plausibly and made out such a clever case, that its darker features were thrust into the background. But now, after men have had time to chew the cud" and to ruminate, alarm very widely spread and daily growing greater, is upon thousands. They are beginning to appreciate all that it involves. Mr. C. C. Bartholomew has sounded a clear note of warning in the West. "Little as people may be disposed so to consider it," he writes, "this is a grave crisis in the history of the Church of England; in its ultimate and probable results perhaps the gravest that has ever occurred. It is an attempt made by a certain party in the Church, with the concurrence of, and aided by, the State, to introduce a new element into its government and administration, an element which, in its working, may tend to weaken and ultimately to overturn the dogmatic teaching on which, as instanced in and evidenced by the Creeds, the whole of Christendom has been united for more than 1,500 years." With regard to Disestablishment, we commend to our readers a report of Mr. Miall's speech at the Liberation Society. If that does not open the eyes of the Gladstoneworshippers nothing will. The Dissenting proposition to unite with Roman Catholics has found a prompt and ready echo in the Weekly Register, where (in last Saturday's impres sion,) we find the following:-"It is greatly to be desired that a system of co-operation between Catholics and (so far) Catholic-minded Nonconformists and Protestants should be organized without delay. They have one common object in view-the disestablishment of the Act-of-Parliament Church. Let them all unite with hearty good will, and that establishment will soon be among the things of the past." Here, as in the case of the ancient Irish Church, all principle is flung to the winds. The "Children of Mary," as they call themselves, are advocating in England, Revolution, Riot and Ruin. Perhaps, ere long, they may get a strong flavour of these at Rome-which, as far as Angio-Whig-Papists are concerned, they thoroughly deserve. The High Church Mission in London has done vast good. On all sides we hear of its undoubted success. Archdeacon Denison-all honour to him! is equally plainspoken. He sees the issue, and does not hesitate to speak the truth. "They say there is no legal bar to Dr. Temple's Episcopate. There could not be, for Dr. Temple has held no That, howBenefice with cure of souls, and could not have been the sub-ever, can only be accurately measured hereafter. At all ject of criminal proceedings. But there is every moral and events it has shown that the old National Church has some religious bar that the case admits of. I am charged with life and energy left, and that it is not incompetent to do its exaggeration. I say that this case cannot be exaggerated. It proper work. A vast change has been silently effected, which is beyond all the limits to which such a remark applies. It is, will bear rich fruit hereafter. For ourselves we should deeply in few words, The Bible or Essays and Reviews,' i.e., No regret that the new High Church style of preaching-ranting, Bible. The subject of Essays and Reviews,' appearing more raving and "mouthing" as it has been termed, should or less in every page of it, is summed up in a sentence of become popular; for it contrasts ill with styles remembered Essay v., p. 209: How and what God really has taught by older men. Dignity and self-command have seemed too mankind; and whether anything beyond that which man is often to be lost in the torrent of excited oratory, which some able and obviously intended to arrive at by the use of his of the most notorious of the preachers have apparently natural faculties.' If this does not ask and propose the ques- regarded as essential in a Mission Sermon. Let the current of tion whether there has been any revelation, I do not know burning thought be expressed in burning words, but they will what words mean." Another Clergyman of the Exeter Diocese is equally outspoken, and makes some very valuable practical remarks:"I think it is now pretty plain why Cornwall is not to be a separate See, and why Dr. Temple has been selected for the See of Exeter in preference to any of the other vacant Sees. It seems to be in order that Dr. Temple may have the selection of his Suffragan. He will doubtless nominate men who, like himself, advocate freedom of thought '-probably some of those whom he has already proved as masters at Rugby-supporters of Dr. Colenso. The Prime Minister must accept one of them, or the whole thing falls to the ground: and under this plea would be able to shelter himself from the unpopularity (more fatal to Ministers than to Bishops) that would attach to the selection made. If we have one Dr. Temple on the Bench depend upon it we shall soon have two." If we touch the heart and win the intellect of the hearer with tenfold force, if it be seen and felt that never has the preacher sacrificed one particle of his dignity as the anointed Priest of God, nor at any time lost his self-command. We most heartily congratulate the Church on the appointment of Mr. Hayman to the Head Mastership of Rugby. He is a sincere believer in Christianity and a man of great ability, high character and considerable experience. The Temple party moved heaven and earth to get a Mr. Walrond appointed, but the Tory trustees mustered in sufficient strength to do their duty and carry their point. At the head of our 66 Correspondence" this week we print a letter from the Rev. F. H. Deane, in answer to a very brave challenge on the part of either the editor or publisher of the Church Times, which the conductors of that Ritualistic print For it cerMost true is it that when the political and ecclesiastical had both the wit and the wisdom to suppress. Liberals, Rowdies or Infidels, whichever they are, or which-tainly is not a little damaging to their judgment of the E.C.U. We commend the letter to our readers' special attention. They ever men like to call them have made the practical discovery will agree with us, we feel confident, in holding that it is that the more the High Church party is pressed and squeezed most execrable meanness on the part of the dominant