The Colonial Church Chronicle, and Missionary Journal, 1861 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Colonial Church Chronicle, and Missionary Journal, 1861 Thus, at length, is initiated a movement which ought long since to have been both begun and carried through. We trust too much to the desultory efforts of individuals to remedy an evil which lies at their doors, or to establish a good which is needed. We say, "Let the permanent and occasional residents in Spain provide their own chaplains for themselves." But this system breaks down. We have found out its hollowness in other spheres. We do not leave sanitary improvements to be instituted and carried out by individual energy. We have commissions, agents, secretaries; in short, organization. The Church has no agency abroad, whereby to stir the unwilling into action. If men will clear away the moral filth, and establish some fountains of pure water, well and good; but if not, who has any concern with it but themselves? This, however, is not the principle of either the New Testament or of common sense. Even common sense, and the experience of the working of Societies at home, would teach us that there is a fund of zeal in men which will do and endure much, when once elicited, but which is apt to remain quite latent and cold unless stirred into life by something acting upon them from without. We augur, therefore, great possible results for good from the mission of an experienced clergyman (in the absence of the Bishop himself), who may exert himself in different parts of Spain, in centralizing scattered efforts and desires, and in setting on foot the organization necessary for the establishment of British chaplaincies where they are so much needed. There is a further purpose in the proposed plan. It is to provide the English sailors in the Spanish ports with the ministrations of religion. This, again, is a thing greatly needed to be taken in hand. The conduct of too many of our sailors in foreign ports is such as few Englishmen care to inquire into, or would believe if they knew. We happen to know that a few years ago, the English sailors on board all the vessels at Malaga, with the exception of one ship, were refused leave to land on Sunday, for the purpose of attending the Church service; and this was done, not from disregard to religion on the part of the officers, but from fear of the scandal which the inevitable drunkenness and disorderly conduct of the sailors on shore would cause in the town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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