The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-22
RATE OF oFsUBsoRIpTIoNs.
lEPIsCOPAL. CHURCHs sNIATrERs.

a'EPISCOPAL CHURCH MATTERS. (
The RifuaIfsfIo Tendeneies at Present
Prevailing I'm Some Portions OF the
Established; ;Church--RIShOp CoIen!
SOS late TrOubIes---The Award OF
2 ing his Heresy!!- q 1 yll1 ~ i u iiJ I
The Right Rev DR.. Ellicott, Bishop OF
Gloucester and Bristol, preached at
Bristol Cathedral, England, November
4th, on the rftualistic tendenciesl at
present prevailing in some portions Of
the established church, Innthe course
of his remarks he said: H. 30
"Our colonial churches are ycluster-
ing around us with warmth and affec-
ton that far, far eountervails the mere
accident of legal and technical indepen-
Fdence. The whole EpiscopaI5 Church
of America seems animated by one
pervading desire of still more closely
cementtng union with the church
from which she sprang. That is one5of
the haPpiest and most cheering SIGNS
of the eVentfQl days in which we iowi
are living, Nay, even dissent is almost
yearly seeming 10 draw itself nearer.
and nearer, in its very forms ofawor-
ship, tothat church from which forms
mainly separated 1t, The deep de-
SS22AAS ASh lNAASA may ,SSLt .bGt 5dLlSL1eQS
but not as we may have hoped or,
expected: 1t may be that union must
begin with the churches of Epis-
copal Professionalism, and that It must
be from them and through them that
in the fulness of time it is to extend to
all the churches of the world.,yaAt. any
rate, never, never let US be ashamed Of
that word, which is so often urged
against us as q very watchword of dis
union-never let us shrink from sneak.
ing of our church as Protestant. Cath
Ole ttgis in its faith and principles
Protestant in its attitude to false teach
tnEa9d tnI;, n d9c!rlqai error. Ara we, 70 be
Is not one of the holiest titles of the
universal church a negative title? Is
notthe whole Church ;of Christsa mill
tant Church, militant against sin, the
world, and the devil, even as our own
branch Of that Church is iProtestan
PROTESTANT agninst perversion md cor
ruption2 God forbid that we should
ever be tempted to disowny the attitude
which jealousy for the honor Of our
dear Lord compelled us to assume
God forbidithatlour churchIshould ever
merge her honorable and dearly bought
title in the dangerous.ands sdistoyal ac-
!quiescence of doctrinnl compromised
The ,irrepressible Bishop Of Natal has
beaten his advefsar1es in a otvil. action
in=England. question. at issucin-
volyed no points ofecclesiastic law, but
turned upon thePayment of his SALARY.
The Master of the Rolls pronounced a
long decision on the 9th instant, from
whichitappeared that the payment of
the annual income of DR.. .Colenso, from
the Colonial BIsh hopric fund, was resist
ed by the treasurerss of the fund on the
ground that the Bishop was no Bishop hhS55r
at-allS having no Jurisdiction after the
decision of the Privy Council in his
case. The master of the Rolls decided
as follows:
"rhe appointment of DIR. Colenso as
Bishop of Natal might be looked upon
as contract between the Crown, the
representatives OF the Colonial Fund,
and DR.. Colenso, and SO long as DIR. CO.
lensO performed his part of the contract
and there was nothing before tho
court to show that he had not done So.
he was entitled 70 ting pepettts ofit. In
the case of DIR. sColenso lceasing to be
Bishop OF Natal, and d new prelate be-
ing appointed in his place, new stipula-
tions might, of course, be introduced;
but SO far as DR.. Colenso was concerned
the present contract must be held as
binding, and WbateYsnths 2pInjfeen pi,je 2t of
Tue suosctIoeEs 70 IueIEUn1 mlBnG pe IL
9P oSnid abs not & dsRFiYs R e DiS DS bis GolenSo ms,
ary. If DIR. Colenso had not per-
formed his part of the contract, or If
he had wfltu1ly done any wrong, so as
to disentitle him to payment under it,
the case might have been different; but
there, was noacase. before the aCo1rh to
show that eheshad not done the one, or
that he had done the other; and there
fore the Court was bound to hold him
entitled to the relief The gprayed..FFhe
decree OF the Court would be that DIR.
Colenso was entitled to the relief asked
for by the prayer of his bill, and that
the defendants must fpay the costs Of
che suit. In making this order as to
costs the Court did not wish to imply
that the defendants could have acted
otherwise than they had done, as treasu-
rers of the fund of which they were tho
representatives, or thatB they ought not
to be unidentified, as to their COSTS out
Qfsuoh funds. DIR. Colenso would, of
course, have to pay the Attorney Gene
raj his costs, which, however, he could
add to his own costs and claim them
against the defend dants. "a tEfst}Fs
The London Daily NeiCs, comment
ing upon this decision, congratulates
DIR. Colenso on his success, and adds
that sthe Judgment confrmsf the prin-
ciple of the perfect freedom OF colonial
churches, and of thei readiness of the
state to secure TO- them all due observ-
anceoof the conditions under which
they are instituted" DIR. Colenso's
perseverance agafhst5 gigqnticT odds
shows that he is a man Of spirit.
s,UNnUuKx. wEDDISa DAYS! - Every
nation is more or less troubled with
Superstitious fears respecting marriage
and death. Days and months are
singled out as unlue&Ya fof marFiaels,
and are avoided asSteadfly and p6tsist-
emily as If dread of something stood
between them in the future. It Is the
and the AFTER 4lapP ri6f misery OF
the deceased is made to depend greatly
on tho season and the day in which they
shake on the mortal SOlA The HAti0ps
ok kASorthefu< EI1fUpe Seem t6t cling TO
these superstitions longer than any
others and the Scotch pro obably y3lOngest
of all, With them, even to this day,
Saturday Is an, sun1dck ~ day for mar
riages, and none are performed on that
day, and very few on Sunday. The
last day Of December, when il does not
wedding day of the Scots. The average
for several years on. that day was ], ,055,
while for any month OF the year besides
the <iaily marriages would not average
IS. When the 31se of December falls on
Saturday, however, superstition rules
the day. and the 91narEIaget record is
nearly blank; but the day previous is
usually taken in its stead. Something
similar, but not to such an extent, pre-
walls in Sweden and Norway z.-Assa
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