The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-14 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET RACES-YESTERDAY.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 15 SOVS.

Nelusko
Moorlands..
Ramaquin
Three ran.
FREE HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES
Far Away
Sornette
Prior

Five ran.
PLATE OF 50 SOVS.

Eneide
Congo
Julien
Five ran.
MATCH.
Newsman beat Alpenstock.
BRETBY STAKES.
Queen of the Gipsies
Stray
NEWMARKET OAKS.

Wheatear
Wave
Asterope
Five ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 500 SOVS.

Asterope
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Echo ......
The Wren ••••• •
Eight ran.
HANDICAP PLATE.

Panopticon
Cocoa Nut...
Belphegor
Twelve ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOPS.

Blonde
Satinstoe
Le Tracone 3
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 15 SOVS.
Phosphorous
Mr. Feeder 2
Conspirator

Thirteen ran.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
10 to 1 agst Not Out (taken)
15 to 1 agst Pax (taken)
25 to 1 agst Rafe.le (taken freely)

There was no assemblage in front of the Rooms after the
races, owing to the wet and disagreeable weather, and no
betting on future events took place.

The objection against Par.opticon, the winner of the
Handicap Sweepstakes on Wednesday, is overruled.

PERTH RA.O ES-YESTERDAY.
TRIAL STAKES.

Tho Nigger w.o.

CALEDONIAN HANDICAP.

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Luisette 1
Hawthorndale
Whimsical
Six ran.
_ _ £5O PLATE.

Kelvin Grove
Mary

Six ran.
COUNTY PLATE.

La Favorita ..
Lincoln Lass .......
The Bobby
CALEDONIAN CUP.

Paganini
CHALLENGE CUP.
Harebell f ..
Councillor 2

A death from hydrophobia occurred at Charlton to
a boy named Clements, eight years of age. He was bitten
in the ear about a month ago by a dog. After some days
alarming symptoms appeared, and the child was placed
under a person, who pretended to have a remedy for the
disease. Finally the boy was seized with hydrophobia and
died in frightful convulsions.
DISTRESSING TERMINATION TO A WEDDING.—
The marriage of Miss Harriett Fitch, second daughter of
Mr. F. C. Fitch, of Baythorne-grove, Suffolk, to Mr. F.
Lake, son of Mr. W. Lake, of Norfolk, was attended
with a melancholy catastrope. The wedding breakfast
had just concluded when the bride's mother, on crossing
the hall of the family residence, suddenly became faint,
and was carried to her bedroom, where she sank into un-
consciousness. The poor lady lingered on for forty-eight
hours and then expired.
SUSPECTED MURDER.—Between the hours of
seven and eight on Wednesday, the body of a woman,
respectably dressed, was found lying in a field adjoining
the Nunhead Cemetery, Peckham, with a fearful gash in
her throat. A medical man, who was promptly on the
spot, pronounced life to have been extinct for some hours
—in fact, the body was cold and stiff. From the position
in which she was found—lying on her face, with her
right hand touching her nose and her left hand slightly
over her back, and grasping a razor—it is supposed that
the deed was not committed by herself.

THE NEW PEDLARS the last session an
Act was passed for granting certificates to pedlars in the
United Kingdom. By another Act from the Ist inst.
licences to pedlars and hawkers were abolished. The new
law will take effect on the Ist January, and all pedlars are
to be under certain regulations, and certificates to be
granted by the police where they are to carry on their
occupation, and are liable to be fined for pursuing their
calling beyond the district mentioned in the certificates,
which certificates are only to be granted to applicants of
good character. By one of the provisions the police are
authorised at any time to open the pack, trunk, &c. of a
pedlar, and if he refuses an inspection, he is to be liable
to a penalty of 10s. Costermongers and others are
exempted from the operation of the statute. The object
of the new law is to procure a respectable class of pedlars
in the United Kingdom.

