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THIS F1U8T ANCKL. The First Angel. A Nov...
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acting in compliance with the express injunctions of Christ and his disciples ? At the same time allow me to draw your attention to the concluding verses of the chapter from which your text is taken . Winding up with this : — " And now , before concluding my letter , I desire to ask vou a very serious question , and one t 6 which 1 publicly demand a distinct and definite answer . "At the twenty-second page of your Sermon , which appears to contain the pith of your argument , you say S & < would suggest to those wfa » lu »*> . are nght
you and judgm ^ ta [ mature , and who fear God , to aid the Wardens ( for this thing is too heavy for them ) by formins " some organization for the vindication of the law . ' This means , in plain English , that yoH would suggest a voluntary congregational collection for the purpose of Issuing the Wardens to enforce the minority church Ste in the Ecclesiastical Courts , for the repairs of the parish churches . You thus refuse to accept a vo untary collection for repairing the church , but you ' would sueeest' that one be made to assist you in compelling nthers to do that which you will not allow to be done
voluntarily . .... . . 1 " Now the question I ask is this : —Are you , are the Wardens , or are both , the promoters of this law-suit ? For if you be the promoter of this suit , or if you incur any share of pecuniary responsibility in this most arbitrary measure , you have , in thus asking your congregation to ' aid the Wardens , ' not the Vicar , ' by forming some organization for the vindication of the law , ' committed an act which I shall leave the public sense of truth and common honesty to characterize by its proper name . "
There is one bit of information for which we thank Mr . Coningharn , because ( as Christianity claims to be the religion of the Poor ) it affords a pleasing illustration of the Apostolic Church . A rather dissolute gentleman in Rome once said : —
" Pallida mors oequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres ;" and we know that " Pale Death does kick with impartial foot at the palace door no less than at the hovel . " But if all men are equal in the eye of Death , they are not equal in the eye of the clergyman—to worms they all go , rich and poor , but not with the same Christian consolation ; so Mr . Coninffham tells us , at least : —
" You speak of a cemetery ( the only place where rich and poor do meet on equal terms ) as a spot ' where charity should bide and melt in sympathy with the tears of bereavement . ' What are we to think of your pure and ' Apostolic church , ' which tolerajtesa practice ( chiefly confined to some of the metropolitan parishes ) by which an extra fee of five shillings is required , for desk service , ' whereby the poor who cannot pay are deprived of half the burial service ? May I not in turn quote ( Matt . xxiii . 4 ) ? "
Mr . Goulty ' s letter is more theological ; it exposes the vicar ' s misquotations of Scripture , or rather his misapplication of texts , with great effect . The reader may imagine what use the vicar would make of Scripture— " for his purposes "—when we tell him that the text " God is love" is chosen as the demand for church-rates , " Love" being proved in the apostolic words to be the "fulfilling of the law ; " and the law to be fulfilled the vicar quietly assumes in the law of church-rates ! !
When we think of Mr . Bennett ' s treatment by his bishop , when we see trivial ceremonials and symbols sufficient to outbalance all the good of active piety and real clerical work , and when , on the other hand , we see the Vicar of Brighton left undisturbed by his Bishop , we can understand the agony of that cry "The Church in Danger , " for the cry is a reality . The sooner it is put out of danger by the most summary of methods—being put out altogether—the better will it be for Religion , the Church , and the Community .
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THIS F 1 U 8 T ANCKL . The First Angel . A Novel in 2 voln . bauinlers and Otl « y . Tin-: writer of this work is much cleverer than the work itself . One cannot turn over its pages without , feeling that either from youth and inexperience , or ( il . se from having chosen a department for which he i « unfitted , this writer is wasting talents on an immature work . The best paHBages are those of reflection ; a « we might expect from one who hud cultivated his intellect and whose artistic
tendencies were not strong . There are also touches of description which show an artistic and even poetic feeling , ho that wo are driven to the conclusion that Mi « writer in very young , and has not yet seen enough of tho world , reflected enough on his own «; xpeiience of it , nor Hufliciently studied the great models of dramatic art , to enable him to put a readable probable story together . All that relates to the men ; writing i « ( superior to the generality of novels ; all that relates to the story , to pictures of life und portraiture of character belongs to tho Circulating Library , and that not of the best . In
support of our praise take this bit of English landscape : " There is a large market town in one of the midland counties of England , formerly a place of strength , and the scene of many stirring deeds in the olden time . A fine river flows beneath the site of the ancient fortress . Its banks are broad green meadows , with gentle slopesscarcely so much as hills—rising at a little distance , where many jovial old English mansions lift their red _ . -a . i 1 . Tru <¦• « <¦
faces over the large shrubberies of antiquated gardens , and among groves of trees planted a century ago . The river runs east and west , and these mansions , fifty years since , were chiefly on the southern side , with a north aspect , therefore , looking towards the town ; but one of them , in consequence of a bend in the stream , had its face turned nearly to the west , so that the setting sunbeams fell full upon it in summer evenings , turning the windows into fiery beacons , and pouring rubies upon the large sloping lawn in front when the dew began to fall . "
