The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-20 00:00:00

THE PROPOSED CHURCH FOR DAILY

PRAYERS.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—What funny correspondents this terrible Church
scheme has secured for you ! If the matter go on, you will
become, by their help, as popular as Punch. First, we
have " a Real Protestant," who protests against all services
except two on Sundays, and ditto on Christmas-day and
Good Friday. With that allowance he is satisfied ; and
what business has any one to desire more ? Bless his inno-
cent heart, I know lots of Realer Protestants than him. He
is but half a Protestant, after all. He keeps Pasch, and Yule,
which are abominations in the eyes of a true blue. Does
he not see that, in admitting Christmas-day and Good Fri-
day into his calendar, he gives up the Protestant principle of
the Bible, and nothing but the Bible ?" Upon what
ground will he admit these, and at the same time reject
the least of all the fasts and festivals ? They all stand
upon the same authority—that of the Church. May I not
go a step further, and say, that Sunday must stand or fall
with all the others ? for surely we have no command to
keep holy the first day. As regards his extraordinary
notion, that all Churchmen should be satisfied with what
satisfies him, I would ask him, in sober sadness, is he pre-
pared to be satisfied with what would satisfy the majority
of the adult population of Liverpool, who never enter
a place of worship at all ?
Your next funny contributor is Mr. Hampton, whose
notion of " integrity" is charming. He boldly asserts, that
at his church the Prayer-Book is used in its integrity ;
and then explains himself to mean, that all of it is used
that is used. True, he does not word his explanation in
this way ; but to this it amounts. If he moan more than
this,—if he moan that, whenever he uses the Prayer-Book,
he uses all which is appointed to be used at that time, ho
means what is not true ; as I pledge myself to prove, if he
should wish me to do so.
Then again it's funny, but very sad, to hear a clergyman
assert that none of his numerous people are " pining" for
daily prayers. No doubt he has succeeded in teaching
them to hate the Pope, and 'to divide the guilt of the
cholera, the potato disease, and the Eastern war, between
Maynooth and the Oxford tracts ; but he has not taught
them, in all the years he has been among them, to long for
a more frequent reception of the blessing promised to two
or three assembled in the Saviour's name.
I believe. that his church has no district legally assigned.
However, whether this be 50 Qr hot, it is A (tinny UPtiQU

