The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

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Rev. Alan Greenall ; Rev
Rev. George Heron, Carrington ; Rev. T. H. Ripley,
the Rev. E. Duncombe, Barthomley, near Crewe • the
Rev. R. A. Mould, the Rev. R. Greenall, proctor of the
diocese ; the Rev. J. J. Barlow, Gloucester ; the Rev. E.
Blenkenso pp, the Rev. W. Welling, the Rev. C. H. Wood,
the Rev. Edward Wright, the Rev. S. G. F. Parry, the
Rev. J. Garskell, the Rev. E. Willett. Amongst the
laity were Lord de Tabley, Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Ha-
warden Castle ; the Hon. Colin Lindsay, Haigh-hall ; Mr.
R. E. E. Warburton, Arley-bill ; Mr. Henry Woodcock,
Wigan, &c.

The Rev. T. COLLINS presided, and, in commencing
the business, said :-111y friends and fellow-labourers, 1
have great pleasure in presiding once more at a meeting
in behalf of Diocesan Synods, because the committee
have come to the determination to suspend for a time the

holding of these meetings. In the first place, we consider
we have done enough. We have held meetings—two at
Derby, one in London, one at Gloucester, and now one at
Warrington, to-day ; and, by so doing, we have been
enabled to bring before the minds of the Churchmen of
England the subject of Diocesan Synods with greater
effect than if we had held meetings in London only, or
in some other place. Another consideration which induces
us to suspend our labours is the state of the funds. Con-
siderable expense has been incurred in advertising and
by the journeys of our indefatigable secretary to ar-
range the proceedings of the meetings ; and though the
liberality of friends has contributed somewhat towards
these expenses, yet a balance stands against the committee
of some amount. I think that the manner in which our
proceedings have been carried on have in some measure
assisted us ; the tone, temper, and moderation which have
characterised uur meetings, and the assistance and com-
mendation we have received from the public psess, have
also been in our favour, and I hope that nothing will
occur to-day to lessen or weaken the good impression which
has been formed of us. That there are still members of
the laity and clergy adverse to us is a matter of regret,
but it is not a matter of surprise ; and, whilst Christian
charity obliges us to believe that their opposition to us
arises from the conscientious conviction that what we are
doing is not for the benefit of but would tend to injure the
church, we have, I think, a full right to demand in return
the exercise of the same Christian charity:towards us—
that those who oppose us will give us credit likewise, for
we also are acting under the conscientious conviction that
what we are doing is for the benefit of the church, and
will not tend to its injury.
Sir STEPHEN W. GLYNNE said he would only express
to the meeting that it gave him much pleasure as a lay-
man to be identified with such a cause, and that he cor-
dially agreed with the terms of the resolution, being con-
vinced that the church had the strongest possible claims,
in the same way at least as our secular societies had, to
hold meetings for her own good govefnment and well-
He moved.

" That it is the duty of the church to assemble her
Synods, as soon as it can be done with prudence and good
understanding; in order that her holy mission on earth
may be fulfilled with increased faithfulness, and that
churchmen may sooner compose those differences which
now unhappily interfere with her efficiency."
Mr. R. E. E. WARBURTON could not understand how
any earnest churchman could do otherwise than take the
ereatest interest in the nbiect at which they aimed. When

he considered the many defects in our church, and
many vital questions which were daily disputed

nongst

us, and he heard from different pulpits doctrines diame-
trically opposed to each other, all asserted to be the doc-
trines of that church, he could not understand how any
churchman could refuse his talent, his money, his time,
or his prayers, to further this object, and to obtain some
tribunal to which, in cases of unhappy differences, they
might appeal. In conclusion, he begged to second the
resolution.

J. J. BARLow, in a

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T Powys, the rector of the parish, disapproving
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circular from Chancellor Raikes,

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