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THE MOON'S ROTATION . { To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sir , —I hope you-will contrive to give me space in your journal for a very few-words in reply to the letters of Mr . John Taylor and Mr . Jelinger Symons , in your last week ' s number , on the subject of the moon ' s rotation . I promise you I will be very brief , for , to tell you the truth , my dinner is at this moment waiting , having been delayed a full hour beyond our usual time by the experiments I have been making all the morning with our only "bottle-jack . I will merely premise that our jack , though that of a philosopher , has in it nothing peculiar , except that it is at present a little out of order ; but , bad as it may be , I think it will render us considerable assistance in showing Mr . Taylor and Mr . Symons that the moon ' s rotation is a fact , and uot as they regard it , a mistake .
I find that our bottle-jack , when operating with a goose at the fire ( which happens to be our dinner today ) , runs down completely in about fifty minutes , making in that time one thousand revolutions , and consequently giving the goose a turn every three seconds . Wow I find , on taking the jack in my hand , ¦ with its suspended goose , and carrying it about the kitchen , I appear to cause no derangement of its rat © of motion . It still runs down in about fifty minutes ; and this , whether I walk in straight lines or in curves , forward or backward , fast or slow . Prom this I come to the conclusion that motion communicated to our jack , as a whole , mates no change in that other motion derived from its own mainspring .
To apply this interesting discovery to our present subject , I set up my walking-stick in the middle of our kitchen , and swung my goose round it -in the direction in which the goose was already revolving , giving it a corresponding orbital period of three seconds . The result was as I expected , that if my goose commenced its orbit with its breast or ita back , turned towards the central stick , it maintained that relation to the end of the experiment . In fact , it presented exactly the phenomenon , now so much discussed , of the moon ' s motion .
" The goose , " says Mr . Jelinger Symons , " no longer rotated on its axis . " " Or if it did , " says Mr . Taylor , * ' it was only a secondary and subordinate motion derived from the primary orbital motion . " But to Mr . Symons I must observe , that the works of our bottle-jack ran on during the experiment , and gave out their usual amount of turning force ; and to Mr . Taylor , that the rotating motion was not a mere subordinate consequence of the orbital , for the orbital motion was given by the force of my own arm , whereas it was our cook ( a comely woman of forty ) who wound up the jack .
Nor did the new theory succeed better when I swung round my goose in the opposite direction . For if its rotating- tendencies appeared somewhat obscured before , it seemed now possessed by a sort of whirling madness . It went waltzing round the circle in a most extraordinary manner , making two distinct turns to each single revolution . Yet I could not perceive that the mainspring of our jack had at all altered . It seemed to give out no more force than when the goose appeared not to rotate at all . It baa been said , in favour of the new theory , that
it removes much obscurity from astronomical physics , and introduces much simplicity in its stead . But the experiments above described do not seem to point to such a conclusion . For , if we denote by A the entire force of our jack , in turning round a goose at the fire a thousand times , and think we have a constant quantity in A , wo shall find ourselves very much mistaken . The three forms of experimentviz ., the goose at the fire , the goose swung round to the right , and tho goose swung round to the left—all give widely different values . Wo shall have respectively A —1000 A = 0 A = 2000 And this , not merely on > the evidence of our bottlcjack , which I ndjnit is nn imperfect one , but on tiiat of all the bottle-jacks in the kingdom . Bat I must forbear . My family are waiting to have the gooso cut up ; and , between ourselves , lf « ear that , in consequence of my ' philosophizing' long in the kitchen , I shall find it very much underdone . Yours , &e . Eburiems .
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Hackney , built purposely for the benefit of Jews converted to Christianity . ( It may be said , by the way , that that Society , having existed nearly fifty years , and spent nearly 500 . 000 ? ., has converted just two Jews and a half . ) But to come to the chief purpose of this letter . In order to benefit the Jews , thev preach to those very few Jews who do attend , in English , very properly , as out of one thousand Jews , perhaps only one or two would understand the Hebrew language , and of course not one person of the English portion of the congregation ; but mind , while the sermon is in English , because the Jews do not understand Hebrew-, the prayers are read in Hebrew in the same chapel , because only a very few Jews ( who do not understand Hebrew ) attend the "worship—a proceeding in flagrant violation of the 24 th Article and of the words of St . Paul .
