The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

THE IRISH REVIVAL.

The Rev. Edward A. Stopford, Archdeacon of
Meath, has studied the Irish revival on the spot,
and in a pamphlet of 92 pages has laid his ex-
pnience before the public. Archdeacon Stop-
ford, as the title of bill pamphlet, "The Work
and the Counterwork,"• implies, believes that there is
good in the movement now visible in the north of
Ireland. He tells us that he has not met with
any person of a contrary opinion ; that all
with wham he has conversed in Belfast,
clergy, laity, persons of all classes in society, and
holding all varieties of views in respect of the
physical phenomena, all agree that there is widely
awakened a serious attention to religion in the
minds of thousands who never thought seriously of
it before; that there is an access to men's minds on
the subject of religion, a readiness and desire for in-
struction, and for joining in the worship of God, such
as never was known there before; that instances are
numerous of persons whose outward life is changed ;
that in some places the outward face of society is
changed (as far as we can yet see) by a visible refor-
mation : all this is admitted without question by
those who see most to blame in the conduct of the
movement. But, he is convinced, to use his own
words, " that there exists, at_ the same time, ' •
counterwork'

to the Holy Spirit,
ipirit, .andtoo

IMMO*We tr. lihritiTeres as or toils n.
from God, founded on de aliens by which it IS very
difficult to avoid being deluded, and sedulously pro-
pagated by means injurious alike to the welfare of
souls and bodies." It is foe the sake of the good that
there is in the movement that he undertakes to ex-
hibit the evil.

Archdeacon Stopford brings to this inquiry the
knowledge gained in a somewhat peculiar expe-
rience, into which, however, we cannot now enter.
He says :

By persosal observation I have PatiAled myself of the idea-
lity et the mem sew occurring in Belfast with those which I
W Isnaerly ramiled. The movements of the hands, arms,
WA, Be., in these oases—the expressions of the oonntananiv,
the esnede of the voice, erica, &Mains, moans, cough., dc.,
here iriA a walla, character, unlike to anything else.
Owe duly aefiset, them cm never be mistaken. To at
eerier whether these indraibable, yet unmistakeable,
dos of the dime whirl I suspected, did really exist,
was ems peeves* dmp Alit. I was accompanied by • friend
whet bed sever herd the emeril, bat who is capable of ob-
serving mad ilmlbt will them *tsp. I told him on our
1= Se Baer eat If I wens right in the opinion I had
on tbe essemde 1 hell read, he would heir sounds
esi ae be had sere bard bin from the human voice, sod
seek eels Awe Ifni he meld nem fail to recognise resin.
In the amass of wild seenerent which we visited to-
gether, and In quieter hears, be boa told me that
my anticipation was tart—that each • sound he sever
beard before, and never Irreatter ma fail to recogalie. My
Brat acquaintanos with the pendiar character of that cry w
eingalar. Nearly thirty years ago, is Mr. Irving's chapel
is Londoe„ I beard Mies speak in au unknown
tongue. That produced on me oes of the most permanent
ib=ions I have received In life. I never for • moment
in it as inspired ; yet I felt it as • road
sash I tad
away, and that sound still dwelt ups my memory as
eserelting unearthly and unec.mintable. Many years after,
be the first rerioua case of this kind that I lad to
attend, • physician rid me at the outset to mark the peculiar
character of the cry. That remnant it fleshed upon my
memory; it war, with some alight modification, bat in its
character essentially the same, she unmistakeable cry of
Irving's seeptator l a Potted that while I live
1 mem again can mistake or riainterprst. That
a mas have now roomier is Its most tutmis.
brut In Belfast. Have also recognised every other
smile= end phasommea as what I hove formerly wh-
ammed, ern ham ems or herd of Dons ride.
All the eras" Imy in Belfast were clearly and sande-
telisally trawled; end, ea far aii la porible to jet*,
from deseripelen, es was every ore which ham been described
leas.

