Church Intelligencer (Newspaper) - January 5, 1842, London, Middlesex THE CHURCH THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING THE PILLAR AND GROUND OF THE JANUARY PRICE NOTICES TO READERS AND The Editor has the honour to acknowledge com from A Gloucestershire Presbyter Lewis The Mac Pythagoras lie Anglican Priest The Wix The Altham The Williams The Mr The Carpenter The Leger A The The Editor respectfully offers his thanks to for the contents of his kind and will attend to them as soon and as far as he Back numbers may still be had to complete sets and if will say what numbers he they shall be forwarded The Editor will attend to the request of the reverend the Editor of THE an excellent Colonial paper published at A Constant Reader will have his her inti mation fully attended The Editor has again to apologise to several of his Correspondents who are expecting private notes from He will attend to them as early as at all con The name of the of Worcester Ox was omitted in the account of the Ordination of the Lord Bishop of given in our last but the Editor believes that the list was inserted as he received and that the inadvertence was consequently not Sui sperat adversis should have sent his name with his The respected correspondent who kindly sends the paragraph about Honorary Canons will find the document respecting them in this of Novem ber page The Editor would again respectfully press it upon his Correspondent to prefix headings or titles to their articles and particularly that they would as on all occasions they most confidentially their names with their If they will not do they need not be surprised if their letters be not even If will send the work he it may be read and noticed at some or it may The Editor really does not feel himself at liberty to promise to notice any book at either favourably or IN reply to several kind the Editor has the happiness of stating that the circulation of THE CHURCH INTELLIGENCER has been gradually anc steadily on the increase ever since its commence ment and that it may now be considered as firmly The offers to his friends and subscribers his most thanks for the encouragement which they have afforded him in his undertaking and hopes that the improvements which experience will enable him to in the paper will render it still more acceptable and useful to Members of the and to the Reverend the Clergy more He may per laps be permitted to say that the amount and kind of information cannot be procured through any other but at a greater expense and not even then in a single and handy publication as a work for REFERENCE in years to it will be constantly increasing in It may not be amiss to that THE CHURCH INTELLIGENCER is regularly sent to all the Archbishops and Bishops in and the British Colonies and that it is taken by many of the Dignitaries and influential Clergy as well as by a large number of the Clergy and Churchmen The great object of the Editor wife be to make the paper a Register of and of all general Religious Intelligence that will be useful or interesting to the Clergy 5 and if he can thereby be of service to the Church and his he will be not merely but highly IT is said that the election to the vacant Professor ship of Poetry in Oxford takes place on the 26th THE of THB CHURCH INTELLIGENCER will now be in possession of an authentic Report of the proceedings of the Wesleyan Conference at Bir in when that body commenced their line of The importance of such a Report can scarcely be too highly estimated in the present state of religious affairs in this country and in the world at The materials furnished by the persons who took a leading part in those proceedings cannot be otherwise than of great use in ting to dissenters as well as to Churchmen the utter to say nothing of the profanity and of the or more the The inconsistency and imprudence of the speeches and actions of the Wesley an teachers on the occasion for exceedingly but just what those opposed to them would have That New and the whole band of Wesleyan will never be while the world to answer the question why the young men had not as much and power to ordain them as they had to ordain the young every man will ever clearly discover in a and without any effort of the But we intend rather to register other peoples sayings and doings than to report our own j and we only our belief that a copy of that report could not now be otherwise obtained for love or And our impression that immediately after its publication there were some forebodings of the use that might be made of and some consequent dissatisfaction ex pressed by some of the leaders in the that it was ever published at it was then too late and as we took The Watchman at the jye took great care to preserve especially when we as we fancy we something like a wish that the whole report was rather at bottom of the than in the hands of any persons besides of LICHFIELD DIOCESAN CHURCH EXTENSION The seventh annual meeting of this important so ciety was held at the on Wed The though respect was not numerous owing to the The Lord on taking the said he was glad to find on the anniversary of the Lichfield Diocesan Church Building sur rounded by so many of his friends and other members of the and he had no doubt that had the weather been more propitious there would have been a much larger This society was first established by Bishop in 1835 in it was one of the first established in this The society also met with the warm sup port of Bishop Both these right prelates made appeals to the diocese in favour of tho in the course of the present that the funds of the society were literally ex it became his duty also to appeal to tho Diocese for additional in order to replenish their exhausted The manner in which that appeal had been responded to they would loam from the Report which would be He was unfeignedly thankful to Almighty God that He had put it the hearts of the people of this diocese to respond to that appeal with so much His lordship concluded by calling upon Archdeacon Hodson to read the The Archdeacon Hodson then read the Re from which it appeared that the result of the Lord Bishops late appeal was a total of fresh dona tions of and of new 1 This is a much larger amount than was produced by the appeals made to the diocese in former although the county of Warwick was heretofore included in this and contributed on each occasion about Lord Sandon moved the first which the Dean of Lichfield William moved the second re in the course of his said that if he could address the meeting in the way he wished to his object would be to enforce on the laity the obligation which was cast upon to do all that was needful for the Church to which they And the reason why he would address the laity because he had no doubt that the Clergy were prepared to do as much as was fairly m then and he was sure that a large proportion of them did more than even they could But maintained that there was no greater obligation attached to exert himself or make sacrifices for he increase of church accommodation to enable the gospel to be preached to the than was laid upon every individual layman of the The Archdeacon in seconding the observed that he was thoroughly con that if such measures as were being adopted by this society were not fully carried out to meet the spiritual wants of the immense increase of po they should have the history of England what the history of Ireland had for some time been population in Ireland increased since the begin ning of the last century from two million to eight and the great bulk of them alien
