The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-27 00:00:00

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1854.

that the observance of the ancient practices of universal
religion is in the present day impracticable ; and therefore
don't make yourselves uneasy, as if your present course 0f
religious life were inadequate, or a higher system of devo-
tion were in your circumstances propounded for attain'
ment." Then they turn round to us and say, ("-,hlr„
congregations do not wish for daily prayers and weeK
Communion, or how delighted should we be to afford there!
What ! do you pretend to be dissatisfied with the present
laxity, when you live in it as though it were the recog:
nised service of the Church, and the fitting measure 0'
public devotion ? Your lordship might, indeed, ask thy'
but then you must recollect that these are the inconsis•
tencies into which clergymen are betrayed, who have
secret distaste to these things, yet half hesitate to con;
demn them, having a suspicion of the great array is
precedent, the mighty weight of the most venerable
example, the scriptural and apostolic sanction and Pre'
scription confronting their path. They yet feel the pressure
of their obligations to the Church of England, and have an
aching sense of the tie which still binds them to catholic
Christianity.
Yet sometimes the most prudent of them unwarily for-
gets his official character, and gives utterance to hie
independent convictions, with dangerous candour. At the
same Church meeting, from the report of which I have
culled the above sentiments, one of them ventures to ask,
as if he were anticipating an universal profession of amaze-
ment at so outrageous a proposal, if any of the Churchmen
present really "wish to have daily prayers without a
sermon ?" He asks these people, my lord, whose own
want of taste for daily prayers was just before treated as
topic of regret, or at least as the chief obstacle to their
being provided, if they are really so eccentric, perhaps he
means so " tmevangelical," as to possess this taste !
It is not my business at present to note the melancholy
mis-estimate of public worship and Church communion
which such an enunciation as this discloses ; but I wish
your lordship to take note of its marvellous candour, and
I would venture to ask you, whether this is the type of
those ministers of the Church to whose " fidelity' your
lordship remits us, as willing to afford the Church's privi-
leges, if we are willing to pay for them ? On the contrary,
my lord, I think every sound Churchman must be con-
strained to gather from the circumstance that a clergy-
man of intelligence and character can address a public
assembly of Churchmen in such language as this, the most
significant proof of the need in which the public stand, of
that faithful exhibition of the system of the Prayer-book
which the present undertaking offers to provide. Every
time these opponents put pen to paper, or open their lips
on a platform, in denunciation of our scheme, they are
establishing its necessity, and proving our case. But what
will your lordship think of the subtlety which bids us ask
the very people who are subjected to this teaching, whe-
ther they are " pining" for daily prayers ? Nay, why
should we make this provision depend on the expressed
wishes of the people, when their teachers discourage the
expression, and themselves require instruction in the
plainest dictates of the Church.
Accordingly, the appropriate result of this teaching we
have in the sentiments of another writer in the public
prints, who is, of course, like the rest, a Churchman,
and, doubtless, equally " an admirer of our incomparable
liturgy," and who protests, with the utmost artlessness,
that, for his part, he is quite content with the two services
on Sunday and those for Good Friday and Christmas Day,
and asks, with the most innocent surprise, what we can
possibly want more ? The genteel moderation of this per-
son's devotional ardour must win the unqualified appro-
bation of those of the clergy who have done so much to
justify it, as its exquisite candour must provoke our ad-
miration; but we can scarcely be called upon to make
these manifestations of popular " views and tastes" the
measure of our adherence to the despised system of the
Prayer-book.
But I must not close without recalling one other ex-
pression of this supreme popular opinion, which conveys
as much significance as its predecessors. Another
" Churchman, still as " true,' and still as strongly
admiring " our incomparable liturgy," proposes an address
of thanks to your lordship, for attempting to suppress the
" remnants of Popery in the Prayer-book," and rejoices
that the principle of unmutilated observance of its pr-
scriptions has received a discouragement at your lordship
hands, as anticipatory of that time when the unrepressed
tide of revolution shall sweep these remnants from the
Church. Your lordship is not very likely to court the
encumbrance of such kindness as this, and I should be
the last to admit the justice of the compliment; but I
would have your lordship made acquainted with the in°
terpretation which friends think it friendly to put upon
your conduct, and what favourable promise they affect to
gather from your designs. It is also profitable to discern
the real character of a contest waged between theory and
practice in matters of religion, and that such a struggle
must soon end in reform or revolution. Now which the
issue in this case may be, God only knows ; but this ice
know, that every exertion of authority, which checks the
first, will, if the latter finally triumph, be involved in its
guilt, and be responsible for the extremities to which it
may proceed.
For the present, then, my lord, my intention is so far
fulfilled. I have presented your lordship with the recent
confessions of that vox populi whose veto controls the
decisions of bishops, and interrupts the course of law. And
we arrive at this conclusion, that the secret of opposition
to undertakings like the present, are a distaste for the
ancient practices of Christianity and the Church of Eng-
land ; a mis-estimate of the system of public worship,
9r s and
which the Church was set up in the world to main
perpetuate ; and, a latent wish that the particulars rep
the
e
nant to modern laxity should be eradicated from
Prayer-book, as the dregs left behind by a reformation
which consigned the completion of its task to a more in-
dependent and unshackled age.—l beg to remain, your
lordship's most obedient and faithful servant,
June 17, 1854. VrxcENTII7S.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTEELLIGENCE•

