The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

LONG SERMONS.—The Times having _
long correspondence complaining of the various versions
(172, our correspondent counts) of psalms and hymns used
in the Church of England, "An Islingtonian" takes up
the subject of long sermons. He complains :
" I could not enter any church in the parish in which I
reside with the slightest expectation that the sermon
would be under an hour in length. The allowance is fifty
minutes under ordinary circumstances, and sixty on
special occasions.
" This evil of long sermons is one which the clergy
should forthwith amend, if they are sincere in desiring
the people to come to church more generally than is the
case. Can it be expected that a man whose hand or brain
is fully employed all the week will sit for a mortal hour
on Sunday without occupation, unless constrained to do so
by a strong sense of religious duty ?
, I
am a professional man, so closely employed that I
have to work in the evening as well as by day. I cannot
attend public worship in the morning of any working day,
but I can do so sometimes in the evening. The time re-
quired for the prayers I cheerfully take from my business,
but I do chafe over giving an additional hour for a ser-
mon. Why are not our churches open in the evening, as
they are in a morning in many places, for prayers only ?
"I do not wish to undervalue preaching, but I am sure
of this, that when we are most under the influence of re-
ligion we think most of the prayers, and that when devo-
tion grows cold we concern ourselves chiefly about the
sermon.

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"You have more than once expressed an opinion that
there is at present a great dearth of preaching ability.
Perhaps that is why the sermons are so long—the de-
ficiency of quality is made up in quantity. The prescrip-
tion for a sermon seems to be in form like that of the
physicians :—" Take such and such ingredients, and add
water up to so many minutes."

➢MEDICAL HONOURS FOR A BISHOP.--The Rev. Dr.
M`Dougall, Bishop-designate of Borneo, has been elected a
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Before taking
holy orders the rev. gentleman was a surgeon, having
passed his examination at the College on June 3,1839.

WHALLEY Curucn, BLACZBURN.—On Sunday week,
this old church was re-opened for service, after having
been beautified and restored to its old state. Collections
were made to defray the expenses of the restoration, which
amounted to upwards of £64.

TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. TITOMAS NOLAN.—A testi-
monial consisting of a purse containing 200 guineas, and a
piece of plate, was presented, on Thursday week, to the
Rev. Thomes Nolan, who has been for the last five years
minister of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, London. Mr.
Nolan has been presented to the living of Acton, Cheshire,
and is succeeded at St. John's by the Rev. J. B. Owen, of
Bilston, Staffordshiie.
THE PEW SYSTEM.—The Wakefield Journal contains
a report of an assault case heard before the Barnsley magis-
trates, arising out of a dispute about a pew in Silkstone
church. One party got inside the pew and held the door
fast ; the other claimant forced his way in, but was seized
by the collar and ejected by the other, and his hat thrown
after him; and all this was done during the Communion
service.

BIRTHS.

NEW CHURCH IN COVENTRY-STREET, LONDON.—Her
Majesty has subscribed £5OO, the Bishop of London £l,OOO,
and Viscount Sidney £lOO, towards the erection of a new
church for the parish of St. James, Westminster. The
church will :be built in Coventry-street, Haymarket, be-
tween Rupert-street and Princes-street.
THE LATE BISHOP WAINWRIGHT, OF NEW YORIC.—
At a meeting in aid of the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel, held at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, on Thurs-
day, the iollowing allusion was made to the late Bishop
of New York, Dr. Wainwright, by the Rev. H. Mackenzie,
who was in the chair :—" It must have been a cause of re-
gret to all who heard in our parish church,and in the vestry
house of this. parish, the voice of the able and gifted Dr.
Wainwright, distinguished for its truthfulness even more
than for its peculiar melody, to hear that tidings have just
been received in England of that gifted prelate's death.
It was very shortly after he returned to America, from
this country, in 1851, that he was elected to the high office
of a Bishop in the Church of Christ, as Provisional Bishop
of the diocese of New York. Since that time he was dis-
tinguished for the faithful fulfilment of his sacred but
elevated functions; and, in his removal from his sphere of
laborious duty on earth to his rest in the Lord, we in
England do but echo the sentiments of our brethren in
America, who say, as we reflect on his passing from his
house on earth to his house not made with hands, eternal
in the Heavens, `May I die the death of the righteous,
and may my last end be like his.' " The meeting was also
addressed by the Rev. Charles Mackenzie, Prependary of
St. Paul's • Rev. J. P. Gell, Diocesan Secretary of the
Society; Rev. Dr. Camilleri, Rev. F. S. Jones, and others.

