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The Rev. Brother T. Harvey And The Bishop.*
THE REV . BROTHER T . HARVEY AND THE BISHOP . *
' * Positive ruin the reward of public service . " WE well remember in our school-boy days , with satchel on our back , daily passing by the shop of Bowles and Carver , in St . Paul ' s Churchyard , those celebrated vendors of caricatures . Among them was one representing " A poor journeyman parson , with a bare existence , " in contrast with another of " A master parson , with a good living ;" beneath the caricature of another poor curate , revolting enough to humanity , there were these words , among
others—<( Tho' lazy , the proud prelate ' s fed , This curate eats no idle bread . " When gazing in stupid wonder at the time on these caricatures , little could we anticipate that these especial delineations were but types of the future , and that a chubby lad , then jabbering his " hie hsec , hoc " in the monastic town of St . Edmondsbury , under the fear of the ferule and birch of his truly kind pedagogue parent , was really the egg upon which "Mother Church" had determined to sit incubative until she
should , in process of time , have hatched a full fledged bishop ; yet it has so turned out . Talented as a boy , distinguished in college , keen , shrewd , intelligent , and politic withal , the boy became a man , ' and walked in due humility through Bishopsgate to Chester , and thence to London , and his walk was purely characteristic of his anxiety to prove how closel y he followed the example of his great Master , the meek and lowly Jesus ! The quondam chubby boy is now the Bishop of London ! the Lord
Bishop of London 1 ! the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God !!! Are such terms reconcileable to common sense ? Would they not partake of , but for the ridiculous , somewhat of the blasphemous ? Father in God ! Almighty Protector of heaven and earth pardon the desecration of Thy holy name !
The pharisaical Jews were reproved by Pilate , who could find no crime in Jesus ; but they , determined on his death , accused him of blasphemy , in calling himself the Son of God , and he was crucified . Yet , here we have a Right Reverend Father in God , with the " words " of the Adorable One continually on his lip , acting towards one of his humbler followers in Christ in a manner , to say the least of it , unbecoming a man , much less a Right Reverend Father in God ! One great charge against the Church of England and Irelandas b
, y law established , is , that it is not " the poor man ' s church . " In other churches—as the Roman Catholic , the Scottish , the Dissenters , to say nothing of various others , especially the Jewish—the ministers , under prescribed regulation , visit and comfort the sick , relieve the poor , and direct , to the best of their power , the public morals . That very many of the working clergy of the Church of England do likewise is unquestionablebut it is as unquestionable that very more do none of
, very , many these things ; and a perusal of the " positive ruin " to a working clergyman , caused by a Bishop , a Right Reverend Father in God , is not likely to dispose the working clergy to act as they should do . As there are exceptions in the working clergy , so there are exceptions on the episcopal bench—e . g . one Norwich is worthy a dozen of London . In the New Testament the word bishop certainly does occur ; but where
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The Rev. Brother T. Harvey And The Bishop.*
THE REV . BROTHER T . HARVEY AND THE BISHOP . *
' * Positive ruin the reward of public service . " WE well remember in our school-boy days , with satchel on our back , daily passing by the shop of Bowles and Carver , in St . Paul ' s Churchyard , those celebrated vendors of caricatures . Among them was one representing " A poor journeyman parson , with a bare existence , " in contrast with another of " A master parson , with a good living ;" beneath the caricature of another poor curate , revolting enough to humanity , there were these words , among
others—<( Tho' lazy , the proud prelate ' s fed , This curate eats no idle bread . " When gazing in stupid wonder at the time on these caricatures , little could we anticipate that these especial delineations were but types of the future , and that a chubby lad , then jabbering his " hie hsec , hoc " in the monastic town of St . Edmondsbury , under the fear of the ferule and birch of his truly kind pedagogue parent , was really the egg upon which "Mother Church" had determined to sit incubative until she
should , in process of time , have hatched a full fledged bishop ; yet it has so turned out . Talented as a boy , distinguished in college , keen , shrewd , intelligent , and politic withal , the boy became a man , ' and walked in due humility through Bishopsgate to Chester , and thence to London , and his walk was purely characteristic of his anxiety to prove how closel y he followed the example of his great Master , the meek and lowly Jesus ! The quondam chubby boy is now the Bishop of London ! the Lord
Bishop of London 1 ! the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God !!! Are such terms reconcileable to common sense ? Would they not partake of , but for the ridiculous , somewhat of the blasphemous ? Father in God ! Almighty Protector of heaven and earth pardon the desecration of Thy holy name !
The pharisaical Jews were reproved by Pilate , who could find no crime in Jesus ; but they , determined on his death , accused him of blasphemy , in calling himself the Son of God , and he was crucified . Yet , here we have a Right Reverend Father in God , with the " words " of the Adorable One continually on his lip , acting towards one of his humbler followers in Christ in a manner , to say the least of it , unbecoming a man , much less a Right Reverend Father in God ! One great charge against the Church of England and Irelandas b
, y law established , is , that it is not " the poor man ' s church . " In other churches—as the Roman Catholic , the Scottish , the Dissenters , to say nothing of various others , especially the Jewish—the ministers , under prescribed regulation , visit and comfort the sick , relieve the poor , and direct , to the best of their power , the public morals . That very many of the working clergy of the Church of England do likewise is unquestionablebut it is as unquestionable that very more do none of
, very , many these things ; and a perusal of the " positive ruin " to a working clergyman , caused by a Bishop , a Right Reverend Father in God , is not likely to dispose the working clergy to act as they should do . As there are exceptions in the working clergy , so there are exceptions on the episcopal bench—e . g . one Norwich is worthy a dozen of London . In the New Testament the word bishop certainly does occur ; but where