Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-28
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The Ecclesiastical Commissioners who were en-
powered to determine the allowance did not aP-
prove of the character of the objects above speel-
fed. vet st was determined, his lordship fully
asserting, to establish his net income at the liberal
sum of Gs,oOO or $40, O0O per annum!
But my Lord Bishop is Bishop only, and not
Pope. and therefore not infallible, may be in
ferred from the fact of his being mistaken as to the
amount necessary for his support, which appears
from the fact of his having contrired by unfair and
indirect means to add to his net income out OF the
gross receipts the figure of 26,54O during the
period of seven years, thus increasing the emolu-
ments of his sacred Office to nearly fifty nine thous
and dollars year of filthy lucre, besides the heav-
enIY recompense so surely to accrue
Now, the London Times is very justly Indignant
at this thing, and thinks it Incompatible with my
& Lord Bishops position San elevated teacher OF
religion, and the obligations imposed upon him as
: peer of the realm" " Can he deny" asks the
Times that his conscience has been the feeble
and unresistng captive of his purse-that his love
of money has openly trumphed over principle, and
his selishness prevailed over the claims upon him
as a Christian minister, and his obligations as an
English preate If not, the more is the pity, the
degradation, and the shame; and aUe can only
hope that the system aOhich has produced such re-
salts may soon be GnnihiLdted forever"
Start not gentle reader The London Times
means nothing serious by this or it certainly does
not mean what you may understand from its words.
The system of government that unltes the Church
and State is not desired to be revoutonized! The
system that rewards aistocratc and luxurious pre-
lates for doing nothing, and starves humble and
pious curates who perform their duties, Is not in
tended to be changed. The system the Times
wishes to see annihilated forever is simply some
little arrangement in the discussing operations Of
the government, which that journal fancies could
be greatly bettered by the enactment of bill short
ly to be introduced by the Marquis of BLANDFoRD,
son Episcopal and Capitular Estates" the main
object of which, are told, is to transfer their
management from their administrators to other
bodies.
The system that tempts the most brilliant men
of the world to profane the calling OF the Christian
ministry and to bring discredit upon the institu-
tons of religion, will remain untouched by the
hand of the reformer so long the aristoratic in
stitutions of that country continue and so long as
religious Journalism occupies the place of spiritual
christianity; and the rehgionist who reverences
the principles of piety in his church, we care not
what his creed must seek for its existance in purity
beyond the confines of the realm in which that
church is upheld by the political power of the land
whose embraces is banefu to its vitality than
the fercest opposition and the bitterest persecution
it is possible for it to encounter.
Happily we are free from such evils, as we trust
ever to continue from the degradation of the pull
pit, by making it the tempting pathway to fortune
empt, the exceptions only serving to enforce the |
important admonition that the example of others
should be adequate to impress upon That the |
teachers of religion should live in comfort and ex-
empt from anxieties respecting the means of their
support, we readily CONSENT but he who, in that |
Office manifests an inordnate love of gain, or who
is ever ready to depart from its restraints in the
pursuit of riches, gives warrant to the world to |
conclude, without the just imputation of unchari-
tableness, that in ever entering upon its momen-
tous responsibilities he guilty of an error of
the darkest hue That such instances are unfre- |
quent, and that the Christian ministry in the Uni
ted States bears testimony to the wisdom of the |
policy that leaves the institutions of religion free
alike from the hand of political legislation and op-
preston IS gratifying result of the great expert
ment OF THE REPUBLICAN MODE OF GOVERN
AIENT" which we would rejoice to see made prof. /
table unto others. But my Lord Bishop of Dnr-
ham is no doubt well convinced that the rcspecta-
bity OF the church requires that its preates should
live in manner worthy of their position as eleva-
ted teachers of religion and of the obligations i'm
posed upon them rs peers of the realm and if an
ecclesiastical commission is niggard enough to
bubble about the apostolic appendages of game
keepers, and watchers, and parks, and manors, and
gardens, and lawns and to restrictm my Lord Bishop
to the nlggardly pittance of forty thousand dol |
lars year, what is my Lord Bishop to do? Is
he to permit the Establishment" to be disoraced
by his poverty! Clearly not, while the opportunity
exists Of embezzling for such holy purposes the
little matter of nineteen thousand more in the
year. Ny Lord Bishop has not forgotten what is
due to Episcopal dignity, if the Commissioners
have. We marvel that the Times has no more re-
gard for the essential props of royalty than to ac-
knowledge that prelate who may expend forty
thousand year for the credit of the church can
begulty of any indiscretion in sequestering half
as much more to promote the same holy cause. In
other positions man might be suspected of selfish
and unholy desires; but in the church the right
eous endsshoud be kept in view, and regarded as
hallowing means that do not altogether partake I
OF Its exalted nature Wash. Republic.
Last week, at the session of Sampson Superior
Court, Judge Dick presiding, Joseph X. Groves
was tried for kidnapping Slave, the property of
DR.. B. stith, Of Clinton. The trial lasted two
days, and resulted in verdict Of guilty Mr.. So
lcitor Strange and Josiah Johnson, ESQ., for the {
State II. u. Holmes, d. Reid, aud VIM. Il. Sloz
cume, Esq'rs, for the prisoner. "A motion for i
new trial was made and oYer-ruled and sentence
OF OF death was pronounced. From this Judgment
s1s prisoner appealed to the Supreme Court