The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-07 00:00:00

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LONDON. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 7.

Sevaaax members of the Church emigre
which has just been held at Norwich, have
been urging on that body the suitableness
of prayer and effort for promoting union be-
tween foreign and English Christians. It ap•
pears that there is a society the members of
which mutually pledge themselves to pray for
this consummation. An object so excellent must
meet with general approbation. " Ecce quam
" bonum et quam jucundum habitat* intro' in
" unum !" It is said that charity begins at home ;
but perhaps the proverb is too absolute. Only
let the virtue be real, and first or last home
will be no stranger to its blessings. Therefore
we hope that at the next Church Congress some
one will read an essay on the union of Christians
in England as an appendage to Bishop WORDSWORTH'S
intereetiog paper. There is a fine field here for
practical Church Reformers. While the very
heart of Christisrity is being attacked with a
subtlety and skill that have never been surpassed,
the old dispute as to " which shall be greatest " is
carried on between our religious bodies with as
much vigour es ever. Political rank, privilege,
and superiority are as dear to their possessors as
if it had never been declared that " he that shill
" humble himself as a little child, the same is
" greatest is the kingdom of heaven." We hear on
all aides of strifes and divisions, but very little of
fellowship between those who are separated
by forms of worship and church government.
The newspapers are full of reports of their bicker-
inga. In one pariah a clergyman will not permit
a child to learn reading and writing in his school
on week days, because its parents take it with
them to their own place of worship on Sunday.
In another 50 summonses are issued in one day to
compel parishioners to bring Easter offerings. Here,
raids are made upon the furniture of Christian
men for the support of a Church to which they do
not belong ; and there, an Anglican priest bounces
out of a festive meeting because the chairman has
coupled a toast in the honour of his order with the
recognition of the clergy of other denominations.
If the Rev. G ZORGE FREDERICK LEE and his
Association for Promoting the Unity of Christen-
dom could find an available remedy for these dis-
orders, they would do more good than has been
hitherto accomplished by all the Church Congresses
that have met, or even by the interminable discus-
sions of Convocation. But we fear that it is not
given to him and his friends to be the channel
through which we are to receive this blessing.
Their association is confined both in fact and by its
principles to members of the Anglican, Roman
Catholic, and Greek Churches, that is to say, to
those who agree in the Episcopal form of their con-
stitution and government. The common possession
of an order of bishops is for them a closer bond
than community of faith. We are not surprised,
therefore, that when their principles were advocated
by Mr. Lee, and in a lesser degree by the Bishop
of Sr. Agouties, in an assembly representing all
schools of thought in the Church, it should have
been strenuously protested against. Mr. Ci'MaLLeY
denied that the views of Bishop WORDSWORTH and
Mr. LEE, entirely ignoring the non-episcopal
Churches of the Continent when Christian union
was aimed at, expressed the general feeling
of the laity of the Church of England. If
the Bishop's argument meant anything, it meant
that so long as Christian Churches abroad were
not brought under the Episcopate they could
hold out no hand of brotherhood to those
Churches. "If that were the proposition of the
" Right Rev. Bishop, he desired, in the name of a
" large body of the clergy and laity of the Church
"of England, to protest against the doctrine that a
" question of episcopal ministry or non-episcopal
" ministry was to separate Christians who acknow-
" ledge a common LORD." The proposal to cross
Europe for the purpose of fraternising with the
clergy of the corrupt and sunken Greek Church,
passing by millions of Protestant Christians in
France and Germany, unrecognised because their
Churches have not an episcopal organization,
shows to what lengths of absurdity a favourite pre-
judice will lead men. There is plenty of scope,
however, for associations to promote Christian
unity without crossing the sea. It is the jealousies
and divisions of our religions bodies that cause
their weakness, and hinder the progress of real
Christianity. Let our Church leaders try their
bands at removing, or at least diminishing these.

SPECIAL TORII OF PRAYIR.—An Order in Council
commanding the nee of a special fete of prayer on and
after to-morrow, October 7, for the removal of the cattle
plague sod the preservation of the country from cholera
was issued by the post of Thursday sight The form is
that which was given in the Express of Tuesday last.
PRINCE An /LDSVS OF ITALY.—Hie Royal Highness
Prince Amadeus of Savoy, yesterday morning. accompanied
by his Excellency Marquis d'Azeglio (the Italian raioister),
and the officers who have accompanied his royal highness to
Eogliod, visited the sew Palace of Westminster, where
they were sniped Ur nearly an hour In inspecting the
Houses of Lords and Common' Bt, littepbee's Crypt, and
Wertmiester-hall. On leaving the houses of parliameet, the
prince sod party proceeded to visit Westminster Abbey,
thence to the ladian Museum. subsequently to the British
Museum, sod lastly visited the Soho Bazaar. After the
prince's return to the Italian Legation the carriages were
again ordered to lake his royal highness and atteodonts to
the Polytechnic fostitutina. after wenn' which the prince
and party wort to Madams Tuseaud's exhibition, in Bake:-
street, Portmaa•aquare.