DOI Heft:
October 24, 1874
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16939#0177
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[October 24, 1874.
THE SACERDOTAL PRINCIPLE.
Coleridge, poetic layman, taught the Church
Great truths in days gone by: another son
Of the same brilliant line, is fain to perch
On laic pulpit, where distinction’s won
By breaking down the Sacerdotal bar,
And teaching Clergymen what fools they are.
The Sacerdotal Principle he dreads,
But cannot quite define it. Wherefore so ?
Bos, fur, sacerdos, aimed at priestly heads,
Became a stale quotation, long ago:
And ribald haters of the ascetic priest
Declared the M.B. waistcoat “ marked the beast.”
Yet, though there often is a craze for Ritual, _
Among young Curates (who with croquet mix it),
’Tis folly to imagine it habitual:
Religion stable is, but Fashion tricks it,
Develops what the Puritans thought horrid,
And makes the Service, like the Minster, florid.
The Church to-day is not a whit in danger,
In the free people’s common-sense its trust is;
It need not fear the Nonconformist ranger,
Nor dread foreboding of the Lord Chief Justice:
It gave us learning, freedom, by degrees—
These are the commonest of its Common Pleas.
So, if a few young Parsons play queer games,
Now they are bound in a parochial cordon ;
If, to shut up their semi-Romish aims,
There ’s need of the parishioners’ Churchwarden,
Still make not every boyish priest a martyr—
Sinoe Stephen Langton gave us the Great Charter
The Church is with us, doing noble work,
As in long centuries back: and is it wise
To bear too hard on men who never shirk,
And their most trivial fault to criticise ?
’Twill land the Realm in a confounded hobble
If every parish is a scene of squabble.
Let the law slumber: like the Bnnaceus
(.Anglice, hedgehog) it is apt to prick:
Boys will be boys: a cleric too vivacious
May by-and-'by adorn a bishopric.
Leave the child-curates of old Mother Church
To Doctor Punch’s softly suasive birch.
Music and Magic.
The Leeds Mercury reports a harvest festival, which lately took
place in the school-room at Egton, North Riding. A Choral Service
having been performed, and a Sermon preached on the occasion :
“The harvest feast afterwards took place, and the celebration concluded
with a Musical Entertainment, in which the Magic Lantern played a part.
As it was only a part that the Magic Lantern is represented as
having played in a Concert, it can hardly be supposed to have played
first fiddle ; but if it played any other fiddle, or, indeed, any other
instrument at all, the Magic Lantern must have been one of which
the constructor was a conjuror indeed.
outrage on a clergyman.
Coarse Protestant {to Ritualist Clergyman). How are you off for
Cat’s-meat ?
Reverend Ritualist. What do you mean by Cat’s-meat ?
Coarse Protestant. Lights.
Maid. “0, Aunt! do look at these two frightful Insects running about together!”
Aunt. “My dear Child, they are only Earwigs!”
Mabel. “What disgusting Creatures! I wonder how they can Like one another!”
DE GUSTIBUS, &c.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[October 24, 1874.
THE SACERDOTAL PRINCIPLE.
Coleridge, poetic layman, taught the Church
Great truths in days gone by: another son
Of the same brilliant line, is fain to perch
On laic pulpit, where distinction’s won
By breaking down the Sacerdotal bar,
And teaching Clergymen what fools they are.
The Sacerdotal Principle he dreads,
But cannot quite define it. Wherefore so ?
Bos, fur, sacerdos, aimed at priestly heads,
Became a stale quotation, long ago:
And ribald haters of the ascetic priest
Declared the M.B. waistcoat “ marked the beast.”
Yet, though there often is a craze for Ritual, _
Among young Curates (who with croquet mix it),
’Tis folly to imagine it habitual:
Religion stable is, but Fashion tricks it,
Develops what the Puritans thought horrid,
And makes the Service, like the Minster, florid.
The Church to-day is not a whit in danger,
In the free people’s common-sense its trust is;
It need not fear the Nonconformist ranger,
Nor dread foreboding of the Lord Chief Justice:
It gave us learning, freedom, by degrees—
These are the commonest of its Common Pleas.
So, if a few young Parsons play queer games,
Now they are bound in a parochial cordon ;
If, to shut up their semi-Romish aims,
There ’s need of the parishioners’ Churchwarden,
Still make not every boyish priest a martyr—
Sinoe Stephen Langton gave us the Great Charter
The Church is with us, doing noble work,
As in long centuries back: and is it wise
To bear too hard on men who never shirk,
And their most trivial fault to criticise ?
’Twill land the Realm in a confounded hobble
If every parish is a scene of squabble.
Let the law slumber: like the Bnnaceus
(.Anglice, hedgehog) it is apt to prick:
Boys will be boys: a cleric too vivacious
May by-and-'by adorn a bishopric.
Leave the child-curates of old Mother Church
To Doctor Punch’s softly suasive birch.
Music and Magic.
The Leeds Mercury reports a harvest festival, which lately took
place in the school-room at Egton, North Riding. A Choral Service
having been performed, and a Sermon preached on the occasion :
“The harvest feast afterwards took place, and the celebration concluded
with a Musical Entertainment, in which the Magic Lantern played a part.
As it was only a part that the Magic Lantern is represented as
having played in a Concert, it can hardly be supposed to have played
first fiddle ; but if it played any other fiddle, or, indeed, any other
instrument at all, the Magic Lantern must have been one of which
the constructor was a conjuror indeed.
outrage on a clergyman.
Coarse Protestant {to Ritualist Clergyman). How are you off for
Cat’s-meat ?
Reverend Ritualist. What do you mean by Cat’s-meat ?
Coarse Protestant. Lights.
Maid. “0, Aunt! do look at these two frightful Insects running about together!”
Aunt. “My dear Child, they are only Earwigs!”
Mabel. “What disgusting Creatures! I wonder how they can Like one another!”
DE GUSTIBUS, &c.