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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

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ana ins inspired apostles: This was not
the time to examine why we had stood aloof as mem-
bers of the holy Catholic Church ; he would rather direct
attention to the history of his church as fellow-members
with ourselves of the one body of Christ. If we were right
in calling ourselves an integral portion of the one true
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acnol. ...nurch, it was impossible that those who were so
one with ourselves in all spiritual matters, should be wrong.
He alluded to the reformed Catholic Church, under episco-
pal government in Scotland and the United States of
America ; the former of which, two centuries ago, and the
latter, half a century ago, received their orders from the
Church of England, and had adopted the English articles
and liturgy. They were, therefore, so far as they could—
and that extended to the whole of their discipline and their
II the essentials of church government—
one and the same with the Church of England. Of the
former of these, the reformed Catholic Church in Scotland,
which was especially under episcopal government, it was
his privilege and comfort to be a member and minister.
From this short account they must see that there never
was any reason why the members of that church should
not, when in England, seek to carry this into effect, nor
why the members of the Church of England should not

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receive them fully, as brothers in Christ. But whilst
we had always a brotherly feeling of this sort with re-
gard to all lay members, there existed, till very lately, a legal
impediment to our receiving clergymen and admitting them
to the exercise of any spiritual function with our clergy. Two

o that impediment was removed, both as it affected
our Scotch and our American brethren ; and it was under
that relieving' act proposed in a catholic and fraternal spirit
by the spiritual head of our church, and most readily acceded
to by all the branches of our lees

iture, that he, as a Scotch
ninister, with the sanction of our own venerable diocesan,
em the words of the gospel of reconcili-
before them, not as a volunteer, but at
local pastors, to plead the
great metropolis, under the
ding to the doctrines and discipline of the
established church.

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After this brief introduction, the right rev, bishop pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the subject before him. He
remarked that it was a peculiar feature in English polity that
that the general government meddled as little as possible with
the internal arrangements of society ; and that many mat-
ters—some material, and some moral—which in any of the
continental states would be considered as under the direction
of government alone, were here left entirely to the good will
and the good sense f every local community. Which of the
two systems was the best, whether they had too much and we
had too little of the interference of government, it was quite
was quite unnecessary for him in that place to inquire ; but
whilst, as far as we were concerned, this system left a great
deal to individual benevolence, it imposed on us a very deep
responsibility. On this ground the right rev, doctor esta-
blished his argument that we were bound, if we provided the
means for education, to see that it should be one founded
upon true religion. He illustrated this grand principle in a
variety of ways, each tending to impress it strongly on the
minds of the congregation •, and he concluded an able, elo-
quent, and most convincing discourse of about half an hour's
length, with a few words of impressive exhortation to the
assembled scholars. - . _. _ _