clique as regards the renunciation of principle, the more pressing in the Council of that organization to have been prepared to and squeezing it will stand, we shall soon have Stanley, spend their money in the prosecution of the obscure and Jowett, Voysey, Williams and company on the bench. were unable, indisposed or unwilling to stand up for the unpopular Mr. Voysey, while they and their organs have Christian principle in the Temple Case, depend upon it no stand nothing but wordy glorifications for the arch-offender Dr. of any value will even be made in the future. Temple, because he happens to be a shrewd and unscrupulous The glitter and gewgaws of Ritualism may serve as salve for the weak partizan of Mr. Gladstone. consciences of the sentimental and the elegant, but when matured thought and patient reflection (of which such persons at present seem incapable,) have in the future done their needful work, the full import of the present alarming crisis will be better understood. Its cost will have to be paid either in a total sacrifice of all principle, or in a Disruption of the old Church of England, crowned by Anarchy and Ruin. We commend to our readers' special attention a most dignified and remarkable Protest from the pen of Mr. Burgon of Oriel against Dr. Temple's Consecration, which will be found printed in another column. Too many Oxford men have looked upon the present Vicar of St. Mary's as a mere selfconscious Anglican of a somewhat narrow type. This Protest, however, shows that he is at once a brave and outspoken man of great moral courage and sterling principle. Mr. Waddon Martyn writes to us as follows:-"You will I am sure regret the language of your leader in last Wednesday's impression, in reference to the absentees from the Exeter Chapter meeting of the 11th instant, when I inform you that one of that number (the Rev. Prebendary Cox) was confined to his bed on that day by serious illness, and therefore was unable to record his vote against the election of Dr. Temple." We don't at all regret our language, which was true and plainspoken. Mr. Cox's name is not even found amongst the protestors. Is he too ill to sign his name? THE ILLNESS OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.-BROADSTAIRS, Nov. 23.-The bulletin issued at nine o'clock this morning says:"His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has passed a restless night, and remains very weak. It is understood that his Grace has lost the use of his left side, but is perfectly conscious." A later telegram says:"There is no material improvement in the state of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury." PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. W. H. Chapman, Vicar of Lowestoft. The Rev. F. W. Farrar, Honorary Chaplain to Her Majesty. The Rev. Canon Lear, the Rev. R. W. Church, the Rev. R. F. Wilson, and the Rev. The Rev. T. J. Rowsell, Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Home and Foreign Church News. Seven lamps are kept continually burning at St. Martin's Church, Dorking. the death of the Rev. W. Harness, will not be filled up. The Daily Telegraph says the public will thus save £500 a-year! The Vicar of Ide, near Exeter, advertises for a Curate, "one who is an earnest Churchman, Evangelical, and of Broad and Liberal views, and who will be dutiful and loyal to the Bishop of the Diocese." On Thursday, December 2nd, a Mission Chapel, in connection with St. Michael's, Coventry, will be opened in Whitefriar's-street, in that town. Dr. Miller and his Churchwardens are trying to raise funds for the purpose of substituting open sittings for the present inconvenient high pews in the Parish Church of Greenwich. The Rev. Henry Hayman, B.D., of St. John's College, Oxford, Head Master of St. Andrew's College, Bradfield, has been appointed Head Master of Rugby School. Dr. Barry has consented to read a paper on Education before the Central Council of the Church Institution at King's College, on December 15. The Marquis of Salisbury has been asked to preside. The Bishop of Lincoln has submitted to Mr. Gladstone the names of the Archdeacon of Nottingham and the Rev. F. Morse as both fit persons to be appointed his Suffragan. It is said that Prebendary Smith would have been present at the Exeter Chapter and voted against Dr. Temple's appointment, but was prevented through his daughter being married on that day! The Rev. C. C. Bartholomew at a meeting of the E.C.U. held at Devonport last week, strongly protested against the cry for Disesta blishment. The Bishop of Ely has reopened the Church of Harston. The Bishop, preceded by nearly forty Clergy, entered the Church in procession, and preached from 1 St. John iii., 3. A subscription has been set on foot for the purpose of remodelling the chancel of St. Philip's Church, Clerkenwell, in memory of the late Rev. Mr. Gladstone attends the Mission Services at All Saints', Margaret- Warwick R. Wroth. street, every evening. The Dedication Festival of St. Clement's Church, Cambridge, is being kept this week. A grant of £200 has been proposed for explorations in Rome by the University of Oxford. The Dean and Chapter of Wells on Thursday elected Lord Arthur Hervey Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Prince and Princess of Wales are frequently worshippers at All Saints' Church, Margaret-street. Archbishop Tenison's well-known Chapel in Regent-street was consecrated on Saturday by the Bishop of London. Early weekly Celebrations and daily Services are soon to be commenced at Sneyd Church, Burslem; the pew-rents are also to be abolished. The Bishop of Salisbury preached in his Cathedral on Sunday week' and on Monday commenced a Confirmation tour of his Diocese. The Freeman's Journal states that the Bishop of Cashel has determined to present to every Curate in his Diocese a Christmas box of £50. On Tuesday week the Bishop of Rochester consecrated a new Church. at Strood entirely built by the Rev. Canon Griffith. Bishop Trower has expressed his decided intention of opposing singly or with others the confirmation of Dr. Temple in Bow Church. The Parish Church of Farmborough has been reopened after restoration, the Rev. Lord