A reply to the rev. Sidney Smith's Third letter to archdeacon Singleton, in a letter |
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Página 25 - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them; wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Página 27 - Then a picture is drawn of a Clergyman with ISO?, per annum, who combines all moral, physical, and intellectual advantages, a learned man, dedicating himself intensely to the care of his parish — of charming manners and dignified deportment — six feet two inches high, beautifully proportioned, with a magnificent countenance, expressive of all the cardinal virtues and the Ten Commandments...
Página 33 - I have been appointed for my piety or not, must depend upon what this poor man means by piety. He means by that word, of course, a defence of all the tyrannical and oppressive abuses of the Church which have been swept away within the last fifteen or twenty years of my life; the Corporation and Test Acts; the Penal Laws against the Catholics; the Compulsory Marriages of Dissenters, and all those disabling and disqualifying laws which were the disgrace of our Church, and which he has always looked...
Página 28 - ... countenance, expressive of all the cardinal virtues and the ten commandments; and it is asked with an air of triumph if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of his poverty ? But substitute for him an average, ordinary, uninteresting minister —obese, dumpy — neither ill-natured nor good-natured — neither learned nor ignorant — striding over the stiles to church, with a second-rate wife, dusty and deliquescent, and four parochial children, full of catechism and bread and...
Página 32 - You must have read an attack upon me by the Bishop of Gloucester, in the course of which he says that I have not been appointed to my situation as canon of St. Paul's for my piety and learning, but because I am a scoffer and a jester. Is not this rather strong for a bishop, and does it not appear to you, Mr. Archdeacon, as rather too close an imitation of that language which is used in the apostolic occupation of trafficking in fish...
Página 14 - ... diocese ; and if the said commissioners, or the major part of them, report in writing under their hands to the said bishop that in their opinion the duties of such benefice are inadequately performed, it shall be lawful for such bishop, if he shall see fit, by writing under his hand, to require the spiritual person holding such benefice, though he may actually reside or be engaged in performing the duties thereof, to nominate to him a fit person...
Página 24 - Bishop proposing, in cold blood, to create a thousand livings of 1301. per annum each; to call into existence a thousand of the most unhappy men on the face of the earth, — the sons of the poor, without hope, without the assistance of private fortune, chained to the soil, ashamed to live with their inferiors, unfit for the society of the better classes, and dragging about the English curse of poverty without the smallest hope that they can ever shake it off...
Página 21 - ... into it. I am very sorry to come forward with so homely an argument, which shocks so many Clergymen, and particularly those with the largest incomes, and the best Bishoprics; but the truth is, the greater number of clergymen go into the Church in order that they may derive a comfortable income from the church. Such men intend to do their duty, and they do it ; but the duty is, however, not the motive, but the adjunct. If I was writing in gala and parade, I would not hold this language ; but we...
Página 24 - ... unhappy men on the face of the earth — the sons of the poor, without hope, without the assistance of private fortune, chained to the soil, ashamed to live with their inferiors, unfit for the society of the better classes, and dragging about the English curse of poverty, without the smallest hope that they can ever shake it off! At present such livings are filled by young men who have better hopes — who have reason to expect good property — who look forward to a college or a family living...
Página 39 - ... into a verse, which will not bear it; and intruding a Canon into a Cathedral, which does not want it; and this is the Prelate by whom the proposed reform of the Church has been principally planned, and to whose practical wisdom the Legislature is called upon to defer.