The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-30 00:00:00

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I.:Pgir.ll'.l A. op 771 F. BISHOP UP AuRIFICH.

The liishopof Norwich arrived in Bury St. Edmund's
sin. 1 Itor.4.'oy last, and held his visitations fur the !Jean-
ette, of llartsnirre Thedwastre, and Bury. The reeler-
:ale Prelate then delivered his charge, or a 6ich the ful-
l. sting is a brief outline:—lle began by expressing his
to avoid any allusion to politics ; and thence oh-
s. ryes!, that the fifteen years, during which he had pre-
sided over the diocese, had passed over his head with
1:r less anxiety than he conld have anticipated, from the
exemplary conduct of the clergy, and the strict attention
hy them generally to those objects which it was
:1.-o proper to have in view ; so much so, that the pre-
s• lit visitation would seem rather to have been instituted
in compliance with a wise and long established custom
any absolute necessity at this period. After a
r% further prefatory remarks, his Lordship gave it as
is opinion, that the charge of irrelig' among the
'Agile at the present lilac, was in a great degree
groundless; and in confirmation of this he appealed to
the increased and increasing support given to our vari-
ous charitable institutions ; to the National, Lancaste-
rims, and Sunday Schools ; to the Church Nlissionary
Society ; to that for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Voreign parts; to that for pr ting Christian Know-
Maze ; and above all, to that most excellent one, the
British and Foreign Bible Society. With respect to re-
iigions education, he said he thought it should be ex-
tended to persons ()revery denomination, inasmuch as all
;ire ronstitnent members of the State; and speaking ge-
nerally of those who, making the Bible the ground of
their faith and rule of their practice, vet dissent from
the tenets of the Established l'hurch, he most warmly
toleration ; and avowed his opinion that
the choral would never he endangered by difference of
•eioiownt, 30 111111.11 as by higotted adherence to our own
ideas, and unlimited condemnation of those of others.
Fur his own part, lie said, that, regardlesa of the impu-
tation of Inke-warmness in the cause of the Established
I 'him+, to which he was most sincerely :Ma/lied (as lie
trusted his life had proved), he shoal.' at all times he
happy to give the rizht bawl of fellowship. and every
essistance in his j •er, to the Christian (of whatever
denomination) who would concur with him in doing
Rood ; for he felt convinced, that by so doing he was
forwarding a Christian object by Christian charity,
which it was his wish to substitnte universally for secta-
rho asperity. lie next adverted to the internal schisms
4.‘ the Church on the abstruse points of our belief, and
observed, that f the manner in which the controversy
1....1 been carried un, the Church was in his opinion more
eiohingered from this than any other cause, lie concluded
1,;, excellent charge by exhorting the clergy to follow
the examples of a Cranmer and Ridley ; to he moderate
in argument, though firm in belief: to adhere to their
1.14 n principles, but to make every allowance for conscien-
tious difference of opinion, whether among their brethren
of the t•burch, or dissenters from it ; and, above all, to
cultivate most religiously Christian charity and good-
will towards all men.