Here again is a passing touch : — " The sun was going down before them , in the pale splendour of autumn , for the great eye of the universe , like human eyes , grows pensive and sometimes mournful in its beauty when the season of gay life and glowing joy is past , and the cold winds of death are coming . " The reflections have a tendency to lengthen into essays , but they are always well expressed and worth reading . Here is one on an old subject : — " It is interesting- to observe the very different paths by which men are led from time to time to the renunciation of their habitual opinions in matters of religion . It is seldom , perhaps never , that a system , or even the
centre of a system , is renounced at once . The decay is usually gradual , and begins at the extremities . There is a feeling of repugnance towards some doctrine or form which the system contains , or a desire for some other doctrine or form which it excludes . The repugnance or the desire engenders thought and leads to enquiry—the eternal source of change among those whose faith , like that of most of us , has been a habit , and not a choice , a thing to be received , not a thing to be sought for . " For , in truth , few men enquire seriously into the foundations of their faith till they begin to be dissatisfied with it ; and the dangers of such enquiry are not at all exaggerated by those who would have men sleep upon
authority , lest they should awake into scepticism . To dig down through our habitual belief , in search of that base of tiuth which has never yet been sought , and haply may not be there ; to subject to calm deliberation opinions which were not calmly deliberated when we adopted them , but received on hearsay , or from an authority whose trustworthiness is itself one of the opinions to be enquired into ; to examine the proof of theorems which we have acted upon unproved , as if they were axioms ; and thus , after the temple of our faith is built and garnished , to look for the first time at its true foundations , not knowing beforehand whether they be rock or sand , —this is indeed a perilous undertaking . Many are the souls who , at first sight of instabilitv at the
bottom of their favourite edifice , have fled in terror or in bitterness , and henceforth built themselves no temple at all . It must always be so while men are taught to believe before they enquire rather than to enquire in order that they may believe . 4 i Perhaps there is nothing more difficult than to predicate of any individual what it is that he will not believe , from a knowledge of what he will . One man , who sees no difficulty in the Athanasian creed , is confounded by the idea of baptismal regeneration : another can believe that God made the world , but cannot believe the truth of a miracle ; a third accepts the irreconcilable doctrines of God ' s omniscience and man ' s free will , but rejects the Trinity because it involves a contradiction : so mysterious are those strange and wonderful beings whom we call our bouIs . "
The foregoing extracts are sufficient to make us desire to see the author ' s next attempt , though we counsel him eitherto some severe revision of his own capabilities to see if they really lie in the path of fiction , or else to more careful study of his art and its requisites .
Books On Our Table. Chancery Inj'amy ; O...
BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . Chancery InJ ' amy ; or , A 1 > lea for an Anti-Chancery League Uy H- W . Wrston , 8 c < : r « tury to the Chancery Itvform Ahbociation . Fifth ThoiiHmid . Kmngham WIIboii . Chancerif lief arm . The Equity Jurisdiction of the Court aj Chancery . A Lecture . My William Carpenter . JKIIlnghain Wilson . Perhaps of all the monstrous abuses in England none equals in enormity and unreasonableness the indefensible condition of Chancery Courts . Chancery has become a
word of terror ; the synonym of lifelong delay and ruinous cxpencc . The romance of Chancery exceeds that of all other courts . As nobody but those interested in the abuses can defend them , the public will be glad to learn that an Anti Chancery League has been established , of which Lord Erakinr is the President , and which if it have courage must eventually succeed inputting an end to the present anomalouH state of tliingH . The two pmnj > hlct » at the head of tins notice are worthy the attention of every reformer . We shall return to the subject .
The British Journal of llomwopathy . No . XXXV . H . Hightay . This quarterly journal though professedly advocating Homoeopathy will interest readers not prepared to adopt thut system . Dr . Madden ' s article on uterine Diseases , for example , though rend before the Homoeopathic conurcBs is one to engage the attention of all practitioner !) Besides that article , which in almost a treatise , the pre-Hcnt number contains papers on tho Theory of lloinuiupathy and on Pneumonia .
The History of Greece , from the Earliest Period to the Roman Conquest ; with a Sketch of its Modern History to the Pretent Time . Adapted for schools and families . By Miss Corner . r Dean and Son . Miss Corner ' s books are well known . She does not treat the subject in a very lively style , nor does she aim at an ambitious style ; but her books are painstaking compilations , clearly expressed . The present volume contains in small compass a view of Greek history from the Pelasgians to the Roman Conquest , with a bird ' s-eye view of modern history . Every page is built up from Grote , Thirlwall , the Library of Useful Knowledge , and Dr . Smith ' s Dictionaries of Greek Biography and Antiquities , so that the results of the best modern scholarship are given . Questions are added to each chapter , and a full chronological table is added . mi vr * ¦ _ . . f ** f -. ^ . a * m 47 » m Wra ^ imrtmt T ^ orin / l in fhd * TfrttTL / ttl
The Peace Advocate and Correspondent . Gilpin . This little journal is devoted to the advocacy of peace . With the object we full y concur . To recommend the infusion of physical force in this paper plainly would not do , but a little more force of some kind would greatly encrease the efficacy of the articles . There is a strong sentimentality in them which repels the business sense of many whose suffrages must be won before the peace question can obtain legislative sanction .