NEW Cnuxcn AT LEIGHTON.—On Tuesday, the new
church of the Holy Trinity at Leighton was consecrated
by the Lord Bishop of Hereford. It has been built at the
sole expense of John Naylor, Esq., of Leighton Hall, at
about a mile distant from his residence, and occupies a spot
of ground commanding a most lovely prospect, from which
beautiful views are obtained of Powis Castle and park,
the town of Weishpool, its new and beautiful church
standing out in bold relief from the lofty hills and widely
spreading woods which surround it; the Breidden Hills
surmounted by Rodney's Pillar, and the Moel-y-Golfa ; the
Severn winding its silvery course through the picturesque
valley ; and the hall of the proprietor of the estate upon
which the church is built, adjacent to which stand the
extensive farm buildings, upon which an immense amount
of money has been expended with a view of introducing
among his tenantry every modern agricultural improve-
ment and appliance. The church is in the pure English
style of the 14th century (commonly called decorated), is
built of two different kinds of stone, of which one, of a
very dark blue grey colour, is found on the estate, and the
other a pale creamy sandstone, comes from the Minera
Quarries, near Wrexham. The dimensions of the building
are—Extreme length, from W. to E. 80i- feet; width of
nave, 21 feet ; ditto of two aisles, 21 feet ; extreme width,
42 feet ; length of chancel, 20 feet width of ditto 15 feet ;
width of tower, 19i feet ; height of walls and springs of
main roof, 292 feet ; total height of ridge roll, 48 feet ;
height of tower from ground line of branch, 65f feet ;
height of spire, 84 feet ; total height to pinnacle of spire,
150 feet. The east window—of five lights, the extreme
height being 23 feet, extreme width 11 feet, and
the height of arch, 11 feet—is filled with five
figures, nearly life size, representing our Saviour and
the four Evangelists. Our Lord is pourtrayed as offering
to all the blessings of the Gospel, and may be supposed as
uttering the injunction—" Come unto me all ye that are
weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." The
Evangelists appear as recording the events of the Gospel
narrative. Each figure is surmounted by canopied niches,
within which are small figures of the patriarchs, judges,
kings, and prophets. The _tracery within the arch repre-
sents St. John preaching in the wilderness; the Spirit
descending upon the apostles at Pentecost; the raising of
Lazarus; our Lord giving sight to the blind; the emblems
of the Trinity—the A.O. the and the Thie. :The
west window contains five lights, the extreme height being
25 feet; extreme width 11 feet, and the height of arch 11
feet. Subjects : Epitome of biblical history; Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, representing the patriarchal period ;
Moses, Aaron, and Isaiah, the Mosaic period; our Lord,
Peter, and Paul, the Christian period. There are also the
three emblemS of sacrifice—namely, Abraham offering up
Isaac, the offering of the Lamb, and the circumcision ; and
the three emblems of the water—the deluge, the passage
through the Red• Sea, and the. baptism. In the tracery
are the emblems of the twelve tribes, the expulsion, and
the ascension. I The west aisle window is filled by the arms
of the founder. The chantry and aisle windows are filled
with ornaments and the founder's monograms. These
WindoWs were designed and executed under the superin-
tendence of the architect, and Messrs. Forrest and Bromley,
of Liverpool. Architect, W. H. Gee, Esq., Liverpool ;
builders, Messrs. J. and W. Walker, Birkenhead ; encaustic
tiles manufactured by Messrs. Minton, and Co., Stoke-
upon-Trent ; bells cast by Messrs. Taylor and Sons,
Loughborough. The cost of its erection and endowment
is about £22,000. There are also school-houses built in
the Gothic style near the church, in which a number of
children are educated at Mr. Naylor's expense.
THE Creuis mIH THE PACIFIC..--4t a recent meeting
in Wells, the Bishop •of New Zealand; in the course of a
long and interesting speech, made the following remarks
on this important subject. He said, referring to New
Zealand:— If they went to the neighbouring islands of
Melanesia, they found a race descended apparently from
African extraction. To the eastward they were supposed
to be of Asiatic origin ; but to the westward there were a
multitude orislauds, almost all of which had, in various
degrees, an admixture of the African race, and, in many
cases, the full African character—the curly hair, and other
signs of the Negro race. Almost every island had a lan-
guage of its own. A small island of 500 persons would
have a language not spoken by any other people on the
face of the earth—a distinct and copious language, and
having considerable grammatical beauty. Here was a
great and rather difficult work to be performed. There
were the great groups of the Hebrides, New Caledonia,
(now occupied by the French), and the Society Island,
with 20,000 or 30,000 inhabitants. Then to the north-
ward were the Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Han-
over, New Zealand, and New trainee. Those who knew
the map would be aware that New Guinea was about as
distant from Borneo as from New Zealand ; and what they
hoped was, that the Bishop of Borneo would conduct his
operations to the westward, and that he and the Bishop of
New Zealand would meet and plant their common stan-
dards in the very centre of the great island of New Guinea,
there to announce the completion of the great work com-
menced at the beginning of this century, by carrying the
Gospel over all the islands which remained unconverted
throughout the whole Pacific. Referring to the lack of
any ordaining power, what they hoped was to begin at
once, and as speedily as possible, by an episcopal authority.
Not wishing to employ English labourers in climates
where, if they fall, they must be replaced by others utterly
unacquainted with the language, they contemplated work.
ing at once by a native agency ; and, in order to that, to
gather together all the young men who might be fit to be
admitted into the Central Theological College, and to
place them in one of the most beautiful, and yet one of
the most humiliating, spots which stud the face of the vast
Pacific—Norfolk Island, where " only man is vile,"—
where we had sent out the very worst class of our con-
victs, to make that which God seems to have intended for
a Paradise to be what it has been described—a very hell
upon earth. Now that the convicts were about to be re-
moved from that island, it was proposed to remove the Pit-
cairn islanders thither. The man who, repenting of his
sins, standing as it were between the living .and the dead,
who had seen all his comrades kill one another, afterwards
finding an old Prayer-book, taught all the children of the
mixed race who had descended from those sailors, the
aoifd
even
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community
ofthe Bounty,which
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seamen, and to all educated men is the cause of thanks-
giving to God for his overruling providence, who, out of
the very depths of sin, has brought forth such abundant
grace. If they were enabled to establish at Norfolk Island
the See of the Bishop of Melanesia kand the Pitcairn
islanders were, to a man, members of the Church of Eng-
land), the Rev. Mr. Nobbs would be the first minister ;
they would then gather all the native youths from the fifty
or the hundred islands which they might visit, that there,
under the direction of their own bishop, they might receive
their education in his theological college, and
i be by him
ordained ministers to their own countrymen n their own
language. 'And thus would be solved the problem how to
put in motion a system which, by God's blessing, may
evangelise the world; it was nothing short of that, for
there were at this moment five hundred millions of sows
placed under the rule 9f our church."

