The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-13 00:00:00

CHURCH CONGRESS 4T BRISTOL:

BRISTOL, WILDNIEDAY.

The attendance at the congress proves to be
much larger than had been anticipated by the Clifton
lodging•house keeper; and there has been a sharp corny*.
talon for accommodation. Among those who have attended
or taken put in the proceedings are Lord Lyttelton, the
Earl of Barrowby, Earl Portescus, Bishop of Chichester,
Bishop of Ely, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Bishop of
Bath and Wells, Bishop of KUmore, Bishop of Guiana, the
Dean of Ely, Dean of Watford, Dean of Cork, Hon. and
Bev. Genoa Lyttelton, Canons Kennaway, Madan, Girdle-
dose, Moseley, Guthrks Knight, Archdeacon Denison, Dr.
Posey, Prebendary Markeroses, Pripberidary Trevor, Canon
M 'Neils, the Archdesoon of Ely, and Canon Les.

Lest night. at eight o'clock, there was a collective meet-
ieg at the Rifle Drill-hall, under the presidency of the
of OLOCCDffiII end BRISTOL. There was a large
• , and the chief subjects discussed were Forage
Missions, and the Supply of Ilissionery Candidates. The
principal speakers were Canon Lyttelton and Archdeacon

In the comae of the prooeediege the Right Rev. Perna.
DINT announced that the meeting would now be addramaed
by the Rev. Mr. Lyne. (Loud appl►uee, 131111110•,aod du-
turbanoe.)
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The Rev. Mr. TANS (Brother Ignatius) then stepped upon
the platform, habited Is serge, with stickle on his fest,
and shaven mown. His appearance wee the sired for an
outburst of applause, eheenng, and hisses. On coming onthe platform lie bowed to the audience, and the uproar
tiontantung he sat down • and
The Right Rev. Purim? said the Rev. W. Lyne was •
member of the oo , and • dear= infthe church of Eng.land, and he that, like Christian people, they would
give him • hearing. (" Hear, hear," sod cries of " No,
no.") He was sure, although he (the Bishop) had not had
the pleasure of seeing him before, that be would say no-
thing that was not proper and conformable to the occasion,
sod nothing that would hurt any one present. Let them,
then, be large-hearted, and listen to him. (Applause.)
Brother IGNAT11:11 then addressed the audience with very
little interruption. The question under oonsideratim was
how was our national church to reach the untended thou-
sands of their town population. lie could say something on
this point, for he had laboured in some of the very worst
districts, and among the most degraded of our heathen. He
had seen beeps of misery end teaks of vim, and the more he
saw the more he felt convinced that our present parochial
system could not grapple with the loads of Satan. The
ministers of our church of England were unable to cope with
this vice, and the question arose how was she to be able to
reach the mares. (Cheers.) He answered, by the estab-
lishment of collegiate churches in large towns. In this he
felt a solid sod deep interest. He did not wish to bring before
them anything obnoxious or anything in snarly or sectarian
spirit. All he longed for was that our mother the church
of Ragland should be the mother of the people, and the
nurse of the sir. (Cheers.) The question was, bow was this
to be dont? It was of no use to meet in large
assemblages and congresses if they only dealt with the
theoretical part of the subject. They most act. Should
their Bristol Church Commis then do something? The
collegiate bodies must be such as our church bodies could
=norm as scriptural. It wee impossible that such bodies
could be kept together unless some rules for their guidanes
were laid down. Rule was a necessity wherever they got it
from, sod he would may, if they would look for themselves
into the rides of St. Benedict (Shoats of " No, no,"
laughter and hisses, and cries of " Fair play.") Let them
wan one moment. Theme who objected to any mention of
that work he was sure had not read the rule itself, which
enjoined love to Jeans for Jesus' sake, and love to man for
man's sake. There was nothing of poper and modern in-
novatioa in It, for the rules of St. • t were in
exiatenoe before popery stole in on the church. Then
these collegiate houses; should they counist—he knew
