The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-04 00:00:00

THR CRUMB CONGRESS AT WOLVER.

The Wolverhampton Congress having listened
till Lite on Wednesday evening to the Bishops of Illinois,
Tennessee, Cape Town, and hew Zealand, the member;
went to work yesterday morning and attended to a long
paper by Professor Killer on the Bible and science. In
the afternoon the Rev. Dr. Littledale read at the Vest-
ment Exhibition • long paper on " aggrieved pa-
rishioners." The following is a specimen of the style:—
" There was • wide-spread dissatisfaction with puritan
services. and ritualistie choreic's drew their congregation;
from protestant families. There was no innovation of
ritualists equal to that of the Bev. Mr. Rogers, of hang
stopped
fame, who, on being amointed to his living,
• weekly communion which had existed from pre-
reformation times. At the mine time ritual must not be
forced down throats into stomachs wasted and weakened
by long spiritual starvation. There was milk for babes an
well as strong meat for men, but they must take care the
milk was ' sincere,' rich with the cream of ripe thought
and vigorous action, and not mere chalk and water,
thickened with the alves' brains of Liverpool Orangeman
and Islington drones." Amongst the company were four
Brothers of the Order of the Holy Redeemer, from West
Torrington, in Lincolnshire, habitat in the monastic garb.
In the evening • numerous and influential meeting of the
lead.* clergy and laity attending the congress was held at
St. John's Schools, for the purpose of presenting a large,
massive, and richly-jewel crozier to the Bishop of Cape-
town, to be used by him as Metropolitan of South Africa,
and as symboliidng his duty not only to oversee the flock,
but to rule over and guide the other bishops of that C3ll-
- The chair was filled by Mr. J. 6. IVbot, and the
presentatkm was made by Sir. Beredord Hope, ALP. The
meeting waa also addressed by the Bishcp-of Twosomes.
Bishop Twells, Canon Seymour, he. Bishop Gray, whe
yesterday celebrated his 59th birthday and the 21st
saui-
very of his episcopate, in returning thanks gave a detailed
account of the trials and legal inoongruities which trouble d
the church of South Africa.
me WORKING NEWS MUTING.

Last night the meeting for the working CUMIN
same off in the Agricultural•hall, and As building was
crowded with upwards of 2,500 people, not more than 800
of whom were members of the congress, the number of
gentlemen out of the ranks of operatives having beat.
limited to about that nimbi*. They (with some ladies)
occupied chiefly the gallery behind the platform. The
president of the cooper (the Bishop of Lichfield) was the
chairman.

The epeakere were the chairman, Bir Joseph Napier, the
Rev. Dr. Barry, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of
DlaAlabama, the Bishop of Louisiana, and the Bishop of
_ _

The Bishop of Orroar concluded his speech in the
following tenon—l say, if you, the working men, will
thoroughly come beck with as, and work with us in
the Christian church of this lead, we may have that
beautiful order of mutual err-operation restored s
us is, a way to which we have been of late t0:;74
strangers. I don't mean in saying this that working
mess need Christianity mon than the men above them.
I am not going to flatter you. I have learnt this from
my Muter, that instead of the Increase of wealth !Gueri-
llas; the temptations of humanity it increases them,
and that if a poor man needs the religion of Christ to
keep him pure, and sober, and holy, the rich man needs
it tenfold to keep him pure, and sober, and holy. I
never read in the Gavels, "How hardly shall they that
are poor enter the kingdom of heaven ;" but I have reed,
"How hardly shall they that have riches enter the king-
dom of heaven." It is not because I mum to say
that the poor need Christianity more than the rich that
I so speak to you. I think there have been
halts on both sides. I think the clergy have
been stiff and unsympathising very often in time bet.
They have rather fled from the faces of their fellow.
citizens into coteries, and into the genial society of those
who would throw beak in sighs the utterances which they
made. They have lied from the exialliet which Christ
ordained for them with the thoughts, sad with the diffi-
culties, and with the sins of men. I confess it for myself
and for my brethren, and I believe that all feel it. I
believe a new spirit has come unapt us, a desire
to spend ourselves for Christ, and to labour amongst
men. I believe I am speaking the opinion of the great
mem of my eleriael brethren armed me when I say we
don't want fine chapels, with perfumed handkerchiefs,
but great churches full of thinking men. (Cheers.) Well
thee I ask you to help us, help es—help us
make this blessing to yourselves and to ourselves.
Let the time past suffice for the wretched jealousies
of conflicting sects. If any man thinks that by adding
over and above to that which the Church of England has
instituted councils of perfection, such as I firmly believe
John Wesley intended to institute—(hear, hear)—don't
let us of the church find fault with them, but rather adopt
them if.fo the common bosom of • loving Christianity,
and bid them God speed. triflieers.) I do thoroughly
believe that the great relieves differences which now
divide us, that these things exist more upon the me-
mory of past evils, than upon the existence of a pre-
sent necessity, and I believe that if churchmen and
dL-
eenters would unite together to exalt the one name of
Christ, and if the love of that name led them to seek
heartily and thoroughly for brotherly communion in
our common church, I believe that England might
have it, and that having it, she might, first in things
spiritual, and then in things material, be more than a
match for the divided world around her. (Cheers.) My
brethren, the doubts of the present time, what are they ?
Do you think they are new f Have they not been whis-
pered in every geueration into • thousand hearts! The
temptations of the present day, which of them are new!
The difficulties of the present day, which of them hasarimn
since our fathers struggled with them? But it dove seem
tome that God has roused upon every side of us • new
spirit of working for Him, and living to Him ; and if any
one of than great centres of our crowded humanity there
bald be one resolution to arise and to work for true unity
in Him, I believe the result would be acoomplished, and
our children's children call us biased. (Loud and pro-
longed cheers.)
The benediction was pronounced, and the meeting
broke up.

