The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-03 00:00:00

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THE CHURCH CONGRESS AT WOLVER-
HAMPTON.

The congress re-assembled yesterday morning in
the Agricultural Hall, at ten o'clock, under the presidency
of the Bishop of Licit/gm). Prayer having been offered up,
a paper was read upon " Church Patronage" by the Rev.
J. btackarness, who was followed by Mr. Beresford Hope,
M.P.

Papers were then read " On the position of Stipendiary
Curates" by the Rev. J. Haloomb and the Rev. G. O.
Browne; and the Yen. Archdeacon Allen, Earl Nelson,
Lord Dartmouth and others addressed the meeting upon
the subject
The afternoon sitting was occupied in discussing the
question of " Church Education of Young People and
.Adults." papers upon which were read by Mr. T. Salt,
jun., of Weeping-cross, Stafford, sad the Rev. Dr. Lowe.
The Dean of Chester and the Rev. Canon Norris also de-
livered addresses upon the subject.
The proceedings, as usual, terminated with the bene-
diction.

RITUALIRM.

During the forenoon a meeting of clergy was held in the
School of Art, Darlington-atreet, to organise • larger
meeting in London in the month of November, to ta.ke
such action as might be thought necessary, in consequence
of the report of the Ritual Commission, and to deprecate
any change in the law of the church of England relative to
ceremony. The Venerable Archdeacon DIMION presided,
and there were also upon the platform the Bishop of Ten.
nessee, Bishop Twelle (Orange River), the Dean of York,
the Ron. C. L. Wood, Mr. Robt. Brett, Mr. Shaw
Stewart, and Colonel Baggott. The Venerable
Chairman stated that the meeting was altoge-
ther preliminary, and be did net desire himself
or that the speakers should go into the question of ritual-
ism. That would be done at the greater meeting that
they were then assembled to organise, and which would
be attended by churchmen from all parts of she kingdom.
Nocriais so important as the present had occurred within
his remembrance in the history of the church of England ;
and it was not what was commonly called ritualistic. Be
had been now some 35 years • priest in the church of
England, and he had not seen any occasion to change the
order of divine service in which he was brought up, and in
which he had endeavoured to teach the doctrines of the

sacrament as they were commonly taught in the church of
England. He was not one of the ritualistic body, but he
bad made up hie mind not to attempt to interfere with
what priests and congregations saw to be good letdown=
and calculated to promote the teaching of the doctrinesof the
church of England, and especially of the doctrine of the
Holy Eucharist. Such an interference was not to be per-
' witted. (Applause.) He should have maid the same had
there not been—se there undoubtedly was—any division of
and schools in the church of England ; but when he
Forni:li parties in the church of England who fell short in
their practice, in the mere letter, to say nothing of the
spirit of the church of England, parties who systematically
broke the law of the church of England—(hear, hear)—
and when he saw parties attempting to interfere with
those who did not do so and taking advantage of popular
prejudices hounding the people of England on to the
backs of the ritualista, then it was for all who adhered
to the church of England, whether ritualists or not, to
steed together side by tide. (Loud applause.)
The first resolution, which was proposed by the Rev. R.
Brirrr, of Stoke Newington, recognised the importance of
united effort on the part of churchmen to maintain their
rights and liberties, and to resist any attempt to change the
existing law of the church in reepectiot ceremonial ; and it
called upon churchmen to assemble in London at a day
and place to be fixed in November for the purpose of me-
moralising the Ritual Commission and to take such other
steps as might be necessary. Mr. Brett said that be had
been assaulted by a mob for upholding the ritual of the
church and a few windows had been broken, but he and
his colleagues were prepared to suffer anything in defenoe
of such a cause. He allied upon all churchmen to stand
together in this matter. (Applause.)
The Hon. C. L. WOOD seconded the motion, and it was
supported by Mr. Mayo and the Rev. J. W. Lane. It was
carried unanimously.
Colonel BAGOOT proposed the next resolution, which de-
sired those present to give their names in favour of the
meeting.
Mr. SHAW STEWART seconded the motion, and it was
supported by the Rev. R. IW. Pendell and by the Rev.
Mr. Mackonechie, of St. Alban., Holborn, who
said that the ritual question was distinctly a layman's
question. The only desire on the part of the clergy was,
to give the laity their rights in this matter, and at the
same time to do their work amongst the laity more
effectually.
The sentiments of the speakers were received with ap-
pbsuse, and the rev. chairman experienced some little diffi-
culty in preventing one or two of the speakers from going
more fully into the question than he thought was desirable
at the preliminary stage of the movement.
A vote of thanks was pulsed to the chairman by thaDean
of Yon' and by Bishop Tens., and It was duly acknow-
ledged.
The Dean of Yong said he could state with authority
that the audience would have been twice as numerous if
room could only have been found for them.
There were perhaps 400 persons in the room, which wee
crowded in every part.

RE-UNION OP NONCONFORMISTS WITH THE
CHURCH.

At the evening meeting of the Church Congress
on Tuesday (the Bishop of Lichfield presiding), Lord
Lyttelton read • paper "On the best means of bring-
ing Nonconformists into union with the Church."
He said the subject as Mat set down was, " the
best means of bnnging about unity of doctrine and
worship in this country." He was no party to the
alteration nor did he object to it, though if any-
thing be should bare preferred the old form of the subject.
He should like to look at the subject as • whole, and not
1 confider what others had to do without acknowledging
they had much to do themselves. He would not confound
unity with uniformity ; he was willing to give the term
religious unity the largest sense compatible with having •
definite Christian craienclust. He did not care how few or
simple the elements of such • doctrine might be, but be
could not treat the subject se that Christianity was nothing
more than • nebula of sentiment and rehgion. What
occurred to him as • primary object to be obtained,
if they would see • greater approach to agreement, was
that people should see it was • matter of importance they
should so agree. Many of the middle classes were with-
out any fixed religious truth, and it was a matter with
which they were not in the least conoerued. The country
would see additional evidence shortly in the report of the
commission for inquiry into the state of education of the
middle classes. That evidence would show that, in the
matter in which the adult population might be considered
to be most sensitive, the re 'Won' consideration and train-
ing of their children is showed the utmost indiffer-
ence to what their children were to be taught. The name
of secular school was not liked, and they desired to send
their children to schools where religious instruction wee
given, bat bate the substance of what they learnt they did
not inquire. He himself met with an instanced this lately.
A respectable tradesman called on the head of • large middle-
class school, which was known to be of a decided high church
character, with • view to placing his son there. He in.
quired minutely into all that went on there, except the
religions teaching. At the threshold, on leaving, he
seemed to be mounded of something, and said, " I believe