The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-02 00:00:00

211. E
CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY
REVIEW.
This valiant defender of the Church writes a
sensible article this time on Methodism, and
there are few persons but may learn something
I. 'oln the cc Review" of this Church sect, which is
not, a heresy but a schism. There are at present,
according to the statement made at the confer-
ence held at Newcastle in 1840, no leSs than
1,142,453 persons belonging to the Methodist
Inection, of whom about 3:24,000 are in Great
iritain, and 693,000 in America. In England
during the past year, there was an increase of
16
)110 members. The income of their Missionary
Society was no less in 1839 than 92,697/., and
their expenditure on this head no less than
i 13,596/., but they are gradually liqui-
vaiit, give
their debt. The following extract
give even• to the most orthodox Church-
hoots more information than they at present
Possess as to the change from the gown to the
surplice sects :
It vtlis hardly known, even to the generality of the clergy, on
sip" ground stands the modern practice of teasding in the sur-
-1:e and preaching in the gown ; and, as an admirable
oistiance of right judgment and high Church principle, we
41 take this opportunity of explainiag it. That all Church
`nlents had some
;ymstical meaning will be, we think, uni-
Retio'allY acknowledged that they were not merely made " for
n d beauty,' but, like the robes of Aaron, to shadow
ijrdi the position, with regard boll to God and the Church, of
*ho wore them. The surplice, the scarf, and the cassock,
,11' all that are now in general use as strictly clerical; the
nal; the hood, and the bands, marking simply the University
fr„..en of the wearer. In the early period of the Anglican
*'fell it was undoubtedly customary that the preacher, as
ell as the reader, should wear the surplice and scarf, and it
tleovnt
is it grad
now universal. that the Our
custom ol?tained—nor friends, the "I ractarians,would
tea restore the old usage ; they would have all the vestments
the
Ike minister remind the hearers that he who addresses them
44; s° as the priest of the Church Catho'ic, as the authorised
Irithaecredited ambassador of Christ to his people, endowed
the mystical powers, andespecially chosen by the Spirit.. At
the game 'aloe time—and in this latter respect they are quite right—
%,l' lin,* upon preaching as but a secondary part of the
110-„ren service. The chief reason of our attendance at the
of Gases, not to hear Mr. A. or Mr. 8., but to offer
citer'wn p, to put up our own prayers, to make our own
siveesaion to join with the Lord's flock in the public act of wor-
p4 and to receive the comfortable assurance that " He
Beth and absolveth those who truly repent and un.feign-
efheY believe his holy Gospel." Ve inferior, then,. is the
the ;,°f the preacher to that.of the. priest,. and quite right are
the Tractarians raetarians in their relative estimation of the two. In this
t„ are in accordance with the Reformers of our Church ;
to 1: 5)15 the other hand, they are very
twosinconistent i
n wishing
Th-png back a custom which puts the
.on an equa ity.
Church, according to her present practice, directs that
i" sermon shall he delivered from a different place arid in a el&
,Zent dress ; and for good reasons prayers are to be read in the
tAlice and scarf, to intimate that he who reads, reads as an
afd bred priest, and pronounces the words of the Church and
0,
~11is own. He who preaches, preaches in a gown, and
to do so in a hood, if he be entitled to wear one, in
hider to show that as he now speaks in h's own person and on
sg now authority, so he has some personal claim to be heard
,th
the ,respect on the score of his learning. On the same ground
tile Place of the ministration is altered ; and whereas the priest
kitiarks from the altar and from the reading-desk, the preacher
of IsFs'es his auditory from the pulpit, to mark the difference
sobers position towards them. The Wesleyan Methodists have
the e graduates among them, but these never wear gowns in
; while Dissenters, whether literate or illiterate, in-
S°.
4T1,,h e Review" also contains an article on Ranke's,
rian`nry of the Popes, which is narrow,
l that
AL dant, and yet fallacious notice, which Mr.,
44-eanlay wrote for the " Edinburgh Reiew.'
article on the Principles of Population, being
rev.
the lew of Mr. Alison 's book, only shows that
Reviewer is not a whit better acquainted with
a,t'i subject than Mr. Alison himself. In another
amel° we have some account of Thomas a Becket
With his Contemporaries, which being overlaid
411,„ Citations and reference is not nearly so
an-sing as it might have been made. There is
jitiPPlanation of Church principles which is all
for , for Mr. Gladstone, and one on the " Tracts
qi the Times," which is a severe censure on Mr.
edstone's instructors and allies, the Puseyites.
strit etliing decent is said about Church music,
kti something learned about Mr. Peile's trans-
., to:4 of the Cheophorre of dEsehylus. A notice,
°ll the Worship of the Virgin Mary, con-
Iligpsecl, from former Numbers, is very anti-
tlin,stical, from all which it is plain that
the Ateriewer hates Popery because it is not
Fu Church of England, and loves the Church of
stet4nd because it is very like Popery. To
everinK orthodox Churchmen, ready to swallow
si,t3rtning and find everything beautiful and con-
the
e
t which goes b the name urch,
lute `'Review" will be acceptable.of Itthe is not Ch
desti-
re, t°f anecdotes, some of which we shall trans-
ser,s°, our columns, and it makes us thoroughly
e/14 1131 e how little the Church has to rest on by
laideavourn ino•
onto prove that its foundations are
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AiEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF
I\iu SCOTLAND.
court Inber XXX., just published, contains the
!11Q „tY of Caithness, complete, and conclusion of
land°unty of Sutherland, with a map of the Shet-
ims.'siands. One agreeable feature in the des-
-Itri,•;'°ll of these remote and cold districts is the
tilr°'vetnents which have taken place lately in
the external appearance and internal comforts of
be beCltages of the peasantry. The example of
ehen.c-e of Sutherland has no doubt had a very
also?eial effect, not only in this respect, but
lotto in the making of new, lines of roads, and
Lets, during and encouraging a better sys-
tac °t. husbandry. By these means the
ot.
the
, country and the habits of the
ottert nave been materially changed for the
coi•• The accounts of many of the parishes
builtin
such statements as these, " The well-
dens aIV neatly kept cottages and enclosed gar-
i°,vtd exceed what tenants in former days, pay-
.°4l 501. to 1001. a year, possessed. Every
ual .
4cle In a family has some resource in a
Indus °r manual labour—all is a stirring scene of
194 ej and positive comfort." What gratifica-
\ltith tit? blue ribbands and stars afford compared
jash,dlsl Tie scenery in some of these parishes
tlltlathr.°Y the Atlantic is full of grandeur, parti-
,..e 46,r1i.n the parish of " Edderachillis, situated on
41,11-west coast of the county of Sutherland,
),)%0 pi'lere are about nine mountains averaging
;`lero47,tiabove the level of the sea, with nu-
"a4ibed ~ta4es." The fury of 'sea storms (as de-
Mr. Stewart, who wrote the statistical
t11,14,41',,t of this parish) is often the cause of great
Illeii\obs'ururedatnage, particularly in winter, and to
th r on shore is magnificently grand
bill :3r are from the north west; the noise of
h°e,ks is :vs of the Atlantic heaving against the
i„eight 'retnendous, and only equalled by the
h"sitaLlen which they are raised, known in some
'recit,it_us ! to be
y, no less than.
" 600 feet against the
rocks of lianda
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stati..lanters." The tables in the first, con-
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go so far back as 1697, when the total