Church and State

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 2271, 6 August 1887, Page 4

Church and State

" Church and State is all yery well in its way and , it is no doubt quite right and proper T tha. the dignitaries of the Established Church should pay due respect to the *.bea,d of thei 'State Defender of the Faith, &c, &c. But if ecclesiastical loyalty is earned to the extremity • -of*, toadyism-, *.'■ »• ft r becomes more offensive than the worst sycophj ancy of ordinary; laymen.,. The Bit* hop'of Werpbol, 1 Di* ftylb,' haa* just shown to what lengths that sort of thing may be carried. The Princess %eatrifee f ifeid'i^t^ the other day ite open Sin 'Exhibition. She was accompanied hy her husband! Pri^WSry '^B^&Mrg^nd it was quite a let out for them after vibeingsdraißged/'ahoutjiatrihe Queen's nage. They staged at jSpme house in the neighbourhood, ana met ' with the kindest reception from aU quartjQrs^uli $Jsk<&oaQ& good time generally. Yet Bishop Kyle, in the course of the "special prayers'] which he prepared for ithe _ccasi6_.< of the Piincess's visit, saw fit to address theVa'Ai'^Jbn) hl_OScbox__t HaOShese | terms :— " We thank Thee for putting it -nto the heart-of-a daughter of eurj gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria to presentanva of herTiondured mother^ mew 4sk Hm*mMtmrmfy )&£__& 4tt.i almudantfrecbm-denße 'foij any fatigue-_ai.dißelf-d^ni»l^hlch. her! visit may entail, in the loyal feeling! whl^iym^sgdNSßJpfr^ft -^PSffJl-feP l^ always calls forth in this great com-j mereial centre." — There is something! truly beautiful in the notion of in 4 *for^g|th©f__linigl|i_*r *$&%[ j^ejjpool the lickspittle hlasphemY ol the whold ■fhih^i^sti-ef i mi_h ®m%M\ te