The Arkansas banner., 1849-11-20
The Engllsh charch s,.,en.


 The London correspondent Of the Boston Post q comes down" without mercy. upon the tyrannous abuses or the Engliah Church system. h the fol- lowing paragraph, he hss given some startling sta- silcs of the revenue tucked flom ,he people by the spiritual branch ofihe government
 H Any set of men, clergyman or others will in- esitsb.y become corrupt by giviagthem great pow CT and income, without any respaasibaiify, The English bshops have enormous incomes. and little or no duties, save idle ceremonies; and pext 10 no responsibility. Is !; 10 he wondered al. that they are often corrupt, lcentious and tyTaniea. Accord Ing to parliamentary returns. and 0,her official doe vmsnts t is shown that the income of the. Esiah. iished Chnreh" !" of England from IsOO tS Ist3. n period of foriy-tree years, was ( 430 .0OD OeO ar oper sro hoHsGnd millions ef doaafs! That is lO,OOO .OO8, nearly $50. .00J 0Q0 aBnualiv This comes out of the fat ol the lamd and sast 6s mid even though poor farmers or exemplary elerpy,nen sos in tal The pous abettoSs of this glorious sys- lem tell you very naively, that the charch takes nothing but its own" What is ss its own ,s Whv at the reiormaitcu." the .king and parliament ; turned over to the Episeopal, what had been Catho lie funds. Originally law was passed, but ii was so long ago, 1t Is difficult 10 find the identical Aet ot Parliament; there was an enactment, that nunIer- oas large and yalUahle tracts Of land and edIfices together ieih tssM Of a the products of the then surveyed andcutisaed farms of England, should be given sO the church establishment That appears 10 be the definition of what Is church proper,y All lands arc purchased subject 10 the tlshes: no matter how much the land may be made 10 produce by the industrious and skiillnl ruIgivator. See how inc Bishops Of the Engiisa Church in Iceland. where over quarter oI the population are paupers, aud less than tenth are Ptotestants,--see how thsv leather their nests. By Parliamentary reporf. from facts and returns from will offices as furnished To the House ot Com nons by Captain Osborne, it was shown that during the life ii,ne of eleven Irsh State Bishops, they aflassed the enormous sun of El,S75.O00 or almost million dollars eaeh oa the average. One. Agar, bishop of Cashei, left up estate Of E400,000. Aud this. as learned mem- Der said one day n the House of Commons, is !" in ireltad where they have priests without incomes hscks without churches eaarctes ,eiikout eoncrs gatiOns, aud benehced clergy with lew or no duties 10 pertorm!' ''
 This l" establishment is called the poor rnnn,s church. As an able writer has II, 'sIt may be called the poor man's,' for it possesses the PooR MANS property! Dives have robbed Lazaru., and with the spoil has bought paiase, and lodges in it. Not satisfied with this the church does not disdain occasionally to seize the POOR MAss pots and pans and even the bed thai he lies selling them by public auction to raise funds to wash the priests surplces and ring their bells.''
 will pray. like Marion in Carolina, that British cruelty should increase, and that most FeIigiousiy, and sincerely that the wickedness, the coveousness and the cruelty oi the established church oi England with ali Us pampered bishops, clergy, and official hankeys town 10 the most insignificant parish eadie may increase m enorInity in faster and faster degree, that the ensaved masses a,nong the well meaning but deiuded public Of Grea, Bfitain may the sooner the chains that bind and the yrants that forge them. It would be doubtless better for few thousand to die, and more to suiier, within short tune, II "reyoiGiion , would result from 1t and dash this graceless. hypocriti- cal phantom to the earth, rather than that u should just remain eHdarabie and continue to fester, corrupt and lDpoyerish the millions who now labor Tor subsistence. together with those who are to form the bone and sinew of iuture generations.