The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-21 00:00:00

THE GORHAM CASE.

The Bishop of Exeter hes returned the following
answer to an addrais presented to him by • number of
clergymen and laymen in the diocese of London :
" Mr. dear Dr. Bpry—Tbe address which you and other
eminent clergy men and laymen of the church have had
the goodness to present to me, fills me with feelings of a
very mixed character. I cannot but be supported and
strengthened by this sympathy of such men, but I am far
I more humbled by the terms of eulogy in which that sym-
pathy is expressed. May He who is sight to the blind and
strength to the weakest, grant to me and to all that we may
in this our day of trial, act with faithfulness, with firmness,
wi•h singleness of heart, seeking only to Him and to
guard the sacred deposit of truth which He has entrusted
to us. It seems but too likely that we are as yet only in
the commeccement of the fight of faith appoiuted to us.
Let us strive by prayer and in humble reliance on the grace
of God to attain to a right lodgment in all things connected
with our "meal duties in all that may belal us. Let us be
sober, be vigilant, and more especially let us use our utmost
endeavours to stay the impetuous spirit of those who
may be tempted in this new need to desert the church in
which they were in baptism made members of Christ, and
in which that holy spirit of whom we were then born still
dwells, and we cannot doubt will continue to dwell, so long
as that church shall not by same act of her own, which
to in God hads not yet Leppene,l, Gr ty k torpid in.
difference, more fatal and more hmeliss than any act, ac-
cept the unhallowed judgment of men, be they who they
may, in contradiction to God's truth, and so cut herself off
from that holy catholic and apostolic church, of which she is
still a pure and sound, however wounded, member. in eon-
elution, accept my hearty congratulation on the Christian
firmness of your own bishop. I am, my dear Dr. Spry, with
the warmest thankfulness to yourself and to the churchmen
who have acted with you on this occasion, your and their
faithful and affectionate brother in Christ,
The Rev. Dr. Spry. H. EXETER.

MEETING OP CLBRiarxzw.—A meeting of the clergy of the
various English dioc. MI, which bad been adjourned from the
previous day, was held on Tuesday evening, at the Craven
Hotel, Craven-street, Strand, for the purpcse of framing
revolutions eisresaive of dissent from the recent decision of
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the Gorham
rase. The meeting being strictly private, the teeolutions
only can be communicated to the public. Tho following
were agreed to :—lst. " That the doctrine maintained by the
Rev. G. C. Gorham on the subject of holy baptism, and
declared by the report of the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council to be admissible in the church of England,
is, in the opinion of this meeting, heretical, and contrary to
the creed, In that it decies that original tin is remitted to
all infants, dm., by the grace of holy baptism."-2nd. "That
it is the duty of all churchmen to (reader what steps shall
be taken to a synodical recognition of the doctrine
of theremisdin of original sin, in and by the grans of holy
imPtifia w all infante. '-3rd. " That ISis a grieving; gf rap
science and subversion of the integrity in the Hook of Common
Prayer, that it should be maintained by public authority that
the essential part davits' doctrine may be taught in different
and contradictory ways In the chunk of England."-4th.
" That it Is the opinion of this meeting that all constitutional
means should be employed for obtaining a measure giving
legal effect to the proper ecclesiastical jarisdictixn of the
provincial synod, with or without judicial assessors, as courts
of final appeal in cause' of doctrine and in all matters
purely spiritual." A petition to her Majesty to convoke a
general synod was unanimously agreed to, and signed by all
present, and before the breaking up of the meeting it was
announced that 'another meeting of the clergy upon the
same subject, will be held shortly after Easter. It is stated
that in the event of the Bishop of Exeter declining to insti-
tute Mr. Gorham, the archbishop will perform the duty of
holding a special visitation in the diocese In his capacity
as metropolitan.