The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-21 00:00:00

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.l (who I consider to be
scale) be not prevented, the
',sent themselves when
slop in religious
7 r subjects,
controversy has existed
as to the use of the Bible in scnools ; but, as a Protestant
churchman, I can never admit that the Sacred Book con-
taining the gracious offer of salvation to man, and the only
book from which it can be safely drawn, be denied to our
schools. Its sacredness, however, requires that its doctrines
be not perverted ; its holiness demands that it be not read
as a medium to learn to read, but its truths should be
diligently infused into the minds
cons the children during
their progress. I have always dered that the sys-
tem adopted by the National Society is calculated to afford
to the clergy that influence among their flocks which
the Reformation intended them to possess, and which
the overgrown population of parishes deprived them of. To
restore them to such a state I consider to be a prime duty of
theservants of our Protestant Queen. Let it be consfdered
shipcT many dissenting parties have used their place of wor-
and their religious influence to in
discontent.
To the ministers of the Church no such charge is to be
ascribed, and against them no attack is ever uttered, except
that they discourage all discontet, and are therefore accused
of being partisans. Liberty of conscience is, however, most
truly a Protestant principle, and should beyond all questio_n
be held sacred. pu,t, what is truly liberty of conscience e It
used to be defined,
ship Go The right that evety maa asst ,w or:
-D according to the dictates of his conscienc— A
most correct definition I conceive this is, so far as human
interference is concerned. But in these liberal days it seems
inferred from such a maxim that all descriptions of belief
thave an equal claim to favor. I well remember an observe-
ion of an excellent man nearly related to your noble repre-
sentative, " I have great regard for the couciences of dis-
senters, but have none for their interests." If every plea of
disbelief is to be regarded as conscientious, so as to forbid
the
inculcation of Divine truths,,,, on that account, it will
follow that the nearer the aptiroach to infidelity and
the greater will be the concessions ,required. In these
awful days when the want of religious and moral principle
1g so dreadfully evident, it `"conciliation,e madness indeed
to hope that comprehension and through aban-
donment of religious principle could re-establish good con-
duct. The revealed Will of"Cion in a nation calling itself
Christian, must be adopted as the sole standard
Con. But the Book of Revelation consists not in the pier
words it contains, but in the doctrines those words convey,
and line upon line,
is en• • . precept upon precept, is the course which
enjoined by Divine Authority, and common sense surely
azecodrd.s with such injunction. Would we then hope to suc-
ein
giving scriptural truths and Christian morality,
ou founded on them to the people, let us use the Holy Bible as
interpretationr authority. Let the Church atempowered to give that
chorohot freely which the Sby adoptin as the
theu Nation has sanctioned. Let such dissenters
as please s
welt conducted many
children to these schools, and if they are
what is called thme9y will do so. Let there be schools on
Laneasterian system for such as prefer it..
but let not the Protestant Christian Church of the Queen ot
the State have its constitutional claims curtailed ; and the lati-
tudinarian habits of
the endangering of the Tliany be introduced into Encland to
therto pure Protestant Christian

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I have the honour to be, Sir,
With much respect,
Your faithful serENYvant,
KON

Liscard, April 17th, 1843

There is, we believe, no truth so true, as that insti-
tutions, like individuals, are the authors of much of
the evil which befals them. And most strikinglY is
this truth about to be illustrated by the infliction of a
blow, the most prostrating ever sustained by her—a
"heavy blow and a great discouragement"—dealt upon
the Church of England by a Conservative government,
and not deprecated, as it ought to be, by the Conser-
- -nne of the greatest ever

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geld out to her; an exten-

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from darkness
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yet she hesitate

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