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Ocxobe* 25,1856.] THE EEAPEB. 1010 .'
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. ^ "We do not ...
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<5jQ ^^r SATURDAY, OCTOBEE 25, 1856.
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There is nothing so revolutionary, becau...
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THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF v SPTJRGEON. :...
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THE "VVALEWSKI MANIFESTO. The Preneh Gov...
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Ocxobe* 25,1856.] The Eeapeb. 1010 .'
Ocxobe * 25 , 1856 . ] THE EEAPEB . 1010 . '
Notices To Correspondents. ^ "We Do Not ...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . ^ "We do not undertake to return rejected communications . Ifo notice can be taken of anonymous ^ correspondence . Whatever is intended for insertion nmst be authenticated by tho name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a Ruarantee of his good faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons ouite independent of their merits .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is - nothing so ' . ¦ unnatural-and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law : of its creation in eternal progress . — De . Aknoxd : ¦ _ + ¦ ¦ . . ¦ ¦ . - ¦ •¦
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THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF v SPTJRGEON . : ' ; o The exhibition which led to the disaster in c the Surrey Gardens did not spring from d altogether * bad motives . At a time when the u national Church falls into anarchy , sectarian- t . ism , and indifferentism , it is natural that ti preachers should arise appealing to the broad s instincts of their fellow-creat ures . When the c national Church . becomes formalist .-and tech- J nical in its teaching , it is natural that the v popular preacher should be a man addressing x himself to his congregation in the homely i language which speaks direct to their hearts , i If the appointed preachers of the national s Establishment Cannot fill their churches , it is 1 natural that the popular preacher should take < a pride in filliug something . larger' than a 1 church ; nay , he may think that it is his duty i to address the people wherever he can as- ^ seinble them ; and since the owner of the 1 field would warn him off if he were to address 1 the people in the church of the blue vault , since the Chief Commissioner of Works has < warned'him . out . of .. the public ' parks , nothing < was left him but a hired field , a temple ¦ which i he might share with the publican and sinner . Have we been doing anything but describe the actual circumstances of the day ? Take the latest facts , the latest appointments in the Church . The Bishop of Cakxisi / e is a fashionable preacher , one whoso language does not rise above the apprehension of a mixed audience ; he is an accomplished man , an Honourable , and brother to a distinguished statesman , a llight -Honourable high in office . It would have been possible to appoint to the see of Gloucester one of the most accomplished , pious , and spiritual men in the Church of England ; but it was thought necessary to appoint a Baking . The great see-of Durham is given to a Bishop for whose selection every friend apologizes , with the plea that the new Bishop translated from Bipon is a very worthy , hard-working man ; as though a Bishop and a clerk in a bank were to bo measured by the same qualities ! The Bishop of London , says the evangelical Morning Herald , promises" well ! Bishop Jaoksoh has performed well , and everybody expected him to be translated to the metropolitan see ; but some of these personal arrangements dictated the shifting of Dr . Ta . it from a quiet parish and schoolmastership to bo tho diocesan of the great metropolis . The Deanery of Westminster has been given to Cujsnevix Trench ; tho only objection to whoso appointment is , that he ought to have had one of tho bishoprics . And tho Deanery of Carlisle is given to Mr . Cxosb , who distinguished himself lately by thundering an anathema against tho Gloucester musical festival , whilo he stands immortalized in tho history of tho English Church , figuring in tho last prosecution for Atheism . sp o ! , [ j - 3 t b r x 1 y a - - ! d o > > f 1- it is | y ie s . r . > y a- r- h , i .
