The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-21 00:00:00

The worthy Baronet of Erith has, however, rather
wider views than the distinguished Privy Council-
lor. He would,webelieve,by his Evangelical Alliance,
effect for the religious people of England what the
Emperor of AUSTRIA would fain do for his nume-
rous States—Sir CULLING EARDLEY, if we under-
stood him rightly, would amalgamate all sects.
Only, unfortunately, the obstinate sects, like
the obstinate Hungarians, wont amalgamate.
The great meeting of his Amalgamation Society
came off yesterday in Freemason's Hall ; but for
that matter, the company would have been far
more comfortable in the baronet's own parlour,
where they would certainly have been easily
and pleasantly accommodated, sines they did
not number more than thirty persons. This,
too, was not an initial conference, but a public
meeting, the climax of thirty years of en-
deavours to persuade all good Christians that they
ought to unite rather than quarrel for ever; and to
unite under the diplomatic title of the Evangelical
Alltance.

Mr. DISRAELI aims at nothing so visionary. He
sees a "great majestic corporation" which has
grown with the growth of the nation, which is a
part of England itself ; but which it is forfeiting half
its advantages by the distrusts and discontents which
prevail among its leaders. The Statesman does
not want to amalgamate all sects with the
Church, but to amalgamate the sects in the
Church; and he charges on the Essay and Re-
view writers that they have created deep dis•
trust by advocating opinions contrary to those
which they are under engagements to maintain.
He allows laymen to be free inquirers, but de-
clares that clergymen may not be so. They
have taken a brief and received a fee
to maintain the Articles and the Liturgy
against all corners, and it is not for them
to inquire, They have signed that they
do ex animo believe Articles and Prayer-book in
their plain grammatical sense—and Mr. DB -
RAELI agrees with Dr. LUSHINGTON that that sense
precludes all inquiry on the subjects on which the
formularies speak.

It is on this point that Mr. DISRAELI and Sir
CULLING seem also so entirely to agree. One of the
EARD LEY resolutions, agreed to unanimously by
the whole thirty who composed the fifteenth meet-
ing of the British Evangelical Alliance—was a
censure of the " Essays and Reviews," and amongst
the grounds of censure were, that the writers had
" entered into solemn obligations to preach the
faith of GOD, which large portions of the volume tend
directly to destroy ;" the resolution, which is theo-
logically long, adds, that so marked an opposition
between the teaching of the volume " and the
public subscription of most of the writers is calcu-
lated to excite suspicion as to the integrity
of clerical subscription and ministerial engagements
in general. and thus do essential injury to the
conscience of the nation, and lower the standard
of truthfulness throughout the land." We can
hardly doubt that Sir CULLING and his 30 had been
studying the speech at Aylesbury, as the Resolution
is but a prosy expansion of what was better said by
the Statesman. It is however a little remarkable

hat persons of such wholly different positions

and views as the Alliance Baronet and the Tory
Statesman should both be found assailing the
Essayists from the same ground. Both complain
that the Essayists violated their subscription.
To us it suggests a different lesson—that any
subscription which can be devised can be little
better than a snare for conscientious men, who
have ability enough to be respectable teachers of
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