Christians Monthly News (Newspaper) - December 2, 1867, London, Middlesex December Registered for Transmission CHRISTIANS MONTHLY DECEMBER PRICE THERE has been much talk about the Irish Church Commission appointed by as though it were to inquire into the Church of England in Ireland as to its right to exist at But the Standard Asit has been falsely said that the Conservative for the sake of outbid the Liberals in so it has been without the shadow of that they were ready to outbid their adversaries in concessions to the Irish Romanists and English Dissenters and that the leaders of the whose highest and dearest object has ever been the defence of the religious institutions of the were prepared to disendow and disestablish the Irish branch of the National The consti and instructions of the commission lend no sort of countenance to such a Their in confine them to an inquiry into the actual state of the her her sacred and the numbers of her and to the recom of such alterations as may be required in the and distribution of said and in the condition of the of and benefices belonging to the Such an investigation cannot be construed to extend to suggestions of spoliation and It is not to the but to the fortification of the Church to the better application and not to the forfeiture of her We know that much may be done in this without in the least trenching on the respect due to the rights of property in and to the sanctity of Church property in There exist great inequalities in distribution of the There are many parishes with very few which might pro be consolidated or annexed to other while their revenues might be applied to increase those of the poorest Then follow some sensible remarks as to the Romanists What ever may be said in favour of the equal treat ment of all religious bodies belonging to the same country loses its force when applied to a religious body whose policy is controlled by a foreign claims might be set up on behalf of the Irish Roman Catholics are invalidated by the fact that their their moral and political influ their whole power in the state and in are atthe disposal of the Roman For we might be disposed to pay some respect to the strong aversion of Irish Roman Catholics to a com mon national whether in primary schools or in if that aversion were the genuine expression of their own But its moral value is altogether changed when we learn from the Dublin Review that the Catholic laity were well disposed to send their children to common schools and but that the practice was peremptorily for bidden by the Holy A great Protestant demonstration has been held at in the county of on the same and under the same as the gathering of the Ulster Protestants in Up wards of are said to have been The requisition through which the meeting was called was one of the most influential ever published in the and amongst those present were members of the House of in every class ot the community was well The venerable Earl of Rod en received a most enthusiastic The proceedings were characterised by calmness and Not a party emblem or flag was and every cause of offence was scrupulously The pledged the meeting to uphold our Protestant and asserted the prescriptive title of the Irish Church to its rights and A young lady of the name of De having en tered a convent in France against her fathers he round a printed circular to his as if she were dead and to the following effect Le Baron de is grieved to announce to you the af loss he has just experienced in the person of his Josephine de so far the formula is that used on announcing a whom superstition has buried alive in the noviciate of Con flans for the greater glory of God and of the nuns of the AT in a Protestant minister having shown himself in the the priest and his adherents intoxicated a parcel of children and then gave them noisy with which t give the intruding minister an overwhelming chari A braes band was also employed to aid them But the good sense of the adult men anc the persevering preacher had a quiet audience o of is endeavouring to prevail upon Nonconformists to join the Evangelicals Popery Free md unite with the Evangelical clergy against We have been cold and distant with I mt we will be so no We will admit that Episcopacy is not Ceremonies are not every church has a right to settle its own Adoption by the State is not fun You have just as much right to call your selves Christian churches as we Whatmore can you wish Join help us for I am not afraid o avow that without your help I see no human means of maintaining in its integrity the Protestantism of Thus spake the good Doctor but before ve close with his we must ask him a few What is his authority for making this offer on behalf of the Evangelical clergy Because it Ipswich the other day they said they would not lave us in the new because we might vant What does want us to do What measure does McNeile desire It is through his own church that all the danger has Lord Vest nent is mere quackery and if there must be at least let it be All possible repetition of this alarming crisis must be Will demand a revision of the Prayerbook Nothing less will meet the urgency of the what guarantee will the Doctor give that we shall not be left in the lurch after we have helped to put out the fire because have been treated unhandsomely upon some simi lar occasions when listening to invoca tions of fright exactly like Dri Is our reward to consist solely in the satisfaction of seeing Romanism extinguished 1 Are to con the Universities to remain shut against ns Nothing less will satisfy us but a promise that the Act of Uniformity shall be totally Will danon McNeile of his f we will consider of rlf this be really the language of we it to be both selfish For rear the shadow comparatively may be left to re they will not assist in removing the putrid Lord Derby lias appointed Canon an Evan to the deanery of The High Church