The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
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3. Equal privileges of wor-
ship shall be secured to the
poor as well as to the rich,
and a share of the front and
best places.
4. The most ample accom-
modation for devout kneeling
shall be provided throughout
the whole building.
5. The church shall be free
to all, certain benches only
during some of the services
being appropriated as an oc-
casional and temporary ar-
rangement.
6. There will be Divine Ser-
vice at such times as are
found most convenient for all
classes, with Holy Commu-
nion on all Sundaysand Holy-
Days ; Offertories from the
whole congregation ; and
frequent Sermons.
But it is obvious, that To those who know Liver-
this remedy for existing evils pool, it will be evident that,
cannot be supplied to, the notwithstanding the exertions
people of Liverpool without that can be made among the
the assistance of strangers. inhabitants to follow up this
The bulk of the inhabitants, beginning, the work must in-
including the wealthy and in- entably fail without the aid
fluential, are quite satisfied of strangers. The bulk of the
that things should remain as people, including the wealthy
they are. And even where and influential, are quite sa-
a suspicion may exist that tisfied that things should re-
there is room for improve- main as they are. And even
ment, there is always at band where a suspicion may exist
that dread of disturbing exist- that there is room for improv-
ing arrangements, and of ap- ment, there is always at hand
pearing to countenance novel- that dread of disturbing exist-
ties, which prevents so many ing arrangements, and of ap-
prudent persons from aiding pearing to countenance novel-
in the reformation of abuses. ties, which prevents so many
prudent persons from aiding
in the reformation of abuses.
Notwithstanding these dith- Notwithstanding these diffi-
culties, and the conviction culties, and the conviction
which must press itself upon that must press itself upon
the promoters of such a the promoters of such a
scheme, that the project, to scheme, that the work, to be
be successful, ought to be on successful, ought to be on a
a liberal, and even a grand liberal scale, it is confidently
scale, it is confidently believed believed that there is a spirit
that there is a spint awakened awakened in this country by

in this country-by the Provi- the Providence of God, which
dence of GO, !kick will not will not suffer so great and

I suffer so great, holy, and good bajy .act; undertaking to be
a work, to be abandoned for abandoned for lack of funds,
lack of funds, in a locality in a locality where the exigen-
where the exigencies of the cies of the Church call thus
Church call thus loudly for loudly for religious sympathy.
religious sympathy.
It is humbly believed, that It is humbly believed, that
if this work be undertaken, as if this work be undertaken,
it ought to be, not in a spirit a it ought to be, not in a spirit
of rivalry, but for the honour of rivalry, but for the honour
of God, and to vindicate the of GOD, and to justify the
Prayer Book of the Church of PRAYER BOOK of the Church
England, it will, under His of England, it will, under His
blessing, go on and prosper, blessing, go on and prosper,
and be the means of promot- and be the means of promote
ing the growth of Catholic ing Catholic truth, not here
truth, not here only, but in only, 'but in distant places.
distant places. It cannot be It cannot be sufficient for the
sufficient for the success of success of the present 'reli-
the present religious revival, gious revival that justice
that justice should be done to should be done to our Apos-
ourApostolic Ritual in London tolic Ritual in the metropolis
only, and that there and else- and elsewhere, in the erection
where new churches should of noble churches, and the
arise, exhibiting all the archi- establishment of frequent
tecturalbeauty of former ages, services, while, at the same
combined with the purity of time, the strongholds of Pu-
primitive worship, while, at ritanism are untouched, and
the same tinie,the strongholds the chief towns of the pro-
of Puritanism are untouched, vinces are left in the hands of
and the chief towns of the those who clamour for a revi-
provinces are left in the hands aion of the Prayer Book. "If
of the enemy. "If one mem- one member suffers, all the
ber suffers, all the members members suffer with it." On
suffer with it." On this this ground it is that we make
ground it is that we make our our appeal, and ask for assis-
appeal, and ask for assistance. tance. The committee pro-
We propose to ourselves a pose to themselves a work
work which, unaided, we are which, unaided, they are in-
incompetent to undertake, but competent to undertake, but
which, once accomplished, which, one e accomplished,
will, we trust, not only prove will, they trust, prove not
its own vindication, but the only its own vindication, but
vindication of similar works the vindication of similar
of piety throughout the works of piety throughout the
country. country.
The committee, in conclu-
sion, would especially urge,
that—
]. Whatever, in piety and
sympathy,. is given in further-
ance of this holy undertaking
will go towards _ESTABLISH-
ING FOR EVER THE OFFER-
ING OF PERPETUAL PRAYER
AND PRAISE. This will be
secured by providing in the
trust deed that the proceeds
of a distinct endowment for
this purpose shall be payable
to some specified charity, if
the Daily Prayers are at any
time intermitted.
2. As a guarantee that the
architecture and other ar-
•
rangements and furniture
shall be as correct and unex-
ceptionable as possible, all
the plans will be submitted
to the Ecclesiolpgical (late
Cambridge Camden) Society,
every assistance being already
kindly promised by that body,
and its architect, Mr. Butter-
field, having been accordingly
fixed upon as the architect of
this work.
3. Donations are at present
only solicited •conditionally,
i. e., to be payable in the event
• of the sum raised being suffi-
cient to do justice to the
• scheme. The •Committee,
therefore, very earnestly re-
Should you be disposed quest- the favour of an early
to render us assistance:there reply to this appeal; and
are a variety of ways in which while they do not presume to
this may be done. It may be look for large donations from
either by a present donation, strangers, it is hoped that a
or a future bequest; uncon- small offering will not be
ditionally, or upon the condi- deniedthem, if only as a token
tion of a certain sum being of sympathy, and au encou-
raised ; to the building, or to ragement to perseverance.
the endowment of the Daily 4. The Committee pledge
Service ; in the shape of themselves to do all that can
money, or by an offering of possibly be done among the
some church furniture or or- inhabitants of Liverpool, to
nament. While we do not pre- raise money from all classes.
sume to look for much from And to some extent they
those who have no local con- doubt not that the appeal will
nection with Liverpool, it is be successful: for the pro
earnestly hoped that at least posed Church is not only
something may becontributed, designed to create a taste for
if it be oply as a token of a higher character of religious
approval and sympathy, and services, but to relieve a pre.
as an encouragement to per- sent want already deeply felt
severance. by many of the inhabitants
_ _ _