In cues when hysterical affections and religiose
feeling appear together, it is vary natural hastily to
assume that all the expressions are proofs of the
feeling of the soul. At Belfast, Archdeacon Stop-
ford heard the cries, moans, and other inarticulate
sounds, sa well as the expressive action of the hands,
head, eye., &c., ascribed to the direct action of the
Deity. In that town he saw an ignorant young
man, who appeared to be employed to take charge
of "cues" in a celebrated house of worship. His
interpretation of " repelling Satan," "inviting
Christ," &c., seemed to give universal satisfaction to
' tie bystanders.
The matter becomes moist serious when it appears
that hysteria is intentionally adopted in this revival
as a means of promoting religion ; that means are
red to produce and propagate it—sometimes in ig-
norance, but sometimes with dishonest premeditation.
Such is Archdeacon Stopford's solemn assertion. Let
the following statement be duly weighed :
It is notorious that hundreds of mill girls in Belfast have
prayed, and are praying, to he " struck.' This wan acknow-
ledged to me by so elder or office tearer in • pleas of worship
famous for such conversions. It was also told to me by
many of the mill girls themeless I need hardly my that
such a prayer answers itself. Imy that they learn in planes
of worship to offer such prayers. I was myna( present, in •
Presbterian meeting-house, at a prayer. cared with the
most frenzied excitement and gesticulations, that God would
then and there descend end strike all the unconverted to the
earth. That prayer was accompanied throughout by a
storm of crier, and groan., and exclamation,. and Amour, all
having the true hysteric sound. This was the moot frightful
SC4OO I have witnessed in life at the moment of the awful
wermand to the Almighty to come down and strike it was
perfectly terrific. No such scene would be permitted in
any Bedlam upon earth. Presence at mob a prayer could
be redeemed from guilt only by the purpose of waning.
I have many terrible recollections of life, but this prayer is
the most frightful of them all. I have been und to be
calm In the presence of hysteria. I wee calm then ; tat the
physical effect upon myself was as if I had been drinking
plebs brandy. Is this the worship of the church of Scotland ?
And jest before me, and among the singers, throughout this
fealty' scene, sat • very type of all that is impressionable in
IMMO. I could have wept. and could hardly restrain repel
him &lag so, as I marked her slight figure, the hollow
sheets. the muddy colour under a clear akin, the In-
telligent hie, the unnatural calm of the brilliant
eyes under the dark lashes of singular length,
and the fearful energy with which else sung. It is a
frightful thing to see such young creatures in such a hotbed,
knowing to what It leads I watched her down the aisle,
in meet enthusiastic intercoms) with another just like her-
self. It is shocking to hear this well•knowe morbid sem-
pathy mistaken for the mutual love of God's children. I
cannot recognise as the act of God hysteria thus produced
and forced. Neither can I so recognise hysteria which is
produced by preaching.
A system, the Archdeacon tells us, is extending to
every town and village of propagating hysteria by
emissaries—young men who, in many eases, have
been subject to its influence themselves, and who
cannot but desire to produce "cases." Their means
may be unconsciously used, and may not be the lees
effectual. There can be no doubt that in places of
worship which have become famous through their
hysterical cases, or in which hysteria is prayed for,
the production of it is an object desired and aimed
at in the preaching.
Ole ammo which I beard hummed me forcibly with
the conviction that the preacher bed carefully etudied
hew hyetaela might be produced. Au account msy be as
hmtruciive to other' as that seem= was to me. The
preeobeee natural qualifications appeared to he but
small. Me manner was cold, dry, unimpassioned. Hie
melee me amorally good, and, like hie setioo, appeared to
have been carefully wailed ; his tome were unnatural, as if
the peculiar ery of hysteria had tees bikes as a model. He
did mot spoiler poem...red either of intellectual or sympathetic
yrrße reminded me of Pettchtershibees description of
erissi mein—" foe the most part sire:Waste."
I stop ben to observe that many published amounts at
earroons prolific of hysteria do carefully notice that there ma
"eotbieg exotica" either in the preacher's manner or hie
diseoures. This in put forward as if it made the °pent!** of
the Spirit more segment. Several prams have urgedgp me
that hysteria mold sot be produced by esnorthe en un-
melting." But those who meek so do are easaider
the difference between hysteria and asters, em des,
nor do they know that it le Dot all Wade Of ea-
diemest that seed to produce hysteria. It mast
he ~timid emit/meet. Excitement of the intalletaml
facetties is a strove counteractive, and In some own may be
made the most effective instrument of cure. Emotional ex-
citenint, to brooms hysterical. must have for its object,
" self ;" or rather " relf-feeling." True emotional feeling
for another. sad not for self. is a powerful counteractive to
hysteria. I could tell rrearre storms of then things. It Is
Mae, a devoted mother may become for a moment hysterical
at the illness of her child, but It le only while the physical

