Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

REV. JOHN MA.CNAUGHT, IN REPLY TO
THE REV. J. K. GLAZEBROOK.

TO TII/1 ZDITOR OF THE NORTIIZEN TIMM.
Sir, —I am glad to observe that Mr. Glazebrook
is beginning to reply to my strictures on his two
letters in the last numbers of the Liverpool
Courier.

He proposes numbering my paragraphs, and
going systematically through them. This will be
a most satisfactory mode of proceeding ; and
I only trust he will not, in his future letters, omit
to notice so many important points of my argu-
ment as he has done in his first letter; because,
if he should do so, I shall, when he has finished,
ask you to publish for me a string of unanswered
queries. For instance, with reference to my
second paragraph, Mr. G. has not told us,-
1. How, except by fallible human reason, he
proposes to decide what is the Rule of Faith ? and
what is the true meaning of each sentence in the
Rule of Faith?
2. If the fallible reason of man be a Court of
Appeal, to decide what is the Rule of Faith, and
what is its meaning, has not God, by making

human reason thus the judge over all Rules of
Faith, clearly declared the fallible reason of man
to be superior to every other Rule of Faith?
Instead of answering these questions, Mr. Glaze-
brook tells us that he "objects" to certain opinions
which he calls " Unitarian." If by " Unitarian "
he means " Sooinian," let me most respectfully
remind him that I am not a follower of Socinus,
but am a Clergyman of the English established
Church, like himself in position, though not in
opinion.

Glazebrook gives us a long quotation from the
great Dr. Arnold. Unfortunately, this quotation
treats of Socianism, which does not happen to be the
subject under discussion betwixt Mr. Glazebrook
and myself. Our controversy is concerning the
Infattilfility of the inspired volume. On this topic
Mr. Glazebrook might have given,—and as he has
not, I will give—a very important and applicable
extract from one of D. Arnold's letters to Mr.
Justice Coleridge

g. Hay, you seen your uncle's ' Letters on
" Inspiration (Coleridge's Confessions of an
Enquiring, Spirit) "which, I believe, are to be
" published ? They are well fitted to break
" ground in the approaches to that momentous
" question, which involves in it so great a shock
"to existing notions ; the greatest, probably,. that
" has ever been given since the discovery of the
" falsehood of the doctrine- of the Pope's infalli-
" Unity. Yet, it must comer and will end, in spite
"of the fears and clamours of the weak and
"bigoted, in the higher exalting and more sure
" establishing of Christian truth."

Thus Dr. Arnold foresaw the very course which
I have taken in my book, and in my present argu-
, merit with Mr. Glazebrook. Thus he compared
the necessary abandonment of Seriptu ral Infallibi-
lity, with the Protestant abandonment of Papal
Infallibility. Thus he declared the inevitableness,
the piety and the safety of the course which I
have followed and am following. Thus he con-
demned—and' 1 entreat Mr. Glazebrook to beware
of the exidenanation—the unwisdom, and the
illiberality of those who were- likely to " clamour"
for the retaining of an effete superstition.
lam glad Hr. Glazebrook admires Dr. Arnold.
He is, in almost all things, my Patron Saint.

Already Mr. G. and I have found out one ground
of sympathy; and, if, Mr. a will avoid harsh
epithets and stick to the great and interesting
argument betwixt us, we shall, doubtless, discover
some other matters of pleasantness and profit.
This will will be comfortable for us as disputants,
and will be advantageous to our readers, both on
account of the truths we may establish and tho
Christ-like spirit we may dieplay.—Yours truly, sir,
Everton, Nov. 20, 1857. JOHN MACNAUGHT.

