The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

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raments,
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irk invis

that they are sure
Ind God's will to-

ly on us." The

27th said of Baptism, in particular, that it was such an
effectual sign—a sign effecting that of which it is a sign,
_ egeneralion or new birth." For these and
other reasons, which his lordship stated at great length,
he maintained that, even if the articles were our sole test
of doctrine, they 'did not afford any real support to the
denial of spiritual regeneration in Baptism. But he must

namely,

resist the claim of their being our sole test • he must insist
on the Book of Common Prayer and administration of
Sacraments being at least as authoritative as the articles

themselves.
THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON EDUCATION.--A
deputation from the dissenters of Manchester waited last
week on the Bishop of Manchester, no doubt with the ex-

pectation of finding his lordship an advocate of merely se-
cular education, but were sadly disappointed. His lord-
ship said that " he could not consent to the exclusion of
all instruction in peculiar religious doctrines. He be-
lieved -^-ePctl• "-)- that teacher r Id

lc a . pertectty impossible t any could
gain any living influence over the hearts and minds of his
pupils, if he was interdicted from communicating with them
on the most important subjects. He spoke himself (his
lordship said) from an experience of sixteen years as an
educator ; and he reminded the deputation of the influ-
ence which the late Dr. Arnold gained over his pupils by
his constant appeals to their religious principles. Ad-
mitting that many 01i5t,11,,,..1.41i,1t
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which they belonged, were the deputation

,nd their

friends, he asked, prepared to sanction the constant asso-
ciation of young people thus carefully trained, with those
who are under no religious influences whatever? Ihese
objections his lordship considered fatal to any such scheme
of education as that now proposed. Having thus stated
his views on the plan of the association, the bishop went
on to explain his own opinions on the best mode of
effectively providing for the existing educational destitu-
tion. His lordship observed that in King Edward's School
at Birmingham, with which he had been recently con-
nected, instruction in the doctrines of the

Church of Eng-
land was given at fixed periods of the week; but from at-
tendance on such occasions, the children of dissenting
parents were excused. At the same time, his lordship re-
marked, he had always distinctly stated that he would
never permit himself to be precluded, by the presence of
dissenters, from alluding to any religious matter which
might present itself in the course of a lesson ; he would
never intrude such a remark, but, at the same time, he
would never go out of his way to avoid it. During the
eight years of his residence at Birmingham, he had pupils
of almost every sect, and he never received a complaint
respecting the nature of the religious instruction given in
the school. Now this was a practical proof of the possi-
bility of having a system of education which would be re-
ligious without being exclusive. He would provide
schools in which instruction should be given on the prin-
ciples of the Church of England, while dissenters should
be excused from attendance at the doctrinal lessons ; and
in places where disenters were numerous, he would also
afford them the means of giving an education in accord-
ance with their own views."