he was speaking on • subject which was unpopular—
but should they consist of a certain body of married men ?
Would it be oompetible with their duties that their wives
and families should live with them ! Was it not necessary
in collegiate establishments—it was so at Oxford and
Cambridge—that they should be unshackled with these holy
ties—for they were holy ties ; and would they sot be disad-
vantages to • body of people living together to do the work
of God ? (Cries of " No, " and applause.); They would find
• large collegiate body of men with wives and children would
be thus shackled. It would be contrary to the very nature
of a collegiate house. It would not be a collage in
feet Let them fancy wives and families in the colleges at
Oxford and Cambridge. (App cruse.) Let these collegiate
bodies be at the beck and mil of the clergy without any
obstacle to their work, and then they should succeed, with
God's giros, in enabling our church to reach the masses
which they had been unable hitherto to rank.
(Cheers.) Let them consider the matter and do something.
Did not they remember how Bishop Montage and others
sighed for the restoration of monasteries? (Hires and ap-
plause.) He begged pardon for using the term; be did it
=advertently. He did not say this bemuse be wee ashamed
of the term, and he did not apologise for min it, but he
did not wish to offend. (Hear, hear.) The church of Eng-
land mated workers, there were plenty of talkers, hot
work wee wanted. It was imppmmbie that the pariah
clergy could grapple with the diflitalty.
The Earl of said ha had no doubt that the
apparition they bad just seen on the platform wee a very
startling one. At on. time they might have been as
much startled by the apparition of Bt. Benedict
himself. He was not surprised that men should
break out into ermescences io attempting to meet
the mar of vice encountered in large towns, and they should
be thankful to any one who undertook any experiment to
meet it. At the same time be cadd not help asking
why was it necessary in doing geed to offend
the feelings of other people! (Hear, hear.) Why was it
necentary to raise obstacles in the war of the work Why
call their calkers churches (Hest, heir, and
a laugh.) Could they mot do good among the mares of the
people without going about with • shaves crown sod in a
serge dress ? (le laugh.) Should not those who undertook
work of this kind keep before their epos the ratios lest in
doing good they did not lead to mischief. (Haar, hear.)
And was it desirable to facilitate among the ecninsica
the appearance of that which induced than to sedwitetepet
idea of good with the peculiarities and external_ appeeraeoes
of that which wee bad ? (Hear, hear.) He Galled on those
who did this to reconsider Utak reuse. They might act
on the priareples of St. Benedict without wearing his nab or
calling throneless by his Irma.
The Dean of riff offered a few remarks in asst of tires
of the Bad of Harroreby.
Free sod open churches was the only other subject in the
Bishop of °loaners's new Bristol section calling for a re-
port, and upon if • very lively discussion was excited, the
speakers being Arclideetra Sandford (Coventry), Rev. C.
Ramble, and Lord Lytteltoo.
The Archdeacon of Covturrar pleaded energetically and
with greet warmth for opera sittings unappropriated, and
condemned the pew system in vigorous terms.
Rev. C. Emma took a totally opposite view, and said
the appropriatroe of seats he parishiasen, who were enti-
tled by law to seats in their parish churches, preceded intru-
sion on their rights by strangers. The free system was, on
the other hand, inconsistent with the church
moot.

Lord LrrraTox steered a medium course' sod pointed
out the actual state of churchwardens' law on the subject.
Seats, however, should be apportioned to parishioners, net to
houses, and according to the number of residents in a boom
should be the number of seats appropriated to it All seats
not occupied should be freely appropriated at the COIX10101200•
meat of the Psalms.

Tha Arebdeacoa of SALLIBORY advocated fres sad open
pariah churches.

Church architecture mid deeoratkia wu the subject set
dove for &imam at the morning section meeting, sod at-
tracted slugs sadism& The Vol. Archdeacon Thorp pre-
sided.