The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY.

their osbordisato astruniontalitini to suppose thsy
would molest their ossalso, rook es try to thwart alai
oppose their policy, or that they would mesa to
secure thaw whams minds enable thus to work har-
wociossly, is amply absurd. It is nothisig to the pur-
pose to say, so mousity oxide for oracestratiog
dir those ks in London, sr if it dons WA %bat it seta
be from salsa foals* to want urotkodisai—tho
" Missiouary Society" itself is *alp to eadout
asthodisa i it is a qualm win& most he diocesan
on its mu maim Above all it is s qsaitieh
ioonfidsoco sod soraust TM csaleresso, the

ilbetekogi- ^lbe ' all eonienied
k lba, ingellins to deposit the Wettest% of the trocisty
the.liends of then men, who ire Ilicellineff in
ttsertrogY to develop Wesley's system of
004 who frees this great beset of the
Christran wield mew and is opmetions from
one sad to the other. Mrr.erlireartatt (or the Fly Sheet
writers. whisk yzesme), says " it ought not to be,"
bat the taco of does not to the
parties 111124 eeesse=sMissionary outcry has
gene Mermititft and to conquer, sepecialls vine*
the sterdsrise said os mime cons:sichs centre : the
world ef melhalliss has again and again vibrated
with delightfel limns, to Gar monthly.quarterly,
aadi asset sepals desire et !meek. are be-
boggiest kr them. end the wildsreeseesel earn are re-
joking and blesetestag as the Nee. I feel how
greatly I ma onyour spew, but a warder
two about " trespassing
ms." In Mr. Wesley's time
" two days were supposed to be too much for secular
mstters •," aye, but Mr. E., the times have changed ;
kw 119 stations, ineludieg both bone and foist"
in Mr. Wesley's day, the foreign stations• slow sew
see 861, and embrace en expeediture dawn 120,0001.1
per rear; the preachers are widely dispersed
ewe iebespitahts .elinies, swag savage tribes..
Iffserate over keg sad almost interminable
How WI these men, their wives sod
hs he egged for and fed, but by the secrete,
ASS ease attending to secular matters? No
Waren will do it; the salaries of the missionary
searstaries are bestowed that they may be careful for
their keiltge, in order that these latter do give them-
selves were especially to the word of God and prayer.
It is a goodies of proprieties, to be judged of, not by
things thither. been, but by things that are.
Permit ins in conclusion, to reply to your essump-
tioa that the " missionary secretaries" and other
secular ministry keep " sumptuous tables," at which
" members of the aristocracy sit down ;" that they,
" travel in first-class carriage!;" that, is fact, from
these thiogr, and the moraines annual soirees they
hold, it is idle to assert that a change has not onto
over the spirit of Methodism. Yon record this, you
tell as, as a duty, because the fact of this change will
pot be without great effects on the notional life of
the country." Mr. Editor, John Wesley is re-
ported to have said that to travel in a carriage on
earth, and yet get to heaven at last, was too great
a luxury for a Christian, and yet in the decline of
life, when age and infirmity wept epos him, he did
travel in a carriage; and do you think that
this cootie/obey barred his entrance to heaven P
The truth is, that the development of bis itine-
rant system has enlarged beyond preoedent, and
the sole question for honest Christian men to discuss
is, taking into account the vest changes of society, do
those who represent Mr. Wesley carry on their work
in a spirit of which he could approve ? Oat of some
1,000 or 1,500 preachers, not 20 of them all are located,
and this very location is an exception which obtains
for the furtherance and development of his darling
principle of itinerant preaching of the gospel.
How idle to talk of this or that calory fee store-
%ries in contrast to Mr. Wesley's idea ; the good
father of our founder " was posing rich on 401. a
year," which of the ejected preachers will be content
with the elder Mr. Wesley's stipend, with such a
family as he had to maintain P But the " mimionary
secretaries " do not get 6001. a year; let trim who
asserts they do bring his proof; " bith Mr. Scott and
Mr. Farmer," the treasurers of the society, Whose
servants they are, state their net income to be 31. per
week, and a house to live in; no authority of equal
value contradicts this. If it be true, how an they
have inch sumptuous tables as you describe P No
doubt there are members of the aristocracy who
kmour them for their work's sake; bat upon 1601.
per annum they can feast but few of the pampered
eons of wealth, neither have they leisure for the visite
of the worldly aristocracy.
Not one of there maligned seereteries is less than
from 8(7 to sixty years of ego. Is it grudged these
men, that in boisterous weather or iu the depth of
winter they have occaaioaally seated themselves in a
conveyance answering to " Mr. Wesley's " post-chaise
or carriage? Fie I upon such pawiliues.
But their soirees! A word of them and I conclude.
Every friend of missions knows that the month of
May is the true comical of rotestant Christendom;
from the sods of the earth at that period good men
and true do congregate for purposes of benevolent
Christian philanthropy. The Methodist societies have
not a few of these eminent visitors, and it is need
upon one evening in the month to meetthses gentle-
men at the "Centenary Halle' coffee, tea, and• sake
are presented to these who have exerted themselves
in the pulpits or platforms for the society, beteg II
drop n wine, ao lam informed. At nee of it
' leans some isitor present wore a pair of tight gloves,
and this affair which in iself is ready contempalo.
has, been siTaintieti Into frisson against "Zahn
Wsle," a and fraud upon the saissisaary
gesistise hub. secretaries of which rejoice Is en
leder of due Imbed and fifty pounds per amen,
Wade all ether of its officials in town aid country
reageetbsig laborious and responsible offices without
lifoiVere: er reward. Sincerely apolegieing for
I ass, &c.
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