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 A LETTER 
 
 CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF EXETER, 
 
 USE OF THE OFFERTORY, 
 
 ESPECIALLY WITH nEFERENCE TO THE 
 
 MISSIONARY EXERTIONS OF THE CHURCH, 
 
 THE STATE OF SPIRITUAL DESTITUTION IN THE 
 MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS OF ENGLAND. 
 
 HENRY LORD BISHOP OF EXETER. 
 
 LONDON: 
 JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 
 
 1843. 
 
 PRICE SIXPENCE.
 
 London : Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street.
 
 LETTER, 
 
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 London, May I2th, 1843. 
 
 My Reverend Brethren, 
 
 The recent appeal from the Society for the 
 Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and the 
 measure proposed by Government for supplying, 
 however imperfectly, the spiritual destitution which 
 exists in our own land, have determined me to ad- 
 dress you on a subject which has long been in my 
 mind, and on which I said a few words to you in 
 my Charge of last year — I mean the revival of the 
 use of the Offertory, as an instrument by which all 
 the members of Christ's Church, within the sphere 
 of our several ministrations, may be invited to offer 
 regularly of their substance to Him from whose 
 bountiful goodness they have received all that they 
 can, in any sense, call their own. 
 
 That any Christian, who duly considers the mat- 
 ter, will refuse to recognise the duty of " honouring 
 God with his substance," is not to be supposed. 
 That any who recognise the duty will deliberately 
 refuse to discharge it, is equally incredible. Yet 
 that very few do, in any tolerable degree, discharge 
 it, is as certain as it is to be deplored. Whence 
 
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 has this arisen ? Whose fault is it that one of tht; 
 very plainest obligations which can be named, is 
 almost universally neglected ? Be assured that the 
 fault is and must be, in no small measure, ours. 
 Be assured that no general, habitual disregard of a 
 Christian duty can thus prevail, and have become 
 inveterate, without much of culpable negligence on 
 the part of those who have solemnly pledged them- 
 selves, before God and man, to " preach the word ; 
 to be instant in season and out of season — to re- 
 prove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and 
 doctrine." 
 
 The Church has not been wanting, in this in- 
 stance more than in others, to us or to our people. 
 It has given us directions which we ought to ob- 
 serve as often as we use any part of the Commu- 
 nion Service, whether the Sacrament of the Lord's 
 Supper be at the same time administered or not. 
 
 The Rubric requires that after the sermon, " the 
 priest shall return to the Lord's table, and begin the 
 Offertory, saying one or more of the sentences fol- 
 lowing" — all taken either from the Holy Scriptures, 
 or from those " other books which the Church doth 
 read for example of life and instruction of manners." 
 
 " Whilst these sentences are in reading, the 
 deacons, churchwardens, or other fit person ap- 
 pointed for that purpose, shall receive the alms for 
 the poor, and other devotions of the people'' And 
 " the money given at the Offertory shall be disposed 
 of to such pious and charitable uses as the minister 
 
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 and churchwardens shall think fit. Wherein if 
 they disagree, it shall be disposed of as the ordi- 
 nary shall appoint." 
 
 It must be here seen that an offering to God is 
 required, as part of our '' Common Prayer," on 
 every Lord's Day, or other holy day. Need I re- 
 mind you how faithfully our truly apostolic Church 
 has in this instance, as in so many others, walked 
 in the footsteps of the holy apostles, on whom, as 
 the foundation, it is built ? For how does the great 
 apostle to the Gentiles write on this matter? — 
 " Concerning the collection for the Saints, as I 
 have given order to the churches of Galatia, so do 
 ye." That by " the Saints" is meant Christians 
 in general, " the Household of Faith," I need not 
 say. Their calling is holy, their profession is holy, 
 whatever be the character of their lives. As little 
 can it be necessary to add that the precept is one of 
 universal and perpetual obligation, not limited to 
 the churches of Galatia or Corinth, to whom it was 
 immediately addressed, but applying to all times 
 and to all churches. " Upon the first day of the 
 week let every one of you, according as the Lord 
 hath prospered him, lay by him in store, that there 
 be no gatherings when I come." In other words, 
 on every Lord's Day let every one of you make 
 his weekly offering to the Lord, out of the means 
 which you severally have received from the bounty 
 of God, and in proportion to those means. 
 
 Now, I repeat, it is in strict accordance with this
 
 precept of the apostle that our Church has devised 
 that interesting part of our public worship of God, 
 the offering of a fit portion of our substance to 
 Him — to be employed either in ministering to the 
 bodily wants of His afflicted servants, which He is 
 pleased to accept as a ministering to Himself ; or in 
 other pious works by which, through His gracious 
 acceptance, His holy name may be exalted, or His 
 kingdom upon earth may be enlarged. 
 