that no clergyman has a right to promote the erection of
a church in his neighbourhood. Not only his own so-
called district, but all the country round for an indefinite
distance, seems to be regarded by him as his manor ; and
woe to the rash man who attempts to poach upon it !
The Puritan party have had their day, and their sun is
setting ; and Mr. H. knows it. Hine ince laerymce.
They will die hard, no doubt, and do mischief yet before
they are finally got under; but die they must, as a party,
even in Liverpool, so long their land of Goshen. The
Irish brigade division of them have long had the drilling
of the Churchmen here, and what has Churchmanship
been brought to ? Let the late refusal of a Church-rate
answer this question. Let the outrage perpetrated by
so-called Churchmen at St. Michael's, last year, answer it.
Let the general religious, or rather irreligious, condition
of this town answer it : for while, on the one hand, ultra-
montane Romanism is more rampant than in any other
town in England, I do not fear to assert that, on the other
hand, few if any towns can be found in which so large a
proportion of the whole population are living apparently
without any religion at all.
But the funniest thing of all is Mr. Hampton's kind
offer to allow somebody else to do his (Mr. H.'s) duty, if
Mr. Wray will provide the funds for paying that some-
body. True, he asserts that daily prayer at St. James's is
an impossibility with the present staff of clergy, except
at the cost of neglecting other duties. I happen to know
a priest in a very large town, who has a scattered flock, a
very small income, and a residence more than a mile
distant. Ever since his church was opened, now some
eight or ten years, the services have been twice daily,
three times on Sunday, and Communion every Sanday
and holy-day. The church is fully attended on Sundays ;
and many a time have I, present by accident, seen from
fifty to a hundred worshippers there on a week-day. A
large and efficient, ragged-school is connected with it ;
the sick, the poor, and others are diligently visited.
This has been, and still is done single-hand. In-
deed, so little sympathy has that good man received from
his clerical brethren in the same town, that, during one
fortnight in each summery which he has been in the habit
of taking for change of air and scene, the week-day
services have been intermitted, no one volunteering to
carry them on. Let " the staff " at St. James's go and
do likewise. They may have their Mattins and Evensong
as early and as late as they please. It will then be pos-
sible for the hard-handed sons of toil to attend them, and
time will be well expended which cannot be devoted to
schools or pastoral calls. In fact, they will find it a
saving of time both to themselves and their people. I
once heard a clergyman, with- a population of fifteen
thousand, say, that only once in the preceding twelie
months had he been sent for to his residence, and that to
baptize a newly-born infant ; and yet his sick and other
calls were unusually numerous, especially in winter. How
was this? Twice a day he was to be found at his church,
and there his people sought him; saving his time and
their own. A call to attend upon one in articulo mortis
might once in half a dozen years interfere with the duty of
daily prayer ; but of every other duty it is calculated to
render thedischarge more regular and efficient. Certain it
is, that ofMr. H. the Church requires daily prayers, openly
or privately : openly, if two or three can be found to join
him; privately, if he be alone. An hour a (lily on the average,
no very killing work ! and time surely well invested as
compared with an hour spent in visiting. I suppose that,
when he visits, he ordinarily devotes part of the time to
reading and prayer. Now, it would not be easy to visit
more than three persons in an hour ; so that, if only three"
persons attend each service, he does, in effect, read and
pray with double the number in the same time. One
disadvantage they would doubtless labour' under : they
would be stinted to the prayers of the Church, and the
simple word of God, " without note or comment ;" they
would lack both Mr. H.'s extempore prayers and private
expositions. And for this I can suggest no remedy, but
only the consolation that the loss would probably not be a
great one. _

Of oue thing Mr. H. may rest assured, viz:, that sooner
or later the proposed church will be built He may play
the part of Saliballat the Horonite, and interpose delays;
but these feeble Tractarians will be morethan a match for
him, through Him Whose honour they seek to promote.
Feeble in point of numbers we undoubtedly are, as com-
pared with the. Puritans ; but we are strong in a good
cause. The strength of numbers lies in the democracy :
and a few more such indiscreet but trutlifutspeeches as•
one which some of your readers may have lately heard,
will do much. to• give us the fustian jacket and linsey-
woolsey petticoat, if it do not give us the silk, satin, and
broadcloth. Mr. H. may take what happened at St.
James's school-room last week as an omen of what is to
come. Guns are made to go off; but the great-gun of that
meeting went off" in another sense than that to which his.
milnirers are.accwtomed.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,

E. E.

ECCIESIA'STICAL INTELLK4sENCR.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. M. Anstis,.M.A., to the Vicarage of Cubington, near.
Leaminzton, Warwickshire.
Rev. G. Alcock, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Patrick's Rock,.
Cashel,.and to a Preachership in Cashel Cathedral Church.
Rev. H. Atkinson, M.A., to the Prebendary and Rectory of•
Bdermine, county Wexford.
Rev. W. Battersby, M.A., to the Incumbency of the Chapel
of Ease, Derry_

Rev. E. Bailey, jun., M.A., to the Curacy of Dnnleetray,
county Galway. . _

Hon. and Rev. G. T. 0. Bridgeman, M.A., to the Rectory
of Blymbill, Shropshire.
_ _ _

chamney, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Meigh,
diocese of Armagh.
Rev. W. Crofton, 8.A., to the Curacy of Termonamongan,
Derry.
Rev. W. French, M.A., to the 'Vicarage of Reydon, near
Southwold, Suffolk, with the Incumbency of Wragford
annexed.