Only read their own organs—the Record , and other so-called " evangelical organs ! " by " tremendou s hisses and groans , and cat-callings , " so that if the Apostles of old would have appeared among them , they would certainly have believed them to be a company of pickpockets from iioundsditch ! And , for my part , ! was reminded of a description of a Party of Souls in the lower world , into whose midst Alighieri Dante fell during his wanderings in Hell , and from whose company he was dragged out with rebuke by Virgil , his faithful guide !—I am , my Lord , Your dutiful servant in Christ , Joseph Wolff . Leamington Spa , Dec . 22 , 1856 .
EHE DENISON CONTROVERSY . . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) To the Lord Bishop ot Exeteb . My deak Lord , —Ever since I had the privilege of being admitted to your Lordship ' s presence , I have felt the greatest confidence in your Lordship ' s kindness and consideration , and I pray that the Church of England may enjoy for many , many years longer vour powerful support in these times of heartless persecuting and shallow evangelicalism on the one hand , and barefaced infidelity on the other , with cold formality in religion in ; many quarters ; for we are living , indeed , in critical times of the Church . There is a perpetual dread of Superstition , whilst scarcely any fears are ever expressed of Infidelity ! My Lord , is it hot a remarkable fact , that while
we find the word " Superstition" used only "twice in the vrhole Bible , and then unaccompanied with rebuke , Infidelity (" unbelief ) is mentioned with horror and condemnation many hundreds of times ? There is a great boasting of the march of civilization and of intellectual progress , whilst in spite of them the most atrocious and desperate outrages * even murders , are daily com mitted in the streets of the metropolis opposite Exeter Hall , where they thunder against Popery and Superstition in the open day ! And the Churches seem to forget that the Deluge came upon and destroyed a ' civilized ' world . And as it was in the days of Noah , thus shall it be again when the Son of Man shall come , for which we have our Lord ' s warrant !
However , -this is not the point which I wish now to discuss . My chief object in . writing to your Lordship is , to thank you most cordially for your admirable reply to my beloved friend Denisoh . My Lord , I not only reside in the archdeaconry of that holy , excellent , pious , amiable , and most infamously , most unfairly , and most unjustly persecuted man , but I have also lived in his house for a very considerable time , and your Lordship may believe me when I assure you , that though I have been a great traveller ,
and have met with holy and zealous priests in the Komish , Greek , Armenian , Chaldean , and English Churches , a more zealous , more devoted , more sincere , more benevolent , and , though ardent , bold and straightforward in his public harangues , a more meek and patient parish priest I never met in any of these Churches . Neither Stowell nor M'Neile , ' canonized' 1 > y the persecuting Archbishop Sumner , are worthy of unloosing the shoe latchets of Denison !
Now this most excellent Denison has been accused by the Protestant inquisitors Ditcher and Archdeacon Law of having depraved the 29 th Article of our Church . The biassed and packed Commission of Clevedon have been forced to acquit him of holding the Romish doctrine of Transvbstantiation , but accuse him falsely of holding the Lutheran doctrine of Consubstantiation , which doctrine Martin Luther not only maintains , but says , in his letters " to the Heavenly Prophets , " " I rather would believe with the Papists Transubstantiation even , than consider it ( tlie Sacrament ) a mere sign with Culy £ ai 3 A ' ' "AkI )< i t 1 " 8 docfcrino is clearly set forth in tho Augsburg Confession . Now is it not strange , «* £ when the despicable aKd , schismatic Anglo-Bisnopnc of Jerusalem was established by an act of arhament
I , the Bishop of Jerusalem was enjoined to ordain every candidate of the Lutheran Communion as Priest of the CIiuTch of England , who would subscribe the Augeburg Confession . Now if tho doctrine of Conaubstantiation is considered , to be orthodox at Jerusalem , why ia it thought heretical at IiiOBt Brent ? Verily , tho Archbishop of Canterbury and hia party arc endowed with a geographical conscience I But it may bu answered that the candidate is also obliged to subscribe to tho Thirty-nine Articles—that is , the candidate may understand Uie Artjcles according to tho Augsburg Confession . Why , then , I ask , is Archdeacon Deiuaon not allowed to construe tho Articles by tho formularies of the Church of England and by the Confession of Augsburg ? However , I have graver charges to prolcr against Iub Graco tho present Arehbishoo of
VAnterbuxy . A society exists in London called the London Society for promoting Christianity among the f ' * t 8 aid Soi ; ioty has an cpiscopally consecrated chapel in Palestine-place , Bethnal-green ,
