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Indian Finance. A Parliamentary Return, ...
to distribute them . I am sure that m proportion as 3 011 lift up your labourers in their own' eye ? , they -will . forget their poverty , and ' think themselves rich in yonr kindness ; and they -Would be delighted to hear a few kind words of encouragement , calculated to give them true elevation and self-resj ^ e ct . 1 am sure they , would bo delighted to hear a gentleman in . Mr , Knight ' s position , as the patron of the society , if he -vrould—I -won ' t * ny condescend—hut if ho would ' take the trouble to address them in the spirit of brotherhood , and to tell them that honest labour involves -no degradation , and that they may , though poor in . circumstances , become rich in good works ! and so dignify the humblest , .
station in society , so as to meet with the approval . of God as well as the'approbation of thoir fellow-oountrymon . I think that such a course would confer great benefit on thr recipients of your rewards . I think that the patron inip . liL almn .-t venture to tell them that goodness levels all the distinctions of this world , and that the sense of duty and the power of doing right are the greatest gifts God can now bestow upon man . He might , also , I think , impress upon them that the greatest man in this room is not necessarily-the patron of this 1
society ; or my honourable friend , the baronet , on ' my right ; or the members of Parliament ; or any among those whom ho may see about him ; but that he is the greatest man in this room—nay , in the world——who , be his station in life what it may , is most impressed with a sense of duty . " Sii ' CharXes Beougiitox called this a clap-trap speech for the purpose of setting the lower classes against the higher ; he also complained of Dr . Bowi , es having , advocated leases for the farmers , and added it was wroi g for the reverend gentlemen to cause them to try to convince ' -poor ignorant men -that the landlords who arc over them were not tlieir true friends . "
'" He thought they were the-greatest ' eiVera-ics to their country who came to such meetings as those , and , under fiilsa pretexts endeavoured to set one class against another . " . Dr . Bowles manfully stuck to his text and ¦ defended himself against these absurd charges . He hns , in fact , done nothing but his duty , and if the Church of Kngland is to maintain its claim to be the Chureh of the people , ' it must produce a few more men like Dr . 11 o "\ vrj- ; s , who will . preach true Christian democracy although it may eau-. e them to incur the frowns of the squire , and make theii less acquainted . with the choice wines kept at the " hall . " Dr . JRowxks has caught the spirit of Christianity . Mi-.-Ne-alk is in possession of ¦ mere husks , that would not feed swine : but both have sworn to the same creeds and articles , and , as the law goes , both arc equally entitled to teach .
Jg.62 The Saturday Analyst Mid Leader. [...
jg . 62 The Saturday Analyst mid Leader . [ Oct . 13 , 1860
Sinful -Singing. It Is An Old Saying, An...
SINFUL -SINGING . IT is an old saying , and ns true now fis ever it was , that'there- is no act of Parliament through which a . tolerably export legal whip cannot with ease drive a coach and six . But our recent nets are assuming a new character . Wo pass a law to put down ono evil , and , presto ! it gives rise to another . Within one short week we have had an illustration of this in tho working of the new act
for the suppression of disturbances in- churches . This law , it will be remembered , was called into existence by tho difficulty experienced by the magistrates in dealing with the rioters at St . Q oorgoV , * in-the-East . Tho first trial unclor the act took place last week , and the offender , Joseph Rowe , a dock labourer , was convicted ot having disturbed the services at St . George ' s , and received a sentence of three weeks in the House of Correction . So far , the now law seemed fully to meet tho © vil it wa » intended to euro . J 5 ut let ua look nt its operation in another case .