The Miscellaneous Works Of The Right Hon...
The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Macintosh . Complete in one vol . Longmans and Co The Daughter of Night : a Story of the Present Time . By S . W . Fullom . 3 vols . H . Colburn . The Life of Jesus Christ in its Historical Connection and Historical Development . By Augustus Neander . Translated from the fourth German edition . By John M . Clintock and Charles £ . Bluementfaal . H . G . Bohn . The Ecclesiastical History of Eutebius Pamphilus , Bishop of Ccesarea , in Palestine . Translated from the Greek by the Beverend C . F . Cruse , A . M . With noteB selected from the edition of Valesius . H . G . Bohn . The Hand of God in History ; or , Divine Providence Historically Illustrated in the Extension and Establishment of Christianity . By Hollis Read , A . M . W . Collins . Lectures on Social Science and the Organization of Labour . By James Hole . John Chapman .
Transportation not Necessary . By C . B . Adderley , M . P . J . W . Parker . Knight's Pictorial Shakspere . Part 7 . { Taming of the Shrew . ) ° C . Knight
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NOTES AND EXTRACTS . Reugious Differences . —I remarked , more in thought than openly , that difference of opinion in religious matters had always sown dissension among men , and made them enemies ; nay , that the first murder had been caused by a difference in the mode of worshipping God . —Goethe ' s Conversations toilh Eckermann . The King ' s Library . —r It is a curious fact that George IV . sold the library of his father in an underhand manner to the nation . The books were not alone priced by the Emperor of Russia , but they were actually consigned to St . Petersburg ; when Mr . Heber , of doubtful fame , hearing of the negotiation , prevailed on Lord
Sidmouth to induce the King to retract it , which was done by the modern Sardanapalus , upon the Ministry consenting to make up the money he had sold them for . This was actually done out of certain funds furnished by France under the Restoration for the compensation of losses by the Revolution ; and the Baron de Borle , whose case has been so often before the public , was ono of the sufferers by this sleight-of-hand proceeding . The amount deducted for the Kiu ^ was-, however , subsequently made good out of the droitt or the Admiralty ; hut not until the House of Commons of the day had called the MinisterH over the coals for this transaction . — Quarterly llevie . io .
Rr-ueau Qukat Woiuce . —I read some pieces of Mo-Here ' s every year , just as , from time to time , I contemplate the engravings after the great Italian masters . For we little men are not able to retain the greatness of such things within ourselves ; we must , theiefore , return to them from time to time , and renew our impressions . — Goethe ' s Cc » ivcraatio 7 is with Eckermann . Ma , nlv Spouts .. — " All strong exercise is more or less dangerous , " I replied ; " in digging , rowing , running , we may sprain , strain , and rupture , if we do not break limbs . There i « no end to finding out dangers if you look for them . Men huve died of grape-stones sticking in the throat . —are we never to eat grapes again , or are they to be carefully picked of their stones first ? And
as for Courage , which is the strength of soul I speak of , some men arc born with it under a lucky star , and , the phrenologists say , under a good constellation of bumps . I 5 ut even then it will require exercise to keep it in repair . But if men have it not naturally , how i » it to be acquired except in the demand for it ; that i . s to say , in danger ? and to be laid in in youth , while the mind ia growing , und capable of nerving , so as to become a habit of the soul , and to act with the force and readiness of instinct ? " " Mamma will nay it is to be found in good books , good principles , religion , and ho on , " said Euphrunor . " And there may be found the long-concocted resolution , that , after all the . struggles of natural fear
may nerve a man to be a martyr at last . Hut while it succeeds in one , it fails in a thousand . For here comeH the ancient difference between resolving and doing ; which latter In what we want . Nay , you know , the habit of resolving without acting ( as we do ueeeiisarily in facing dangers and trials in bookn and in the rlottct ) in worse for nn than never rewolving at all , inasmuch as it gradually ttriapH the natural connection between thought und deed . "—Euphranor . Ilon-iiKN or SciKNCi :. — "Would to God ! ( exclaimed CJoetlw ) , we were all nothing more than good hod-men . It is just because we will be more , und curry about with iih a great apparatus of philosophy and hypothcHin , that we npoil ull . — Goethe ' s Conversations with Eckermann .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 25, 1851, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25011851/page/15/
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