Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-12-24 (Darlington, Durham, England)

AFFAIRS.  In a circular addressed to his parishioners—bringing before them the offertory Recount for the year 1873-4—the Her. Dr. Dyes, Vicar of St. Oswald's, Durham, ssys :—" I am still left single-handed in this unwieldy parish, with a population rapidly increasing on all sides. How long this state Of things is to last, God only knows. It is at least a satisfaction to think that the attempt to force the Purchas Judgment on the Church, by the exaci n of cxtrarleeal pledges as a olndition of license on the part of Incumbents and Curates, has not spread elsewhere, and that this is the only Diocese in which the disastrous system of punishing Incumbents by cutting off the Meins of Grace from the Parishioners has been adopted. The unsettled aspect of Church affairs in the Country is indeed such as to awaken. grave anxiety: we cannot but be reminded of the truth of our Lord's mysterious words, Suppose ye that I alri come to give Peace on etrtit ? I tell you, Nay ! but rather Division,' (S. Luke xii., R.) Division first, then Peace. Our Lords warns His Church that she can only gain popularity in the world by unfaithfulness to Hims, If. He :assures us that His own career must be that of His Mystical Body ; slowly winning her way thee sigh persecution and obloquy ; always. appearing to be worsted, an I yet always risieg strong,er after each defeat; always bearing about the dying of her Lar 1, but always strong in His Immortal Life. The Eucharistic controversy, new rt.tain raging in the Church, is as old. as. the Church itself. Appalently •it has mere ference to a few minor matters of outward ceremonial: its real issues lie much deeper than this. It really concerns the truth of our Lord's own words, spoken on the eve of His Crucifti tn, when he bequeathed His Sacrament of Love to His Church,—` This is My Body; This is My Blood.' The profound trath which these words involve and express was rejected, wher, first propounded by its Divine Author (St. John vi., 52,57 ; 60, l);6 pious dis.:iples as well as thoughtless vvorbilings were effendead. So it has ever been since: so it will be to tle end. Bcb the. Chursh must still hold on her way, proclaiming by word and deed, in her palpits and at her Altars, whether men will hear orwhethsp. they will forbear, the everlasting -Vnrities she has been commissioned to teach. And Truth will win its way at the last."  Na fewer than four new London weeklies are talked M. Vice-ChanceSor Hall, em Friday, granted an injunction restraining the sale of 41. Mackerayana," just published hy Chiba° and Winduw, on the grounds that it contained WOW extracts from copywright works of Mr Thackerav, The B.rsi Mission ("lurch in connection with the Wilberforce Mexaorial 1%1nd,, situate in the Parish of St George's, Camberwell, London, was opened on Monday morsing by the Bishop of Guildford. The church will Beat 260 per sons, and the clergy will be supplied from the Wilberforce Mission Home. A verdict of wilful murder was on Monday returned by the coroner's jury against Richard Coates, for the marder of the little girl named Alice Boughen, at Purtleet. At Leeds onMonday, Francis Moore Brooke, son of a sharebroker, was remanded on a charge of killiug his aunt, who lived with him as his wife, by, stabbing her mith a table, kuifo. ,