At the petty sessions at Srnrillburgb , Norfolk , on Tuesday , ( lie 2 nd inst ., a charge was preferred by tho Her . J 2 i > waui > 1 ' otk Neat . e , Yicar of Horseyj agninst Joskph Fxsn find Ann Nockoijds , two of hie pariRhionovH , and pernons in humble condition , of having , on tho 29 th of August lust , been cuilty of indecent behaviour in the churchyard of llio paid parish of Hurfcoy , by then and . there ' singing on tho way to , and . at ( ho jn'ave of an unbaptisocl child , b y which singing tho paid KmvAiu > I ' otk Nkale was then and there vexed mid tj-oubloil , ho being then and thcro vicnr of the said parish , and tho only person duly uulhorised to porform tho burial eorvico in llio churchyard of tho snicl pariHh , contrary to the form of tho Statute in Mich ojikq made and provided . The enflo was tried bofiwo n , full bonoh of magistrates , two
being clergymen ; and sovoral ckryyinen , avu tiro told , woroproBcnt to watch the prooeodingfj . Tho fuctH , an eta tori liy tho prosecutor himself , tiro simply LIioko :-- ~ Tlio child d ! od boforo ' it wan buivtiVi'd , and lio , " ns vioar , lvfusccl lortwl the burial f ? crvico over if , Mvp . WETitSTKU , to whun Ihia eomnuinicniion was much ' , paid , " Then I film 11 hnvo 1 rayi . T and mn ;> ing over it . " Thy vicar told her that finch a uiirg- would I : o illffrni , and lu-. jcd fho ¦ wou ldn ' t Ihiuk of it ; find ho my a in evidence , " After a fivcut doal of abufio from her I mvlcod ] u'i ' ,. i . s a favour to myseir , 1 o Juno no singing , and sho promised distinctly thut ( hero should lio none . Hcwovor , on the Wednesday , tho clny of tho funeral , tho vicnv entered tho churchyard , and found tho chief inournqvh , Johwu Fxsh and Awn Nockoi / ds , singing a hymn tin I-hoy eruriud tho
i child to the grave . The reverend gentleman was very much ; shocked . at this act of impiety , and went up to the grave and . < said three times , " Joskpii Fisit , aiid all here . present , I do I solemnly jorotest against what yoti are doing . " Seeing how much tho Rev . Kdwaiid ' Potk Xkai . k v / as " vexed and troubled"' by : this i-. roceelin . o-, we should expect- that- there was something . highly ' : indecent and ibiasj heinous . in tiie praying and-singing of JosKrir ' ! Fisiiand Axx JCockolos . ]> ut wluitwas the fact V The grave was dug , and Mr ,--. Wkustkr rerjuestocl Mr . Fisu , knowing him to : beV-Gorl-serving man , ' o attoiul at tlic church that i lie child i might not bo thrown into the grave like a clo ^ -, but might have j . some funeral celebration , as fa * as'it could be done consistently . ; with the -feelings of Mr . ' Xeat . j :, t lie vicar . So they carried tho 1 child to tho churchyard , and feeling it hard tliat they Phoulcl not j I )? allowed to . r ; o in to pray , they knelt down outside in the road , ai-iil : there offered up a prayer . T'lioy then rose and : walked to tho grave , singing a hymn . The vicar could nob take offence at the " prayer , for it wa-i o . nx-red up on the road ,- (/«^ a , V thy eonspcrab .-d precincts . But it was . the hymn Avhich v . asj filing his ! dr . v / iiich voxel imA tioul ) bd him . Anl wlwt v / as the hymn ? ¦! " A'ns ! liov . - s ^ on 1 lie hVy tlics , ' i "J'is but : i : i part lily c ' oi . 1 : 1 Dndi phs-iiiff unnciit li-ir'ly oric .-i' I ' rf' ^ ire to incet t t'y ( . > o « l !' r- ; - - ; nilil ho c . iiJics 1 : 1 yoiKli-i- . cloiiO ,. ' All nature feivs his noil ; 'ili « u-lu . ' e crcatiohcrio . s . Timid—¦• rrci '» : i ' .-c to mi-et thy ( Jed . ''' This v .-as : tho indecent behaviour of Avhicli-these poor . people wvre p-uiltv . ¦ ' This it was \ 7 hich vexed , and troubled that : -Christian ininistcr of ilie Co .-pel , the Rev ; Edwaijd Potk Keai . k . . vicnr of Horsev .. Thohe vrho know Avhsit country magisirates are will , cf j ccair . -ve , be ] . repr . re . ' . l to hear that Joseph . Fisu and Anx X < ickoli > s , ¦ though- ] -crso ' ns . of unimp . enchable ' character . ai-KlV exemplary- life , i -were' convicted of the- offence . They Averc s-entenceil to pay a fine ; of ono slRlliujr , v / ith thirteen shillings cost , " or in . default to be i im | iris . oncd for three < 1 ays . ¦ . ¦ ' V \ carenofc about- to ' liold up ' 'the Itev . Mr . Pon : Xkat . k , vicar ; of Horsey , as a monster of cruelty , or v . n a prim example of bigotry . There is no oce ;;? ion for any vn & . t remount- of inclir . cna . tion on that . score . j \ u-. Xkat . k ¦ fcln . ns to bo ; i kindly gentleman enough . 