• Tim Work and the Countermork, or the Relip ions Revival
in Belfort, aith on exploitation of die Physical Phenomena.
By K. A Zard, Archdeacon of Meath. Hodges, Smith,
tad Co.,

self-fealing of grief OVIITCOMO, her. Perfect self-doeoticn to .
others eimintely excludes hysterical feeling. This le the
secret of the noble strength of many women.
These maxims expltati many effective sermons which are
amassed to be devcid of all exciting power, and enable
an to nem to my instructive distosne. It was on the
parable of Dims and Lazarus. Thera was nothing of the
love of Christ, nor at the guilt of sin ; than was nothing to
awaken maselsecs:—ball, 11.4-14 li—o—ll was theme cry;
and the sole object aimed at was to produce a semation of
iotenedied tartans of physical .elf-fceling. Remarkable so
this eases was for the paucity and smallness of ideas, it
could ass be wholly without ideas; but passages were.
After the pert above de came a passage in which
" the existence of Dives" endlen duration" were put
a re
together, repeated again, t , versed, inverted with
....1
infinite variety and est, until nothing in the nature of sn
idea to occupy the remained—nothing but the prolonga-
tion M the p -feeling of agony. This part of the
sermon sten • most laboured and studied piece of
composition toned to. The skill shown in the
wording was , aid the whole object of the study
appeared to be the elimination of every idea or thought. It
was evidently here the chief labour of preparation had been
bestowed ; and it was precisely hate, when every ides had
disappeared, that the preacher bestowed the whole fame of
volosand tone and gesture—a fact which I bad observed in
other sermons before.
Accuttomed to reflect on every iotellectual excitement and
every true neonatal feeling by which livatario action can be
counteracted, I had sat down to watch and track the process
by which hysteria can be produced. Precisely as I expected,
when all sense sad meaning wee gone, the poacher had his
base and amttply trastaph in evoking • wild and long-conti-
nued memo man load and
thrilled more mIld; ag4Raefly once the preacher, and
kit kim standing in his pulpit with a most selfmatisfied '
air„nntil her tardy removal enabled him to proceed. That
thrilling cry of agony—that cold-blooded outrage upon the
moral nature of woman—did awaken to me the stem:tient
feeling of indignation that has ever clued my breast. My
horror was not lessened m I watched the effect on a well-
deemed sad nice-looking girl mar me. Her countenance did
change at that tearfal my, bat it changed into au expression
of steeled Indifference, (metal to be sees in woman. Per
this la the effect on these who do not yield to the
inflames.
Well may the Archdeacon ask the ladies of Bel-
fast, its wivae and mothers, whether it is nothing to
them that their sex is dishonoured by its utmost
weakness being produced and exposed as &spectacle
in public assemblies and in presence of the male sex,
and demand of its men whether they have no voices
to be raised in arresting it. The man (he observes)
who deliberately produoes hysteria in woman (es
many do now seek to produce it) ought to be de-
nounced as an outrage upon one sex and a disgrace
on the other.

