, 1880-07-11

1eori5c b1ttenscI: tAe o!acerS. Ihe ttAcHeiS
number sol!e latlips and gentlemen OF social
influence. The school is Fortunate in having:
us musical director Prof. G. G. Case, one ut
the most competent and successful Lenders
and composers Of hymn music III the west. !
The sim nging is always fine. AL Of which
scholars and the admirers Of Mr.; Moody in
Baltimore. w. Ii. W.
FATHER MACKONOCII1E.
ENGLASD's CHAMPION ,nIrUALlsr AND HIS
WORK.
Running northwards from Holborn, and a
very few yards to the east Of Gray's Inn lane,
is Brooke street. You may know Brooke
street in moment by the pretentious red
brick offices Of the Prudential Insurance !.
Company, which are conspicuous at tue cor
1icr and extend half way down the street. At
the further end of this unsavory thorough
fare stands st. Alban's Church, and built on
to St. Alban's Church is the clergy house. AS
you stand in the sQualid street looking up to
the windows of this house, you see on the
first floor Immediately in front OF you the
windows of the Rev, 4. Il. Mackonoohle's
home. To oust him from this little suit OF
apartments and from the church adjoining
all the powers OF ecclesiastical courts ana
courts of appeal have been from time to time
invoked. Over and over again he has peen
strategically as hopelesly beaten as ever were
the English at the battle of Waterloo; but he
has remained on III sublime Inconsistencies
Of defeat, until Mt last there seems to be some
possibility that. he will be finally let alone.
At the present moment he ought by rights to
be enthusiastically defunct; but is, 1everthe-
less, as jealous parish clergyman and as
pleasant 4 companion as ever. The festival
Of St. Alban's-Day last Thursday was ell
liyened by the news that the Church Asso-
citation had datetinined not to appear i'll reply
to the appeal oftlie House Of Lords. This is
q final abandonment Of the.suit.in which they
obtained the three years suspension, and 1T
has been quickly followed by Il relinqulsll-
ment Of all thought of appeal in the other
suit against the scathing dcnunciation OF
their conduct recently awarded them by Lord
penzance. People who read from time 10
time of ssMartin VS.. Mackonochie are i'll
danger Of making fur themselves two wholly
erroneous pictures of promoter and dctend-
ant. Mr.. Martin is imagined as an III
dignapt Protestant goaded to frenzy ny
ritualistic practices, and eager to free INC
Church of England from the contamination OF
Popery in disguise; while the Vicar OF st: A.
ban's is presented to the mind as amore or less
disagreeable ascetic, dividing his time be-
tween hearing confessions, burning incense,
and circumvent{ng the law courts; Ihe
popular idea OF him. given by Nj. llorstey
who Silent in vestments Of cloth OF gold, and
proceeded down Baltl~i'l's gardens IN a
series OF genuiiuctions," was not a great ex-
aggeration. To those who know either or
both Of the parties to tue proiom$ea a. tig uTg
amusing. The truth is that 1lr: Martin is an
extremely good man, who is rather disposed
to dcprccate recent proceedings; out Wno.
many years ago, signed i deed by wnich he
his name as the aEgrieyeh parishtoner pro-
vded they unidentified him in the matter of
costs. Though Ills name figures in these
prosecutions he has little else to do with
them. except to check them. and 1t Is tne
money Of the Church Association only that
As Tor III. Mackonochie himself the best
plan will be t. introduce ourselves to sllns-
This is not difficult. lie is always ready 20
they Should wnste some Of his time. Ad,,
mitted at side door in the clolster, and
mounting narrow stone staircase, We mud
ourselves in u little ronln, the prevail!ns ele.
nent in which is books; a table that fills half
the room, reading desk to stand at, few
ferns and other plants in the window, and
three or four plain chairs complete the turnl-
ture of the chamber. The owner of this
apartment IS tal spare man a. some @ ~ %
features which even to THE mcrest tyro In
-Dhystognolny butray the prescuce OF an I'M
bending will. But for the fact OF its being
writ thus large upon lilm, stranger Woulo
teristic, for "Father" NackoHochie, as his
M.ople call him, is gentleness itself. Bright
and CHEEKY i'll conversation, WITH i great luln
for anccdoto, and an Interesting way OF
tft,ms tSosa WHO eoms sooas' to- ' him N with ther ideal
ready made. There is not sign OF being
busy or preoccuped shout him, and yet lie
gets through an amount of work, mental and
physical, that would break most people
down, and that, too. un!!er conditions which
but few people would care to face. People
NAV differ as to the value Of fasting; but
there can be no two opinions as to tfe LABOR
involved III often conducting services from
early morning til. late afternoon without
tion less wiry than his could hardly fail to
break down under the repeated and continued
strain. Nor does he spare himself 1n the
matter Of walking. Once or even twice a
fast, OH visitation to a community ot SIS
ters is no light matter, especially rs 1t is 10
he followed later III the day BY walk back
Yet no one ever caught 0lr. 3Elckonochle III
decd on any other journey in which walking
was possible But come to him after one OF
these firing days and open 4 trouble or ask
a4yice,--shOW in any way tnat you are III
need OF HIN ana llla[ ne cAtl AelR 1oui-al!ti
in one minute you will suppose that and
your case are the only possible SUBJECT OF IN IN.
been nothing but a preparation for you.
Well, perhaps it has: Who knows:
The most amusing thing, perhaps, isto hear
him speak Of the litigation in which hc is ln-
yolyed. II you have read the daily, papers
the chances are that you know as much about
what is going on as. lie does. You CASUALLY
mention that you have seen such and such
paragraph in the Pau Mall. Gdzette: All,
ycs / was told they would very likely make
some move. Of the kind; have you the 1sspcr
with you ~ The truth is tllat twelve years
OF ilicessant prosecutions leading to nothing
have entirely deadcned that, keen interest
which we may suppose him to have felt in
them once upon d time. There is nov to all
anpea rance little more than 1angrid' Curl
osity al 10 what may be the next move on the
1mrt Of friend or foe. For the rest, he is
mite content to know that his cause Is III
rood hands, and allows himself to bc wholly
enerosscd in his parish wnrk. And what the
parisl work is that centres round him few
have any notion but those who take Il 1h9 ,3
on the north by Theobald's road, OH tho g east
by Leather lane, on the south by llolhorn,
-..,1 ~ fI,o ,,.nst hy fIr1y:S Inn. having the