It is far worse than the uae of the Latin tongue in the Church of Rome . Since thousands of Christians understand the Latin , even many Jewish synagogues in London , Berlin , Hamburg , Amsterdam , and even MCeshed , in Khorassan , liave substituted the languages of their respective countries in the place of Hebrew . It maybe asked , What is the motive of their using the Hebrew Liturgy ? 1 answer , without hesitation , " A puffing motive P' in order that the public may be led to believe that there are a great many Jews converted to Christianity ! whilst the congregation consists chiefly of Englishmen and Englishwomen ! Parther , the London Society for promoting
Christianity among the Jews professes to be a strictly Clmrch of England society . I remember well , that , forty years ago , the noble-minded , generous , and sincere Rev . Lewis Way , paid from his private resources a sum of no less than 12 , 000 / ., of which that Society was indebted to the public , in order that only members of the English Church might be the patrons and managers of it . Why then , I ask , is Chevalier Bunsen , a neologist of Germany , who laughs at Episcopacy , a vice-pa . tron of a society of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is the constituted patron ? More , that Society , though a Church of England society , yet is , as is well known , exclusively in the
hands of the Evangelical party , in which there is no inconsistency , inasmuch as that party is included in the Church , under her visible pope the Earl of ShaftesbuTy ; to be sure , they deny Baptismal Regeneration , Apostolic Succession , and the Real Presence . There is , alas ! thanks to the Archbishop Sumner , no inconsistency in all this ; but no person will deny that it is' inconsistent in the Evangelicals to select , as one of -their vice-presidents and as their prime leader , the Rev . A . M'Caul , D . D ., Rector of St . Magnus , who will not contradict me when I state that he , Dr . M'Caul , has publicly avowed to believe , as well as I do believe , the following doctrines : —
1 . Baptismal Regeneration . 2 . Apostolic Succession . 3 . Real Presence . 4 . Infallibility o £ the Visible Church'Catholic . Now I rejoice that the doctor believes all these points , but how can the Evangelical party choose him as one of their leaders ? But I well know why they are so indulgent towards him : Pirst , because Dr . ' M'Caul , as a genuine Irish Protestant , hates and detests the Roman Catholicswhich hatred covers the multitude of sins ! Secondly ,
because he was the chief promoter of the establishment of the bishopric of Jerusalem . Thirdly , because he took no part against Mr . Gorham , whose doctrine he disbelieves , and he expressed his disapprobation of the proceedings of the Bishop of Exeter in the Gorham case , in whose ( the Bishop of Exeter ' s ) opinions on Baptismal Regeneration hecoincides . And yet we talk of Jesuitism . The great Denison has been condemned , like Lord Stratford of old r by some neglected moth-eaten record ,
My Lord , when in 1818 I was sentenced by that holy man , Pius VII . himself , to be unsound in my views , and , therefore , declared not to be a fit pupil of the College of the Propaganda , and when the decision of the Holy Father was announced to mo by the Prince-Cardinal Litta , his Eminence and the Pope ' s Secretary , Monsignor Testa , continued to treat mo with parental kindness , and Cardinal Litta wrote to me even after my bnnishrnent , and even Cardinal Delia Somaglia , most affectionate letters . But how did the judges at Bath , and the packed Commission at Clovedon treat their condemned brother ? Th « y never spoke one single word of kindness to their condemned brother , and the fanatic Dr . Hugh M'Noile , xxr Ij * v'erPool > lini ( l the brutality of expressing , at Weston-super-Mare , his approbation of the conduct of a Ditcher in having brought about tlio ruin of a brother !!!
When tho Apes tics were about to choose Matthias , they all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication ; and whenever a difference of opinion took place among tho Disciples , they came together to consider thia matter with prayer and fasting ; and thus they do at Rome But what was tho conduct of the Evangelical parti / at Brighton in preventing the High Church party from estiiblishmpr a collewe ?
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There 13 no learned man "but -will confess b-e hath much profited bjr reading controversies , his senses ' awakened , an . d hia judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , -why should it not , at least he tolerable for his adversary to write I—Miuon
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64 THE XtJEADEB : [ No . 356 , Saturday ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 17, 1857, page 64, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2176/page/16/
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