Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-08-28

the church curate. Very few of. thes
men arc graduates of Oxford OR Can
bridge They have had no reading 70
University honors. Their course of thee
logical study has been limited. The
arc not learned men, but many of ther
can tell .he STORY Of the Cross wit
great simplicity and earncstncss.
The President of the Conference, Rev
Mr. Bedford, man o. medium size. in tn
prime Of life, with countcnancc indica
tive Of frmness. decision, and bearing tn
marks Of hard study, prcsidOa with digni
by. He comes npon the platform withou
any ceremony, gives out q hymn, (
brother with a clear, strong voic'
strikes up that sublime choral Of Martin
Luther, the Judgment Hymn-sunG
throught Germany during the reformation
--sung by the great choir in your OWL
Music Hall when Charles Sumner gave
Bis sulogy on President Lincoln. Every
voice In the vast assembly joins. 1t is
such singing as may be heard in fremont
Temple at your May annivcrsarics-grand
and mighty.
The report relating to the Sundy schools
perhaps best shows the progress which the
denomination is making. There are in
Great British 5l37 Methodist schools,
with $4,000 teachers and scholars
Her gross increase during the past year
has been nearly 10000.
HOSTILITY OF THB ESTABLISHED CHURCH
The report dwells at length upon the
hostility Of the Established Church to the
Methodists. There ia a bigotry in the
Established Church, which has its coun-.
torpart in that of Rome 1t is directed
not only against the Methodists, but
Baptists, Congregationalists, Prcsbytcr-
iaps and Unitarians. heard an Eng
lishman say not long since that BIr Spur
geon was Glow fellow" le;haps be- |
cause he has the ability by plain, simple,
earnest preaching of filling his tabernacle
Sunday after Sunday year in and year
out, with a congregation Of tho working
people. But Mr. Spurgeon, Mr. Pension,
and indeed tho great body of lion comfort
lists, arc in the opinion of the hierarchy,
schismatics, who must be opposed. The
Sabbath school report says that in the
Norwich, York, Hall and Lincoln dis
tricts the Sabbath schools have had to
contend with the powerful opposition Of a
rural clergy. One minister reports thus
ministers Of the church Of England have
opened Sunday schools where once only
our own were found, and the utmost efforts
have been used, by with holding parish
charities and by denying our Sunday
school scholars the opportunity Of attcn.
ding the national day schools, to break
up our Sunday schools"
Another writes: "The scholars in this
place have been threatened with dismissal
from the National school unless they
would attend tho Church Sunday School,
and the consequence is breaking up of ,
our school !"
The report states further that the COM
pulsory attendance Of scholars in parochial
schools at the Church Sunday Schools
is fast becoming system of action. and
is openly avowed to be part of fixed
policy. A sentence from the MonthIy
Paper, an organ Of Ii, Church, will show
how dissenting Sunday Schools ore regard
ID: Il
"No day scholar should ever be allow
ID 70 attend Dissenting Sunday school.
You may allow him with comparative i'm
punity to attend Protestant Dissenters'1 6
meeting, provided he accompanies bis par.
ents-though even this must subject the T
loctrinal influence Of the week day school .
to violent wrench, and most crucial c
Trial, too probably resulting in sceptical q
habit Of mind. But to allow him to be
subjected to the iibelous. not 10 Gag l4as.
phemous, interpretations Of the !
Cbureh's doctrine. which most of the scots q
practice, sayors Of treason 10 The chiId's q
soul and to the Path"
These parochial schools receive govern.
Inent aid, and hence the ground taken by :
he churchmon that no child Of dissen.
,er shall attend them unless it has boon
rebaptiSed into the Church, and shall
,easc attendance upon dissenting meet
ngs.
English people and the English press .
'rc fond Of boasting Of English liberty
nd Of the English constitution England '
s the ffecst and best government under :,
he sun. The United States has no con-
titution, ana your liberty is despotic mob
ule; but tho course pursued by the
,hurch, as got forth by the papers prescn-
Cd to this conference, shows that the :,
)hursh Of England is not much moro toll
rant than the Church OF Rome, or the