The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-20 00:00:00

PHILANTH RO PIC IN ,TITUTIONS
A CLERGYMAN'S REASON FOR WITH I

THE TEMPI

The Rev. Nicho

)UtitiCo

St. Mark's Church, it+ this

chael, in the south of Ire
der date the sth instant,

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marks on the ten-
d to as one of its

stitutiGn. in reference to soa ret.
perance cause, in which t ali,
former advocates. The writer adopts as a motto to his
epistle the following extract from Bishop Butler, which,
indeed, briefly conveys the scope of his argument through-
out :

was allu

" The b.ppiness of the world is the co
has made it; nor do we know what we a►

n of him who

endeavour to prom

but those which he has decr'eed

The reverend gent
tone) admits that the editor end otheis mayjustly inquire
" If it be your conviction, and that of others, that the
principles of the temperance society cannot stand the test
of truth, why did you not investigate those principles more
closely before you adopted and advocated them? Why
hostilely take a step which it is nnw admitted involved
both yourself and others in error ?" The writer admits
that he should have done so. hut that what is past is irre-
vocable, and that the principal reparation he can make is
openly to acknowledge the error that has been committed.
It is also, he admits, justly inquired " what error has been
committed in having advocated the claims of such a phi-
lanthrophic institution as the Temperance Society ?" and
ciuio trotn consist
that
t iman's
in
outwardn a
e eviltransgression, replies in the words of another,:who says, " Man's reco-
very can be effected only by the principles of the gospel.
Man'so produce
transgressions, but in an inward alienation from God.
The
esof outward-conduct
ca can
various descriptions, in various cases." The quotation
g
not be rectified by any direct application of command-
es on to the o maladyf C
does
that principles
ment to it, but by an alterative process set agoing on the
affections, in order that tlin,e alienated affections may be
brought hack within the attraction of holy happy love—
that is, God." If the truths here conveyed be lost sight
of, we may wander (continues the writer) in mazes of er-
ror. Man's evil actions are not his disease, but the symp-
toms of it. Drunkenness is a symptom ; a heart aliena-
ted from God is the disease. To deal with symptoms,
without coming to the source, is to apply a defective re-
medy, and this was not true philanthropy. Real phi..

a most friendly

he continues)

hich he quotes
rds

lanthropy—the philanthropy of God, is
explained in Titus, 3rd &au. 4th verse, (a
entire,) the kindness and love of God our Saviour tc
man that appeared nut b 3

saess, which

..
we have done, but that being renewed and justified by his
grace we might be made heirs according to the hope of
eternal life. The end of God's phifanthrophy is salvation.
That philanthropy acts not by merely imi rovi..g what is

corrupt, but by intrnduciuz into the soul a new principle
of action (by the working of regeneration and renewing of
the Holy Ghost,) and, to rt
mencement of this le

t the extract at the corn-

we know not what we are

about when we endeavour to I
kind in any Ray but ti-,ose he h

ing the plan of GA's I,_
abroad the message of recieemin:,
low sinners and fellow-ruff- rs to
manifestation of the love r.f God, in order that we may
win back the " alienated heart" to God, and so dispose it
to all godly affections, desires, and pursuits. Without
starting at this point, man's philanthropic schemes will
end in disappointment and disaster.
It may, he continu?s, be objected that the advocates of
the temperance cause do not profess to employ the truths
of the gospel in carrying on their work, but merely to
plough up the ground and .prepare it : but where, it may
be asked, is their authority for making morality a prepa-
ration for the gospel. Until the temper.-- .be
certain what itirt of seed wilt

cause
n in the furrows they

have opened, their philanthropy falls short of the model
referred to; for so long as a member of the society keeps
his pledge of abstinence, his fellow-members have not a
word to say to him oo any other score. " It is good (says
the apostle) neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, not
any thing whereby the brother sturribleth, or is made
weak;" but this, says the writer, applies only to one in
church-fellowship—a believer in t
trines—a sheep of the same fold, and one on win
science those who abstained on his behalf had full oppor-
tunity to bring the purifying motives of the gospel to beat
in all their ee and unfettered power. The writer goes
on to say t twe have no authority for attempting to re-
move drun nness, unless by those means which are
mighty through God to re.ch and to cleanse the spring
whence that evil arises • and that he himself widely erred
in endeavouring to employ inferior remedies, to the neg-
lect of this sovereign remedy, which God had exhibited
in the gospel of His Son (Titus ii., 11th and 15th) ; and
deemed it a public duty to acknowledge the error be bad
committed. He adds, that it would give him heartfelt
pleasure if the warning voice he has raised were " the
means of putting his youncer brethren in the ministry on
the guard againkt those -philanthropic bubbles whiCh may
seduce them from the plain path of Christian devotedness,
or tempt them to combat evil with any other wear
those which the heavenly armoury supplier "
" Woe be to the minister who, in expostu

ners, dares to employ arguments
gospel of_Christ does not etear!y sta
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rHe.conchides by an a

me ess

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knd again

fives which the

p with its approval!
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nd to

at the e

forth into tt

when the many labourers will is
of the world" to do the work of the

win soukto Christ, and

partial spirit shall gig

synple evide

itrangeri to the love

luencb

and 'Which the floods cannot

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