The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-06 00:00:00

MANCHESTER CHURCH CONCHES&

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The programme of the church con green which is
to take pace in Manchester on Tuesday, Widow&li and
Thursday of next week, his been nearly completed, sad ar-
rangements of • very mtistactory character have bees made
for the fall attendance of visitors which is expected. The
last mattress, it will be remembered, was held at Oxford,
and at Re close a resolution wu passed to hold the next
gathering in Manchester, and • committee, with the
Bishop of Manchester as president, 37 vice-presidents, and
other officials, were appointed. The object of the 00141111111
ill to discuss the best means of " promoting the practical
efficiency of the United Church of Begird sod Ire-
land." and churchmen of every shade of opinion are invited
toceintarrir in the proosedingn The plans adopboth at
and Oxford will be the groundwork at thaws
acted aims in Nsediester, but experience has suggested •
few alteratioes of a merely minor character. Free diem-
sir, no voting. sad no records of formal decisions are to be
the orders of the day. Arrangements have been made with
the railway companies to facilitate the arrivals of district
visitors. Tbe megrims will be opened on Tuesday morning,
by a sermon at the cathedral by Dr. Hook, 'der of
Chichester; and after the couclusion of the series the
real business will oommeoos. The Free-trade Hall has
been engaged for the disetusions, and different rooms will
be need for differs% meetings. The inaugural address
will be delivered at 2 o'clock on Toseday afternoon, by
the Bishop of Manchester. Papers on " Church extension "
will then be read by Mr. Hugh Birley, the Rev. O.
Venable,. of Friszland, and Br. J. Murray Dale; and
estmaget those who will probably take part fa the Xs.
onnien are Arehdrer Bickersteth, Mr. W. Cotten Ma
extensive church builder, and a warm advocate of the
sags: *oyster), Arehdeacou Ifteseer. and Mr. J. IL •
In parrease of a desks to sake the evening
on each day more gerierally attractive than the
otkete, ea Tuesday evening, Mr. A. J. B. Beresford Hope
will deliver an address la the large hall ea "Church stag.
teeters." Mr. B. B. DOLING, Q.C., and Mr. O. Z. Street,
the architect, will take part is the subesquest proosedmp.
Os Wednesday. morning the Rev. Clll6Oll Stowell sad tbe
Bev. T. E. Eagan will mad papers on the " Simply and
Milian of Ministers," end the speakers on the same topic
will include the Bishop of Melbourne the Rem. A. 0.
D'Orry, W. Pollock, and H. P. Siddue. On the same
morass the subject of n Lay 00-operatioe " will he brought
under consideration, and noon it papers will be read by
Mr. E. Akroyd, of Beata: (builder of the megnillosat All
Soul's Muth, whisk the 'Prime of Wake meredhltd
the Rev. T. J. RowaslL Lana A. J. B. Berimfard
F. 8. Powell, XP., H. Hoare, and R. A. Cram arii=
expreed to speth oe the subject. In the share% "TM
Chunk ie Ire" will be the topic of debate ; the mem of
the ppaa bele g the Rm. W. C. Plunkett, and some of the
the Bight His. J. Napier, Orr WNeile, D.D.,
sad Mr. H. Howe. Meanwhile, . tree sartimal ressinen
will be bold to dram the Wirer ci " Free sod =
byspa
ail "The offertory,* sad "
piper es the former sailer will be read Bee. W.
B. Wsesh, of Be. nap's, Clerkenwell, who hes frown
=own chetah ma the free system. In theme sectional
Orr Arlie, Dr. Molesworth (of Reatedelle), Chace
Aar, Rev. W. J. Beatimant, Mr. A. F. Baylor. D.C.L.,
will take part. At the evening meeting the Rev. Sir
F. A. Goes Ouriley, Bart. and doctor of music, is to reed
a paper on " Church mire." Oa Thursday morning: the
Rev. W. Cadmus, of Lours, ill to reed a paper ea The
t *fa Large Parish," and the Dean of Chichester,
t..2"atile;waorth. eat the Bev. J. Bardsley are ensconced to
speak. Viss-Chaasalker Bit W. Page Wood will also read •
=or"Parochial Moir Worm" but the subject is
from that of " Sisterhoods," discussed at the last
=1:71e" The Growth et the Church is Literal& will be
.rith by the Bev. Jame Braley, of Si. ADU'll Monk .
Masehenter, and De. Huns end Canoe Durnfonl will assist
in the disenairm Is the afternoon papers will be read oe
"The Law of the Colonial March" and 'Map* of Notre
Ministers," sad unapt the speakers the Bishop of Sydow
Is expected. Two sectional meetings will also be heM, au
" Modes of Angmeetiag Small Livings and Tithe Ithlireur
Zjimni " The Oosietitutio• el Bun Mimosa Meaklai.
Synods, and Cremation." Dry and Sun=
116110011, will be the subjects at the mooing meeting,
arm* the gentlemen who will take a leading pert to the '
will be Can Miller, D.D., of
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trasid. sel Cana
ililag meetings, except ae Tuesday, whßleVir‘ser •
VillielliMnega at 10.30, will begin at ten and emierdeit
re &atoll t the afternoon meetings will lad Erma tenet 3
ra
latiodaybit evening meetings from eight to tee. On Wed-
, lad Friday there is to be early worming
serene at lie satterrth esemmeeciog at 8.30. The time to .
be erupted by the reedieg of each ppaappearr at the emigres is
twenty minutes, and each spe kerfollowing will be reward
to tea misers& la addllise to the mars early glee.
the Briar et Oaleri, Itsegor, and Deny are expired to
take part la the beinses el the regress.

