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THe DamLy EXAMINER.

JANUARY 21, 1878.

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“DIGBY ELECTION.

Defeat of the Minister of Militia.

the Government have sustained another very heavy blow. quite confident of Vail’s success ; and caleu- | lated upon the ir luence of their expected | victory in Digby .o help them in the more | questionable contest between Jones and Richey. For, notwithstanding all their prate about simultaneous elections, they arranged that the election in Digby should take place before the election in Halifax.

But “the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft aglee ;” and any influence which the Digby election may have, will al} be against the Government, and in favor of their opponents. The defeat of Jones may now be regarded as certain.

The peculiar power of Minister of the Crown—a power which Grit Ministers unscrupulously use—may have given rise to the vain hope that Vail would regain the seat he had forfeited by his violation of the law. But the pele of Digby acted like men honest and true. They refused to be either bribed or threat- encd—they refused to listen to the voice of the charmer by whom they hed so often been deceived. The appearance of Vail among them at this time seeking their siffrages, was 4&4 proof of the utter vanity of Grit ‘“‘ purity,” Grit truth, Grit honor, and Grit principles of Reform. Here was the man who, three years ago, they elected to elevate the standard of public morality and reform the corruptions of Parliament, asking them to pardon him for breaking the law to secure the Purity and Independence of Parlis- ment, and to place him once more in & position to enjoy the honors and emoin- How could the

practical

ments he had forfeited. honest, straightforward electors of Digby do otherwise than spurn and reject, such a man !

hye defeat of Vail being an accomplished fact, the defeat of Jones follows in due course.

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Wryciiffe.

he lecture delivered on the above sub- ject in the ¥. M. C. A. Hall, on Friday evening last, was largely attended. It was listened to with marked attention by the appreciative audience. At the outset. the lecturer briefly described the state of Eng- land toward the end of the reign of Edward lif. He said, at that time, luxury and pride characterized the higher classes, while the lower orders were involved in misery. Vice abounded among all ranks, and there was general discontent. The glories of Ed- ward's reign, built up by his conquests in France, had faded. The civil wars of pre- ceeding years had desolated the land, and tie Sande of society were relaxed. But, during Edward’s reign, men and money had been drawn from the country to carry on foreign hostilities. By these hostilities the Barons had become rich, the people poor ; and the country, consequently, impover- jshed These sufferings, perhaps, with the dawn of liberty, lead to insurrections in the early part of the following reign. Besides this, the. people were ignorant ; there was mental darkness. Those who called them- selves ministers of the gospel thought more of fleecing the flock than of feeding it. ‘ney kept from them the truths of the Gos- |, and sought to be reverenced as superior beings to their fellow-men. Notwithstand- ing the glimmer cast over the country by the martial deeds of Edward and his son, the Black Prince, England lay prostrate, bleeding and suffering. ‘‘ Suffering is the path by which both nations and persons thresh out the golden grains of progress.” Some master spirit rises, and seems to lead men’s opinions—the opinions of which he is the exponent. The power of such a man depends much upon the agree- ment of his own views with the pulse of the times. John Wycliffe was such a man. He was in perfect sympathy with the nation which he led. He was born in the North- riding of Yorkshire, on the banks of the river Tee, in the year 1524. Little is known of his early years. His parents des- tined him for the church, and at sixteen he entered Oxford and subsequently removed to Merton, the most celebrated College of the University at that time. Here he be- came the student of students, and came under the influence of Bradwardin, who held the first rank among scholars, and who was closing his career at the time Wycliffe entered. While listening oneday to the Scriptures, the words struck his ears, ‘It js not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of Ged that showeth merey.” He became the opponent of the pallagian and struggied against a mere religion of externals. Besides the accomplishments of

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It seems that they Were jis virtually King of England.”

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‘Innocent, who was about subordinating John’s rights and powers to his authority.

