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    dignified , would wield the pen in favour of the Church ; and a swarm of reverend authors would soon display their interested zeal by a deluge of indignant and roaring pamphlets . " But champions have appeared who neither roar nor are indignant . Mr . Wild is not even interested , as he properly apprizes us . He has no reason

    to love the Church for any worldly favdurs she has lavished on himself , nor ( of course ) any expectation of favours in reserve , — -unless ( let us throw , if we may , a little sunshine upon his prospects ) she should some time shew her sense of his present services . We mean not to impute interested motives ; but it had been better for the controversialist not to have volunteered the disclaimer . He says ,

    " I can have no selfish or sordid feelings to gratify , for I am , fortunately for our present purpose , one of those poor curates to whom all the headwork is consigned , ' ( Beverley ' Letter , p . 6 , ) ( and very rich I think myself in having it to do ) ; or , if you please , one of those ' Evangelical curates , ' who have no livings or tithes to confiscate , and whom you are pleased to denominate ' the true pastors of the English Church . '"—P . 35 .

    We trust his Grace of York will not mistake this nor the following for a plea for promotion : it would be unfortunate for the present purpose , as it would spoil the force of the argument from the Evangelical Curate ' s disinterestedness :

    " If eleven years in her ( the Church ' s ) sacred service , receiving the lowest of her emoluments in a large and laborious parish , and partaking of some of her unkindly winds and adverse waves , can prove the sincerity of a minister ' s attachment to her altar , suffer the humblest and most unworthy of her servants to claim that attachment as his own . " —P . 45 . Mr . Wild ' s letter is dated May 25 , 1831 . He begins by rallying Mr . Beverley on the failure of his predicted " swarm of reverend authors : "

    " How is it that you have received no answer to your Letter till this hour ? —a Letter which has been since the 19 th February before the public . Not surely , because your Letter is difficult to answer ; but , pardon me , Sir , because it is of a nature which would induce any ' Reverend Author * to pause ere he closed in combat with a body which ' from the sole of the foot even unto the head has no soundness in it ; but wounds , and bruises , and putrifying sores , neither bound up , neither mollified with ointment . "

    This , it must be confessed , is conciliatory ; and thus far , at least , the antagonists cannot complain of each other . Mr . Wild urges that the Church might have been more respectfully treated . For the few spots on the sun ' s disk , that glorious luminary should not be annihilated by Act of Parliament . ( P . 6 . ) He reminds Mr . B . of what he " seems to forget , " the divine power by which the Church is daily " governed , sanctified , and upheld / ' and the voice which said , Touch not mine anointed , and do my

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    On the Corrupt State of the Church of England . 631

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 631, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/55/