Rev. T. Gerrard, 8.A., to the Curacy of Ratan, county
Carlow.

Rev..R:. C. Hubbersty, to the Per?etual Curacy of Cazimel,
Lancashire.

Rev. C. Kennedy, 8.A., to the Curacy of Trahane, Derry.
Rev. F. Lear, M.A., Rural Deanoind Rector of Bishopaton,
Wiltshire, to be a Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Salis-
btiry.

J. Longsden, 8.A., to the Incumbency of'Seacroft,
near Leeds.

Rev. J. Murray, 8.A., Perpetual Curate of St. Gilea's
Church, Norwich, to the Vicarage of North Walsham, wits
the Rectory of Antingham St. Margaret annexed.
Rev. G. Murray, M.A., to the Vicarage of Dedham, near
COlchester. _ _

Rev. Sir C. Macgregor, Bart, late Vicar of Cabourn, near
Castor,. to the Rectory of Swallow,, Lincolnshire..
Rev. G. Studdert, 8.A., to the Curacy of Drumbanagher,
diocese of Armagh.
Rev. G. Waudby, 8.A., to the Curacy or St. Philip's
Church, Bethnal-green.

THE VICAR OF PETERBOROUGH has commenced a
system of open-air preaching, and he announces his inten-
tion to persevere in it so long as the state of the weather
permits.
THE QUEEN has appointed the Hon. and Rev. Gerald
Wellesley, Domestic Chaplain to Her Majesty, to the
Deanery of Windsor, in the room of the Hon. and Very
Rev. George Neville Granville, deceased.
CHRIST CHURCH, SOUTHFORT.-01X Sunday week,
three sermons were preached in the above church ; those
in the morning and evening, by the Rev. Fielding Ould,
8.A., incumbent of Christ Church, Liverpool; and that in
the afternoon, by thc•Rev. W. A. Mocatta, 8.A., curate of
Christ Church, Southport. After each:sermon a collection
was made for the benefit of the Daily, Infant and Sunday
Schools, amounting, to £36. _ _ _