1 There-vv-fis . iio harshness in the vr & y in vrhich he endeavoured-iu dissuade J \ h- $ . ~ Wi : B > . Tr , r y from sin ^ inrr ' 0 Vcr the grave of lu-r c-Iiikl . ¦ lie tpld-. hor calmly , and in all friendliness , that the act wfts . oon-. ' traryto the law , and bco-o-crl , ; , r- ; a f . ivour to liimsdf , 'hat she . -svou ' ld not persist in an' iiitentiou Avhich ho could not npi'rove . On 1 hc cither hand , there was no spirit of deiiance in tho . conduct ! of Fish rrnd Nooimr-Dfl .- ' They were' willing to defer to the ; wishes of thevicnr , and they did defer to them , in abstaining from j- praying in the churchyard . ' As the evidence shows , they thought it lmrd " that the infant should be thrown inlo the pfrave likeado < r , and so Uicy knelt , down in the road outside and said a prayer . Their whoLi offence , thei-eforo , vns in sinjeinf ? the hymn above quoted in walking thron <;; h the churchyard to the j ^ rave . \ vo will not raise the que-Uion of doctrine here . There are riwny good -Olirialfans who will think it monstrous enoiiKli uwt ¦ it should ho accounted a sin , or an " net- of indecency , as tho law has it , to pray and sing over the { .-. rave ot an unbaptised child , oven ' though orthodox doctors mny tell us twiu there ore being * in hell not n B ] inn long . For all practical iJiirposes it would bo usele ,-. s to jvoout this terrible doctrine , utteiJy opposed as it is alike to tho merciful character of tho Chnsi _ i ; ni dispensntion and tho beneficent sclicmo of tho Almighty—usele . s we sny , beoauso tho doctrine is supported by tho law . 11 ' « , theroforo , by law tliat this question must lie tried . What , then , is me law ? ' The 2 nd section of tho net of the Roman Cathohc Alnr )' , Avhich hns been retained in tho recent enactment , has the toilovring words , ' -If any person or persons of their own 1 ower , u * iiitliority , at ony timo ' or times do , or shall willingly < - 'V < - ' 'f J'Urposi ' , Ly opon ' und overt wor < l , fact , act , or dci-d , maliciously or cqjitemptoufily molest , let clisturb , vox , or trouble , or by any otucr ¦ iiuluwi ' ul -wiiys or menus , disquiet or miKUSo any preacher or jiroachorfi nl ' lowcd or authorial to ] -. rcaoli , ^ 0 ., in imy r if his {•!• thoir open fiormon , } ireaching or collection , I hat lit 1 , f ' Iliey nhall inalc * , doduro , jroach , or vronounco in any chiivcJi . chnpcl , churcliyard , Ac . " Thus it will l ; o Been tho act « mJy yvovidpu against the di ? , turbnnco or interference with a olorgyniMii vliilo in tho riorfomianco of hip roliginuw duties , nnd in no vny meets t ' 10 cuh ' o of a jior /' . on who may choopo to conduct a lmv . ni e . i'vico al ' ler hin own fafihion . Now thoro is no cliorp ) wllliK J . ; Opninst . Fisii and Nociroi . ns of having interfered witlj ^ JU 1 < IS'kai . k in tho discharge of any ocdesiaBtioal ocrvicu . l liun ) wen no scrvioo going on in tho churcliyard at tho time , and v iiu-n »! r . Kkam-: arrived upon tho ai-ono it was not lo ^ ' pi'cnoli . or ] ir ( iuounco in nny church , chapel , churchyard , & o ., " but to l . 'O spy niion tho j . - iroceodinpT- ) of a '( lod-fonHiig man mid woman , y'lio were vjuwilling tlmt then- noighixnu- ' a child should bo thrown into tin gmvo liWrulog . ' . 1 i i > U'lioldvor , iTion , may ! , ( -aid in vofovenco to tho < loo » nnowi « ici » holilM Mint- a chiUl who ' diw u'ldiaptiscd 1 b no bolter tlnin a bonwt , iv \ r » n ' .- miv rnlopci'l ' cclly cloav thai , tho convMion cf Josi ' . rn J . 'iM » iiikI A is ' : ; K < n' «( i . om Iiiim been olvlaiuod con I vary to law , n « 'i i * tliei-i-fcm . ' , Jin not ( f prohB Ktujidiiy and injuwtire Ah to Mr-Nkai . k , ho fyhililhi ko miuh oinitfour and iciinllincfiH , tJint _ vo > voul . l faiu bcllovo hiwhoiut and hiw hotter fouling vovoUucl iignii' »» tlio fiton whloli , wo hopo , ho has talcon only in obecliunoo rotno olillgatlon imposod upon liim by . the rigorous law of tho enliven \ o ¦\ vliioh ho belong .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 13, 1860, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13101860/page/6/
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