The business of the Congress was proceeded with this
morning, when the first subject brought forward was
" The evidence of antiquity as to Christian ritual."
Archdeacon Freeman, who spoke amid strong manifesta-
tions of dissent, said the Acts of the Apostles give signifi-
cant outline of the substance of the Christian ritual.
After speaking of the frequent use of the mystical
number of seven in the apostolic age. He- condemned the
unfrequent celebration of the Communion in ' the sub-
apostolic age. The President said the reception of
the paper gave cause for alarm as to the
future, if a discussion hitherto so peaceable should become
too warm. Mr. John Elliot, of Basset, Southampton, read
a paper, in which he said that for full five hundred
years the Communion Table stood in the centre of
the church' The principle of arrangement in the medi-
wval churches was in direct antagonism to that ob-
served in all the primitive churches erected before the
9th century, and after that period the discrepancy
was so great that the necessity of falsifying these
old witnesses to the truth led to the alterations
subsequently made in them. No screen, Virgin Mary
niche, altar, saint chapel, or any one single thing or fea-
ture significant of sacerdotalism ever existed, as part of
its °rola construction, in any church erected before the
ninth century. To accommodate Transubstantiation, the
chancels were wholly changed from their original use and
were lengthened and screened to make a mock holy of
holies. There is thus not one single point to be found in
the whole range of real " church antiquities" which
favours priestly pretentions or a sacerdotal ritual. God
himself designed the temple in all its minute details—
made it, in fact, the illustrated horn book of religion,
which the child can read and the man must. It embodies
in type and symbol the whole Chaldean system, proto-
types each christian, and is thus the grandest and
greatest of christian antiquities. Under the first assault
from Satan the temple falls. To re-edify the ruined
house, man, the Wise Master Builder, who carries out all
the designs of the great Architect of the universe, comes
on earth as the son of a humble builder to carry out the
plan of salvation of his Heavenly Father, by doing " His
work on earth as it is done in heaven." He thus builds
himself up into a perfect temple, becomes the chief corner
stone in the restored temple of humanity whose
walls of salvation He bases on His divine nature,
and thus becomes the " rock of our salvation."
A sacerdotal caste and ritual as a preparatory
type, were of divine origin, part of man's punishment and
the proof of his degradation. When the "It is finished"
left the lips of Christ upon the Cross, " the veil of the
temple was rent in twain," the way into the
actual presence of God, the only true Holy of
Holies, was made clear ; the fiat was issued that
not one stone should remain upon another of the
material .house, for from henceforth " God dwelleth not
in temples made with hands." With the abolition of
caste there was an end to the ritual of caste. If a Christian
is a "living temple," it follows that each man is a com-
plete Church in himself, with every possible and needful
requisite within him, and that at the gathering together
of the two or three such temples, constituting " the
Church that is in every house," the only lawful outward
service acceptable to God, is the giving expression to the
only acceptable inward service, and that the worship of
such private family or Church needs but expansion to fit
the more public family or Church. The Rev. T. W.
Perry said he approved of a more ornate rituaL —An
animated discussion followed.—The Rev. G. Sumner
condemned Mr. Elliott's paper as cutting away the possi-
bility of meeting together for the purpose of prayer, and
spoke of it as striving to destroy the belief
in any body of men who were especially set
apart to minister to the spiritual wants of
the community. He opposed an extravagant ritual. At
the same time, if we had no ritual at all, wild excesses and
unrestrained fanaticism would be the result.—The Rev.
J. C. Ryle referred to the delicate nature of the subject,
reminding the meeting that the fourth report of the
Royal Commission kept judicious silence on the orna-
ments of the rubric. He complained of the great vague-
ness of the wording of the subject, and would like to
know when Christian antiquity began and ended. The
evidence is very scanty, and what there is should be
received with great caution. He expressed himself
against the multiplication of ceremonies in the Church,
as likely to overlay the truth. He believed in the ple-
nary inspiration of the Bible. He found nothing
there about altars, priests, crucifixes, lights, and
priestly garments. He also never forgot the
evidence of experience. It was proved that the
more ornate the ceremonial the less the good that was
done. -He had every respect for such men as the Rev.
Mr. Mackonochie, but he believed what he was doing
was distasteful to the English people, and would result in
harm.—The ißev. C. F. Lowder followed on the
Ritualistic side, and declared he found evidence in the
Bible for vestments, lights, and incense.—The Rev. J.
Everard, of Wolverhampton, and others, spoke upon the
subject, and the discussion was warmly maintained until
the end.

The subject for the afternoon was "The effect of in-
creased cultivation of physical science, and of literary and
other researches upon Biblical criticism and belief." The
Rev. J. H. Titcomb, vicar of St. Stephen's, Lambeth,
read a long paper. He said :—ln the dap, when St.
Augustine pronounced faith in the Antipodes to be heresy,
and St. Hilary maintained salt to be a compound of fire
and water, biblical criticism stood in no danger of attack
from science. Ever since the days of Galileo, however,
these two forces have been in growing an-
tagonism. The process has been slow, but, like all
intellectual revolutions, it has been progressive and dif-
fusive, ending at the extremes on either side in a hard im-
placable enmity which pronounces itself irreconcileable.
The question before us is—Will the future development of
science and of other branches of learning bring the Bible
and scientific research into greater unity? Or must we
expect their present aspects of separation to be still more
deepened and diversified ? In taking up this inquiry I
I wish to reason both with caution and modesty. Looking
at the present state of science, and judging of its further
progress from that which is past, I venture to predict
three effects upon biblical criticism, every one of which
will, I think, make the believer's position stronger. These
effects may be summed up, for convenience, under three
typical words—hesitation, verification, and modification.
After giving an explanation of what he meant by these three
headings, the rev. gentleman went on to say, let the task
of modern theology be to convince philosophers that,
while christianity reposes upon a scientific basis of belief,
its true mission is, not to teach men science, but to meet
the moral and spiritual necessities of the world. As for
the secrets of science, they are discoverable by human
reason, whereas revelation is the communication
of truths which otherwise had not been known to
reason. Not being designed, therefore, to speak upon
other subjects with exact scientific accuracy—but only
with that amount of accuracy which the circum-
stances of the time and case allowed, Scripture is so far
independent of all research into physical science, and can
watch its progress without fear. If theologians would
only unite with philosophers on this platform the future
would be full of hope. Each, then, working in the same
great quarries of truth, only on different sides, and at
different angles might alike leave the other alone, and
await the result of their labours without ill-will or
jealousy. On the side of the Church I believe this course
alone offers conciliation without compromise. On the
side of the world it can alone induce philosophers to be
respectful towards Scripture, and assist in the restoration
of their faith.