian Protestant, be showed
how eaoh warred against the corrupting maladies,
physical and moral, resulting from the primeval
curio. In the present crisis true Protestant.' are
caled to ear against those who seek to undo the
work of our Reformers and to bury pure Christianity
beneath the rubbish of Romish errors. Last year be
had urged on the association the necessity of taking
active measures to solve the alleged ambiguities of the
law. He had offered himself to the Ritualists as one
ready to meet • prosecution for alleged omireions in
the conduot of Divine worship. He had pointed to
another on the Ritualistic side who was ready, or. if not
ready, was at least liable to prosecution for his tom-
miseions. The St. Athens prosecution had been at
last oommenced, and the advantage gained were already
manifest. Instead of being protracted indefinitely, as
predicted, the cram had been fully artned, and a
Judgment was expected in • fortnight. Dr. M'Neile
also made a graceful allusion to the deep debt of grati-
tude which the Association and the country owed to
their able counsel, Dr. Archibald Stephens, for the ,
flood of light he had poured on the history of the
church, and on its standing, not only as an ordinance of
God, but in its alliance with the state, sod as a bul-
wark of our civil and religious liberties. He was,
therefore more encouraged to press on the council of the
Association to abandon a,timid policy. These Ritualistic
obeervanoeo were but fooleries compared with the
importance of asserting the doctrines of our Reformed
Church. He would not take • leaf out of Mr. Col- I
quhoun's graphic 'ketch of the delays of the Ritual
Commission, in order to admonish the council of the
Church Association on the danger of falling into the
same condemnation. Still, he argued that there were
some lets and hindrancea which required to be removed,
and that after more than eight months of delay, action
ought surely, ere now, to have been taken for the
purpose of carrying out the advice (icon both by
learned theologians and learned cooleaisslical lawyers.
Ho concluded by calling attention to the necessity for
reform in the ecclesiastical court., and observed that,
great as were the diMoulties to be eneountered, they
might in this instance be cheered by the example of :
Ireland, which in 1864 had reformed all her mole-
Meatiest mere, by an Let which originated with the
Archbishop of Armagh, and made an eeelesiertioal
proem as simple and thaspeasive as an ration at
common law. Mr. Cowan followed in • fervid speech
abounding in fine Protestant feeling, after which Mr.
Byte spoke in a manner that called oat the warmest
sympathies of the great assemblage. His remarks on
the Pan-Aiclican Synod were received with great
applause, and especially his exposure of the unbe-
coming tooling, which offered the right-hand of fellow-
ship to the corrupt Hastens Church. and yet refused
the slightest recognition to the Lutheran or Scandi-
navian Churches, or the Churches of the Reformed
Calviniste, or even to the Spaeth or Irish Presbyterians.
It was the general feeling that this timeline was one of
the most successful yet held in the metropolth—Record.