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London, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

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LONDON. SATURDAY, SEPT. 24

Tus again of Bt. George's-in-the-But hays
reached • crisis. The Bishop has interfered ener-

getically, and to-morrow ceither the light of Mr.

ALLEN, nor the fire of Mr. limo, nor the iconoclastic

enthusiasm of a mob will di,turb the gloom and soli.
tade of the parish church. A fortnight ago the

Bishop, writing from languid Lland Ain°, bc:

wailed at inordinate length the little power he had
to remedy the mischieh which were raging at St.
Georges. Arrived at Carlisle, the bracing influence
of the northern air is soon appe•ent in WI corre-
spondence ; his last note is terse and pithy, and could
not have been shorter unless his Lordship had
merely written, " Shut up the Church." It is an

extreme measure to be resolved on at a
distanoe from the scene; although if it be tree
that the Bishop has no means of stiirlios
hie want of official authority by
Influence or endeavours, we do not see what else
he was to do. Many, however, 11:11 ask whether It
can be that his Lordship was reduced to this last
entre measure, in order to eneotain outward pease.
His Lordship cannot be on very distant terra with
the Rector of the parish, whom he recently invited to
co-operate with him in the London Diocesan Mis-
sion, and we all know that he it very popular in the
eastern section of the Metropolia Can it be that.
with Mephistophelian cunning, these troubles have
been made to fall in a season when, as their authors
knew, the Bishop, who knows what is due to social
propriety, could not be in town?
The process by which St. George's-in-thr East has
been first emptied of worshippers, then filled with
rioters, and finally shut up, is remarkable. Bosse
clergymen all but empty their churches by their
mortal dulness., end leave the residuary congregation
to sleep. Mr. Jima has pursued a more active
career. lie has had his ideas and aim., and his plan
of action, and has been untiring in their pursuit. The
populatien of Bt. George's is shoot 60,000, of whom
30,000 are under his special charge, there being two
district churches. lie keeps five curates, and cele-
brates eighteen services a week in the pariah church.
Then he has a " mission " to the poor who live at a
distance from the church, sni are not likely to be
brought to it ; and in connexion with it two
licensed chapels. In the first nine month of
the mission, May to December, 1846, its special
revenue was 960/. ; in the second year, 1867.
18004. ; and in the first four months of
1866 as much as 7•01. was received. Connected
with the mission are schools with 300 pupils, sad •
refer or penitentiary for females. Here, sorely, is
activity enough. Mr. KING is not one of the drones

of the Church. Bat what is the me' t of all this
energy ? What has his activity done to make good
the influence of the Church' Bt. George's, which
will hold about 1,200 people, is not even moderately
well attended. Mr. limo admitted this before a
select committee of the Houle of Lords, but he
ermined for the fact by alleging the repellent cha.
racter of the pew system. He his etreas rearranged
the sittings without remedying the GO. Of 30,000
parishioners under Mr. Kitto'v care not more than 60
&pp( ar:as communicants at St. George's, and 46 at the
two inferior chspile. As to that personal indexes,
which the incumbent of the parish ought to possum,
and which is contemplated in the education end
social position assigned to our clergy, we not only see
no signs of it, but have direct proof of a contrary
feeling. We do not refer to the behaviour of the
ruffians who have invaded St. Georgs's of late, more
t i eoj +y the sport of baiting a gentleman who could
Cot for his cloth take his own pert, then out a
regard for partizaler points of faith, bat to the
absence ham the church of those who sight for de-
cency's sake have protected their Minister from per-
Donal ontngs. It meet parochial contests there is a
recta's Si a vicar's party, but Mr. KING appears
literally to have no friends. When that patterns"

dame to 6t. George'', 16 yeara ago, the people Wen
detindly attached to the ehareh, ma he himself has
berm witness. Their pelmet fitapoeition remains

t. bessuotuated for.

It is broadly and popularly assumed that the ,
difference between the Rector of 8% George's and
DU people is theological. This is only indirectly I
tree. The history of his incumbency, or at least of
the greater part of it, is that of a struggle to ester
blish a false church relationship to his pa-
rishioners. He his striven zealously to build up as
official wall of separation between the clergy and
laity, and has succeeded to) well. The curates
of the parish church, instead of living in
families live, together with a laymen who is a midi-
date for orders, in a " clergy house." The mission
curates, in Eke manner, live together under a semi
monastic role, in a mission-house, and wear a special
garment. The laity are in every way reminded that
church work is clergy work,—at any rate, not their
work. Not only i 3 their advice not taken, their co-
operation not sought, but even a very large portion of
the funds for carrying out the Rector's system of wor-
ship are brought from another and distant parish.
The subscriptions for maintaining the mission ,
chapels and their Romish 'trainee are mainly drawn
from St. Paul's and St. Barnabu', Knightsbridge.
If laymen are wanted to act as scripture readers
they are usually brought out of the parish, and they
live with the members of the mission. If pious
women are wanted to assist in acts of mercy they
are received from all parts of England—except St.
George'sein-the•Eamt—fontsed into a sisterhood, ex-
pected to attend daily at the mission chapel, and they
wear a peculiar dress. Thus every pains is taken to
make a free and genial cooperation of the laity and
the clergy impossible. The latter are in the habit of
speaking of themselves as if they were in an enemy's
country. This mode of thought runs through all
their habits and 'Odom. Their submissive pa-
rishioners are rather their captives than their flock.
Tnis is the system which has jag broken
down. The " mission" has helped to shut