Archdeacon Stopford gives a report of a sermon
in which the preacher, a presbyterian minister,
described how tie had cut a dumb devil out of
a child. It is not surprising that these proceed-
, jugs lead sometimes to insanity. In a very brief space
of time he saw or heard of more than twenty cues.
One of thew is a fearful case. I heard her history
is her own village, and learned the nature of her
madness in the aa)lom. dhe had a young family, and
was anoint an infant ; she was a good wife and
mother until abe was made hysterical; she heard
it dared that all things must bs =de new; women
is that astir are apt to mistake whet is mkt, so she horned
all her little children's clothes, expecting sew ones; she then
attempied the tile of her husband. Ear amenity bee taken
the fearful form of the lowest degradation of woman's mad-
ams. "This firm (ry. Yeuelaterelebea) is combined in a
singular manner with the preceding (religious delusion).
The transition into this mined form is mostly mice-
aimed by hysteria." I have to weds horribleinihject ; timid
that it might he so understood by preachers ea to snake their
blood curdle at the thought of trifling With woman's moral
nature by inducing hysteria. Are them the fruits of the
right preachiug of the Gospel of His who said, "Coale unto
meal ye who are weary and heavy Way sad I will give
OITIM r

caLVesacastle Chronicle says, the prize list of the
Agricultural &date ateetbs at Bedew, early
is deplimber, Melodw madam tor the best couple of tot-
last • To be competed for by haatemen Is say
eettoid peek " We have men *elms et abetherdP:gtre
st so agricultural show but we believe this is the Brat time
foxhounds will take per: in the proceedings.
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. OF SCSSEX.—We are

informed that the gentlemen who have been engsged for the
has three months in surveying and mapping the district im-
mediately surrounding this town (East (3rinstead) have now
completed their labour'. Although the researches of Fitton,
Gideun Mansell, Martin, and others had keg since Teaseled
the general structure of this part of the kingdom, nothing
wasinown of the detail. The Meltwater deposits, generally
known under the name of the Hastings lands, which form so
striking a feature In this county, amend to omelet of con-
fused and irregular deposits of sande, clays, ahem, and lime-
Name, and it was not until their strata had been subjected to
a minute examination by the government geologies that a
clue was discovered which will =memo', facilitate the future
program of the survey In this country. We believe the credit
of this important discovery, the result of the comparison of a
multitude of carefolly observed facto, In due to htr. Frederic
Drew, a young geologist of great promise, who h•e conducted
the survey in the neighbourhood of this town. We hear that
Horsham will be the next centre from which the survey will
be weed on, and we have no doubt that the landed proprie-
tors, agriculturists, and all who are in say way interested In
seentifio pursuits, and the progress of knowledge, will he as
anxious as the reeidents in tea neighbourhood to avail them-
elven of the opportunity of acquiring valuable se well es in-
teresting information respec•ing the structure, qualities, and
former condition, of et least that portion of the earth's surface
on which they dwell.—Stasses ddvertirer.
CONSERVATIVE FESTIVAL no WEST KENT.—We
sre happy to hear that a grant conaeevalfve dinner for West
Kent will be celebrated on the 16th proximo. The chair
will be taken by Earl Stanhope, and we understand that
large number of the noblemen end leading c .net votive gen-
tlemen of the division have already signified their intention
to be present—Maidstone Journal.
ELECTION EXPENSES.—The election auditor for
Truro, Mr. Boyle, ham published the exposes incurred by
the three candidates at the last election. Mr. Augustus
Smith's expenses amounted to 2161. Bs. 10d., Mr. Montague
Smith's to 3631. Os. 4r1., and the Hon. Captain Virian's ex-
7to 2471. Ile. Tim election auditor for the borough of
.17:n, Ewa, has just returned his account of the expenses
Incurred by the three candidates at the last election for this
borough, a follows —Mr. Thomas Sutton Western,
6471. fa. 3d.; Mr. G. W. K. Peacocks, 6711. 16s. • Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Meyrick, 8271. fie. 7d. Amongst the pen-
diet item. are:—Agents' expenses, Western, 1061. • Tea-
cucke, 1821 ; Meyrick, 2611. Bs. Si. Horse hire and cce-
veysnce Meyrick, 1231. lls.; Peecocke, 1241. 4s. 6d.;
Western, 1441. is. Hotel expanses : Western, nil. • Pea-
cache, 81. 45.; Meyrkk, 1011. 17s. sd. In Mr. Western's
expense is en item of 261. 19a. for detectives, which his
opponents do not antrr to have employed. These expellees
are but smell when it is remembered that before a cotnatiesion