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inosent’smote England with an interdict, |

twhich was followed two years later by the excommunication of King John, An inter- | view, however, ended in John becoming a feudal lord of limocent and his suceessors. The Lecture says: ‘There is no moment of 'profounder humiliation than this in the England's King lays

Henceforth the Bishop of Rome jut the the English nat.on did noé-bear tis yoke well. She had never , quictly sub- mitted to the temporal or ecclesiastical instruction of Reme. The proud Norman Barons had not fought and become great, to be enslaved by any foreigy poten- tate. And when Urban demanded of Kd- ward thathe should pay 1,000 marks for permission to wear his crown, Edward as- sembled Parliament ; and, when the ques- tion was discussed by the Barons, it was de- cided that the bargain of King John was null and void. ‘* ‘Che hands of the Barons

potentate,

not John Lackland. Wyclitle attended this Parliament. Here is the reply of England to a foreign potentate : ‘* For as much aa, neither King John nor any other king could bring his realm and kingdom into such thraldom and subjection but by common as-

therefore, that which he did was against the oath at his coronation, besides many other causes. If, therefore, the people shouid at- tempt anything against the king, by process or other mattersy the king, with ali his subjects, should, with all their force and power, resist the same.” Thus was seen the falsity of the temporal supremacy. Soon was seen the falsity of the spiritual supre- macy. Wycliffe had mainly contributed to oring about this state of feeling. He had been the teacher of Barons and Common- ers; and propounded the law of liberty. And now England was to be rid of such irri- tating and insolent demauds.

WYCLIFFE’S CONTEST WITH THE FRIARS.

mits in early times. ‘These, he said, de- voted themselves to a life of solitude and, in his opinion, laziness.

They renounced the world, and took upon themselves the vows of poverty and obe- dience, and did awork by exemplfying, a kind of holiness. But history tells. us that these nen became debauched—so rouch so that, according to Papal writers—they were inthe year 1100,theappro® iumof Chrisitar iy. fo reform these, the Franciscan and Dom- nicans were instituted about the year 1216. The lecturer discribed the founder of the Franciscans, as growing up a debauched youth, and who, after a severe illness, rose up engrossed with the idea that holiness and virtue consisted in poverty. Me receiveda commission from Rome, and went forth to the work he had in hand. Dominic, the founder of the Dominicans, looked upen fiery zeal as holiness, and was recognized by Rome. Hence the Franciscan and Domni- eans. To be short, the Franciscans were Methodists, and the Domnicans were Pres- byterians—they were always fighting among one another. However they became more corruptin forty years, than the old monks did in four hundred. They attacked the laws and privileges of Oxford. People would not send their sons, and the students sank from 30,000 to 6,000. Wycliffe gird- ed himself for a stroke at them. He found them selling pardons for money. He charged them with fifty thou- sand errors, and broke on them with: ‘‘ Ye are not redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver or gold, but by the precious Blood of Christ.” But the grievance con- tinued, Parliament addressed the King a remonstrance ; and, in 1373, four commis- sioners were sent to Gregory Xf. But they could obtain no redress. A royal commis- sion found one-half the clergy foreigners, and immense sums were drawn from the kingdom. Another step was resolved upon to obtain redress) Wycliffe stands the sec- ond name on the commission to wat on the Pope. The result satisfied no one in Eng- land, and Wycliffe sounded again the ery for freedom, and came upon the Pope with the charge of simony. was drawn against the Papal usurpation.” In that documens was set forth their mis- eries. It was Wycliffe breathed into the Commons of Engiand ‘‘ Freedom for the subjects of an independent realm.” The monks and friars knew whose hand was at. the plough, and the whole glut of them sect on him. ‘The Oxford professor had taught many things contrary to the received opin- ion: Ist. ‘*That the Pope had no more power

touched the hilts of their swords, and/derfying the ’ dogma. Urban found that the old Lion of Crecy wag)#wmoned, “and he ‘was

sent of Parliament, which was not given ;:

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is bed, said: ‘ I shall not 'die, but live and declare the evil deeds of ‘the friars.” It was enough. ‘They went to} their friarism and Wyelitle to health. He came forth from his bed, and in four years ‘translated the Latin Bible ito English. ‘The vawork was well done, and he was ne ! Father of English Prose. sngland now ja ‘a light which could notbe put out. It was iWyeliffe who taught he who gave to Engiand the book that.can- not live in peace where despotism relgns. : The Bishops were stcuck with consternation. | They had thought the movement transicnt, but_here was a preacher who. could not de. A moral.edict. was promulgated. He fonght the battle alone. “‘‘You call ime a_heretic because L-have tréuslated the Bible into the common tongue of the people. Did not ihe lioly Ghost give the Word of God with mother tongue of the nation to whom it was written !”? He continued the battle, and now strikes the,.great dogma of Tran- substantiation. he lecturer then, atter a few remarks upon this dogma, its intro-