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Rev. E. H. S. Bower, 8.A., of Clare Hall, Cambridge, tO
tbe
Curacy of St. Clement and St. Michael Coslaney, Norwielte%
Rev. J. M. Call, M.A., to the Ministry of the Parish Chu'
of Ardrossan.
Rev. H. F. Cann, M.A., to the Assistant Curacy of 10
Trinity, Exeter. to the
Right Rev. Thos. Carr, D.D., late Bishop of Bombay,
Rectory of Bath.
neßarev*ilin.chWco. mCbovee,nallryou'ersiAer's,
Rev. W. L. Cox, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of the
htioret.he Rectory of Woolstone,
Chapelry District of Heywood, near Westbury, Wilts.
the
Rev. G. W. B. Daniell, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy 01
Chapelry District of Martin, Wilts.
Rev. M. M. Dillon, M.A., late Rector of St. George's!.
Dominica, in the Diocese of Antigua, to be Missionary t"
30,000 fugitive slaves In Canada.

hey. IC A. Gent, M_A., to the Curacy of Horncastle.
Rev. J. Griffiths, M.A., to the Rectory of St. Fagan, near
Cardiff.
Rev. C. Hensley, M.A., to the Vicarage of Cabourn, Lin-
colnshire.
Rev. W. Jones, M.A., to the Curacy of Ellastone, Ash-
bourne, Derbyshire.
Rev. D. J. Lequyer, to the Curacies of Field balling and
Bingham, Norfolk.
Rev. G. L. Kenyon, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. James's,
Bradford, Yorkshire. -
Rev. J. T. Oldrini, M.A., to the Vicarage of Beeston, near
Nottingham.
Rev. W. Chnkett, M.A.,
.Incumbent of Christ Cburcb
Watney-street, St. George's-in-the-East, London, to the Rec-
tory of Warrington, Lancashire.
Rev. G. W. Robinson, 8.A., to the Curacy of BletchingleY'
Surrey.
Rev. R. J. Simpson, 8.A., to the Curacy of Boxford,Suff°l
Rev. T. D. Wintle, M.A. formerly Incumbent of Thurr:
land, near Sheffield, to the Curacy of Christ Church, 90°J'
New South Wales.
Rev. W. V. Yarworth, 8.A., to the Curacy of Westhal"
upou-Trym, near Bristol.
Rev. P. Pennington. M.A., to the Colonial Chaplain to the
Island of the Mauritius.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.
CONSECRITIONS.—AMBLRSIDE.—NEW Cnuncrr.-")111
Bishop of Chester consecrated the new church at A1u4,11.-
side, in the county of Westmoreland, on Wednestlel,
14th instant, and the ground surrounding the same 115.:
cemetery. It contains sittings for nearly 1,000 Pereer,;
and is intended to be substituted for the old church, to'
thelpowers of the Act of Parliament of 8 and 9 Victoris,
cap. 70. The old church contains accommodation °t r.
about 600 persons only, and was incapable of enlargelue/L,
the churchyard also is full, and did not admit of exteneecy
from the nature of the site. A sermon was Preuell,,ted
the Bishop on the occasion, and upwards of £l2O eomv—
in aid of the funds. , uth, Itl
COCKSRMOITTIL—The new church at Cock
the
the county of Cumberland, was consecrated bY n
of Chester, on Thursday, the 16th instant* It has
erected upon the site of the old church, destroyed by
fire
in 1850, with some extension thereof, and contains acC°l3l.
modation for 910 persons. After a sermon by the BishoP,
upwards of £7O was collected in aid of the he
building fund-
THWAITEEI. —The new church at Thlssites. in t
county of Cumberland,
wasc°nieergi
on Friday, the 16th instant. The old church the Bishop,
bi
being quite
insufficient for the accommodation of the inhabitants of
and incapable of enlargement, and the
tchhe chyahaPnirird
b,eing
quite full. The church was taken deal
under the authority of a faculty, and the present church
erected upon part of a piece of land close to the former
site, the remainder being consecrated as an additional
presente
churchyard or cemetery. After a sermon by the Thaws
upwards of £3O was collected in aid of the building folds.
dThisurineghurthee
church
makes th
year. eighth
All consecrated
chbuyrcthhes are I)
the
Bisb °Pf
stone, and
good specimens of ecclesiastical architecture ;
the two first-named being, by their lofty spires, distin-
guishing features in the surrounding country.
PREFERMENTS. The Rev. G. W. Warr has been
licensed to the perpetual curacy of St. Saviour's Church'
Liverpool, the nomination of the trustees.—The Rev. S. R
Tucker to the perpetual curacy of Castle, Northwich,
Cheshire. Patron, the Bishop.

THE CHURCH IN THE EAST.
the last meeting of the Board,
The following letter from the Bishop of Gibraltar to the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and read at
interest r--
(" Pera, Constantinople, May 22, 1854.1
" I think I informed you of my intention of visiting
will be perused with
Constantinople. It was my wish to time my visit so as to
afford me an opportunity of doing service to our gallallt
this
countrymen who form the expeditionary forces to
country, and I have not been disspix)inted. The last this
days have been very remarkable in a religious point of vie,
as connected with our Christian position in this Blab°.
metan land. On Saturday I held a confirmation for Pe
camp at Scutari, when three hundred and two
soldier
received the sacred rite. The notice which had been givell
had of necessity been very short, and the chaplains had but
little time to prepare the candidates, yet I may trull 1
that I have never seen the ordinance received with reg ate.
devotion. Among the three hundred bronz?d 01,1_c!
weather-beaten faces of those who knelt dide the
laying on of hands, I did not see one which not aPPT.
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