 In saying this, I am not ignorant that doubts 
 have been entertained whether the Rubric, by as- 
 signing to the churchwardens a right of joint deli- 
 beration with the minister in the distribution of the 
 moneys given at the Offertory, do not indicate a 
 limitation of the distribution to objects merely 
 parochial. 
 
 To this construction of the Rubric I by no means 
 assent. The phrase, " such pious and charitable 
 uses as the minister and churchwardens shall think 
 fit," does of itself give a latitude of discretion which 
 may not, in my judgment, be narrowed by any- 
 thing short of express restriction, or the very plain- 
 est and most necessary implication. There is, too, 
 another consideration which seems to me to be of 
 the greatest weight. If the meaning of this Ru- 
 bric be indeed so confined, our Church has left 
 us without any legitimate mode of obeying the 
 apostle's precept, by " distributing to the necessity 
 of the Saints," beyond our own immediate circle. 
 
 Now, admirable as our parochial system is, in its
 
 proper order, I should think that it ill merits our 
 commendations if it interfere with one of the 
 plainest duties, and exclude us from one of the 
 highest privileges, of Christians, " the communion 
 of Saints" upon earth. It is a main article of this 
 communion, that the members of the Church of 
 Christ are, as such, linked together in one holy con- 
 federation, bound to live in friendly correspondence, 
 and to communicate in works of piety and devo- 
 tion ; above all, to consult for, and to promote, the 
 common interests of the body, and the extension of 
 the Messiah's kingdom. 
 
 The association of the churchwardens with the 
 minister, in this instance, seems to me to indicate a 
 very different and very important purpose. The 
 churchwardens I regard as representatives of the 
 laity of your parishes ; and, as such, they are most 
 fitly united Avith you in this interesting service. 
 So valuable do I esteem their co-operation, and so 
 indisputable their right, that I hope you will not 
 ever make a collection at the Offertory (at no other 
 time are you authorized to make one in church) for 
 any object previously announced, without their con- 
 sent. The spirit of the Rubric does not justify such 
 a previous announcement, unless with the consent 
 of the churchwardens. 
 
 1 am the more desirous of impressing these con- 
 siderations upon you, because I think it may be of 
 the highest service to the Church, that there should 
 be in almost every parish a well-considered and
 
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 pre-arranged scheme of objects, for which the col- 
 lections at the Offertory on the several " Lord's days 
 and other holidays" shall be made. What such 
 scheme in every, or in any, instance, shall be, I have 
 no right, and no wish, to prescribe. Yet I scruple 
 not to subjoin a specimen, which may be imitated, 
 or not, as every one of you shall judge expedient. 
 It has been for some time used by one of your own 
 body, and is now exhibited to you by me, merely 
 as an illustration of my own meaning in what I 
 have now said. 
 
 Of the local calls on the munificence of your pa- 
 rishioners, you and your churchwardens will be best 
 able to judge. Of external objects, to which a 
 portion of their offerings may fitly be appro- 
 priated, there are, I need not say, many. Among 
 them the two, which the occasion of this my ad- 
 dress to you especially points out, are of no ordi- 
 nary interest. 
 
 1. The first is the present condition of that So- 
 ciety which, during nearly a century and a half — 
 — as long almost as England has had any foreign 
 possessions — has laboured, and, by God's blessing, 
 in various degrees successfully laboured, to supply 
 to them the means of grace. 
 
 Bat it has not limited its work of love to the as- 
 sistance of our own colonies and factories; from the 
 very first it has extended its efforts to the conver- 
 sion of the heathens. To all, yet lying in darkness 
 and in the shadow of death, with whom God's Pro-
 
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 vidence has in any way connected us, this Society 
 has indefatigably strove to send the heralds of peace 
 and love — " Ambassadors for Christ " — " The ser- 
 vants of the most high God, which shew the way of 
 salvation." It has thus, we humbly hope, more than 
 compensated the many and grievous wrongs which 
 have too often tracked the march whether of our 
 conquests or our commerce. 
 
 In the prosecution of this blessed work, the So- 
 ciety has found itself drained of its resources, at the 
 very time when " a great door and effectual is opened 
 unto us," by God's Providence, into an empire more 
 ancient than the oldest monarchy around us — an 
 empire which could boast its high attainments in po- 
 licy and science when our own forefathers were yet in 
 their woods — covering a region more extensive than 
 all Europe, and containing a population incompa- 
 rably larger than the whole of Christendom. Shall 
 the blessed opportunity be suffered to pass away ? 
 Shall it be lost for want of funds, while there is yet 
 a Church amongst us? 
 
