The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-11 00:00:00

LORD CA VENDISH ON MECHANICS'
INSTITUTES.

Lord Frederick Cavendish presided the other day at
the 13righouse Institute Soir4e, near Huddersfield. The
noble lord said that the report which had been read
afforded them matter of congratulation, and it furnished
them with a history of all mechanics' institutions. Difficulties
had arisen in consequence of the faulty education of those
who joined these societies, but care and patience had reme-
died many of these evils. With respect to the Factory Act,
Lord Cavendish said that it had worked well on the whole,
but greater benefits would follow from it if the compulsory
education were of a better character. The people of Yorkshire
had not been so successful as the people of Lancashire in
the matter of technical education, but their attention was
now awakened, and great progress would doubtless be
made in the necessary knowledge. The value of these
mechanics' institutes was very great, and it would be
feund that they improved the judgment- of their mem-
bers, thus rendering them more useful in their genera-
tion

THE LORD CHANCELLOR ON SABBATH
OBSER J'A NCE.

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Lerd ITatlicrley presided a few days lack at a meeting
hold iu St. Margaret's School-room, Westminster, for the
purpose of forming a working men's "branch" of the
Lord's Day 01),:ervance Society. Ills lordship sail it
n•as painful to every Christian man to walk through the
streets of the metropolis on the Sunday, and to see how
it was profaned and desecrated by all sots of unnecessary
work and trading being t •ansacted. We had certainly not
yet realised a Continental Sunday in London, but unless
some energetic stops were taken to stem the evil, that time
might not be far distant. Looking at the question in a low
point of view, it was the especial duty and interest of
the working men to discourage all attempts to interfere with
the seventh day as a day of rest. Ho advocated a
better observance of the Sabbath on higher and re-
ligious points. Those who laboured on the Lord's-day
ultimately took to making it what they called a day of
recreation, but pursuing animal and sensual enjoyments,
which too often degraded and brutalised them. He then
proceeded to condemn all Sunday trading, the running of
excursion trains, and various other modes by which
Sunday was made a day of business and plea-
sure, and concluded by expressing his earnest de-
sire that every man might have one day in seven in
which to love and honour his God. On the motion
of the Rev. Canon Conway, it was resolved " That it is
expedient to form in the parish of St. Margaret's Westmin-
ster, a Working Men's Association for promoting the due
observance of the Lord's Day," and a committee was ap-
poi,,ted to make the necessary arrangements for the forma-
tion of tho association.

FATHER IGNATTUS ON THE LOW CHURCH

PARTY.

Father Ignatius in his latest lectures has been trying to
prove that, after all, Roman Catholics and Protestants,
High Church and Low Church, Ritualists and Evan-
gelicals, believe the same thing. He said that what he
wanted was, to harmonise all parties in the Christian Church
as much as possible. He must refer for a moment to the late
judgment of the Privy Council. It was to the effect that the
High Church party must put their candles out ; but what
was sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander, and the
Low Church party would be required by the same judg-
ment to wear Eucharistic vestments, to which he believed
they were much opposed. In fact, there was no cause for
triumph, but for blushing and shame on both sides. While
all this litigation, heartburning, and bad feeling had been
stirred up about whether candles should be lighted or not,
Christians had shut their eyes to the fact 'hat there was an
influential party who were denying the first and most
essential doctrine of the Christian religion—salvation by
Christ alone. If he could induce some of those who
listened to him to strive for the faith as it is in Jesus,
instead of squabbling about candles, his object in deliver-
ing these lectures would be obtained. He had shewn on
the last occasion the numerous and fundamental doctrines
on which Christians were all agreed. Original sin, the
Holy Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the saving mission,
and the infallibility of Holy Writ, were not these doctrines
better worth standing up for than the question of whether
candles should be lighted or not? He thought the minister
and the people of St. Alban's would have been much
better employed in contending for the faith once delivered
to the saints than in such petty and frivolous litigation.
He held that the Christianity of the Low Church party was
precisely the same as that of the High Church party, and
even of the Roman Catholic Church. The Low Church-
men believed in the real presence as much as he did. They
reverenced the Virgin Mother as much as he did. The
only difference was that the Low Church party dissented
from the intense and earnest way in which the High
Church offered up the sacrifice which sybolised the finished
work of God. Were not (he asked) the truths agreed
upon worth contending for much more than those upon
which they disagreed ?