The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-20 00:00:00

EXCOMMUNICATION 01
TWO "BENEDICTINE
BROTHERS."

(From the Waters Deily Prat.)

On Thursday night, at a special service held in
fresaherd•street, Bristol, Mean. • Benedict" sad " Ethel-
red" received their sotios to quit from these chosen pis-
tons is which the brethren or the 0.5.8. iij. have been
lately straggling into notoriety. Those naughty brothers
did something which Superior Gyprian regarded with en
scything but favourable feeling ; sod people eves went so
far ea to say that they attended vespers whim nectar the in-
flame* of vinous exciameet. Whether the " bead and trait
of their officals.' had such a serious 'inlet we do not pre-
tend to say ; but certain it a that some deep end gloomy sin
was committed by Ethelred and Benedict, which called forth
a letter of remonstrance from Tether Ignatius. The
letter, however, like the mesons of the humbler Cyprus,
bad no effect. The piety of the brothers had deserted
them • they bed gone beck again to " the world, the flesh,
and the devil," and renounced the truths of the creed in
which they had so long home so distinguished • part. One
'at two counts was offered to them either to do
penance publicly before the oongregatioe eatembled end
tremble themselves before their superior, or to receive
the extreme penalties of lIISOMMODICaiIOO, with all its
attendant horrors. They wen reckless youths, sad so
they laughed at Ignatius, sneered at the poor Oyprian,
and snapped thew angers a
id excommunioatios. Such were
the circumstances which forth on Thursday night
the extra energise of the superior,. and taxed to the
utmost his knowledge of dramatc effect. At eight
o'clock the "'banal' was moderately Weeded by an
apparently devout mogregation, but later in the evening
a number of outsiders dropped in, whose sympathies we
may fairly presume to have been autatenedictine.
After the usual preliminary cheating Brother Cypriot
entered the rostrum, and real the letter be bad reosived
from Inman', addressed to the Rook of believers in
Bristol, instead of the mammary lassos from the Scrip'
tura. The lights were than extinguithed, with the
exception of one solitary candle which wee left busing
on the altar, and a bale conatereation was excited
amongst the audience by the eaddeaness of the manor
in which the gas was turned off. Previously to this
the alter and the images in the " chapel " ware draped
in black, aid when darkness had thrown its
mantle over the tom its weird gloom entreated
steentely with the brilliant and even ;Fitly habilimente
deem of the young liesedictinee. Than the air grew
denser, perfumed by an unseen censor swung "—not by
" seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor "
bat by a little boy in a strange assume, who looked more
like a metiers monsteheek than a midland monk. Amidst
silenos—for curiosity we. on the tip-
ygeiespromeded to reed the dreaded madam
erierantenicatioe, of which the following is a copy :
"/a the holy name of God. Amen. We, Islamics, supe-
r/fa el the Englishocrogregatiou of St. Benedict, do declare
and pronounce our sous Ethelred end Benedict atoommu-
sleeted from our congregation, having bees guilty of the
sin of which we have made emetics, refusing to makesatie-
faction for the same, thereby perjuring themselvw, aid
breaking their solemn and voluntary promise of
os
unto ma. We pronounce them 'operated from all the spiri-
tual blessings of our order—from a share in the prayers
mid intercession of the monks—from the private worship
sad wive:satin@ of . our aithful sues and dg W o
give them • over to Satan. that their souls maauyhters. be saved in
the day of the Lord.' Ilayi God's just miler light upoa
them ; may the dread of hell atoompass than ; easy they
be essilese and wittiest peace in their going out and their
fremhig is ; may their sleep be bitter to them • may their
eyes in the sight watches know terror ; may their ears be
tilled with the sounds of their owe caning, whisk their nn-
repeated sin will bring epos them • may they keel, no
pesos ; may their food be terror., sad their aria be grief
may they lie down is sorrow, and wakejs sore astassineat;
may all these ,things be so with them until, seating maids
=rid., their lying, and self-will, they abase
vie sad Mara to Jana, the Gad at
Peados. So be it, if it be a jest senteses is
ooeformity to Ged's will. Mar." Dunn the reading of
the above several meow is the maims* showed their
horror al the ewes by fission, but the superior told the
in as exalted manner, that they were in Gore hour, and
that if they didn't soled what they were about the we.
weld deemed on them. Teredisi, we deabt set, by the
remotest sesame of mach a tete, the why saes beams ha-
medistaly quiet. end Cypriot' proemial with hie task. Still
loathe& the besedielisa was preseseeed. attar which the
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