appointed to inquire into certain alleged charges of bribery in
the borough of Heiden it was stated by the late Mr.
Qaintin Dick that in a tow years he had expended no less
than 27,0001. In oonteetiog the representation of this
borough is the camervative interest.
YETITIONS.—During the short session of parlia-
ment which has jest rinsed, popular sentiments have been
expressed by meats of 1,929 petitions, having 220,459 sig.
witness attached to them. For shortening the boars of
work in wises. 58,737 signatures have been reseeded; against
excluding the Bible from schools in India, 61,118; sgatnat
ceredn proposed changes in the Scottish Usiversitlea,
22,915; in favour of legalising marriage with a deceased
wife's sister, 10,692, and against that measure, 3,637; sgatuat
the Endowed Schools Bill. 8,070, sad for that measure,
3,045 , for the ballot, 7,513 ; for the regulating the ntai
curing of gas, 7,453; for separating motretant and Roman
catholic children in schools, 7,011; for prohibiting the opium
trade, 4,789 ; for altering the law of landlord and tenant in
Ireland. 3,532; for retool of pew duty, 2,898; spinet
Church.rate Abolition Bill, 2,731; In Isvoneol, 193; against
abolishing church-retea without se squire, est, 2,181; for
evade( Maynooth College Act, 1.928; against saluting the
Hoot at Halts. 1,950 ; for ameliorating the condition of
national school teachers, 1,896; for reducing tie duty on
hops, 1,678 ; end for the removing of restrictimea from free and
crammer wheals, 1,559. For reform is Parliament them
are 127 applicants, and for oedema suffrage 1.
A POTHECX RICE' HALL.—At 4 court of examiorys
of the Society of Apothecaries, on Thursday the 25th
instant, the following gentlemen having passed the usual
examinations, in the &mos and practke of medicine, were
admitted licentiates of the society, vi.:—Yams. John Dur-
ham Bird, of Stretford, Manchester; Francis Faiwasser, of
&airborne. Dressed** ; Edward Henry Faisal], of R• 111.
gate, (91.71C.9.); Robert Helms Hayes, of Latinos, Stat.
ford.bire ; Benjamin Heywood Heeisset, of Rd
(M.R.C.S.) ; Robert Hicks, (no address mem) ; Themes
Charles Kirkby, of Bedinott, Oxfordshire, (M.R.C.B ) ; The
ism Knight, of Brill, Buckinghamshire ; David Harbert
Llewellyn. of Malmasbury. Wilts. ; William Joseph Mil-
lard, of Whltchureb, Herefeelthire ; Thomas Platt. of Old-
ham, Lancashire; and Arthur Ferdinand Vas, of Northtteet,
Kent, (M.R.C.S.) At the NM. court, Meser.. William
Towed*, Duncan Caldwell, of Harleyford•place. Kennington
sad lam Langton, of Denmark-hill, Camberwell passed their
Bret essaninettaa.
ME. CHARLES KERN.—We believe we are correct
in Medan that Brighton, amount other provincial kwns, is
to he favoured with a visit from Hr. Charles Ken during
the present sewn ; that that gentleman will, in fact, with
his etemeolished wife, perform at one theatre for • low nights
unduly Y Nemsaber.--ibtaam ffspross.