Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-05-03

--PAreIcK DOMAINE. For sale in y. York by
| DUNCAN & BROTHER.
This work of the former Episcopal Bishop oi
/ y Carolina has been looked for With ma sh'ali ~,
/ terest DR.. IvEs writes like a man thoroughly
in earnest. and allowing that hi different pfem-
Sc and postuates are right. his mode Of con
Quoting his arguments certainly not weak one.
lie maintains that certainty in the faith Is 10 be
sought for and expeeted-that Gods KeVeiailoh
i to be received and submitted To without reserve
that God has made the Church the medium oi
his guidance in an unlimited sense--flnt the ziale
Of Professionalism is not reconeeable with The
prophecies concerning the Church's latter days
ihni the Church of England does not claim mai
lbiIiiy and therefore cannot be the exponent al
Gods infabe will that the Reformation III
England was not conducted on the principle oil
submission to the Primitive Catholic Church
thai tradition is a necessary key to the facts oil
Church history-that the Church of England Is
the mere child of the state--that the submission
of the Church of England To the temporal power
is perpetuated, and her position fixed 10y the Par
lament of Elizabeth-that separation from the
Chair of st. Peter must be fatal to the Anglican
and hence to the American Episcopal claims
that the prinacy Of st. Peter Is interviewer III the
faith aud discipline of the Primitive Catholic
Church and that il alone be the Church OF
Christianity. In reference to his personal course
and experience the author says:
The last year and half of my episcopate was,
| can truly say, the most trying, the most pain-
ful, period of my life although one of apparent
auietness, official success, and restored CONN
dence After the immediate effects of my con
yention in the spring Of 1852 (which, ms you will
remember, resulted in reconciliation between
myself and the disailected part of my diocese)
had passed off, and my mind, long pressed down
bya weight Of sore trial, had time to react 1t
came up at once, and to my own surprise, to It's
former level of Catholic belief indeed, it was
like waking from pleasant dream to frghtful
reality. had actually hattered myself into the
belief that my doubts had left me, and that
could henceforward act with quiet conscience
on Protestant ground. But, on recovering from
the stupefacton of over much sorrow found my
self fearfully deceived; found that what had ia
ken for permanent relief Of mind was only the
momentary insensibility of opiates or exhaustion.
When | came again to myself, however, was
visited with reflections which no man need envy.
The concessions | had made, in good faith at
the time, for the peace of the Church, and, as |
had falsely supposed, for my own peace, rose up
| efore me as so many conces siOnS, and cOwardly
ones too, TO The god fthis icorid. SO that can
say with the deepest truth that the friendiness
which greeted me my subsequent visitation
through my diocese was most Hnteetc0me to my
heart. Every kind word of those who hal spo
ken against the truth seemed a rebuke to me, ey-
ry warm shake of the hand to fall like ice upon
my soul | felt that had shrunk publicly from
the consequences of that truth which God had
taught me-fclt thA | had denied that blessed
Master who had graciously revealed Himself to
me. But blessed be His name for that grace
which moved me to weep bitterly" Persecu-
ton for Christ's sake would then have been balm
to my wounded conscience. And nothing.
think, but the preearous state OF one whom had
vowed to keep in sickness well health"
prevented an earlier ayowal of my dsquietude
and an earlier abandonment of my diocese.
For all this suffering, however, G cd forbid that
| should blame any one but myself Others may
have acted according to their conscientious CON
victions | resisted mine and ON grounds that
would not bear the test of calm reflection, and
how much less the searching light of Eternity!
| ought to have known myself better, ought 10
have known the way of Gods grace and truth
better. Perhaps, however,-and here try to
comfort mysclf-there may be in all This token
of Divine mercy; for it may have prepared me to
bear the more patiently the heavy cross which
was TO be laid upon me- to drink the more readily
of that bitter chalice which was put into my
hand. For can say, with depth of t nth
which no one but Catholic can understand,
"Ihe Lord is mig light and my salpatjon whom
then, shall fearl The LORD is the strength Of
life of whom, then, shall | be afraid" And
further, | can suffer, as a Catholic alone can
comprehend, and count it all Joy, lift only be for
/
| And now dear brethren,I have only to add, take
warning by my sutferings; take courage by my
| blessings; take example from him "who endured
the cross. dcspsing the shame, and is set down AT
| the right hand of God" The scenes of eartl
will soon be past, and we shall then feel the true
| force of our Lords words. ale that lorsaketl
not all that he hath cannot be my disciple"
have loved you WE'LL have labored for you
rnestly; and now feel it to be privilege, too
| great for human tongue to express, to be able
each day to plead in your behalf the sacrifice of
present God and Savior yea,to plead that he may
ere long, through the riches of his own mercy ant
the power of his condescending love, make yor
partakers of the new and unutterable Joy which
now feel when declare before God that Il BE.
L1EYE ONE CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH,
HoRRoRs OF THE GuANo TRApE.--We have re.
ceived full confirmation of the horrors reported
to be III course of preparation, i'll connection
| with the guano trade, Mt the Chincha Islands II
is picked up and wheeled to the shoots, it APP
pears by contract. The contractor has imported
| Cinnamon for this work. nearly six hundred of
whom are now on these Islands. They are hir-
ed for five years, at the rate OF SIS per annum.
They commence work in the morning as soon as
they can see to work. They have five tons of
guano TO dig and wheel to a distance of over one
eighth of mile. 1t is all, or nearly ALL so hard
that it has to be picked up and if they do not
accomplish these five tons by ) O'Clock F. NJ,
they are hogged with raw hide whips, some five
feet long, receiving dozen stripes, each of
which starts the blood; then they are driven back