RE-CorivEasiozl—The Rev. Thomas Tenison Cuffe,
M.A., late of Kennington, who, some time back, seceded
from the Churcb.: and joined the Countess of Huntingdon's
Connexion, having expressed his deep regret to the Bishop.
of London, and his firm attachment to the doctrine and
discipline of the Church of England, his lordship has,
with the approval of the Bishop of Winchester, admitted
Mr. Cuffe to officiate in his diocese.
NEW SChOOLS AT NEWTON HEATII.—The corner-stone
of the new Day and Sunday Schools, to be erected in con-
nexion with All Saints' Church, at Newton Heath, rear
Manchester, was laid on Tuesday last, with a ceremonial
procession which was joined in by the leading inhabitants
of the district, the Sunday and Day School teachers, and
about six hundred others interested in the erection,
ST. PAUL'S, KNIGIITSERIDGE.—Never since the more
" popular" days of Mr. Bennett, of St Barnabas notoriety,
has suzh a scene of excitement been witnessed in Belgravia,
as that which manifested itself, for the election of a
churchwarden, during the whole of Thursday—a con-
tested political election being considerably beneath it
in point of local enthusiasm and general interest.
At the close of the poll, the numbers were—Westerton,
Q 1; Davidson, 3281 majority forWesterton 302.
CONSECRATION OF CITURCIIES IN TIER DIOCESE Or
MA.NCIIESTER.-011 Saturday week, the Lord Bishop of
Manchester consecrated the new church, dedicated to St.
Saviour, at Ringley, near Bolton. It is to supersede the
old chapel at the same place. The church is a very hand-
some edifice, and contains, as part of its choir, an organ,
the fine instrument which used to stand in the great
gallery at Knowsley, which has been presented by the
Earl of Derby.—On the following Monday, his lordship
also consecrated the new church recently erected at Pen-
nington, Leigh.—At Collyhurst, a handsome new church
is being built, and, indeed, so far advanced towards corn,•
pletion„ that the document constituting trustees, for
appointing to the incumbency, and other purposes of the
church, is in course of preparation.
Cawncsc RATES.--The Chancellor of the diocese of
Exeter has published a long- letter in the London papers
with a view to " correct the very erroneous impressions
which exist respecting the law of church rates as affected
by the decision in the Braintree case." He sets out by
stating that the points that have been established in the
protracted litigation in that case are that, in the event
of refusal of a church rate by the majority of a vestry, it is
not competent (Ist) to the churchwardens by themselves
nor (2nd) to the minority to make a rate. After giving
an outline of the Braintree case, the chancellor
far is it from the truth that the House of Lords hsaasys'as has
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obligation.' And
in the Court of Exchequer chamber, refusing to sanction
the churchwarden's rate, is exactly applicable to the
refusal by the House of Lords to sanction the rate by the
minority of the vestry. ' One argument,' said Chief-
Justice Tindal, ' has been urged in the discussion before
us, to which we think it right to advert ; it has been said,
that to allow the enforcement of church rate to be the
matter of sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the spiritual
court, and at the same time to allow the prohibition to
issue is in effect to take away all power of compelling the
parishioners to repair the parish church. But it is obvi-
ous that the effect of our judgment in this case is no more
than to declare the opinion of the court that the church-
wardens have in this instance pursued a course not autho-
rised by law. And, consequently, all the power with
which the spiritual court is invested by law to compel the
reparation of the church is left untouched. If that court
is empowered (as is stated by Lyndwode and other eccle-
siastical writers) to compel the churchwardens to repair
the church by spiritual censures, to call upon them to
assemble the parishioners together by due notice to make
a sufficient rate, to punish such of the parishioners as
refuse to perform their duty in joining iu the rate by es-
communication, that is (since the statute 53 Geo. 111,
ch. 127) by imprisonment, and, under the same penalty,
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TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1854.

THE PARISHIONERS of Southam, Warwickshire, 113.'1
contributed between £5OO and £OOO towards bealltifiAl
and restoring the parish church. The population o
town is only about 1,700; this sum therefore must be e°'
sidered of an unusally liberal character.
LORD Jonx RUSSELL, on Tuesday, laid the four
dati°ll
stone of St. Luke's Chapel, now in course of erection
Nutford-place, Edgeware-road, London. The chureb.
being built as a thank-offering for mercies vouchsafed
God to the inhabitants of the district at a time of visita‘
tion by cholera.
DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER.—Ordination.—The 13isb?P
of Manchester held an ordination on Trinity SundaY,l"
the parish church of Prestwich, when the following gentle'
men were ordained and afterwards licensed to the curaeieSr
set opposite their names, viz. :—Deacons,—James
Brown, 8.A., Christ's College, Cambridge, licensed to D'
George's, Bolton-le-Moors. William George Guest, Oa:
St. John's College, Cambridge, to St. Stephen's, Salfor
George Hillyard, St. Bees' College, Cumberland, to 1331'
rowford. William Locket, 8.A., Queen's College, CO;
bridge, to Mossley. William Haslam, 8.A., St. JobllS
College, Cambridge, to Christ Church, Bolton-le-Mors'
Samuel Sharp Walker, to Royton. Thomas Brookes
Wrenford, St. Bees College, Cumberland, to St. Pans'
Preston. Joseph Barber Lightfoot, M.A., and Fellow'°
Trinity College, Cambridge. Priests.—William Crowther'
BA., St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge. Edward Hoard
Gibbon, Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham. John Johnsen'
St. Bees College, Cumberland. Henry Fielding Smith,B.A., Pembroke College, Cdmbridge. Edward Pee A°e
Stock, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge. Richard
Thistlethwaite, St. Bees College, Cumberland.