F. G. Osborne being the preacher. Bishop McIlvaine, at a consecration of a Church at New York, stood behind the altar to celebrate the Holy Communion. He had previously in his Sermon strongly denounced Ritualism. It is proposed to raise £10,000 as a part endowment of Cuddesdon College as a memento of Bishop Wilberforce's connection with the Diocese of Oxford. Sir R. Phillimore has decided that the suit, "the Bishop of Winchester v. Wix" shall go on, the word "late" being inserted before the "Bishop of Winchester." The Dedication Festival of St. Ethelburga's, Bishopsgate-street, is fixed for the 25th inst. There will be an octave of Services and special preachers. The Rev. William Edward Evans, M.A., one of the Canons Residentiary of Hereford Cathedral, died at his residence in the Cathedral Close on Monday evening, aged 68. The Bishop-elect of Bath and Wells has consented to preach at St. Michael's, Paddington, on St. Andrew's Day, in aid of the London Diocesan Deaconesses' Institution. The Service is at 5 p.m. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have appointed the close of this month for receiving the address of sympathy to the Irish Church. It has received a vast number of signatures. The post of Receiving Clergy Returns in the Council Office, vacant by Church at half-past eight o'clock on every Sunday morning, excepting In future the Holy Communion will be celebrated in the Temple on the first Sunday in the month, when it will be administered at midday. The following advertisement is from the Liverpool Courant:-"St. Thomas's Church.-To be Sold, Pew No. 68, subject to a ground-rent of 13s. per annum. Also Pew No. 81; ground-rent 15s. Price £2 each. Apply, &c. The Bishop of Oxford preached on Sunday morning before the University at St. Mary's. The Church was fuller than was ever known, and it was only by great exertions on the part of the beadles that the Heads of Houses could get in. The decision of Mr. Newton Goren, the revising barrister for Middlesex, disqualifying Perpetual Curates from voting, who claimed on the freeholds of their Benefices, was upheld yesterday by the Court of Common Pleas, before whom the case came on appeal. We regret to state that the Archbishop of Canterbury is dangerously ill-indeed, there is little hope of his recovery. His Grace has specially asked the prayers of the Faithful who attend the Special Mission Services. We trust our readers will remember His Grace in their daily devotions. and though he has been advertised for in the Times, no news of him has The verger of Whitehall Chapel has been missing since Sunday week, yet been heard. He was formerly butler to Bishop Blomfield, by whom he was highly esteemed, and who appointed him to his post at Whitehall The Record speaking of some Services at one of the Greenwich Churches, the Incumbent of which is an ultra-Low Churchman, says:"As is usual where God's servants work, the great enemy of souls has raised opposition from High Churchmen and Dissenters. The latter have been most bitter. On Thursday the Bishop of Oxford consecrated the Church of This At St. Columba's, Haggerston, the Mission is in charge of the Rev. A. H. Stanton, of St. Alban's, who is producing a marked stir among the people of the neighbourhood. Besides the Services within doors, Priests and choir march through the streets singing litanies; this being called a midnight watch, and beginning at 11.30. The following curious circular, without either name, authority or official signature has been sent round, to the great disappointment of members:-"Eastern Church Association. and Meeting of the Eastern Church Association, announced for the 25th The Anniversary Service inst., are unavoidably postponed. Notice of the date will be given in due course. November 16th, 1869." At St. Lawrence's, Jewry, the following Services will be sung tomorrow (Thursday), by way of Solemn Thanksgiving to God for His blessing on the Mission concluded in the metropolis on that day. At 7.30 a.m., Holy Communion, being the last Service of the Mission. At 1 p.m.. Te Deum and Sermon. At 8 p.m., Evensong and Sermon. At 1 and 8 p.m., the preacher will be the Rev. R. M. Benson, Superior of the Society of St. John the Evangelist. A monumental cross of great beauty has recently been erected over the grave of Bishop Lonsdale, by the members of his family. It was designed by Mr. Gilbert Scott, R.A., and has been executed in Aberdeen granite, of a bluish tint. The front of the cross is boldly engraved with scroll work, having in the centre the sacred monogram. A simple inscription surrounds the plinths. The whole is chaste, massive, and effective. Many improvements have been effected in St. Chad's Church, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, during the past three years. Large stained glass windows have been put into the chancel and many other windows of the Church, as memorial windows of persons buried in the adjacent burying grounds. The huge and unsightly "three-decker" was last week swept away, being supplanted by a rather high but handsome pulpit, a prayer desk, and a very handsome carved oak Eagle for the lectern. The post of Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons (not the Chaplaincy of the House of Commons, as it has been described in many of the papers) will become vacant immediately by the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Merivale to the Deanery of Ely. Within six months of his entrance upon the duties of the Deanery, the Rev. gentleman will have to resign the Rectory of Lawford, Essex, which is worth £650 a year, and is in the gift of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. Dean Goulburn's recently published work, "The Pursuit of Holiness (Rivingtons), contains the following dedication:-"To the Earl of Derby, K.G., the accomplished scholar, the brilliant orator, the eminent statesman, who has thought it a task not unworthy of his genius to instruct young children in the parables of the Divine wisdom, and to whom, therefore, a plain work of practical instruction in righteousness may not be inappropriately dedicated: these pages are, by his kind permission, inscribed with the utmost respect and