It will not be supposed that we in any de- hi ; gree share the opinions of the Atheist , who in appears to us to hazard the most untenable ad proposition which the human mind can frame , pr < But dogmatists who have adulterated religion be with propositions quite as untenable , and ch more shocking , have naturally suggested that th extreme reaction . Upon them we charge ch the real institution of Atheism . ¥ e have no always held that , although human reason is mi absolutely incapable of-determining many "W ideas and influences which the human mind of is capable of perceiving , but not of com- th passing , it can never perform its destined an office unless it be free , subject only to the , th laws of logic , the dictates of conscience , and tic the . infallible decree of instinct . The Leader hx has always asserted the right of every con- ch scientio ns opinion to its own free utterance ; te partly on the ground t hat it is better to to know what is in the heads and hearts of men sc than to be ignorant of it ; partly that no ai opinion is yet so perfect that we should rest m content with it , and forbid contention or m discussion of its opposite . We claim free pi tterance , then , for the Atheist , and even for ti the Methodist ; although the latter appears to si us to stand in horrid oppugnance to the very " irit of religion . "What has been the effect si f our advocacy ? "We do not claim for the a Leader a higher position than hv deserves S when we say simply that we established , by tl practical evidence , the possibility of conduct- n ing discussions upon the hig hest subjects ^ of o . religion , politics , and morals , not only with t ! safety for ourselves under the existing laws , t < but also without irreverence for any existing a opinions , and without descending into any a low controversy . " We at once triumphed , t and suffered by the fact that our example ¦> was instantly followed by many of our con- t temporaries ; for we challenge attention to a the fact that after the establishment of the Leader a marked change took place in the dis- c cussion of all those classes of subjects ; the £ discussion becoming at once more direct , t more free , and more complete . One effect i we fully anticipated : it was , that , with that j freer treatment of religious questions , with * that more confiding reliance in the inherent i power of the religious idea , dogmatic scepti- i cism would be at least as much rebuked as < dogmatic sectarianism ; and again we point i to the far more liberal tone amongst the ultra- i deniers of religious discussion . The asser- ] tion of Atheism has nearly disappeared , 1 " Secularism" is little more than the avowal ' of a preference for material subjects . It is < in religious discussion something like the avowal of a preference for engineering or trade , rather than art or philosophy , iu the pursuits of practical life . But the heads of our Church have not sulvanced so far as the press , or society , or their own congregations . They are still promoting that bigot of Cheltenham who supposed that the true counteractive to religion was to ' render religion odious by ident if ying it with tyranny , and exhibiting it as incompatible with reason . Yet we do not charge Her Majesty ' s Ministers , still less He a Majesty ' s Primo Minister , with bigotry . On tho contrary , in these appointments we seem to discern much impartiality , without much care , from what quarter of ' the Church tho dignitaries might bo selected ; ns if tho opinions of a Bishop , or tho spirit of his episcopation , did not matter . Tt is not bigotry that appeal's to us tho fault indicated by the selection , but indiHerentism . "With an established indiflbrentism , tho natural conscqncnco is tho rising of a popular preacher to address tho people in the . language of tho truo faith- Such a prencher will be alien to tho Establishment and to tho hi in been that not of the and that bu ch to scri st " t a t ; ; ' l ; . i ; . . , I 3 r e [_ ¦ ir - - d ; o h le i _ i _ n : h
gher classes which people it . BCe will speak the language of the people whom he is to address . Sir Benjamot Haxl has forbidden preaching on the open ground wMch has spared for the people , in the rent-free church of the blue vault . It followed , then , the preacher must preach in a rented church to a rent-paying congregation , but a high congregation . "What is this hut a middle-class and shopkeeping congregation ? Wanted , then , a pilgrim for the shopocracy the metropolis—a Pjetee , the Hebmit for trading part of the London Directory ; if we discover the man , can we wonder he -possesses such qualities as that particular Peteb might possess . It is not the ilding that makes the saeredness of the urch , but the religion that makes the temple . Your Nonconformist is accustomed see his Church supported by small subptions , payments , in fact , for admission ; and . what more suitable for such an entrancemoney than a great concert-room , ? "What more in conformity with the mission-. of the preacher of this day who is carrying the truth to the publican and singer ? The bad yle of the preacher , his rodomontade about hell , " his association with deacons who ] ook sharp after the pence of admission , are but circumstances inherent in the case . Mr . Spubgeon- ' s continuance of his sermon after the horrible disaster had happened has been mentioned as a proof of his presumption : it only proved a well-meant incapacity for doing the best under the circumstances . He tried o draw back those who were flying in horror t the scene of anarchy , by preaching to them sermon on the text , " And the wicked are in the house of the Iuord , " while his deacons , were jingling the cash-box to prevent the retribution from , falling on themselves in the shape of ' the expenses . ' . An immense concourse w-as assembled with ] out any efficient control . In lieu of a congregation obedient to officers and -pastor , here was a mixed assemblage , amongst whom were scoffers and enemies . The belligerent preaching was met by defiance and stratagem , and the denunciator was defeated by a ' , ' which he had neither the power nor the influence to quell . The braving of public opinion ended in an event which was at once a farce and a tragedy . Many who had abstained from condemning the bigotry of the preacher , will be shocked and disgusted by the bloodshed in which the play ended . He was exposed in a position to which , " he was quite unequal , and disgust at his obtrusion is mitigated only by pity for the weakness which he betrayed . But pity for weak ness is not a sentiment calculated to enlarge the influence of a preacher . Mr . Spuitauoisr was an erabodiment of reviving Methodism in its lowest form , and the indiscretion into which he has been betrayed will meet that revival ot Methodism with a j > opular revulsion . If thero can be any consolation for the j ) ainful sacrifice of life and iimb , it will be found in the fact that the sacrifico will be tho price , probably , saving tho country from some part of-tlio mischief which would have been drawii upon it by the new spread of a dark and vulgar Sectarianism .
The "Vvalewski Manifesto. The Preneh Gov...
THE "VVALEWSKI MANIFESTO . The Preneh Government endeavours to represent its Neapolitan , policy as a sequel to its interference in Belgium , following the announcement of suspended relations with Naples , the text of a new Belgian Treaty appears in tho Moniteur by which attempts against the Emperor ' s person—for that , in this case , is tho only ' person' in danger— - nro ex-eluded from the category of political offoncos . Thus , whenever the JbVoncli police
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1856, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25101856/page/11/
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