The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-01 00:00:00

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1854.

I was rather inconvenient to find on the 30th of Jlll3,bi',
that his salary had come to an end on the 31st of AD'''''of
1853. From reading the debates and the propositions ,e
some Liberal members, he was led to inquire whether
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could safely accept 'so large a sum as £6OO ;so he be
an officer what amount of military protection coulu_,
afforded by the sum of £6OO a year ; the answer wiTe
about a corporal's guard : and that satisfied his mini be
could not do wrong under all the circumstances 11..4
accepted as much pay as was given to a corporal's e:i;8
in Her Majesty's service. And this brought him to
plain, simple question—was it or was it not true that "17,
pound spent in religion was worth a thousand spent t:
war? It had been stated that the Kaffir War cost thr;
millions. That was about six times as much as the icll°
Church expenditure in New Zealand during forty
which had the effect of converting the whole native Ply
lation to the faith of Christ, of adding a new colony to
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British Empire, and an important branch to the Cb°l'.-
of Christ.
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ARCHDEACON THORPE ON PEws.—ln a charge re.Alai
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delivered at Durham, Archdeacon Thorpe made the
lowing pertinent observations on pews,and on the shorten
ing of services :—" It was important that the for
arrangement of the sittings be adapted for the realizstl:
of devotion as well as to the convenience of the pee
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For example, it was well that the congregation 911,°,:i
worship in one direction, not facing each other to
mutual annoyance ; but looking one way ; and and°,
he might say, a Catholic custom, as well as with s°l!;s
propriety, directed them to the East. They should I's ,
space to kneel, for their prayers required that provisl
and to sit with comfort, for their services were long.
would have the seats so constituted as to support e
part of the form, not occupying more space than necessl
not impeding the sight of any of the congregation,
damaging the effect of a religious assembly. 'All of th
open, free, unencumbered by doors, and, he would oli,
moveable. He then dwelt upon the better feeling IN
was manifesting. itself amongst the community upon A,
pew question. Men begin to see the hardship of I:TA
views which excluded a portion of their fellow-parishionrei
from the house of their common religious offices. 11/1
begin to feel that the square or oblong box, with
cushions and the curtains, was destructive of congreg
tional harmony. They felt that the church was neti,e
place ostentatiously to mark the separation from tnj
Christian brethren, with whom, whether of the sr/
social rank or not, or of the same place in the world, trh,
were soon to mingle in the dust. Before he left that
ject, he would commend to their consideration the
sity of leaving shorter and more frequent services, ana.'"
opening of the churches for the exercise of private deven(
They were in some degree restrained by the Acty
uniformity ; but why should their prescribed serviceS,4
always used together ?—in the morning prayers litany, Zit
communion offices, and sermon, all in one. It was '74
the practice of the boy who duly recited all his prayers,
the Satnrdav ,;Tht that they might be neglected duff;
the week. Why shell d their people be discouraged fr
resorting at any tune to their sacred places for meditated
andprayer ?"—Church and State Gazette.