party are literally Is there hope looming in the distance The John Bull the ap pointment is calculated seriously to damage the Con servative my Lord never repeat the offence by all over and over But the John Bull goes and says it has discovered that the Canon is connected with Lord Derbys O thats is it A movement was commenced a few weeks among the leading Roman Catholics in tne Earl of Denbigh taking the for the purpose of raising a fund to supply the Popes army with and In the brief space of two hours one thousand guineas were An agitation is going on in Paris for removing the Pope to but will never consent to The value of the livings in the Church of England in in 17 parishes is about yet there are only while there are 321 Dissenters and A RIDDLE IN congregation of a cer tain Ritualistic church in this neighbourhood was somewhat startled on a recent Sunday by hearing a riddle propounded from the said the officiating clergyman in his is a man father to his own father There was no nobody audibly gave it and the clergyman proceeded at once to give the When hes a bishop The Weekly Register says that Whalley is to be turned out of the Reform be cause he speaks so strongly against the There are 220 Romanist members of the A great Protestant demonstration took place at Dudley on About 500 persons sat down to after which a public meeting was at which the celebrated Murphy and John Bunyan MCure termed in the Dudley paper the Baptist from were and spoke both being well O dear England My heart is in pain Can this be the land where the martyrs were slain 1 And canst thou be nourishing still in thy breast The serpent that stung thee and thee of That thy children by torture and fire And drew thee Jehovahs just ire Canst thou have nobly they Contending with and hell Shall the wives and the daughters of Britains fair isle by the craft and the serpentine guile Of priests paid by be lured on to And for ever estranged from their kindred and home Ye children of awake from your sleep Not now is the time a dead silence to Your foes are upon in front and in rear ere the rack and the torture Arouse from your ye and Ere the flames of old Smithfield becrimson the Ere the word of your God be consigned to the And contempt like a torrent be pourd on his down at his feet In the dust let us And to him mightily For for our for our poor guilty That he might defeat this vile treacherous Our Christ is exalted on Zions fair The Lord whom we serve is a Conqueror We know he will triumph at last in this Though now for a season with us it is A dark cloud most densely hangs over our feeling our its bursting we But our Jesus triumphant still rides on the And we humbly believe we shall triumph at last For the morning will come and the Day Star And scatter all clouds from the lowering Delivering his own from their wilderness But dealing destruction in wrath to his Then Babels proud towers in ruin shall And the great whore must drink of the wormwood and While the saints of our God enjoy peace like a river The smoke of her torments will rise up for JOHN who will be 90 next was summoned at Barnsley for nonpayment of defendants answer is worthy of Notwithstanding his great he still maintains himself by the labour of his He works on the roads at per a land out of which he has to feed to provide for a sick and to pay He has no objection to pay he ventured to think one was instead of The magistrates thought so espe when they learned though BO the vQue rable man had never either applied for or received paro chial GARIBALDI has made though effort to release Borne from the fetters of He would have as it Las been discovered that there was to be rising in the city as soon as he his volunteers appeared outside but the Emperor of the to secure the favour of the sent an army to aid the Popes troops and it appears that French were engaged against Garibaldi when he was de After the the French General was to the and received his as did also the French and the emperor and it is said the Pope means to bestow a mark of honour on all the sol diers who took The emperor has persuaded the European powers to hold a conference to consider the affairs of but the Florence papers say Portugal held that Russia and England were in favour of the Conference providing the temporal power of the Pope was to be done that the Pope would not consent to the conference unless that power were to be and that Spain supported that THE trials of the Fenians at Manchester are Twentysix had been Of five have been sentenced to five years penal and were found guilty of wilful and sentenced to One subsequently it having been clearly established that it was a case of mis taken Three were executed on the 23rd one having been We are no advocates for punishment by We believe a much severer punishment might be some really court But as our law we do not see how three of the men could possibly have been They had all loaded Allen was seen to shoot the murdered and to fire six wounding two Larkin shot the first horse and repeatedly fired upon the officers and upon three unarmed men who were running away from Gould shot the Second horse and fired at a policeman who was wounded by Now as to thereupon be no doubt that morally he was equally but actually he was only seen to throw stones and to knopk at the The made a distinction between him and the temper ing mercy with We are not sure that they were for he had been leader in a Fenian affair at as he will not easily get astray perhaps we may be At Liverpool he claimed the protection of the American stating that he was an American subject wo interested himself on his cau at the same to mind what he was about for the When condemned at he again wrote to Adams but that gentleman told him as he had not heeded the caution he gave he would have nothing to do with We write these I facts mainly for the information of our friends I as at home everybody must be familiar with
