Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-20
From the n. I. Express.
Heresy, schisua, or what!

Her Majesty, the Queen, I'VE mean of the course
Ihe Queen of Engand,) ha- recently given great
concern to the High Churchmen at home, on ac-
count of certain thing she is in the habit of do
ing when away from them during her summer So
journs in the Highlands of Scotland As the mat.
ter is making something of ado in the religious
world abroad, and is beginning to excite no little
remark here, the reader will thank US perhaps for
giving the facts in nutshell. Her Majesty then,
as the story goes when she is at her palace Of Bal
moral, has inclination for attending the Sunday
service OF the little Presbyterian kirk in the sdia-
cent village of Craithie and during her last autumn
nal visit there, heard sermon ION the Religious
of Common Life, from the Minister, certain Rev
John Card, which appears to have greatly pleased
HeT Majesty, she forth~ ith takes the unusual step
of commanding its publications. thing which du-
ring her whole reign OF nearly 20 years, it is said
she has never done toward any divine whether
Bishop, Priest or deacon OF her own, that is the
Established Church, notwithstanding that ste boasts
of being not only its "earthly head but the "De-
| fender Of its Faith" The High Churchmen, as
might be naturally interferred intensely scan.
dslized as this extraordinary, and TO them very
suspicious inclination to Presbyterianism, And
| their journals are not very choice either in the
terms they employ to characterize this ''ndiscreton
or something worse. 1t was bad enough to 90 to
Presbyterian Church-bad to listen TO a discourse
from Puritan parson,-but worse on returning
home toiWndsor to order, officially, its re-publcS-
toni While the-adherents of the Establishment
are thus working themselves into high fever on the
subject the secular press and other organs of po-
pular inderentism, inclined to applaud the con-
duct of the Queen, as acceptable indication that
her notions on religion are undergoing process Of
liberalism, which may, by and by, tend to a sunder-
ing OF the Church from the State. Sympathising
with the opposite view OF the case we observe the
Churchman here and some other journals of that
school Of the American branch of the Episcopal
Church, pronounces Her Majesty's ideas of ''the
religion of common life" suspicious, holding
that the fact of attending Presbyterian kirk at all
was wrong, according to the principle, if not also
the very canons of which Queen Victoria is, as Der
Prayer Book states, Supreme Governor" and ac-
cordng the strict letter OF the law Of the Church.
she was thereby ipso facto excommunicate.
What tends to the aggravation OF the case, are
said to be the lately accumuating manifestations Of
rationalsm or, at least Unitarianism, on the part
of the Prince Consort also The dissenters,-and
particularly the Presbyterians-are in ecsscies with
the Queen-whe the Nothngarians and Liberalists
| $50 called) express warm hope Of Prince Albert.
What the Church proposes to assert it's dgniA
ty and its authority-in these tendencies are
pursued on the part of its supreme Governor "
it is difficult to say-but that there is trouble ahead
! it is quite certain.