Ms. Logo, M.P., ox Ciro( Tharrxeriox.—The
harvest home celebrations have just taken place at Brough-
ton Gifford, on Lord Broughton's domains. Mr. K. P.
Long, M.P., as one of the landlords, made a speech at the
dinner, observing that there was no future he looked for-
ward to with greater anticipation than the one where far-
mers were happy and prosperous, and the cottagers con-
tented, well cared for, anti happy, all bearing towards each
other kindly regard, end cultivating that kindly rela-
tionship which is the soul of Christianity and the
soul of English prosperity. He could not help thinking
that in these days classes were getting too much apart ;
the lines of each clans of society were becoming too
sharply drawn ; society was not so closely united as it
should be. These good old village festivals were not so
often as they ought to be. In days gone by their fore-
fathers kept those festivals up oftener than they were kept
now-a-day, when there was feasting, and joy, and dancing
round the May-pole. But now these things were left to
Gm clergy, and the rich had their pleasures with the rich,
and the poor with the poor. The owners of land in the
country, and the occupiers of house* in town, were too
much wrapped up in their own pursuits to care much for
those who laboured in other spheres. But these meetings
drew the various classes together, and fused them in one
mem ; taught them the important lesson that there was DO
distinction before God ; that rich and poor alike could
meet m the house of God and worship God, the master of
us all, with one heart and one mind, with one feeling of
joy and gratitude ; looking forward together for a happier
future, each resolving, before God, to do better for the
time to come—thus aiding in the spread of social harmony,
which was the soul of Christianity.
THE PEACE SOCIETY AND THE PEACE CONGRESS
or GWEVA.—The Congress of Geneva has come and goo',
and the result was such as will justify, we think, in the
judgment of all our friends, the course taken by the com-
mittee of the Peace Society in abstaining from identify-
ing themselves with it, or taking any part in its proceed-
ings. Not but that we still believe, as we have always
believe 1, that the gentlemen who first moved is the
matter were sincerely intent on promoting the cause of
international peace ; and if the meeting called under their
auspice* did, through a concurrence of untoward events,
prove preciically an abortion, we may be sere that none
are so disappointed and grieved as they. We must, how-
ever, admit that they committed some deplorable mistakes,
which nothing but a miracle could prevent from leading
to failure.—Herold of Peace.
CROYDON FAIR, THURSDAY.—This fair was re-
sumed yesterday. The sheep pens were greatly dimi-
nished, but some fresh droves of Scotch sheep augmented
the supply, and several lots of lambs held over were dis-
posed of at prices already quoted. Dealers refused further
abatement in wethere, and well-bred stock ewes and many
flocks were driven out of the fair unsold. There was a steady
business rectum of good breed. Flockmastersof the southern
counties now adopt the Cotswold and Leicester rams for
craning the breeds with West Kent and Southdown ewes ;
several peas of lambs exhibited for sale of this cross
breed clearly demonstrated an improvement, mud many
flocks of this year's lambs were equal to Ulm of other breeds.
Hampshire sheepdaders made a fine show. Scotch *hems
and lambs of the Cheviot breed sold at 15s. to 18a. a bead.
There were 3,000 more sheep at this year's fair than at last,
but the prices were from 6s. to Ss. a head lower. The
horse fair made but little Ede to-day. Best class horses
maintained full prime, but aged and inferior bowies were a
complete drug in the fair, and old ponies and horses sold
as low as three to five guineas. There was • good business
among the Irish and Welsh pony droves. The pleasure
fair had a large company during the day, and this three
day's fair will be resumed to-day (Friday) for pleasure only.

LIFEBOAT BERVICES.—During the storms
of the present year the National Lifeboat Institution has
contributed to the saving of TO2 lives from various shipwrecks
and 29 vessels from destruction. The Institution also expend.'
L 22.290 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, In
adolltiou to granting C 2.085 for rewards.
The Committee of the Institution earnestly appeal t the
public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued
heavy demands on their 103 Lifeboat EstabliMmettle
Uonotributio on will be thankfulfy received by the London and
country bankers, and by the Secretary, Ifichsroi Lewis. Elsi • at
the Institution, 14, John-street Adelphi, London.

DUTCH BULBS.—Mr. STEVENS' SALES of
sYACINTH4. Tulips. ermine,. and other bulbs. Just lm.
purist from Holland, will take place every W KW.% RADA Y and
SA TURDAY. and frequently on Monday, at the Auction-rooms.
3S, King-street, Curentvuden. London.

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