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SOS Tnteltigwee * - ** Parliamentary : Neid Church *? B 31 .
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the clergyman * taking it at ^ 150 a year , was not sufficient for the maintenance Of a clergyman , certainly the curate could not be expected to be fairly remunerated , who did the daty of such second Church
held lit plurality , by a salary of £ 75 a year , which of course was all he could expect . The only suggestion he had to make in addition was , that tlie consent of the incumbent of the Mother Church
should not be rendered necessary . The consent of the Diocesan , as long as we considered the purity of our religion valuable , was in his mind indispensable . But as to the incumbent in these instance ** , it was obvious that he lost nothing either in the way of fees or burials , marriages
or baptisms , because they were not transferred ; nor would he have a « y profit out Of the letting or sale of the seats or pew ^ according to the Bill , which confined him only to the taking of his regular tithe .
By adopting these suggestions , the Bill would have his most cordial support . He believed it was , generally speaking * an arrangement agreeable to the public at large ; because at present the public found it difficult to attend divine service from
want of sufficient accommodation ; and he was encouraged to hope that it would not be long before the House would perceive the effects of its liberality on our population , by the discountenancing Of crime and the propagation of religion and virtue * Mr . Hobhouse explained .
Mr . Hume pVofessed he should not have risen had it not been for the very extraordinary speech the House had just heard , which rendered it impossible he could sit still . He never before had heard a speech within that House so little applicable to the subject of its consideration . The allusion made to the Acts of Elizabeth for
enforcing attendance on divine worship was altogether irrelevant , because those Acts were passed merely to effect conformity of worship in the realm of England , which was then just reclaimed from Popery . He should be glad to know who was the author of the pamphlet alluded to ; possibly it might be the production of the Han * and Learned Member . He
could wish the Learned Gentleman had seen the observances of the Sabbath-day usual in Scotland ; not that he , though reared in the very greatest strictness of the Church of Scotland , could not make allowances for poor industrious persons
who had wrought hard for six days for their bread , taking some indulgence * in the nature of sports or pastimes on a Sunday , it tvas proved in the re /> orl alluded to that there were 1881 parishes , and that there wei'e either churches or chapels bf the Establish itient 25 , 33 , whilst tbo&Q of the Dissenttfrs amounted to 343 # ,
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of otle-third more than those of the testablrshed Church . Things would be quite different if a different mode of Appointing the clergy were adopted . The system r& . commended by the Member for Midhurst was the one that ought , to be adopted . The election of the clergyman could not fail to be attended with the best
consequences * It was said that Scotland and England differed materially in their Church Establishment . They did differ very materially , for in Scotland the landholders were obliged to defray the expense of building Churches and supporting them . Before voting j £ 500 , 000 for such an
object , they should inquire whether there were not other funds especially set apart for building and repairing Churches , They had heard a great deal about tithes ; but perhaps the House was not aware that If applied according to their original destination , it would remove the necessity of coming to the House for a vote of this
kind . According to one of the best authorities on . the subject , one part of the tithes was originally intended to be applied to the support of the clergynian , another to the poor , the third to the building and repair of churches 3 and the fourth to the bishops * Why were they not disposed of in this manner ? The revenues of the
Establishment were already extravagant , and more than sufficient for every useful purpose . There was , no doubt , as had been stated , a great deal of wealth in the country , but he denied that the bulk of the people were in a situation to afford such an expense as this . There were no
less than thred Committees sitting at present for the purpose of inquiring into the state of the working classes . When they made their report , it would be seen whether the great mass of the population were so happy and prosperous as had been represented . They were , it was true ,
employed pretty generally for twelve or fourteen hours a day ; but their earnings were very incoi ! 8 ideral ) le- *^ froin six : to eight or ten shillings a week * Were the Irish peasantry comfortable ? Would it not be much better , as his Hon . Friend , the Member for Midhurst , ( Mr . J . Smith , ) said , to devote this £ 500 , 000 , or part of
it , to the education and general improvement of the people of that country ? At least before they gave their assent to such a proposition , " let them first have the whole establishment before them , and see whether other funds might not be found for building Churches * No objection was made to the million before voted for a
similar purpose , and h £ regretted wow that he did not object to it * Had he called the attention of the House to the subject , he felt confident thai the proposition would hate been injected . The aurti now proposed fot & similar purpose ^ it should
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/54/
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