The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-07
Church How the House OF Lords
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The London correspondent of the Gin
cnnati Commercial writes as follows:
Since Paul was met with the cry, "Grest
is Diana Of the EpheSians ~ raised by the
makers Of the images of that goddess.
there has never been perhaps a more di-
rect travc>tv Of the incident than we have
]n>t had in England. Some time ago Par
lament appointed Il committee to rear.
range the = Lectiouarv' Of the Church
of the pra, er-books, and adapt it other
wise more 10 The necessities Of the present
dav. While this committee was carefully
investigating this matter there came a
mighty cry from the makers of prayer
books.
THEY WERE AFRAID
10 print more Of the old books: purchasers,
awaiting the rcmodeled one, refused to lay
in stocks of the old: and. in short, the
PRAYER Book business was so paralyZcd that
Il wall from the sacred region near st. Pauis,
which preserves the sanity names of " Pa
| terno>'cr Row. ave Maria Lane"
"Amen Corner" &c, came up to the Par.
| lamentary ear, crying, "Hurry up that
new Prayer Book! We don't care how you
make 1t, nor whether the new LESSONS he
! from tho Koran or the Bible; only settle il
II once" So the lazy House Of Lords had
! 20 really 20 to work, and the matter has
! been hurried through to such IN extent
! that nobody is satisfied, and in q few years
| the thing will have TO be done over again
| The chief strife over the PRAYER Book re.
| lated 10 the question whether the Athana.
sian creed should be retained.
THE ATHANAsIAS CREED
i. rs your readers may know. formula
| which asserts 4 great many mysterious
! things. and then damus, with language thar
! would hardly be proper in Il ocular news.
! paper, all VINO do not believe its assertions.
/ declaring. with strong cNpletives. that the
/ said Gi>5cIerers snail, without doubt
perish evcrll>tingly." This creed has been
| retained in the new prayer-book, possibly
because tie printers hurried the matter.
! bat not WiIhOut an expression against ii
which has terribly scandaized the High
! and Hard Church parties, and amazed the
( country, when bias lunGrcTardcQ the House
I of Peers Is II fortress where every ancient
turmulAry would bc sure 10 rest i'll security
Lord ~lauhopc said that ic regarded 4 hnl-
asian creed as wholly repugnant 10 the
! English feeling, and that it was impossible
that such 4 formula could long retain it
| place in the public services. Lord Shafts
! bury wished the creed to be put harmlessly
in corner, 10 be rccited only ny those
who liked it.
THE BISHOP OF LONDON,
in dl<mIy, said that there were thousands
who would not part from that creed with.
out feelings Of regret, and, he would add
indignation. Lord Grey, with Il warmth
fairly denounced the creed rs "the harba.
rous production Of harborous age" and
declared that he "never hears it with
out feelings OF horror" The word ''hor.
ror'' is not often heard by their lordships
Before it can be applied to any English in.
stitution in their House, the luminosity Of
the people to that institution must have
| become very general. So the creed Of st
Athanasius, which for words that are dark
and views that are vain is ''pecuiar," is
doomed.
THE RADICALS
were in great fear, however, lest II should
| be erased, and much prefer that it should
remain. It is nothing to them that one blot
! (as they hold) among so many should be
! effected rather it is for their interest that
/ such blots should remain as so many sfig'
! mas upon hook they hope to abolish alto
! gcthcr. TO take the AthanaSian creed from
| the Book of FOrmularieS would be TO give
! The rest of il a new lease Of life. But the
, continuance of this creed as compulsory Is
Il bitter thing for the Broad Church. VINO
have to recitc without believing it. These
rutionalistic bcncticiaries Of the establish
ment show an increasing tendency TO shut
the saving of the service to assistant clerks :
and | have Just heard that poor Bishop Co
lonso-who has become as radical Us his
friend Miss CObbe-prefaceS the reading OF
the creed with the declaration that he does
not believe it, hut reads it rs an officer OF
the Queen.