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LITERARY NOTICE

rlairns of the Clergy : a Letter to the Rev. Kluy
a reply to his Speech in the Amphitheatre,
being
April 27, 1543, addressed to the Wesleyan
By William Veyers. Wm. Horsley, Derby,
ity, and 66, Paternoster-row, London.
e we may take this pamphlet as an exposition
tuments with which the ultra and anti-
..)f the Wesleyan body vindicate their conti-
-1 to the ecclesiastical clauses of
the Factory
ich we sit down to an examination 0f
it
re s con
-
lould have done so, however, with mo plea
have complimented the writer upon the candid
ed in his mode of treating the question at issue
If and his reverend antagonist. We should
At to see his arguments addressed to the
e Wesleyan body rather than to its sectarian
broad subject of advantage to Christianity,
*row ground of advantage to portions of
not thought
Vevers has, however,
che matter bcfore him ; and, by so deci-
ily thrown away the claim which otherwise
,gad upon the sympathies and the respect of
We are compelled to regard him, not as the
losopher, but as the Sectarian zealot; not as
, for its own sake and for
he spread of the truth
tion of the spiritual condition of the human
s one amongst those, referred to by his eloquent
spk their own things, without any
brotherly

M iVeilet
Liverpoo

Nilson, C

erred muc

urcb. )4

ngs of others.'
Mr. M'Neile to the
Wesleyan body
this. We admit the amount and efficacy
.al efforts made thus far
b the INesleyan
y
4, however, at the same time, their inability to
vast extent of the evil disclosed to our view.
accompanied by
RS also arrived at this conviction,
duty in the emergency presented
; and has
h the evil may be fully and and
state has a religion, that religion
of toe Church of England, in all the essen-
Vesleyans agree; and she puts it to you, as a
t consideration, whether, having
already
promotion of Scriptural education,
tie
zeal is unequal to the work
trnost
you are disposed to stand in the
by her, through the
g undertaken
or mergour Sectarian
ing y
round of
ire disposed to occupy the broad g
and to say to the CHURCH
„God
accomplishment of the task of duty, to
the tun
hh we confess ourselves, with all our
wic

ad terms

f its ow

Lth. But the

resses to be done

at work

for a

nequal

and substance of Nil-. 3,l`Neile's appeal
Ay. In Christian kindness it was made;
,een met by Mr. Vevers? We regret to say,
. uncharitableness and party bitterness. Mr.
',chaff of the Wesleyan body, does not say " we
task," or any voluntary efforts are
roceeds to throw dirt at the instruments by
sed to be accomplished. He deplores, we
amongst the
ignorance and vice
He admits that such ignorance is the
le picture presented by our manufact
there are "1111.1MerOUS spots of
in those districts, which he attributes to
fforts of voluntaryism,—because "the plague
" by dissenting hands—he
would obstruct a
ch that " verdant loveliness" is to be
andscape, and the plague not only " stayed"
the land, lest the
rein church should earn a
admitted to be beyond the reach of Sects-
f the landscape is
The remainder oorai aspect of which
"4erness, the m
Sodom and Gomorrah"

es eoual to the

re by wh

t, because

rnm the land

s a striking

mum should be asked to give up its
" to be amalgamated by
) the improvement which sh• de-

resemblance

ant lov,

rs of 'yes

educat

eliness

e whole sce

-ne church as an enormous
" to take possesnion of the fruits
os-
of
ens and Dissenters." How take p
-s ? Does Mr. Vevers know precisely
what conclusion his charge against the
iVesleyans have done something for the
How can the church " take possession
)ne ? How can she educate those who
d I There is a confusion of ideas here
well if the pamphleteer would explain
•--vitably to the conclusion that

t upon

d, we are led inev,
Mg afforded by dissent, not for itself—not for
ruth merely—but for further and Sectarian
fear cannot be that the church should " re-
hence the suspicion occur: that the school is
t.nnin, stone to the chapel ; that education

wement of Proselytism I
see what are the objections which are urged
ergy as an educating body, worthy of th• confi-
dissenting community. Mr. Nl`Neile had
the taint of Tractarianism—the leading objec-

Wesleyans to the clergy as public instructors—was
limited spread amongst that body ; that, " compared
—lreds of sound men who teach the Articles of
are, such an instance might be truly
'" By what does the pamphleteer
of nis reverend opponent ? We give a
s literary production, in which he supposes

rara avis in terns

what a

ants are

rim and

tandum

g to Ca,

niter, " are the sound men who
mly to be numbered by hun-
Die predicament must the Church of
his moment ! The Puseyites are as
oat like a black swan : and the sound
numbered by hundreds ! Then,
there must be many thou-
a state of transition between
what an alarming state do
—and that too at a timeand a when
• your admirers, t-
, The Puseyites are few—
Ight to be deposited in public
'"-r of nature or of art

stantism: . In

ratifying

SO rare

cities e

,ds.' But your Church num-
I suppose at least there are
stablishment : but the sound
the hundreds;' and there-
sands who are neither sound
s nor Protestants, whose con-
.ology is so doubtful, that they
! This is the admission. the
a man who, par excellence, is
,ent. Really, Mr. M`Neile,
_e Establishment, too bad to
~,st think that we are indeed among
3 suppose that we cannot and will not
Were I a member of the

usands

tiered by

er Puse

such so

lieved that

u were in earnest
lvvfully alarmed,
anger ; not from

t from her ene-

at they believe

i—p-y her- prulipsit:(;

Pt characterise

tie Ptiecylies or Protestinte

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