 2. But there is another, a more imperious call 
 upon us. It sounds aloud from the very heart of 
 our own country. I speak not of those of our coun- 
 trymen who hunger and thirst for God's word and 
 ordinances (for their lot, be the want of the means of 
 grace among them what it may, is blessed in com- 
 parison with those who mourn not, feel not, know 
 not, their own destitution). No ; the loudest, the 
 most imperious call, is heard in the exulting voice 
 
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 of the infidel and the blasphemer, while he numbers 
 his thousands and hundreds of thousands of adhe- 
 rents among the workmen of our manufactories, 
 those miserable serfs of Mammon who now form so 
 large a portion of the British people. 
 
 I will not dwell on the sickening and disgraceful 
 theme. Be it enough to say, while we say it with 
 remorse and shame, that far more than a million of 
 our countrymen, — it may be nearly twice that num- 
 ber, — are abandoned to utter ignorance of all that 
 concerns their souls, by the sinful indifference of 
 the nation to one of its plainest duties. A people 
 blessed, as we are blessed, with free access to the 
 pure word of God, and to all the means of grace — 
 tried, as we are tried, by an affluence of temporal 
 goods, beyond all example in ancient or modern 
 times — has suffered millions of those, whose bodily 
 strength is wasted in labouring to acquire this afflu- 
 ence for us, to live, and, alas ! to die, " without God 
 in the world" — without a knowledge of the Almighty 
 Father who made them, of the Son who redeemed 
 them, of the Holy Ghost who seeks to sanctify and 
 bless them. Mysterious as are the ways of God's 
 Providence — most mysterious as is that dispensa- 
 tion of goodness (for such we are sure it is) which 
 makes the salvation of men dependent, in so large 
 measure, on the zeal and faithfulness of their fellow- 
 men — yet, in what regards our duty, is no mystery ; 
 here all is plain. We must — if we are indeed and 
 in truth members of Christ — we must show, that
 
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 we know and feel, that we are also " members one 
 of another/' — that " if one member suffer, the whole 
 body suffers with it." 
 
 Apply this great Christian truth to the present 
 disordered state of things amongst us ; and then let 
 us strive, with God's blessing, to perform our part 
 in redressing it. Our people, we cannot doubt (if 
 only they are made to know the truth), will be ready 
 and glad to join in any well-considered course 
 which can lead to such an end. Now, in the ordi- 
 nance which the pious wisdom of those who com- 
 piled the Liturgy has provided — in the Offertory, to 
 be used whenever the Communion office is used — 
 we have a ready machinery by which the Church 
 can collect the means, not only of almsgiving, but 
 also of supporting all its necessary institutions, whe- 
 ther for Christian education, or for evangelizing the 
 heathens of the East or West, or for supplying our own 
 colonies with such spiritual assistance as a Christian 
 government may think itself justified in leaving to 
 be supplied by the voluntary efforts of individuals — 
 or, above and before all, for clearing away the worse 
 than heathen darkness which covers so large a por- 
 tion of our own land. Had this ordinance always 
 been made eflficient, and had we kept alive a due 
 sense of our common interest in the common weal 
 of Christ's body, we should long ago have seen a 
 house of God erected, a minister of God planted, 
 within the reach of every section of our teeming 
 population as it arose. We should not have at once
 
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 to blush and to tremble at the sight of that hideous 
 and portentous evil, which the selfish avarice of a 
 few, it may be, has engendered, but which the no 
 less selfish indolence and indiflference of the many 
 have suffered to grow to its present appalling mag- 
 nitude. 
 
 Thank God, it is not yet too late to betake our- 
 selves to a better course. Let us, my Reverend 
 Brethren, set forth zealously, though soberly, the 
 whole scheme of Christian action, which the con- 
 stitution, and ordinances, and Liturgy of our 
 Church supply. Truly and wisely has it been 
 said by one of its living ornaments, that, " Until 
 the Church's intentions are fully carried out, as to 
 her ritual, we do not know what the Church really 
 is, or is capable of doing." * 
 
 To a revival of one, and not the least effectual 
 (under God's blessing) of all its means of spiritual 
 and temporal usefulness, I now invite you. But in 
 order that it may be indeed effectual, teach your 
 people to know and feel what the Oflfertory was 
 designed to be — a means of discharging one of the 
 most sacred duties, and of exercising, I had almost 
 said, the highest privilege of Christians — the duty 
 and the privilege of " giving to God of his own." 
 Teach them that this is a duty, which is alike 
 bound on the conscience of all to perform — a pri- 
 vilege, which is alike and equally within the ability 
 
 * Bishop of London's Charge, 1842.
 