gratitude." The Vicar of All Saints', Lambeth, will preach two Series of Sermons during Advent. The subjects of those on Sunday evenings will be as follows:-Nov. 28: The Use of Time. Dec. 5: The Use of Money. Dec. 12: The Use of Natural Gifts. Dec. 19: The Use of super-natural Graces. Those on Friday evenings. Dec. 3: Ephesus. Dec. 10: Sardis. Dec. 17: Thyatira. Dec. 24: Bethlehem. The Rev. C. G. C. Dunbar will preach on Wednesday, December 1st, after Evensong, "On Continuing in the Apostles' Doctrine and Fellowship; on December 15, "On Continuing in the Breaking of Bread ;" and on December 22, "On Continuing in Prayer." We learn that on Sunday, October 10, in the Chapel of St. George's College, Mussoorie, the Rev. R. Moore, educated in Bishop's College. Calcutta, and who for seven years was a Missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and lately in connection with the Punjaub Educational Department, was received into the Holy Roman Catholic Church by the Right Rev. Dr. M. A. Jacopi, Vicar Apostolic of Agra. After his confession of faith. he received Baptism sub conditione absolution, and the Sacrament of Confirmation. On the same occasion his Lordship also confirmed seventeen boys of St. George's College and St. Fidelis's Asylum, and two girls of the Convent at Mussoorie. The following memorial was adopted at a meeting of the Chapter of the Rural Deanery of Tutbury:-"We the undersigned, being members of the Rural-decanal Chapter of Tutbury, in the Diocese of Lichfield, in the county of Stafford, and in Chapter assembled, venture humbly to approach your Majesty, and having heard with sorrow and alarm that it has been recommended to your Majesty to nominate and appoint the Rev. Frederick Temple, D.D., to the vacant See and Bishopric of Exeter, to express our deep concern that such an appointment, so repugnant to the orthodox members of the Church, and (as we firmly believe) so injurious to the best interests and established pure religion of this nation, should have been suggested, and humbly pray your Majesty to exercise your own wisdom and undoubted Royal prerogative in appointing to the said vacant See some other learned and pious divine, whose opinions are more in accordance with the acknowledged principles and established formularies of the Church of England." A number of persons attended the Service at Grangegorman Church, Dublin, on Sunday, with the avowed determination of creating a disturbance. In this happily they were defeated through the presence of a strong body of police, but their conduct was most disgraceful. The Echo thus refers to the disturbance:-"As usual, the disturbers are not members of the congregation, but are an organized body, who only come to Church when their services are required for outrages. Dr. Maturin has begun to put the law in force, and will probably now be left in peace. As a parting fling the disturbers scattered lucifer matches on the door of the Church. Of course these are not dangerous to men, but one lady, to the great amusement of the mob, caught fire and had a narrow escape of being burnt to death. We are not likely to be suspected of alliance with Ritualism in any form, but we must protest against the absurd view which attributes this and kindred outrages to the indignation of insulted Protestantism. They are the result of that ruffianism with which the Orange body are to some extent tinged." A soiree of the Young Men's Committee of the Liberation Society was held on Wednesday evening at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, which was presided over by Mr. Edward Miall, M.P. In the course of his remarks, he said-"It might be that Mr. Gladstone was not with them to the full extent of the object contemplated by the Liberation Society, still he expected that through that great statesman they would obtain all they desired; but whoever was at the head of affairs in this country would feel it to be necessary to act in such a manner as would strip religion of State trammels, and thus allow all men to worship God without being required to do so in accordance with obligations imposed upon them by the State. The course which the Society had determined to pursue for the future was to attack the citadel of the Church itself in Parliament, and demand its total disestablishment in England, Wales, and Scotland. They believed this to be the only true and right course to pursue, because the principle of their action should have a general, and not a local, operation. The subject should not be brought forward in a direct or positive form next Session, but they expected to be able to obtain a satisfactory solution of the question of throwing open University honours and emoluments to Dissenters." The Post says:-" A very curious point has arisen with regard to the election of Proctors to represent the Clergy in the Lower House of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury. About six weeks ago the Rev. James Crawley Vincent, Vicar of Carnarvon, who was the Proctor for the Clergy of the Diocese of Bangor, died, and the Clergy have just been cited to elect a successor. Two gentlemen were nominated-the Rev. Dr. Charles Williams, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Honorary Canon of Bangor Cathedral, and the Rev. Philip Constable Ellis, Rector of Llanvair-Vechan, near Bangor. Before a vote was taken a gentleman present informed Dr. A. J. Stephens, Q.C., who presided as Chancellor, that although Dr. Williams held the sinecure Rectory of Llandyssil as Principal of Jesus College, he was not Beneficed in the Diocese of Bangor, his Preferment being in the Diocese of St. David's. Dr. Stephens said he was unprepared to decide at once whether a gentleman unbeneficed in a Diocese was capable of being elected its representative. but if, on taking the votes, he found that Dr. Williams had a majority. he would make a double return, leaving Convocation to settle the matter for itself. The votes were-For Dr. Williams, 41; for Mr. Ellis, 32, and the Chancellor ordered that the return should be sent to Convocation in the way he had indicated." Mr. J. C. Colquhoun, besides being a stay and prop of the Church Association, and consequently