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“VOL. IX.
(From the Dublin in Evening Post.)
THIRD RE FORMATION.
In the last page will be found a more’ ample, and,
3 we are assured, a more Correct report of the
meeting of the Friends of the Estab-
lished Church at Cork. By. way of appendix to the
speech we insert too excellent articles, one from the
Times and another from the Chro niele.
The Evening Mail while it ‘seems to’ approve o
the object of th
ac o this authority, standing
need of the * chasten ning hand. of Reform,
pure Protestant Episcopalian of Trelan
tu a teadily answered by a
referen the conduct of the Cork Meeting. and
the Timitations whic! h ed
m in
than the
guarded themselves—-and the meeting followed their
example, against meddling with the “spirituatities of
the Established Church. On the contrary, they,
one and all, expressed the most profound venera-
tion for the doctrine and Liturgy of the Church.—
“OF these they would not change an iota—they would
uch a single brick of the sacred edifice —
They. would even retain the prayers about the Gun-
a stave of the p
we have always thought. than the§ Sicilian Vespers,
neither the’ Cork Sheriff nor
would have entered to lay ohallowed hands upon
the Book of Common Prayer. And really we think
his Lordship and the Corkanians vould be perfectly |
aa the right to abstain. ‘Their object, was and is,
members of the Church, they are as.much interest-|
ed as the ministers theren
, however it m in France and elsewhere,
the Catholies ofireland have as littlete quarrel with
the doctrines of
r| Hav
we trust 6
. ,
UNITED STATES ‘CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
jit themselves to. ‘mere question of pounds,: shil-
lings and pence. For if they
the pure ‘Episcopalian Protestants obj
ected against
| this form, or that rite—
inser:
ibut-t xt convent)
up their hats and go to th
acted otherwise—if|
if they said this doctrine is}
iptural, or that article is in direct contraven-
cellent speech delivered by the Earl of. Mounteashel tion ‘e another, they would have had nothing to do
. at the recent
211
i
|*he movers in this affair, a purpose inconsistent with
tlre interest of the Churth, must have judged with-
out reflecti y, be. suspected themselves of
lentertaining vontiments ‘hostile to those interests,---
The cuter senses are too apt.to shape objects fo the:
menta} fancies of the beholder ; 3 and they whe
ites, or any other of the multiludicrous Ites of the
Children of Canaan.
Jt was, therefore, we repeat it, perfectly judicious
in Lord Mounteashel and Mrv Sheriff Cu maning, his
lter Ego, to avoid the doctrines of the C
hey
ing would have been tlissolved i in utter disunion and
the rae ee disorder.
$ to a Catholic Meeting to reform the
tiie "Churel h, we have seen
reall of one mind—if. any di
tsines taught by that oh vehi he a
nd to pass over;to another. Itis a a differen nt thing
with regard to temporalities. We believe if a justi-
fiable cause existed, the Laity Would have a right to
|remonstrate’ and complain. ‘They would have a
right, as members of the Catholic church, though
not as clerics, to arraign the disposition of the tem-
poralities, if their Choreh: had any, and they: saw
sufficient caus N
eS
—
Nay, we ‘have jnodern
Catholte Laity ha’
Clergy themselves.
is at this time, the freest Church in Europ nd
there isno Catholic Church in the world i in: which
the Lay and Ecclesiastic Members are so complete-
ly and amicably united.
should the Laity convoke a. Meeting ?
scribe to the doctrines of the Church.
They sub.
qrhere is ni
eir Bishops| *@
these dignitaries are elected by thotsely ves, and out
of their own upon a occasions. we will
venture to sa an of the most learning, and
greatest talents is sought for and preferred. - The
Laity in this regard having nothing 10 complain of,
and they therefore make no co omplaints. Again, as
to the distribution—of, we were going to say,
Church Property—but fortunately for their Church,
they have none, but of the parishes | and places at the
disposal of the Bishaps---we hav r heard.a justi-
fiable complaint.. Men of wenly “habits and of
piety are constantly chosen, . What then have the
Laity to complain of ? Nothing.” And why. there-
fore, afoul they convene a Public Mee
g dismissed this topic, to the sati afioton,
their own “comfort. ontradistinguished from their t of eu aaject Howes st ty attention hee been
. They regard ‘their doctrine as long set-|Oler parts of the e
brethren. | ‘Phey fore -drawn to the following article of the Courier
tled, because they look k upon their Church as or
lible. ‘They do not deny ‘that gross and
their Church
Disc’ ipli ne—that in ancient times the. Church was
too rich and too pawerful fo its own purity, a
that it required oce rasionally " ‘arough hand of Re-
n that at _no period had the
doctrines o! u
Unfortunately for us, Protestants, though we rest
upon the Rock of ages; our footing is vrather un-
steady. We are apt to be swayed fram one side
the other by the winds of doctrine ak
care constantly assailed, and ta
ordered by the liberty of .the Gospel, with which
we are made free, ° spread out all‘our. canvass.—
time, ane inists at another—in-
‘Thirty Nine articles is found a weak s
h which do i
ch we are|C
f Saturday. This paper, it need not be said, is a
high tory publication, and is still considered as one
of the organs of the Ministry---in this view
gard the sentiments of our British rontemporary as
important.