I am, yours very faithfully, I am, yours very faithfully,
CECIL WRAY. CECIL WRAY,
Liverpool, May, 1852. Incumbent of St. Martin's.
It will be observed at once, by every attentive reader of
these two remarkable documents, that they are anything
but identical. The one had been privately circulated as
a letter among the supposed sympathisers with the
miter, from May, 1352. The other appeared as a pro-
spectus to the public, only in Septembe; 1853. The latter
was, indeed, offensive enough, but yet it was gentleness
itself compared with the former. It studiously omitted
much ; it mitigated and toned down more ; it introduced
fresh matter, such as seemed convenient. The whole of
the first paragraph of the letter, and the whole of the
seventh had absolutely disappeared in the prospectus.
Not a word Was now said of " the rebuilding of the walls
of our Zion," laid low by sacrilegious Puritanism. Not
a word now of " the decayed beauty of our sanctuary ;"
not a word now, by this member of the United Church,
of " the large proportion of the Clergy" at whose door
was the unpardonable sin that they had come "from
Ireland." Perhaps this grievance would not quite have
commended itself to the Churchmen of Liverpool. Not a
whisper, again, was any longer heard of that " cha-
ritable !"
supposition of Mr. Wray, that the "irregulari-
ties" of his brethren were "the result not so much of
wanton indifference to their ordination vows, as to the
present unsatisfactory state of Church discipline ; and to
the belief, entertained ALSO by many ill-informed Dis-
senters, that our venerable Book of Common Prayer con-
tains a large amount of covert Popery." It was thought
as wise, too, to say nothing now of " bracketting " the
Prayer-Book. Again, some hard phrases were replaced
by softer synonymes. The dark " conspiracy " to buy up
churches had become no more than a legitimate " com-
bination." And we, poor Puritans, be it well observed,
were no longer described as " LIE ENEMY ;" this " chief
town" was now but "in the hands of those (and I pro-
test they are among us but as myths to me,) who clamour
for a revision of the Prayer-book." Lastly, amidst the
fresh matter of the prospectus not found in the letter,
was one remarkable passage, which intimated that the
proposed operations were to be carried on " against
Papal pretension on. the one hand, and Dissent on the
other." This was to the public of Liverpool ; a politic
appeal to our notorious Protestant sympathies, and our
enlightened Churchmansliip. But when the writer was
addressing himself to his own party, in a policy as deep,
these pretexts were not resorted to, because they would
have been thrown away. The mask on the other hand
was openly flung aside, and war was proclaimed only upon
one Enemy," and that neither Papal nor Dissenting,
but within his own Communion—the so-called Puritan-
ism of his brethren.

So much for these two documents and their instructive
varieties. And now for Mr. Pughe—towards whom I
certainly hoped to have maintained the silence I had
prescribed to myself, for, in sooth, I care not to break a
lance with such an adversary—but I feel strongly that I
am not at liberty to fall back on personal considerations,
when I am so distinctly called upon as now to defend the
cause of truth and honesty from the artifices employed
against it. Mr. Pughe must have known of the private
letter when he said on July 13th that " it was neither
written nor printed for circulation among the Puritan
party." It was, moreover, supplied to him by me in the
columns of the Standard, and his attention directed by
me to its most offensive statements. Mr. Pughe must
also have been fully acquainted with the language of the
prospectus, and with the fact that it differed from the
letter. At least, I charitably hope that the prospectus,
and not the letter, was before him when he said on July
13th that there was "nothing in it to justify" my para-
phrase of Mr. Wray's language that " the enemy must be
driven out." And what now must be thought of the
clergyman who, in the very act of referring to my com-
ments on passages in the letter, which were, as we have
seen, carefully excluded from the published prospectus—a
prospectus so importantly differing from the letter
throughout—had yet the hardihood to affirm, deliberately
and in writing, that " all Mr. Pollock's rodomontade
about the prospectus being a prize of war, and to be dealt
with accordingly, was sufficiently answered by reminding
him that IT WAS HANDED TO THE EDITOR OP THE
"MAIL," AND By HIM PUBLISHED IN FULL at the time
when the scheme was first advertised in the local papers I"
I may simply observe that it will not avail Mr. Pughe to
pretend that he was distinguishing here between the
letter and the prospectus, as I, for clearness' sake, have
distinguished between them. That which I called the
prize of war was the letter, and for it Mr. Pughe manifestly
puts forward, in denial of the character I had given it, this
pretended full publication.
It will be necessary for me to address myself further to
Mr. Pughe's assertions, that even " while printing it, (the
letter, or as he now calls it, the prospectus)
in full, I have
twice misrepresented it, and that most grossly," One of
my "misrepresentations" lies in the fact that, I charged
Mr. Wray with having denounced the clergy of Liverpool,