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WHAT NATIONS FOUGHT NOR ABOUT A CENTITRY AGO.—
Seeing such accounts of press-gangs in the papers, and
such falling of stocks, you will wonder that, in my last, I
did not drop a military syllable. Alas !. when I had a
civil war all over my own person, you must not wonder,
unpatriotic as it was, that I forgot my country. But I
ought not to call ignorance forge fulness ; I did not even
know with whom we were going to war; and now that I
know with whom, I do not know that we are going to war.
England that lives in the North of Eutepe. and Spain that
dwells in the South, are vehemently angry with one
another about a morsel of rock that lies some ahere at the
very bottom of America—for modern nations are too neigh-
bourly to quarrel about anything that lies so near them as
in the same quarter of the globe. Ray, mind, we de-
tht,ned nabobs in the most north-east corner of the Tndies ;
the Czarina sends a fleet from the Pole to besiege Constan-
tinople ; and Spain huffs, and we arm, for one of the
extremities of the southern hemisphere. It takes a twelve-
month for any one to arrive at our object, and almost
another twelvemonth before we can learn what we have
been about. Your patriarchs, who lived eight or nine
hundred years, could afford to wait eighteen or twenty
months for the post coming in, but it is too ridiculous in
ow postdeluvian circumstances. By next century, I sup-
pose, we shall fight for the Dog Star and the Great Bear.—
Letters of llorace Walpole.
FnAun oN A NEW,PAPER.—WiIIiam Gilborne, 2G,
minter, was indic'ed at the Middlesex sessions, on Wed-
nesday, for obtaining several sums of money from various
tradesmen, by pretending he was employed us an adver:ise-
ment colector to Mr. Samouelle, the proprietor of the
South London News, an old estchlished loteJl paper, pub-
lished in High-street, Newington Butts, whereas he was
not so employed. The prisoner was formerly in Mr:
Samouelle's employ, but was discharged two years ago for
ma!prpetics, After 011 t he went round to the tradesmen
in the district, and obtained various sums of tro.ley, under
pretence of inserting their advertisements iu the South
London Yen's. His conduct coming to the knordedge of
Mr. Sarnouelle, that gentleman caused him to he apprr_
bender), and he was tried and sentenced to six months'
hard labour at these snsions. That punishmern; seemee
or co's.
to have no tffect on him, for as soon t.s he got his liberty AWynil"
he corr'ed on the same practices, and was again appre- TICW TO SPEND A HANDSOME INOluisdo,, 0030,4
herded and committed for trial in the early nart of 'he street Police-coert, L radon, on Wre"dhle, P
present month. The jury agt,in found him guilty, and Brouehton was breught before Mr. J:arrnrlY t,115(0,.,
withtlyler to LOO4l
Mr. Tilsan sentenced him to twelve months' hard labour, being a prostitute, and behaving dAsic)uaederla 'f'l" aa's'"
-W6meres 'rEmpEß,—Happy the man on whose marrirrge. and ahS3 ultin; the pelle.. Constable 011 4%04
heath temper smiles kind from the eyes of womatr ! No division, fount the prisoner, at a ,latil7horns...ooslono
deity present," saith the lica'h,na proverb, where absent quarrelling vvit'n a cabman if; re"'01)
—prudence"—no joy long a guest where lease is not a sh"tiDga m2ki"g' a great E°''e; 11):t131,getil'hs
dweller. Peace, so like faith, that tbeY may hi taken for h
w_ }ter, and requested her to go sWEJ:_ fniebo !,4.-
teach other, and poets have clad them with the sans - veil the mote noise, and a'eesid him
Bet ie ebild-nood, in early youth, expect not the channel s; At leng h he wes 01)14,,,,,t to remove
and str"ck et ale
green of the cedar. Wouldst thou distinguish fine :clasper borne, when she struggled violently,
•ados, of oco
from spiritless dulness, from cold sinaulari.,n_isn less WAS dru,:k. The prisoner i 3 the gi 0. her race;
what the temper, than what the dispolticn. the nature, who tied abut seven years ago, leav";:, Bean-lece ',ten
sweet and trastful, is it free from the morbid self-lore X3OO entear. She almost imtncill",,ste.:d ever b‘,
which calls itself o sensitive feeling," and frets at ilea. to driuki g and low elnioanr, Pnd "her mone2y, (.01;el,
ginary effenc,.s; is the ttnderr yto be gran,fal for kindness d-PL)tahlY prolFgate life. St:' (1-aw:ders it ar,sell ittsj
—vet take kindness m-eklv, and accept 2.3 a bolt& what and in an credibly aeiort tirn' Fluausehen it lb° °ls
the vain cal a due ? Pro:n dispr:sitions thus bleiee 1, her disreputable rissociates. hers,if
sweet temper will come forth to glad len then spontanto she kyles on th!l t t) ,et „r
and free, Quick with some, with some slow, wrd red qu trier te.coMo3 due. She terqarn. r 010404
k emerge out of the heart. thy fist 4, Is at saeh woke; groat proint • :bort tiiire,lsi:llo,ov,
the heart itself generous and the.er ?" It it he so, gel; promi-es are sometieres kept for a
as quarleir (~0110
control comes weth deepening aff•ction. Call not that a:c m s out of ison, bun as Fo')'!. ' /OW 5003 c'4
good heart which, hastenkg to sling if a fibre be ruare, roan', she is sue to ft:l in the nwt- "ke ti,risee 0
4,
cries, "lam no hypocrite." Accept that ()noise, and coerse, are, on watch for qit„.,„.. The rits sago
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rev. nge becomes virtue. But where the heart, if it give to leave her while she has a till.;`3"ocoraent.
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the
the offence, pines till it win back the pardon ; if offended sentenced to three rnontl.s'
eciere 111,3 d tsl'epe
itself, bounds forth to forgive, ever longing to 800 he, ever being removed, she was heard to.,ushe woo:
grieved if it wound ; then be sure that its nobliness will her term of punishment 11,!:;eca..'t,
need but few trials of pain each outbreak, to refine and , from the prisou door to her ri"dueyfr io outs
chastise its expression. Fear not than ;be but noble quarter's money which would fa, her 01
thyself, thou art cafe !—From Sir E. B. Lytton's new Novel and go away out of town far la'
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