‘© We were the first who directed public attention |
to the. proceedings of the important meeting at Cork,
over which the Earl of Mountcashel presided. on-
Since that time many speculations have been made
respect-
>
2.
a
rally, temperate ; but we what rules it
ie juiiabl to search after motives, as though some
were concealed under an act, inno:
cent as well by its own appearance as by the pro-
fessed object of the individusle engaging. to perform |
cle—to. the Pope-ites, the Walkerites, the Cooper-
For what purpose then
we re-| nec
gine they" see.t Protestant Church
in an act “or the reward and exaltation of the m most
zealous and exemplary class of its ministers, expose
themselves to the rebuke which Prince Hen ary re
ceived from Iris father, when mistaking sleep. for
ath he put the crown-.upon his bea
“Tthawght thee dead,
“Thy wish, Harry, was te to tie thong ”
We should be the first to e any ir
interference by the fatty with & natters of Chureh, ‘lise
cipline. the regulation of which properly belongs to
the Church itself. But the character of the parties.
who have come forward upon this occasion forbids
the suspicion of any such design. © ‘The share which,
the lay part of the-community have in the presenta-.
tions to livings, entitles them to discuss and adopt
measures for their own guidan
men
c, and the amend-
of(their practice in this respect, without in inoure
@ the charge of usurpation upon t
rights of the ‘Clergy. Still less can this charge lie,
when the only practical direction which the alleged
eformers give e their wishes is, to beseech ‘the,
Throne, as the 4
vs
{that branch of the Legislature in which the Spiritual
for
cr
2°
=
7s
f Parliament are Spee ‘ally incorporated |
{the discussion of such matte
ANTIQU
- QUITIES.
Decree of the Greek National Congress respecting the”
‘The Catholi¢ Church in Ireland] ’ Ex,
tation of Anti
“ Considerine the 18th Article ‘of ‘the Ordinance
of the Government, promulgated by the National
Congress at Trazene, forbidding the sale and expor-
tation of Antiquities ; 3; considering that the present
Government in conformity with the said Ordinance,
has tefised all.applications made to it for the expor-
n of Antiquities, the. Fourth National Congress
ecrees ;
“Art, 1. All that was ‘resolved by the National
Congress at Trazene against the exportation of Mp-
numents of Antiquity is confirm
rt. 2. The Government is any empowered to
aloe the exportation of remains of Antiquity when
ey are require the purposes of ane oloBieal
Researches of the ‘Seientihe Institutions.”
IMPROVEMENT...
Decree of the National Congress at Dr 4th of
August, for ameliorating the situation vite Cire
and Clergy, Sc.
“The fourth National Congress, considering it
to be one of its paramount duties to turn its attention
o|to the mast suitable means of accclerating the morah
and political restoration Greece 5 considering, as
the basis: of this restoration, the a
jziol solid education recognizing the
ssity of e giving "ti the Government the necessary
means,
4“ 1,
clergy
6s “3, To endow the Orphan. house’ with funds ade-
quate to the wocleets ofthat institution.
‘0 mote the propagation of mutual j in-
‘traction and Norm schoo!
“4, To found vehecls for “th he higher ‘branches of .
education, as well for those pho ded e themselves
to the church as for those who oO ser ve the state
in a civil capacity, ¢ or mean to devote themselves to
the aus and scien
. To establish public ‘printing-offices.
“ “The National Congress resolves—
ernment. is fully empowered to
Toi improve the situation’of the church and
. 1. The Gov
collect, in whatever m
steadiness. ‘There are some , who would d The meeting ‘in q onvened for the judges the most pro-
risa the Cree of St. Athanasius from the Liturgy, express purpose.of considering the slate .of.the Es-|per, all the legacies wich atiot Greeks, as well
and there are others who inveigh bitterly against the] tablished-Charch in-Irelan view to the pro-jat home as abroad, h queathed, or may here; .
form of the absolution, .as being borrowed from mon of its best interests. The result of the meet- after bequeath, in favor of charitable or’ useful i in-,
Rome—as if indeed nine-tenth of the Book of Com-| ing was a Petition to tbe Throne and to Parliament, |stitut
mon Prayer were not of Popish origin, and a liter- praying some amelioration of the condition of] ‘* 2 "To ‘0 concert with the Senate, to. ‘take. m en-
al translation from an, we believe, the Do- the Protestant Clergy. The proceeding, thereon sures to ony to the benefit of the above establish-
minical, Ritual. But though there have been at the] was based in Christian charity, an eady existing in
Cork Meeting ‘several gentlemen who did not ap-led for giving’ effect to. the. meeting su ch a th
prove of all that was in the Common Prayer Book,} ed out by. the Constitution as most repel “ ¥ “The Goverment will form under its immedi-
he Phisty Nine Articles. with the rea:
dy capacious gulp-of Doctor Magee—yet, they
a erfectly right” in “their peliminary meeting to li-
swallow. allt
direction a fund, in which the produce of the les +
thai : f
right of petit oning. : therefore, who profess
to sce in the disinterested piety and henevolence of
and which shall be exclusively applied t to the promo-
\tion of the objects stated in Art.
haritable foundations may be deposited, -