Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-11 00:00:00

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TI3IES.

Sir,—ln a letter in your cotemporary, tho Albion of
this day, signed " Sick a fancy," a pun, and a bad one,
on the word sycophancy, wherein he says, speaking of
the dispute between, Mr. Herdman:.and the Liverpool
Academy, " When a merchant on 'Change is taxed by
another with any kind of roguery, it is natural for him
to knock his accuser down." Is that the conduct, I
would like to know, on that place " where merchants
most do congregate ?" nave they become pugilists
instead of fair traders ? Instea3 of going into their
private offices to write, as' people innocently think they
do, they merely retire to go into training with a
"bruiser," always retained on the premises. I may be
wrong in my surmises, but, with Mr. Tite Barnacle,
Liverpool, 7th Dec., 1857. 4` I WANT TO KNOW."

THE MACNAUGHT QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE NORTHERN TIKES.

Sir,—Mr. Macnaught thinks it beneath him to answer
Mr. Glazebrook's question—whether he (Mr. M.) is an
Unitarian ; Aid he blinks the question by shamming igno-
rance of what is meant by being an Unitarian ! How
well versed he must be in the distinguishing tenets of the
Church of England I How highif he must think of our
understanding, when he thinks we (your readers) will be
content with such trifling !
I assure him there is need he should satisfy us what he
is. We know that_in his text-book (Strauss), the ques-
tion is gravely discussed--" Whether one, who has ceased
to believe in the historic validity of Christianity, can
rightfully occupy the post, and play the part (an appro-
priate phrase)
.of a Christian Minister ; performing its
rites and preaching its doctrines in a sense totally diffe-
rent from that which his flock attach to them; and
disguising, all the time, his real sentiments and real con-
victions."
The disciple may have concluded his master has
proved this may well be done. Until the contrary be
shown, we may, without blame, think Mr. Macnaught is
trying to do it.

I call attention to some of the expressions of Mr. Mac.
naught, in his notorious letter to the editor of the Daily
Post. He says he believes the Bible "to contain, and to
be, the message of pardon, through faith in the atonement
of our, Lord Jesus Christ; of restoration, through the
regenerating influences of the Holy Spirit in the heart."
These expressions are quoted from the Bishop's speech;
and Mr. Macnaught says it is because he believes the
Bible to be this message, that he, like the Bishop, takes
his part in circulating it; and that, so far, the Bishop
and he are agreed in their reason for circulating it. I
think they do not agree, as Mr. Macnaught would have
us believe. The Bishop finds in Scripture, a message of
pardon, through faith in the atonement. Mr. M. finds

nothing of the sort. He speaks, indeed, of pardon, but
not iu the sense of the tbrgiveness of sin—of faith and
atonement ; but he does not mean, as the Bishop meant
and said—" faith in the atonement."

Before I be censured as a hasty accusal., consider how
closely Mr. 14acnaught is trying to sail along with the
Bishop, is the account of the message of inspiration, and
judge what is the significance of his limitations of the
Bishop's statement. Weigh the precise force of this
account of the mission of the Saviour—" The sending o f
Jesus to be the object of our adoring love, the example
for our habitual imitation, and the means of our reconci-
liation with a Father who always loved us." And '

this—" Sending Jesus to win us by his life, and death,
and resurrection, on our behalf out of our estrangement
into reconciliation and sonship ;". and of this question,
"if, in Stephen's speech, we acknowledge that the Scrip•
turn writers were fallible, and even did:err, what logical
right have we to promulgate, as has sometimes been done,
irrational versions of the true doctrines concerning Wear_
nation, trinity, atonement, &e., and then to expect that
men shall bow down to our irrationalities, on the plea
that all the theology of Scripture is „infallible ? " Let
those who still differ from me, ponder Mr. Macnaught's
statement of this doctrine, in his pamphlet on "Five
Discussion versus Intolerance,". published Last year, on his
expulsion from the Clerical Society.
Mr. Macnaught can at once remove or confirm the
imputation I am casting upon him, by saying whether he
intentionally or inadvertently omitted to enumerate

amongst the objects of the mission of the Saviour
that of the sacrifice he was to become for sin—and I
moan not in the limited sense of a sacrifice, on account of
which men will be led to abandon sin, but in the more
generally received sense of a sacrifice, on account of
which God will forgive sin ; and whether he intended, by
his silence on.tho subject, to indicate his dissent to the
position that the faith by which a man appropriates the
message of pardon, is faith in the blood of him who was
set forth to be a propitiat4n.

If Mr. M. still holds the orthodox doctrine on these
points, will he enlighten us as to what are the irrational
versions of this doctrine which he intended in hip letter
to the Daily Pon ?—Yours, W. WYNNE.
Dec. 8, 18.57.

OUT OF SEASON 171511.—We are informed that fish of the
semen kind contiLues to bto received in Paris from this
country. The supply keeps pace with the demand ; and so
openly is the trade pureu -d that, according to the state-
ment of one of the fish merchants there, the transmitter
has his name in full on the outside of the 13,,x. Between
the 18th and 26th November, no less than 13,000 lbs
were supplied.—Bertvick, Advertiser.

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