, 1866-02-26

American securities Of all kinds arc dull a,
very little business doing In them.
JOHN BULL, JR.
RELIGIOUS PARTIES IN ENGLAN]
The Established Church.
Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribunal
LONDON. Jan. 81. 1865.
| Where there Is State church, eccleslastlc,
affairs must frequently be forced upon the a
teation Of politicians md secular writer's. an
This IS cmInently the case with England. vi,
LIS 1t is extremely difficult to define the limit
Of the spiritual and the temporal; to sa
which particular act springs from the hishe
motive of bcuefiting The souls Of men, m
| which from the merely selfish desire t
] strengthen the Government. We cannot de
| 1crMtne, In some cases, where the clay passc
into tho gold. It is one of the many evils q
n Statc church. that in the eyes of the worl,
| almost every act of the State in regard to re
lisious affairs Is set down to motives of pru
dence. We have prodiglous efforts in ou
time to meet what is called the "spiritual dcs
tilution" Of our popnlons cities; but th,
Bishops and Archbishops who enlarge upot
the necessity arc deaf to the sueers of th,
mass Of the Indifferent, who will not recoc
nize, in the creatures OF Prime Minister anl
the recipients Of enormous incomes, the dis
interested friends OF the race.
In the House Of Lords in 3 day or two tht
visitor will sec clustering together upou
benches set apart for their use. twenty o,
thirty djgnitaTfcs Of the Church sitting In full
blown lawn sleeves, and suggesting the chant
ofthe choristers, and the nasal sounds Of the
curnte. These arc the bishops who viii take
part in most Of tho debates, and the maIority
OF whom will probably be found voting ere
long against the grant Of even modicum ol
the right which is to be offered by tho Govern
ment to the unrepresented thousands Of our
land. OF these Bishops am not exagrcrat.
ing the facts when I say that not half dozen
Of them owe their elevation to their theolor-
ieal learning or 10 their piety and zeal. When
Avacancy occurs In blshoptic, we all OF us
tnsttnctiyely look round to SEQ Eho Ct DOS
s'b1c men has the greatest influence with
the ministry; who will bring to. the
Government Of the day, the la.gest
number Of yoles. It Is the uyyh1p-
pers-tn," the Tadpoles and the Tapcrs
who mike our Bishops. If the Tories arc
In, the new man is d Tory Bishop; Ir the
Wings hold office, another Whig settles
down On the bench. And 80 through the
long list Of church posiiions, from an Arch
bishopric to Canonry. The State cares only
for Itself; the whole proceeding Is intensely
worldly, and the Office Of caring for mems
welfare Is on precisely the same footing as
that Of sinecure In the E1che9uer. To ap-
point the man who will pay the most for
1t in Lis support hencciorth Of the party 10
whom he owes his elevation, Is the sole
concern. This Is the plain truth, though
You will not find It stated 30 directly BIZ every
one
But 1t Ia not on the abstract question Of a
State Church that propose TO write. Ny In
teution Is rather to giTe you notion Of how
We stand In the important respect Of religious
admin9tration-confn!ng myselfi Ia this letter
to the. Established Church, and leaving the
dissenting bodies to subsequent eommunica-
tion. The Church Is bcstirriug itself to keep
pace with It's myriad rivals, md 1t Is interest
ing to estimate her capacities.
The first significant peculiarly to be
noted, Is the undoubted decline of the cysn-
gcllcal or calvinistic party. During Lord Pal.
merston's time. many c1ergymen Of this sec
tion of the church were won over 10 the gov
ernment side by the gifts to members from
their midst, Of some Of the prizes at the dis.
posal Of the Premier. The worthy Earl OF
persuaded Lord Palmerston, who
WAS himself Vo1tarian, TINT If some evan
eelical clergy were converted into bishops,
there would be great accession ofetrength to
The government, and Lord Pa1mcrston believed
bim. But these men, however estImablc in
thcir private charcter, have proved themselves
80 narrow, so uuculturcl aud 80 singularly
Iguoruut of the times In which they live, that
they have weakened, rathcr than Otherwise,
The liberal hold upon Office. do not nt all
shfnk we arc likely to see any more
If their number transferred to con-
'picuous posts for a long time to
come. This is not the place for treating OF
Ihe inner history Of religious movements, or
could show you how fully the evangelical
:lcrgy recognize their loss Of power, and the
means which they propose to adopt to rccor-
.rit. But who, then, are getting to the lead
Il you ask this question here, in religious cir.
les, many would give you the reply, the |
This class Of churchmen are un-
1oubtedly entering with more display than
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