POLITICAL PARSONS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3435, 4 January 1886, Page 4

POLITICAL PARSONS.

The Bar. W. Tuckwell, Vicar ofStockr ' on, Warwickshire, and brother-in-law; to ( Sit Charles Dilke, made a most extraordinary speeoa. at >, Radical demonstrationit/ Leamington, in whichhe^said-, they must remember that it was the duty of good Christians and good men to not only tend Radicals into Parliament, but to keep Conservatives out. He believed that the Parliament of England would never be In the truest sense of the word the • lepreaentatite' of the nation's rain dj or' an- effective exponent' of its so long as a single was permitted'to sit within- its • walls.-".- They must, have no mercy on Mr Nelson, who was opposing- .the speaker,' bat attend all press him with questions about the House of Lords, the country magistrates, free education, the reformed Church- and;.the alteration of the land laws, and convince themselves that a man * who called himself a Conservative could ■ot possibly be a Christian. The ; rector of Wychling, : the.. Ray.. Norton, has delivered a speech' often. unusual character at Ashford,* in which he ■aid :—*'The great Guns of the: Church axe opposed, to Liberalism; .but big names are not of inochr use.'. They don't represent the Church; at least they don't represent me. I don't see .'the reason-why they should be such a difference between the Church and] other denominations.' -I say that ityou can't stand on your own iMae, you'bave: oai. right to stind at all.-' At toitxtraotdinary tithes, I would abolish them as downright robbery. We were talking about great guns just now. '. Well, I wßlgive 1 yon something rather spicy fcbout the Archbishop'of panterbnry. A iving in But Kent—l won't mention " names-—fall vacant, and the Archbishop cent down a man who .was a disgrace to any respectable 1 body. Was that right 1 'What voice have you in electing the Vicar of Aahford? Why* none at all.. As a Liberal, I think we ought to disestablixh and, if necessary, disendow the Church. I don't think' the Church requires money v in that sense, to ensure good spiritual teaching. Why, the commonest savage eoold put us to shame that way." -\"