TIM Air IL WARD RESOHIR IN GLASGOW.
This rev. gentleman, whose name is so widely
faadlier as that of an Amebae politician and pulpit orator,
=,48 &odor Mandai to Rigin,-,idecis Ohnrch—Mr.
s. Though the mime given his intention was
very brisf, time spacious edifice was densely crowded. He
west through the preliminary service in a very devout sad
improusive maw. his MAW, being particularly distin-
guished bye clear enunciation and just emphasis that mo-
deled the sound*. effective aid to the compreheneloo of the
mom. He °hoes as the subject of his sermon the nemeity
for cherishing • spirit of eslfeacrifice ran esseatiel part
of a gesuine Christianity—fonodim upon the apostolic
exhortation to cultivate "the mind that was is Christ."
As might have been expected, his prelection was samewhat
startling and peculiar. It certainly was not the
of • cmansonplami mind, sot the effmion of an resmeigisds-
claimer. Oa the crueresZe it foil of thought •
now presentim in bold • same striking idea, sow Meta. .
hag several in sucemsioe with great diatiaetasse • 'at one •
monad mining forth to a format of pesenmeie and lea-
toeerre yards, at await, rinsing into pumps ef mad
saty and moving eloimenee, which were sam altareated
with bombes of 100111111i01111 vigour and Amp, homely,
practical remarks, se exammeed somsdates that is is.
voluntary smile hemmed the faces of the anditery.
Confining himself purely to the subject-matter of his
discourse, be mode, cookery peel* to what sensed the
'Mimeos expected, mailmen to the emancipation wienggle
in America. Ha teat was Philippians it. 5, "Let this mud
be is you, which was also in Christ." Incidentally touch-
ing, to the course el Ids remarks, on the subject el slavery,
be said that there wen men calling themselves Christie.,
who signed that skvery was right. He hoped that Nome
et thole who had held slaves had bees blind and miffed,
sad that death, with all its revelatioas, would bring them
oat of its &whams into the eel' km light of truth. la
the goodnees of the Ood of Heaven it was mot pos-
sible that mum should bold mss se slaves, sad yet, to
the light of Christian. love and freedom, be looked spot
as having in them "that mind which was also is Christ
Jams." It was not that the slave was worse or better clad,
or bow be was fed, or that he was obliged to wort—the
grand element, the distinguishing principle in slavery was
shat the slave was denuded of his attributes of n.anbood,
degraded by the law frees • man into a eliatteL Aad
justified this by Christimity, by the teachiegs of that
Christ who had come to earth to give spiritual freedom to
all, to raise the poorest and the meanest; and, in so
doles, bowman himself the servant sad compete° of
the poor and the despised. Hut the first step of
the slave-master was to strip his fellow-man of his
noblest attributes of nation)--clum hint as • chat-
tel. Christ pvc all fur men to raise and ennoble
them. The slaveinaster who professes to hold
Christ r leis example takes all from men, debasieg sod de-
ending them. He heady adverted, is coacludiug his
remark,' on this subject, to slavery as exisiting, in a him
dreadful form, in the factory, in the family, or wherever,
indeed, aim tramples on his weaker fellow, to gratify his
passim for pismire or power. Throughout the services
the only allusion to American affairs occurred in the course
of a truly fervent and earnest prayer, is which be prayed
that Coil " would remember that laud so dear to its, in its
mortal trials sod struggles ; so that. girded with the support
of God, Use love of justice sod liberty. its people may go
forward ad continue until the eel—until over ell the lased
the sea should shine to tied Were only who are free ; whim
pesos shall imp o'er peace founded on justice, on
reaped of human rights, on all those immutable foinolations
os which alone truth sod freedom shell fur ever steed."
The rev. gentleman will, we uudorstand, be eutertitieed at
breakfast ibis morning (Moodey) in the cold•n Hotel, and,
after • brief stay is the city, proceed us • tour le the High.
lands. —Nora BUM& Aral.

RiPSITAENTATION OF RICHMOND.—The now At-
fossil-General (Sir Romatell Palmer) has issued his address
to the *lectors of Richmond, Yorkshire. The learned
gestlernao, in the course of his address. say. :—" I have
WOO called by her Majesty's favour to till tie office of
Attorney•Gmieral, upon the resignation, in oonsequence of
impaired health, of Sir William Atherton ; and 1 mused
make this annouommeat without expressing my deep mi.
drat for the cause which boa deprived me of AU esteemed
coed most worthy colleague in the public servioo. By tbe
accoptaasco of r.l canon way mat in parliament ma mu .1
your rapresoutativas boa bosoms vacant, and it will be Um
duty of the Speaker soon to direct the issue of a writ for a
now eleetioo, as which I propose to offer myself as a can-
didate for. the resewalot the toast which you have been so
good as torepoos in me daring the last two years. &me
my election in 1881, 1 have codeavoured to serve you, by
saving her Majesty and the country to the heat of my
ability ; and it you should again send ono to parliament, I
shall cooties*, by God's help. tLe none endeavour 111 the more
important ease to which lam DOW called." There will pro-
bably be so apposition to the return of the boa. nod learned
gentlemen se there has not hove a contest in the borough foe
seamy twisty years.
Cantos Paktos. Oxs Bnnxixo
MOLD T 1 OCT. s.—AdAtieleme oo payment, 3049 ; ditto by
seem dada, t 80; at.l, 3,72%