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twelve propositions

A council was condemned. He. was expounding ‘to his students, when delegates waited upon him. with his con- demnation, He appealed to the King and Parliament. But the bishops were before- hand—ihey accused him to the King. But the Parliament had repealed the edict which the priests and King had passed. He now retires to Litterwich. Shoitly after, he was summoned to Rome; but, on the last Sunday of 1384, as he was consecrating the bread, he received a sho:k of a ot ady and died. ‘Thirty-one years after his death he was cited to the Council of Con- stance. Being thirty-one years dead, he was not able to appear; so sentence was passed upon his bones. Found guilty oi heresy, his bones were to be taken up and burned. The lecturer then gave a briei outline of his character, and attacked the historians that have not treated him favor-

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ably, and said that Collier was an unsafe guide as an English historian. Wycliffe, he said, was the father of English Reformation ; he showed his age religion and liberty, and in trying to reform the church he took ad- vantage of everylegitimate means. Some people call running out of the church re- forming it. In this he was greater than Lather or Calvin. « He showed what can be doneagainst tyranny by one inan if the sentiment of the people be with him. Has

und liberty was good for Engiand.**1t is good for us. England stood the might of her majesty when she flung this, her charter of freedem, to the winds. No foreign per- son, prelate, state, or potentate, hath, or ought to, have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority in this realm of England whatsoever.

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ordus, and as follows :“They should ‘‘forfeit land, cattle, body, life and goods from their heirs forever, and so be condemned for her- etics to God, enemies to the Crown, and most arrant traitors to the land. could have no sanctuary, no ground within the realm.

WYCLIFFE’S BONES. About forty years after Wycliffe’s,death and burial, their was a solemn gathering of priests and others in Litterworth Chureh- yard ; their were also men with picks and shovels, and they opened the grave of Lit- terworth’s former pastor. They dug down till they came to tha half-rotten coffin. This they opened, and then they saw alittle heap of decayed flesh and _ mouldering. bones. They roughly removed this heap. Then they made a fire and cast-into. it all they found in the coffin.

bones, and carried them all toa little stream close by, called the Swift, and the little Swift might ; well be proud. 6f its glorious burden that day—conveyed then to the Avon the the Severn to the sea. And to-day the bones of John Wycliffe are wash against the shores of Nova Scotia.

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than an ordinary priest to excommunicate aud absolve men.” no temporal lordship to the Pope, and no supremacy over kings,” ete., etc. Here was enough to condemn him twice over. Bulls were drafted, calling him to trial, and if he did not appear, to condemn him on every point. Wycliffee appeared for trial at Paul’s, but the council broke up before any conclusion was arrived at. Edward died in 1377, and a child of two years suc- ceeded him. <A new parliament was assem

bled, and Wyclitle was called to its councils. The Pope’s were now Frenchmen, in sym- pathy with England’s enemies, and Eng- land's gold went to England’s enemies. ‘ihe alms were withdrawn by England. The Bulls arrived and the Bishops were ready for the game. Wycliife defended the right of the nation te dispose of its own property in defiance of them. He was summoned to

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fearful pestilence that appeared in Asia, traversed the globe, ravaged Europe, and in the year 135U touched the shores of Eng- land. By it 100,000 citizens of London perished and half the nation was stricken. ‘To Wycliffe the plague sounded like the clarion of the Archangel, and from a mighty struggle of soul he came forth to take up the sword for England’s liberty and suike heavily until death stayed hishand. The lecturer then went back a century and des-

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appear before Judbury. He did so The people stood by Wycliffe ; and a messenger from the Queen arrived forbidding the Bishops to pass sentence on him. So ended ijthe Bulls. What a change from the day of King John. Wycliffe wo: ked, and doubt-

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‘Papal schism, Growing old and ha:ass-d by daily stvife, he fell sick. Now the time had come for the friars, As he lay on his bed delegaies ftom the four orders gathe ved around him. They ‘asked from him a cor- fession cf his sorrows, oi his regret for the

way ho had smitten them. Ho listened, |

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