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENE

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS.

On the 6th inst., at Penketh, Mrs. Thomas Brodrick, of
a daughter.
On the 7th inst., in Blackburn-terrace, Mrs. Robert
Lockhart, of a daughter.
On the Bth inst., the wife of D. Buchanan, Esq., of
Belfast, of a

On the 10th inst., in Everton-road, Mrs. Jas. C. Pigott,
of a son.

On the 10th inst., at Woolton, Mrs. Sellar, of a daughter.
On the 11th inst., the wife of Mr. Joseph Rowe, Waver-
tree, of a son.
On the 11th inst., at Elm-vale, Fairfield, the wife of
Mr. A. S. Prudence, of the Liverpool Branch Bank of
England, of a son.
On the 11th inst., the wife of Mr. Edwin Davies, Plea-
sant-street, Kirkdale, of a son.
On the 12th inst., at Everton-road, the wife of Mr. J.
Oliver Taylor, of a son.
On the 12th inst., at Stanhope-terrace, Mrs. David
Lamont, of a son.
On the 12th inst., at Ealing-green, Middlesex, the wife
of Captain E. Champion, of Lyme, Connecticut, U.S., of
a son.

On the 14th inst., Mrs. Emil Springmann, Cumberland-
terrace, Upper Parliament-street, of a daughter.
On the 15th inst., at Stanley, the wife of Mr. David
Campbell, of a son.