The Herald of Wales. — 1890-02-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CHURCH DEFENCE. THE STRUGGLE WITH ROHM.  EDITOR.  An old ;nen aged 79, died suddenly at Cardiff the other night. He ate a hearty supper and retired to rest, but the next moining he was found e stiffened oorpse. No less than 102 persons were summoned for Sunday drinking at Haverfordwest, and appeared before the magistantee on Monday. A One of 2s. 6d. wan made in most eases, and in others Os. and coots were imposed. Whilst a lesson was being read at the Abermortals Unseotartan Ragged School, Merthyr, on Sunday afternoon, a little boy named William Hope suddenly fell down, and in the witiree of a couple of minutes expired. It is said that Mr. Alfred Thomas, M.P., has announced to the Appeal Committee, overwhieh he preridee, hie intention to subearibe £6OO towards the funds of the University Collage of South Wales, Cardiff. For keeping a house of ill, fame at No. 8, The Tunnel, Cardiff, Samuel Legg (32), and Mary Legg (46), were eentenoed to throe and two months imprisonment with hard labour respectively by the Cardiff Bench on Saturday. 'Dal Stag," otherwise Benjamin Davies, who ii alleged to have stolen £OO from • Rhondda : cattle dealer whilst they were tiding together in • brake, was ceptur.d at on Saturday. A painter and paper-hanger, named Wm. Davies, of 8, Park-Vtew Place, Mairulee, 111113 Z Cardiff, was knocked down and run over by a locomotive near Booth Junotion on t aturdsy. Fearful mutilation took place, and death ensued on Sunday morning. A man named William Hopkins, has met with his death in a horrible manner at Tredegas. It to supposed that he fell sudeip access the line, with the result that a passing train went over him, and nearly severed his head from his body. The Jed of a man, who had entered the Llenerch mine to look for work, being found among the dead, will give rile to a question in Parliament from Mr. Pickard (G. Yorkshire . . .  He will ask the Secret ry of State for the Home Department to make enquiry as to strangers being allowed in the mine. The strike epidemic is still prevalent in Cardiff. Eleven men in the employ of Messrs. Alexander; and Company, oame out on Monday in consequence of non-society man being engaged to work for lees than the standard waL es. For yearsthe firm has employed society men. Mr. Jesse Collings aseuree a Welsh corralIpondent that Wales will have direstablishment, but not from Mr. Gladstone, although he has led the Welsh to believe it. Mr. Collings says Mr. Gladstone has not said anything. e cannot turn and twist anyway he likes. A young man of 23 named Thomas Powell, and residlng at Gromnoont, was charged with. stealing two horses, the property of his When but the Monmouth magistrate, who heard the oase decided that one at least of the horses inn the defendant's property, and consequently discharged him. The death is announced at Llandilo. oi I Inspector Bmith,of the Great Western Railway. tie had been in the employ of the company for a num her of years, and was an esteemed official. At Pontypridd, has peacefully passed away IMr. Thomas Morgan, J.P., of the Vron. I On Friday evening the second mate of the s.r. City of Bristol, whilst engaged in making the : vessel fast, by some means or other g.ot entanated in the rope and received a "bit ' inflicting a , severe wound. He was conveyed to the hospital, where he received the attention of the resident medical offioer. Mrs. Bevan, Pendenyn C..ottege, has been paid the sum of £250 from the Great Western Railwayrompany, for having ceased her husband's death by negligently driving an engine over h'm vhile he -- crossing - ' 4 W,  witii4  Sir,—l notice that another theological mason is engaged to build over the great gulf that exiets between the ancient religion of this coon try end modern Anglicauism. Surely the pro tessera of the Church of England in SVAIDAOS are stirring themselves up of late! Axe they trying to atone for the lethargy of ages? Their Church has to justify itself in the presence of the ancient religion and the phantasmagoria of dissent. No very pleasant tank, I trow. I have attended many lectures delivered in the anglizan I interest, when it has been contended that the . modern establishment is a continuation of the pre-reformation religion. The lecturers denied all histhry as I understand it. They signally failed to convince me that the othspring of Henry and Elizabeth was the le,gitinusto haw of the old religion of this land. how can a Church Defence lecturer expect us to believe that there is no differeuoe between popery and no-popery P The oid Church was notoriously Papal, and the Reformed Church was easentialy anti-Papal. Who can deny this? Not the reformers themeelves, for they rag-spied the old Church as a false Church and a system of idolatry and supereatution which must be renounced by all who would be saved. Supposing the ehurches and cathedrals- of the Establishment became centres of Unitarian teaching uuder the pthasure of civil power and the direction of tiamiserving biahopit. Could it be fairly said that the the of the Anglican Church would thus be continued The same churches might be used, but the teaching and discipline would be radically Mount. The then law-established Unitarianism eould adept the Church defence arguinents. We are not a new religion (the Unitarians could say) for we are the true exponents of the nocorrupted religion of the apostles. Episcopa and the Trinity, and the Incarnation, are Anglican corruptions. Such dogmas. simply excresences of Anglicanism, and no . part of religion. When Mr. Mason lectured "The struggle with Brame," thcUniinriaowou lecture on the "Struggle with Episcopacy .Whatever the Unitarian might say the Angliethi oeald reply that Episeepacy was an essentia, pert of the Anglican Church • and, any church that denied Episcopacy and Incarnation must be • different religion, and in no sense a continuation uf it. So do I argue with church def.& era. You talk about 'The Struggle with Rome,' but Rome was the centre and ciieumference of the ancient religion, and by separating from Rome your church committed suicide. It was DO longer the elelllo. CoMMUOioD ad agree:wait with Herne was the leadiug trait in your eenlesia.stical life from the laying of your foundation stone by the Roman emissary, Augustine, until Hairy -