The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-28 00:00:00

ORDINATION.

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On Sunday an(FjordraintahteioCallwesatserbeCldaubryanthteLord Bishop, in
our Cathedral Church. The first Lesson of the day was re ad
by the Rev. C. M. Arnold, 8.A., (Incumbent of Lower
Darwen, Lancashire ;) and the second Lesson by the Rev.
John Hayes, (Curate of St. Michael's, Manchester.) A very
impressive Sermon was afterwards preached by the Worship-
ful Chancellor Raikes, frora 2 Cor. v. chap. 20th verse.
DEACONS.—George Robertson, Moncrieff, 13. A., Balliol
College, Oxford; Augusta. Gaspard Edourt, 8.A., and Ri-
chard William Bishop Mersh, 8.A., St. John's College,
William Harker. 8.A., Richard Morton, 8.A., and John
Sheldon, 8.A., Catharine 3all, John Heale, 8.A., Queen's
College, and Thomas ()wet, 8.A., St. Peter's, Cambridge ;
Frederick Bell, 8.A., Edraind Boteler Chalmer, 8.A., Ed.
ward Jones, 8.A., William Parks, 8.A., and.Fredenck John
Walker, 8.A., Trinity Corege, Dublin; Meymott
Farley, Lit., St. Bee's ; Htgh Thomas, Lit., Lampeter Col-
lege ; Samuel Warren, LL.D.
Couthorpe, 8.A., Christ Church,
John Sparlin, B.A. Oriel, John Hayes, 8.A., Magdalen
Hall, Digby Charles Le aid M.A., and Edward John
rottesley, 8.A., Universiti 'College, George Levy, 8.A.,
Queen's College, Thomas Biker Morrell, 13. A., Balliol Col-
lege, and David Roberts, S.A., Teius College, Oxford;
Charles Maddock Arnold' an.cl Robert. '
Lovelace Hill,
M.A., St. John's, John Heron.' Mac gur e, S C.L. John
Dwerryhouse Prior, 8.A., mud Matthiasl Forrest, 8.A.,
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ELECTION AT MonrEnt.--fhe Hon. Captain Howard
son of the Earl of Carlisle, wa:on Saturday elected
member
for Morpeth, in the room of 'Ad Leveion.

THE DUTY OF THE GOVERNMENT WITH
RESPECT TO CHURCH EXTENSION.

The grand point to which our attention ought to be di-
rected, is the awakening the legislature and the government
to a just conception of their duty. Instead of sitting down
in despair, as too many do, and saying, " of course, it is
hopeless to look for any aid from parliament, we ought .
constantly to make it matter of complaint, that a government
which professes to maintain and to support an established
church, never attempts to do any one thing in consonance
with that profession. If all who held just views in this mat-
ter were to assert them constantly and boldly, we should soon
find it no longer " hopeless," but easy, to bring the legisla-
ture to a more consistent course of conduct.
And, truly, the contrast exhibited in this case, between
the backwardness and timidity of the advocates of just prin-
ciples, and the audacity and perseverance with which the
contrary views are urged, might well excite our wonder, had
we not been warned that " the children of this world are, in
their generation, wiser than the children of light." Thus
we observe, on the one hand, a party who are contending for
error and against truth—who have on.their side but a small
proportion of the people—and who, as dissenters, cannot
muster under their banners one-tenth of the population.
And, while thus weak in themselves, they are still weaker
in the argument they urge. And yet, under all those dis-
advantages, we see them becoming formidable solely by the
power of audacity and perseverance. They, a collection of
sects, comprehending less than one-tenth of the people,
boldly demand, that the church to which the bulk of the
other nine-tenths belong, should be dismantled, abandoned,
and left to ruin and decay ! They modestly claim this as
their right f—and, such is the influence of a bold assumption,
they have sometimes appeared likely to succeed in their de-
mand. We see here the advantage of a forward movement.
Had the church adopted such a course, how could she pos-
sibly have failed ? But we behold a most singular contrast.
The church, supported by the gnat mass of the population,
and reckoning, within the legislature, almost the entire body
of one assembly, and a vast majority in the other—and feel-
ing too her cause to be most righteous—is yet apparently
afraid to open her lips ! She stands mute, and leaves her
cause unheard, while every enemy she has is unceasingly
,pouring forth the most shameless calumnies.
But is this right or just?
What is her case, and what ought to be her petition ? It
ought to be of this tenor. The legislature of England deem
it right to maintain an established church for the worship
of God and the religious instruction of the people. Thus
have both houses of parliament a thousand times declared ;
thus has her Majesty repeatedly avowed.
Well, an established church is now maintained; but it
has been left for centuries almost without extension or adap-
tation to the augmenting numbers of the people. London
has swollen her numbers from 500,000 to 1,500,000 ; Man-
chester, Liverpool, and Leeds, from 3000 or 5000, to 100,000
or 200,000, respectively. The church commissioners have
declared 279 new churches to be required for the metropolis
alone ; iu reply to which a subscription is opened which may
build the odd 79 ; and thus it must ever be, when it is left
to individuals to attempt a task which is national in its cha-
racter.
The petition, then, of the church is, that this want shall
be supplied. The state is called upon to be consistent.
But it is sometimes said, that the public mind is not .yet
prepared. In answer to which we may inquire, how the pub-
lic mind can be so well awakened to any question, as by
frequent discussions in parliament ? Surely, then, as some
delay is unavoidable, we ought not to lengthen the years that
must elapse, by postponing our first application until " a
more convenient season," which we have not the slightest
ground to suppose will ever spontaneously arrive.—Essays
on the Church, by a Layman.