The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-07 00:00:00

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We hare abstained from takiog notice of the
scandalous disturbances which have now become a

weekly institution in tha parish cbunh of Bt.l
Georgs'is in the East, in the hope that the epontancou
good sense of the clergy would supply the
needed remedy; but a letter from the Rev.
FREDERICK OEORGE Lys so peremptorily he-
ti:di the longer indulgence of tS;ii expecta-
tion, that we have no motive for suppressing the
opinions which nine Englishmen out of ten use
uttering on the ►uhjeet. Disorders such es t
pace in the afternoon and evening of D.st Sunday,
at St. George'. cannot, we believe, be prmlleled is
the history of our English Church sines the

Raforeaatiort.
Mr. Lac writes, that before he could

the four o'clock servies the people in the chunks
most of whom had remained in the building after the
service conducted by Mr. Attras, the lecturer ap-
pointed by the pr-i•hioc^i,, " took possession of the
stalls, end of the pulpit end reading desk
" stairs, climbed on to the edges of the pews, clang to
" the gas standards, sad commenced h"s'ng, green-
" ing, and cat-calling, in the most unseemly ussaar."
The service could sot be performed, Decease the
°Marti was in possession of " an excited mob," and it
was once mon, and for the third time, abandoned.
Is the evening the lame disorders were re-

wired. Mr. Leo tv:itrit.—" My sermon was
" eactiosally interrupt's!. In feet the groan-
" log, hissing, at-calls, euaggerated r mghiog,
" scraping of feet, and slamming of doors which took
" place at interval', would have ►een regrrded as
" rioting and disgraceft..l in a coaart•room. 'Hear,
" hear,' ' Ilaultieg; and other similar expeemiesa
were need coati/bully throughout." Mr. Len asks
whether much setae' are again to be enacted. Heim
help:rm. " The rector and curate, harassed and
" worn out with three months' trial of this Wore,

" are away W, and are to • sore strait," He
complains of everybody—of the ehurchwudena for
not harping ardor, of the local inspector of pallor,
and of Sir Ittru AID MATME. who refused to sanction

the present* of the police in church , and finally, he
appeal,' to the public.

11 would hare been s well if Mr. LEf, baring
described his mirfortnno, had shown some cause why

the peblie should take his part spinet the parish. ;
The parishioners farm the public with which he end
the ecru of St. George's have to do with in the
neat plaor, and he must be aware that, in ins- '
poaching them without among reason shown, the
chasms ere against him. Let him in a calm moment
just read over again his own letter, and ask himself
for what have the rector and curate been engaged
In a three mouths' exhausting and (reifies' struggle ?
For what have the influential portion of the coo-
regalia@ been driven from their pariah church,
leaving the sacred edifice to be overran sad its ser-
vices overturned by the irreverent? Heaven forbid
that we should mention except to reprobate the ex-
travagance and disorder which be deplores. But
is the, not a cause? Mr. Lan hal laid hare
a state of mistimes between the clergy of Bt.
Oeorged end the parishioners such se we amid
hardly have believed in upon authority lower than
his own. In a pariah of 48,000 souls the clergy are
isolated, abandoned to the mercy of strangers, refused
aid, and left to appeal to the wide world against
those of whom they should be the revered leaders,
the trusted friends. The situation of the rector and
curates, as Mr. Lu has described it, should induce
those gentlemen to pause and ask themselves whether
it would not be better to desist from the struggle he
mentions, to seek peace and ensure it.
The fact is, that the clergy of Si George's have
only themselves to thank for the uncomfortable
situation in which the 7 are placed. The ministry of
the Rev. KILIAN KING, the Rector, has been one

long attack l@ the Protestant feelings and preferences
of hie people. He has vexed them with rites, ob-
servances, and symbols assimilated to the worship of
a church which they have been taught by his prede-
cessors to regard with uthonquerable aversion.
One of his latest innovations has been to discard the
decent dress worn by his brethren when ministering
at the Holy Table, and array himself at those times
in what Mr. Lee calls the Eucharistic vestments,
which have not been seen among as since the time of
theTt:Dolli, and which give the celebrant the appear.
arses of a Roman catholic priest. With the miserable
coeseriaences of this policy before him, Mr. Lan,
writing with the full sanction of the rector, says,
" The law is open, and there are deputies ; let them
• implead owe another." Tois is bad advice. There
is too much implesdiog in the world for the clergy
to be justified in going to law about religion. Whatis
wanted is not mors law, but mare of the spirit of the
Gospoi. lutead of fishing up old rubrics to jus-
tify the um of offensive vestments, which neither we
nor our (Ours knew, let Mr. Lee and his friends
consider the conciliatory spirit which inspired the
framers of those rubrics, and their charitable desire
to consult the feelings of the people in things bold-
/wrest if haply they might gain some. We are wen.
riled to say that this is not the spirit in whisk the
clergy of 5-. orge'e-in-the-East have comported
themselves. They have carried things with
a high hand, preferrieg rather to see their
congregations dispersed than to make any concession
to the eat moderate desires of the laity. There is
no real help for them but in a complete change of
system. Without that the churchwarden may be put
to the lisclosingisal Court; Sir RICUARD Yarns,
rekantiag, may lend his men to suppress disorder;
bet altbangli the scandals may sears, the distractions
of the parish will remain a grief to the friends and
• derision to the images of the March. Let them
seek to win bark to their ministrations the grave sad
reedy haesdaidln with their families whom they
Lave Mown to worship in other churches ; they will
peeparro cam better than any police, and we shell
bear as more of maths said to be excited by
otroagsn.

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