a very Low Churchman, has also a Mission (says the Western Morning News) to perform towards "my lord Bishops." He not merely supports petitions to the Prelates asking for inquiry into erroneous Rome-tending teaching; he follows up the matter and, like a father towards his erring children, points out with stern severity, and not without a slight smack of patronising superiority, where their lordships fail to reach their proper standard. He has just been lecturing the Bishop of Llandaff for neglect of duty. Mr. Colquhoun is angry with the Bishop because he did not bestow his Episcopal censure upon a Clergyman whose parishioners have been incensed by his teaching the doctrine of the Real Presence. memorial from certain of the parishioners praying for an inquiry, the Bishop replied by asking for their charges against their Minister in a more detailed form. This reply Mr. Colquhoun turned into an expression of sympathy with the Clergyman. Being asked by Dr. Olivant for an explanation. Mr. Colquhoun returns in very dictatorial language that what ought to have been done was that a Rural Dean should have been sent to inquire into the facts of the case. The Bishop answers in effect: The very course you recommend was adopted. То а It is On the 11th inst. the Bishop of Oxford held a levee at All Souls' College, when an address, signed by between 700 and 800 Clergy, was presented to him. The address referred to the unfeigned sorrow which the Clergy felt at the Bishop's resignation of the See, of the work he had accomplished during his Episcopate, and bade him an affectionate farewell. The Bishop's reply is as follows:-" Reverend Brethren,--I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your loving address. with great sorrow that I return your farewell! I should have been rejoiced to end my days in working with a body of Clergy whose fidelity, zeal, love of souls, and devotion to Christ, and to the best interests of His Kingdom, as well as whose affectionate loyalty to their Bishop, made oversight easy, and united labour a joy. But the Voice seemed to me to call me away, and I go. To God be all the praise for any good done in this Diocese during my Episcopate; I can see in the retrospect little, save my own shortcomings. I very earnestly ask you to continue the prayers you promise to offer up for me in my new sphere of labour. God forbid that I should cease to pray for you: and so the mysterious bonds which link together the Church of Christ may yet be strengthened between us, even when it is not given us to labour together in bodily presence. I thank you for the love, support, and co-operation of twenty-four years. I pray God to bless you one and all in your own souls, in your families, and in your parishes; and to grant us a joyful meeting for Christ's sake, by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the day of our Lord's appearing." own name, in the name of Jesus who bled for you, and of the Spirit Last week the Chapel of the Kent Penitentiary at Stone was dedicated by the Bishop of Rochester, who was accompanied by his brother, the Bishop of Colombo and his Chaplain the Rev. Sir J. Hawkins. The decorations, which were in excellent taste, were prepared mainly by Miss S. Parkhurst, of Dartford, who had been as indefatigable in this department as her sister, Miss E. Parkhurst, had been in preparing the musical part of the Services. But although preparations had been so long in hand the arrangements for the Services were completed, we are informed, only at the very last moment, in consequence of an almost unaccountable blunder in reference to the altar, which it turned out had been sent to Edenbridge; and had it not been for the energy of the Chaplain, aided by the hearty co-operation of a fellow townsman, Mr. Waller, a serious embarTHE BISHOP OF ORLEANS' LETTER.-Not content with an attack upon rassment would have occurred. The Chapel, built from designs by the Catholic press, by which, he says, the question of Papal Infallibility Mr. A. Blomfield, forms the upper portion of one side of the building, and has been thrown into the gutter (jetée dans la rue), he takes to task the is well proportioned. The altar is raised on a footpace which is reached by three steps, and presents a very striking appearance with its furniture Archbishops of Malines and Westminster for the Pastoral instructions and ornaments, all the gift of the Rev. F. H. Murray, Rector of Chisel-hey have addressed to their Dioceses, and then calls up the press once hurst, who has also borne the responsibility of covering the sanctuary have expressed, in common with these and so many other Prelates, and more to receive sentence for the imprudence of the wishes which they with Maws encaustic tiles, and has obtained or given chairs for the with the great mass of Christendom. The argument on which the furnishing of the Chapel, and a most liberal supply of Hymn-books, Bishop chiefly depends is that the Church has flourished for eighteen whilst Mrs. Murray has worked the altar linen. hundred years without the doctrine of Papal Infallibility having been defined; but the answer to this is at once at hand. The Church has flourished before each successive Council, and yet each successive Council has issued definitions of faith as it saw fit and as the age required. If the subject was not defined by the Council of Trent, neither was the Immaculate Conception, which has been defined since: and what was not opportune at Trent may be necessary at the Vatican. Least of all can we appreciate the respect or loyalty of appearing to dictate a line of conduct to Pius IX., or of drawing from the fact that he called upon Anglicans to accept the defined doctrine of his Supremacy, an argument for rejecting the undefined doctrine of his Infallibility. While the Bishop makes much of Bossuet having been praised by the Pope for his Exposition of Christian Doctrine, he is altogether silent on the fact that the Pope annulled the Declaration of the Gallican Bishops, and required its retractation; and that Benedict XIV. declared that Bossuet only escaped censure through the fear entertained in Rome of some greater evil. We have only to refer our readers