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 of all to exercise — that the poorest can give to God 
 as much as the richest, if he give from the heart. 
 
 In truth, it is among the most obvious, as well 
 as greatest benefits of such an usage, that it tends 
 largely to excite and to invigorate the feelings 
 which most become a Christian. It makes every 
 worshipper of Christ feel that the love of man — 
 evinced in providing for the spiritual as well as 
 temporal wants of man — is a necessary accompa- 
 niment of the worship of God, if that worship be 
 "in spirit and in truth." It gives an opportunity 
 of strengthening this feeling, by at once acting on 
 it, free from the alloy of worldly motive — of vanity 
 and ostentation ; thus directly fulfilling St. Paul's 
 direction — " He that giveth, let him do it with sim- 
 plicity." 
 
 It is, besides, continually recurring, continually, 
 therefore, impressing on us the lesson — which can- 
 not be impressed too deeply — " Freely ye have re- 
 ceived, freely give." 
 
 It accords, too, with that sobermindedness which 
 the Apostle was at all times anxious to inculcate 
 on those to whom he wrote ; knowing that their 
 very piety, much more their "liberality," is too 
 apt to degenerate into heat and intemperance. It 
 fosters not, in short, — no, nor does it admit, — any of 
 that unholy excitement which the bustle and tumult 
 of meetings, and consultations, and advocatings of 
 the best and holiest causes can scarcely fail to 
 create.
 
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 It enables almost every man among us to bear 
 his part in the common concerns of the Church, 
 and thus makes him feel that he is a churchman — 
 feel, that church-membership is not merely a pro- 
 fession, but a bond of union, and a principle of 
 united action. 
 
 As a mode of almsgiving, it will supply a fund, 
 by which many of the most distressing cases under 
 the operation (whether necessary or not) of the 
 New Poor Law may be relieved. It will thus assist 
 in preserving the 'parochial connexion of our people, 
 and in keeping alive the precious sympathies of 
 neighbourhood, which it is the undeniable tendency 
 of this Law (whatever compensation it may carry 
 with it) to destroy. 
 
 Such, my Reverend Brethren, are some of the re- 
 sults to which we may venture to look forwards from 
 a recurrence to this too long neglected ordinance. 
 
 True it is, we may not reasonably hope for all 
 these results at once. In most instances, it will be 
 necessary to prepare your people for the duty to 
 which you call them ; and, prepare them as you 
 may, there will still be many who will decry the 
 renewed ordinance as an innovation — perhaps stig- 
 matise it with some term of reproach. But persist 
 in it calmly, meekly, patiently. The manifest 
 holiness and usefulness of such a practice will, ere 
 it be long, shame the gainsayer, and silence those 
 whom they may fail to win.
 
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 A more formidable objection seems to arise from 
 the time, at which this revival is proposed. It will 
 be said, that, when the greater number of yourselves 
 and your parishioners are suffering from the diffi- 
 culties of the times, and from the shock which has 
 been given to every branch of commercial and agri- 
 cultural industry, it is not a season for proposing 
 new modes of raising funds from charity. 
 
 To this it may be answered, that, in whatever 
 measure or degree these difficulties are a reason 
 against making offerings to God, in the same mea- 
 sure and degree, and in no greater, they are an 
 objection to that mode of making those offerings 
 which the Church has prescribed. Now, can any 
 serious man, much less any faithful Christian, say 
 that such are the necessities of the day, that the 
 people at large have no funds beyond those which 
 mere necessities demand ? — that the}^ have nothing 
 left for honouring God, in the relief of their afflicted 
 brethren ? I stop not for the answer. 
 
 It is more to our purpose to remark, that the 
 measure which I now commend to you is pecu- 
 liarly fitted for a time of impaired general prospe- 
 rity ; for at such a time large donations are, indeed, 
 commonly inconvenient : but this expedient would 
 substitute small, frequent, regularly recurring offer- 
 ings, to be enlarged or contracted, as our several 
 circumstances may vary from one brief period to 
 another. Yet the result will be far more advan- 
 tageous, even to the objects for which the weekly
 
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 offering is made, than from greater efforts exerted 
 more rarely. The amount will be incalculably 
 greater ; and, what is no light consideration, the 
 regularity and certainty of the supply will give 
 that confidence and security which are indispen- 
 sable to the good administration of all such insti- 
 tutions. 
 
