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Ores of the most valuable characteristics ia the
Clergy et the English Church ham hitherto beat
their shellerity in tone of feeling and habits of
thought be the peat body of the cultivated English
laity. mug generally, they have been 'write-
needy 610 trona that distinctive professional the-
radar which in other countries too often sinks the
gentlemaa in the churchman, the citizen in the
priest. This greet advantage the English clergy
priecipally owe to the fact that, as a
general rule, they have been brought up, in can-
I; Neon with ether young Englishmen, at the
, Universities ; net reared, as is aimed universally
the ales with the Itemieh and very frequently with
the Dismoting Any, in clerical training colleges.
It is dithealt Morer-rate the value of this fact. In
it Ka the last sseurity that any community eel
poems spied ths exams of fanatical seal, or the
meagames sessedetel exclusiveness. The young
Ibiliehmen who, at Eton or Harrow, Trinity or
Christ Cherth,lses freely mingled with his fellows in
the healthful rivalry of athletic sports, or the more
smiting straggles of intellectual competition, hes
gained is the promo that knowledge which is of all
ethane the meet valuable—a knowledge of human
nature, and that discipline compared to which
all others are worthless—the discipline of
hear* and forbearing—of a just regard
for othess and a jest respect for himself. It is dill-
cult for a young non who has passed through stash a
career to forget, after a year or two of special train-
ing as a divine, the invaluable teems that have thee
been imparted. Eve. if he seesenthe for a while to
the nonsense of Pmeyisen, as the fashion is, he takes
the disease in • for milder form than would be the
ease had his antecedents been different. His coat-
skirts elongate, his vest mounts to his throat, his
tie is always whits, his shirt front sever visible.
He gets his church rebuilt or his pews levelled, keeps
fist days, and dates from the vigils of saints. All
this and a great deal more of the same kind is as l•-
ralLrly gone through by young Anglican divines
in a certain state of their development, a the soseelee
or the pooping-cough, by nurseries and boarding
schools. It is a pity, of course, that the
I thing cannot be done without, bat eines it
ie a orcemary evil, the great point is
to get over it as quickly and with as little
mischief as possible. This point is secured by the
fund of good sense provided for the young English
clergyman by the general and promiscuous nature
of his school and college training. Had he been
kept aloof from other boy, ; set apart and dedicated
from tops and marbles to seeleisiology and exit_
! gesie—the result would have been something
very different, something which we now ally
look for in the specially-trained pupils of
Maynooth. With all his present advantages the
young English Paeryite is a safficiently absurd sad
mischievous mined : bat what would he be without
those advantages ? What would he be lithe ear-
Towne. of a seminary training had given concentra-
tion to his seal and intensity to his arrogance ?
A very sensible article in the last number of the
Quarterly Renew on the subject of " Church
Extension," contains some exceedingly judi-
cious remarks with reference to the danger
likely to arise from introducing into the
educational system of the Church of England, that
special clerical training which has hitherto distin-
guished the Romish priest from the Protestant
clergyman, and has produced a marked contrast
between the modern pupils of Maynooth and the
more liberal priesthood of an earlier age and a less
contracted education. The Bishop of OXFORD, sedu-
lous to revive amongst us the sacerdotal order, has
established a special clerical training college at
Cuddeadon, which is avowedly the object of the
Reviewer's remarks, and is undoubtedly amenable to
the most prominent of his objections. We honestly
believe that no worse thing could befall
the clergy of the English Church than an
abandonment of the present system of mixed educa-
tion for one specially and exclusively clerical. his
a sufficiently common topic of complaint against the
clergy of the Establishment that, as compared with
the more busy and practical orders of mankind, they
are but little versed in the principles of human
nature and the ordinary pursuits of life. With how
ranch greater force would this objection apply if the
clergyman had from the first been reared apart from
his fellow men, remote from their interests, a
stranger to their views, and a despiser of what he
would deem their prejudices. The Church his world,
the Priesthood his profession, and sacerdotal power his
1p
aim—the specially trained churchman would soon
introduce into this free English life of ours an ele-
ment of discord and scandal which would be no is.
detrimental to the welfare of society, than to the
true interests of the Church. Fortunately there is
no great danger that the experiment will be carried
very far; it cannot, however, be pointed out and re-
sisted too soon. In no profession is a premature
commencement of special education to be desired, but
least of all is it to be desired in the case of the
Clergy. We are of coarse not to be understood as
objecting to a special course of training for the
Chen as for other professions. All that we
Willidd protest against is the substitution of special
hr sawn! training—the premature commencement
if purely professional education. That after the