to another part of our columns to convince them how little many of the Bishops of France sympathize with the sentiments displayed in this letter. And as a pendant to the Prelates of other countries to whom Mgr. Dupanloup alludes, we might possibly, if it were not indiscreet to do so, cite instances in which the venerable Prelate has received from foreign Bishops whom he has consulted, an answer very different from that which he wished to receive. -Tablet. Under the heading the "Roman Disobedience," the Tablet prints the following:-The members of the "Roman Disobedience" have added another work to their anti-Papal literature. Printed at Munich in French; published at Ratisbon, with the date of Oct. 1869, and, as usual, without a signature; a brochure has appeared, entitled Considerations proposées aux evêques du Concile sur la Question de l'Infallibilité du Pape. At Paris and in Munich it is said to be by the pen of Dr. Döllinger, "the greatest of modern theologians, if we except one nearer home," as we are again and again told by the members of "the Roman Disobedience." And yet this "greatest of modern theologians" speaks of our Lord in His agony as having at one time lost His dear consciousness of God's counsel-which alone shows the value of Dr. Döllinger's theological accuracy. The fact is, Dr. Döllinger is a student of history but no theologian. The brochure contains 26 aphorisms against the doctrine of Papal Infallibility. It is cleverly done and thoroughly mischievous; full of calm, sweeping, general assertions, highly calculated to deceive the unlearned and the unwary. It is full of the chicanery, suppressions, insinuations, and bold assertions of a special pleader. "Janus" is said to have been written under the inspiration of the author of this brochure; internal evidence confirms the supposition. While regretting on the one hand the mischief and confusion to certain minds occasioned by such publications, we candidly admit on the other hand, that we rejoice in the conflict-not for its own sake, but because of the greater brightness with which the truth will at last shine forth. The severer the threshing and the winnowing the clearer does the wheat become. ST. CLEMENT'S, OXFORD.-On Sunday evening, November 14th, in the Parish Church, the Bishop of the Diocese appointed George Moore, Esq., of Jesus College, a Reader, with licence to execute his office in a Mission Chapel in the parish. This energetic and devoted gentleman has for a considerable time carried on many works of usefulness in this large and neglected parish, the most important of which has been in conducting Services on the Sunday, Wednesday and Friday of each week (consisting of a Litany, Hymns, and an address) for the working classes, which have been well attended. We are glad to hear that owing to the praiseworthy exertions of Mr. Moore a Clergyman will shortly be appointed to carry on and develope this excellent work, and in all probability a more ecclesiastical and commodious building will, in time, take the place of that now used, which until recently was held by Dissenters. CHURCH CONGRESSES -- FUTURE EVANGELICAL POLICY.-The Rock says:-Several members of the "Evangelical" body who were invited by the Council of the Church Association, met at the National Club, Whitehall, on Tuesday, to consider what course it is expedient for Churchmen, attached to the principles of their Reformed Church, to take with reference to future Congresses. There were present during the meeting about 100 gentlemen, Clerical and Lay, and after much conversation and discussion, the following resolution was agreed to by a majority of 42 to 21: "That in view of the circumstances of the proposed Congress at Southampton, it is eminently desirable that it should be largely attended by the Evangelical Clergy and Laity, and that a Committee be formed for the purpose of watching the interests of the Evangelical party in the arrangements to be made for that Congress." THE GREENWICH SPECIAL SERVICES.-Dr. Miller, Vicar of Greenwich, has issued a stirring appeal "to such of his parishioners as seldom or never come to Church." After addressing such in terms of earnest expostulation and appeal, he says:-I purpose to throw our Parish Church open to you, at a quarter before eight, on these five evenings:-Monday, Nov. 29; Tuesday, Nov. 30; Wednesday, Dec. 1; Thursday, Dec. 2; Friday, Dec. 3. Put away false shame and come to pray and to hear. Take the first sitting you light upon. I am most thankful that I dare hope to have the strength to preach to you on these five evenings. It will be hard work for body and mind, but happy work for the heart. I offer you no attraction of strange and great preachers. But, as God's ambassador to you, not only in the name of His Church, which, as a loving mother, would gather you in to her Holy Services, but in God's | THE NEW BISHOP OF EXETER.-The Weekly Register thus comments on this appointment:- Since our last issue the Dean and Chapter of Exeter have obeyed the command put upon them by the Crown. They whom nothing can be urged as to his private life, and of whose talents have elected to the vacant See of their Cathedral, a Clergyman against and learning there can be little doubt. But no one can deny that, if the English language has any meaning, and if the Convocation of Bishops work in which, to say the least of it, Dr. Temple had a great deal to do, and other dignitaries which takes place every year is not a mere farce, a was condemned by such authority as the English Church possesses. In confirmation of his appointment by the election of the Dean and Chapter, the nomination of Dr. Temple to the Bishopric of Exeter, and in the we see two distinct affirmations of two separate principles. The one is that the State, and the State alone, has the power of nominating the chief Pastors of the Anglican Church. The other that the Church itself has nothing whatever to do with the selection of her Bishops, and has not even the power to remonstrate against any such nomination. Ten years ago the public opinion of Anglican Churchmen would never tolerate such an appointment; ten years hence men of Dr. Temple's school will be the rule, and not the exception, on the Anglican Bench. And the reason is obvious: it was given last week by the Church Times in a few pithy words. If the two great parties in the Church of England dislike Dr. Temple and his doctrines very much, they dislike, nay hate, each other very much more. It would be quite possible for Dr. Pusey and those who think with him, or for Dr. M'Neil and his party, to protest against latitudinarianism finding a place on the Episcopal Bench. But these two leaders could never work, and never will work, together, and the consequences are that they are leaving the road more and more open for Broad Churchmen to rule over them as Bishops." THE REV. C. C. BARTHOLOMEW ON THE TEMPLE CASE.