THE CHURCH AND ITS ASSAILANTS.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5281, 21 December 1885, Page 2

THE CHURCH AND ITS ASSAILANTS.

(To the Editor of the Eviimra Stab.) Sib,—The thanks of the whole community must be given to Messrs Taylor and Neill for their kindness in exposing the horrid beliefs of our members of tho English Church, and for the delightful spectacle of modern Christianity which they have displayed to the world. It does one good to see the zeal displayed by these champions of truth in uprooting and trampling upon the weeds of error sown by those poor deluded and darkened Anglicans. It is truly delightful to observe the strict adherence to the Apostolic injunction " Love one another," Ac. How the manly bosoms of the minister and conventical preacher must swell with conscious pride as they gaze upon the ruins of the Church they hare east upon, the ground with the thunders of their eloquence, and how loud will be the applause bestowed nppn their noble and disinterested language by the world from which they shrink in pious horror. Fare* well to the English Church after this terrible battle and smoke; the great Church which has stood firm against the shock of superstition, ignorance, and in* fidelity, totters under thej blows of the immaculate Taylor, as, seated upon hii wooden horse, he rushes against it. Tho dying Church is worth a requiem. Ithai done a little good: H served to fill up tho gap until the mighty champions of tho ' Thames arose to change and purify tho world. Then let its epitaph be in tho words of the great Taylor (not tho Thames celebrity)—

" Thou art net dead—thou art not gone to duat j No line of all thy loveliness shall fall * To formless ruin, smoke, and time—and. thrust .

Into the solemn gulf that court all." Let me ask you, Mr Editor, if you will be kind enough to write out a long, brilliant, sparkling leader, filled with expressions of praise for these two lorers of , I mean of Christian truth* and calling upon the whole community to j unite in waking a y collection for the sup* "- port of these fiery demagogues, that they may trarel the whole world in pursuit of their noble desires.—l am, &0., Thames.