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London, England, 1866-12-20 00:00:00

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DR. PUSEY AND "S. G. 0."

The Times has received a letter from Dr. Pusey,
headed " On the Protection of the Young from Unknown
Moral Evil," and almost entirely occupied with a topic
which can scarcely with promiety be even alluded to in a
public print ; and taking this view, the Tinicsomita the letter,
and will not, in justice to its readers, allow any further
allusion to the subject. Our contempoty has received several
other commutications which it thinks it would serve no
good purpose to publish, making an exception, however,
of a letter from " S. G. 0.," raising a simple question of
fact, to which Dr. Pusey will ho able to return an
equally simple answer. "S. G. 0." proceeds to
state facts which he has himself authenticated, and
of which he offers trustworthy evidence. " A
young lady, some years since, came under the influ-
ence of a director or confessor of the church of England.
He obtained a complete ascendancy over her. She, before
him, took a vow of celibacy for two years, unknown to her
parents. An offer of marriage was made to her, with their
approval. There was no question of her marrying unt
after the time of her vow should have expired, but even
then she had scruples unless her director would give his
sanction ; this, even when solicited by her parents, he re-
fused is do. The result was she remained single, died 80,
and the gentleman who wished to marry her joined
the Roman church. This same director, in another
ease, took an oath of celibacy hem a young lady ;
he afterwards absolved her, and she married a clergyman.
In another case, it is not clear he took the oath or vow
from the lady, but she went to him for absolution from it,
was absolved, and is at present living, I trust, a happy
married woman. I bring forward these cases, not as at all
believing they are uncommon, but because proofs of
their truth have been afforded me, and in such cases, we
may ea,ily suppose, it is difficult, as the rule, for many
remons, to get the truth. Permit me to ask Dr. Pusey
if he can plead ignorance of such cases as the above ? Is
be prepared to defend any clergyman of the establi:•bed
church in the exercise of the authority he may gain
over young ladies as their confessor and director in,
unknown to their parents, aiding them to bind them-
selves by vows, or oaths, or whateve. the process may be,
to celibacy, or, indeed, to any one course of life which shall
hold them tied by such vow, until the priest chooses to
release them? Can he justify the holding a young ladyo
t
such vow against the will of the parents when it becomes
known to them! I believe he will seek to justify it. I
cannot doubt, with the evidence I have before me, that in
the first of the three cases, if not in all the others, he—
Dr. Pusey—was the confessor or director who acted as I
have described. If it is so, I am obliged to add my convic-
tion that in hialargeexperienceandpracticeas confewsor and
director he has, again and again, been the means of so
bringing young persons in subjection to his will and
teaching that they have concealed, with the sanction
of a priest, much that, according to God's plain law of
duty to their parents, they ought to have made known to
them. Has he never heard—l must not ask, in confession,
—but has it never come to his knowledge that members of
protestant families have been for years Romanist., but,
with the sanction and by the advice of a so-called pro-
testant priest, have concealed themet until the death of
the parents or parent has such concealment
no longer an object! I think he must have heard
of such cases. It is convenient to find an ob-
noxious book out of print. Confessors are said to
have great forgetting power ; where their business is
very large, it would be folly to expect their memory to
be very tenacious ; at least, this would be the case with
Roman catholic confessors; but I can hardly thinkk—l
should grieve to think—that even Dr. Piney's great wor
as popular confessor and director in this modern field of
Anglican Romanisiu has been so heavy that be can't
popularpreaching bishop utterly unable to recollect in
what Ritualistic churches he had preached ; in his case
I think the wish to forget was father to the oblivion. Dr.
Piney is too well satisfied with his work, too bold in its
defence, to seek help from forgetfulness. It would
vows not,
then, surprise me if he owns to having sanctioned
himself, and at least to have known it to be title that
some spiritual directors of the established church have
aided Romanist children to live as protestants for the
purpose of deceiving their parents to their dying hour."

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ARREST ON A CHARGE OF FENTANISH.—NoT-
'INGHAM, WEDNESDAY EYENING.—Bir. Freeman, chief
constable of Nottingham, has to-day arrested an Irishman,
named Kearney, on a charge of being concetaed in the
Fenian movement. His movements have been watched
for some time past. From information obtained from Mr.
Freeman we learn that Kearney has administered the
Fenian oaths to eight young men, and recommended them
to join the voluteer corps ;by which means, iihould they
be called upon to act, they might render good service to
the Fenian cause. The prisoner is a smith, and tithe
employ of • respectable eoech-building
firm. Co
the frith People and Public Opinion were found in his
Donee. He will be brought before the magistrates to-day
Thursday).