-I believe that to a certain extent Dr. Temple has been forced on Mr. Gladstone by the Liberal party. I think that there is a symptom of this in his previous offer of the Deanery of Durham to Dr. Temple. It looks as if he would have gladly escaped from the offer of the Episcopate. But Dr. Temple refused, and Mr. Gladstone yielded, I believe, to a pressure. Alas, that it should be so! How little could we have expected such an arrow from his bow: from him, once the chosen champion of the Church, whom we loved and trusted as our own souls. Strange, incomprehensible man! Pure, and even holy, in his life and conversation, he is yet one whom good angels may be supposed to weep over. Gifted with powers which on some points would seem almost to reach the limits allotted to humanity, endowed to a high degree with the rare gift of influence, and a certain fascination which has long been felt even by those who, like myself, never have known, or shall know him, this man, so loved and trusted, has abandoned all that he once held dear, and with the belief, which is still universal, of his entire honesty and sincerity, we know not from one day to another what his course of action may be. This was strikingly instanced in his sudden perversion on the Deceased Wife Sister's Marriage Bill, which so surprised and grieved us. Why is this? Because, as has been well said by one who is regarded as the model of sound sense, His intellect guides his conscience, and not his conscience his intellect." That active, subtle, and self-torturing intellect is ever searching out for defects in his own convictions, and the consequence ismutability. With all his gifts, great as they are, he is at the mercy of inferior men with more settled convictions and more determined wills; and at this moment, I believe, that on all important subjects, John Bright is virtually the Prime Minister of England! I deplore, therefore, on all grounds, the miserable weakness of the Chapter of Exeter in their passive acquiescence in the Crown's appointment. They were simply called on to decline to elect one who at this moment lies under the con demnation of the whole Bench of Bishops, as a contributor to "Essays and Reviews;" and also not only has not cleared himself from a system of complicity with such persons as Williams, Wilson, and Jowett, but in spite of all entreaties has preserved an ominous silence. They might have been a praise and glory to many generations, but by their want of courage, and concession to the powers that be, they have betrayed the cause of God and God's Church. Do I wrong them? Let them sit down in their noble Chapter-house, and amid the stirring memories of a thousand years devise an answer to the burning words of Bishop Trower and his powerful and conclusive arguments. All honour to him, and the other five who were faithful found. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND DR. TEMPLE. The following letter and enclosure from the Primate have been sent by Archdeacon Parry to the daily papers: TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-By the desire of the Archbishop of Canterbury, I forward to you a copy of his reply to a memorial from the Rural Dean and other Clergy of the Rural Deanery of South Malling, on the subject of Dr. Temple's appointment. The Archbishop, prostrated as he is by sudden illness, is earnestly desirous that it should be understood that these words were written some days ago, when in the enjoyment of good health; and his fervent prayer is, that this public expression of his own sincere convictions may tend in some measure to allay the irritation which has been lately aroused. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, EDWARD PARRY, Archdeacon of Canterbury. Stonehouse, St. Peter's-Thanet, Nov. 19. 66 Stonehouse, St. Peter's-Thanet, Nov. 19, 1869. "Rev. and dear Sir,-I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a memorial signed by yourself and other Clergy in the Deanery of South Malling, on the subject of the nomination of Dr. Temple to the See of Exeter. "I shall not enter into the general question of the safeguards against any attempt being made in our mixed constitution in Church and State to force upon the Church a man who, from heretical opinions, or from some other unfaithfulness, is unfitted to hold high office in the Church of Christ. I shall only remark, in passing, that I feel thankful that these safeguards, as it appears to me, are very effectual. The practical question is, has such an unworthy and unfit person Deen nominated to the See of Exeter? Now, personally, I have known Dr. Temple for thirty years, and greatly reverence his many noble qualities. I endeavoured, however, to approach the question as in God's sight, greatly fearing, on the one side, any injury to the Faith of the Church, on the other any injustice to the individual; and with a solemn feeling of responsibility the following is my judgment. I do not consider that any blame can fairly attach to Dr. Temple for having originally contributed to the "Essays and Reviews." I believe that the persons requested so to contribute had no knowledge of the nature of the work. When the book appeared, I greatly regret that Dr. Temple did not take the earliest opportunity of dissociating his name from all connexion with the volume; but I am bound to give full consideration to the following facts: That the Preface to the volume contains a general disclaimer on the part of all the writers of responsibility