 For all these reasons, but above all because it is 
 enjoined by the Church, and therefore we may 
 hope well-pleasing to God, I invite you, each in his 
 several charge, and under the guidance of Christian 
 discretion, above all, with humble and earnest prayer, 
 to strive to revive the use of the Offertory on every 
 occasion when the Communion service shall be 
 used. May God of his goodness accept and bless 
 your endeavour ! May He make this revival mi- 
 nister to the best interests of your own flocks, and 
 of the Church at large ! 
 
 Believe me, my Reverend Brethren, 
 
 Your affectionate friend and servant, 
 
 H. Exeter.
 
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 €\)t (J^ffertorp. 
 
 Dearly Beloved in the Lord, 
 
 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN ENGLAND 
 directs that after the Sermon, " the Priest shall return to 
 the Lord's Table" and " whilst reading one or more sen- 
 tences " (taken out of " THE BOOK OF THE LORD," 
 and given in the " Book of Common Prayer,") " the Dea- 
 cons, Churchwardens, or other Jit Person appointed for 
 that purpose, shall receive the Alms for the Poor, and other 
 devotions of the people, in a decent basin to be provided 
 by the Parish for that purpose ; and reverently bring it to 
 the Priest, who shall humbly present and place it upon the 
 holy Table r 
 
 The Scriptural authority for this order is contained in 
 these words of St. Paul to the members of the Church of 
 Christ in Corinth : " Now concerning the collection for 
 the saints, as I have given order to the Churches of Ga- 
 latia, even so do ye. Upon THE FIRST DAY OF THE 
 WEEK let every one of you lay by him in store as God 
 hath prospered him, that there be 7io gatherings when I 
 come." See St. PauVs first Epistle to the Corinthians, 
 16M chapter, \st and 2nd verses. 
 
 The Offerings made to the Lord on HIS OWN DAY, 
 and in HIS OWN HOUSE, at Saint Mewan, during the 
 year of our Lord 1843, will be appropriated as follows : — 
 
 <©n tIDf fitftt ^untiap in tl^t iHont))^ to the support 
 
 of the Sunday School ;
 
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 i^n tl)i^ 0ffOllll ^unlFafl) in m,entf (March 12th,)* The 
 Society for promoting the Enlargement^ Building, and 
 Repairing of Churches ; 
 
 <©tt Crittitg ^UlttSai?, (June Uth,)* The Society for 
 the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; 
 
 (©n t!j^ fifuentfi ^uiitJai) attev CrinitSt (September 
 
 24th,)* The Additional Curates' Society; 
 
 (Bn tlje Court!) gjuntsag in ^t?i)ent, (December 24th,)* 
 
 The Clothing Club for the Children of the Sunday 
 School ; 
 
 <©n all Ot^ft §ttntiai)0, to the relief of " the sick and 
 needy'' Members of THE CHURCH in Saint Mewan. 
 
 " Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest " the follow- 
 ing passages that you will find " written in the volume 
 of THE BOOK." " Whoso hath this world's good, and 
 seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels 
 of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in 
 him ?" 1 St, John iii. 17. "As we have therefore oppor- 
 tunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them 
 who are of THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH." Gala- 
 tians vi. 10. "I have showed you all things, how that 
 so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remem- 
 ber the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, IT IS 
 MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE." 
 Acts XX. 35. " And THE KING shall answer and say 
 unto them, verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have 
 done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye 
 have done it unto ME." St. Matthew xxv. 40. " Every 
 man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him 
 give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity : for God loveth a 
 cheerful giver." 2 Corinthians ix. 7. 
 
 * The four Sundaj^s immediately following tl^C iSlllhfr jFaStS ; and set 
 apart by THE CHURCH for conferring the great honour and dignity of HOLY 
 ORDERS. See the 31st Canon of the Church; and read A^e /son's Companion 
 for the Festivals and Fasts.
 
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 And REMEMBER, " all things come of Him, and of 
 HIS OWN do we give Him." 1 Chronicles xxix. 14. 
 
 Brethren, " the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and 
 the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, 
 be with you all. Amen.'' 
 
 R. T. WILSON TAYLOR, B.A., 
 
 Rector. 
 
 St. Mewan, 1813. 
 
 We, the undersigned, being the Churchwardens of the Parish of 
 Saint Mewan, co7isent that " the money given at the Offertory shall be 
 disposed of" ifi the aforesaid ynanner. 
 
 JAMES ANDREW, \ 
 
 GEORGE ANDREW, \ Churchwardens.
 
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