for anything but his own work; and that in the protest against the book, which was signed by the Bishops, there was no allusion to any part of Dr. Temple's essay; that Dr. Temple did take an early opportunity of publishing a volume of his sermons, in which he sets forth his own belief and system of religious teaching. I am bound to pronounce that, in my judgment, Dr. Temple is not responsible for the opinion of the other essayists, and that his own works contain no statement contrary to the Faith of the Church of England. He is an earnest and intelligent believer in all the great doctrines put forth in our Prayer box and Articles. Knowing from other sources his earnest, self-denying, energetic Christian life, I do not wonder that so many of the attached members of our Church have continued to show their unwavering confidence in his Christian excellence by entrusting him with a greater number of pupils than has ever been gathered together in Rugby School, and that the feeling of public confidence has led the Prime Minister to judge that he might fairly be raised to the Episcopate. On the other hand, I feel very strongly that Dr. Temple, if he believes that he cannot do so now, is bound at least, when he enters on the duties of the See of Exeter, to take steps as soon as possible for allaying the anxiety which has been called forth, and for convincing all that are committed to him in the Lord, that the book called "Essays and Reviews" is far indeed from being an exponent of his sentiments and his religious teaching. I remain, Rev. and dear Sir, yours very truly, (Signed) "A. C. CANTUAR. The Rev. J. J. Saint, Rector of Speldhurst, Rural Dean of the Deanery of South Malling." Notes, Literary, Archæological, &c. The Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne (Mgr. Meignau) announces his new work, "Le Monde et l'Homme Primitif selon la Bible." The Convocation of the Clergy of the Province of York has appointed a Committee to report on the measures necessary for national education. The rumour is that the recommendations will be of a very liberal character and be presented to the Lord President in a few weeks. Some most interesting discoveries have been recently made in San Clemente. A vast and vaulted hall, supported by walls of brick of a peculiarly beautiful kind, has been discovered beneath the pavement of the ancient Basilica. It is conjectured that it was a council chamber. It is remarked as a singular circumstance in the South African diamond-diggings that all the diamonds have been found by natives, and not by Europeans. The natives go on all-fours, scanning the surface and scraping with their nails: while the European tries to maintain the dignity of an erect attitude. At the meeting of the Camden Society on Wednesday last, a hearty and well-merited tribute of praise and respect to the memory of their late Director, John Bruce, F.S.A., was entered on the Minutes. In addition to contributions to the Miscellany, it was stated that Mr. Bruce had edited thirteen volumes for the Camden Society. In his editorial capacity, especially, his loss is irreparable to this learned and useful body. An ancient Frank cemetery has been accidentally discovered at Marail (Pas de Calais). The yield has been hundreds of tall skeletons, vases, weapons, shields, and personal ornaments of various sorts. The arms include the Francisque, the Framée and the Saramasax. These, as may be remarked, for the special benefit of Col. Lane Fox, are only the first fruits. Much more is promised. The learned and zealous prior of San Clemente has just completed a series of admirable reproductions in chromo-lithography of the frescoes of the crypt, with a copious and detailed description in letterpress, the whole forming one of the most valuable archæological works on the early Christian period. A wide circulation can alone indemnify Dr. Mullooly for the expense of publication, and your antiquarian readers will be glad to know that copies may be procured at the sacristy of San Clemente at a very moderate price, and the purchase of which will materially aid further researches. ington, states that there is not a library in that country which has yet Mr. A. R. Spofford, the librarian of the National Library at Washreached the number of 200,000 volumes, although there are not less than twenty in Europe which can claim that number. The ten largest of American public collections of books are, the National Library, 183,000; Boston City, 153,000; Astor, 138,000; Harvard College, 118,000; Mercantile, of New York, 104,000; Athenæum, of Boston, 100,000; Philadelphia, 85,000; New York State, 76,000; New York Society, 57,000; and Yale College, 50,000. Some months ago, Dr. 1,000,000 dollars, to be expended in books; and the stockholders James Rush bequeathed to the Philadelphia Library the sum of recently accepted the gift by the small majority of five votes. A bit of geological news comes to us from North Carolina, which the wise ones are discussing with amazement. It appears that the geologist of the State, Prof. W. C. Kerr, in an official report, has avowed the belief that the oldest spot on the surface of the globe is located in North Carolina, and is none other than Black Mountain. Near the conclusion of his report Prof. Kerr makes the following statement: "The facts above stated are sufficient to indicate that those rocks belong to the most ancient of the azoic series. The intensity of the metamorphism, the characteristic rocks and their contained minerals, together with the total absence of anything like organisms in even the least altered and latest of the series (in Cherokee County, for example), render this conclusion inevitable. And not only do they belong to the lowest geological horizon, but the entire absence of all representatives of the later formations makes it further necessary to conclude that we have here an extensive track of the oldest land on the globe; and as North America is the eldest-born of the Continents, so the Black Mountains is the eldest of its giant brotherhood, and was the first to emerge from the face of the unbroken sphere of waters, when the command went forth, 'Let the dry land appear." |